NGFW Contracts in the UK excluding London

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for NGFW skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NGFW over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 401 482
Rank change year-on-year +21 +81 -75
Contract jobs citing NGFW 8 46 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.19% 0.091%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% 1.29% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 28 16
10th Percentile £329 £413 £419
25th Percentile £394 £473 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +35.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £625
90th Percentile - £712 £628
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.92
25th Percentile £58.50 - £60.92
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £60.93
75th Percentile £67.50 - £60.93
90th Percentile - - £60.93
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £60.93

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

NGFW is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,393 3,560 4,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.44% 14.91% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,945 2,259 2,657
10th Percentile £203 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 323 237
10th Percentile £13.48 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.92% -31.36% +3.77%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NGFW as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NGFW in the UK excluding London

NGFW
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NGFW in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for NGFW in the UK excluding London

NGFW
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NGFW in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NGFW in the UK excluding London

NGFW
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NGFW in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for NGFW in the UK excluding London

NGFW
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NGFW within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +18 4 £420 -30.00% 4
South West +11 3 £600 +24.68% 1
Midlands +31 1 £263 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £263 - 3
NGFW
UK

NGFW
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) DNS
2 5 (62.50%) WAN
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (50.00%) LAN
4 3 (37.50%) Network Security
4 3 (37.50%) SD-WAN
4 3 (37.50%) Wireless
5 2 (25.00%) BGP
5 2 (25.00%) DDNS
5 2 (25.00%) DHCP
5 2 (25.00%) DSL
5 2 (25.00%) Ethernet
5 2 (25.00%) IPsec
5 2 (25.00%) MPLS
5 2 (25.00%) OSPF
5 2 (25.00%) SAN
5 2 (25.00%) SSL
5 2 (25.00%) TACACS
5 2 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Back Office
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (25.00%) PKI
3 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) ITIL
1 5 (62.50%) Load Balancing
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Adaptive Security
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Information Management
3 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Web Filtering
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (62.50%) CCNA
2 5 (62.50%) CCNP
3 3 (37.50%) Degree
3 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) CCIE
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Fortinet
3 2 (25.00%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (25.00%) F5
3 2 (25.00%) Forcepoint
3 2 (25.00%) Juniper
3 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft