NGFW Contract Job Trends in West London

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring NGFW skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NGFW 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.25% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
London median daily rate £550 £465 £440
% change year-on-year +18.28% +5.68% -12.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West London

NGFW falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 18 55 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 4.43% 23.81% 17.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 40 51
10th Percentile £329 £225 £200
25th Percentile £422 £259 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £280
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +42.86% -53.33%
75th Percentile £519 £453 £525
90th Percentile £594 £521 £560
London median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £28.88 £52.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -44.46% +118.49% -63.38%
75th Percentile - - £44.40
90th Percentile - - £56.76
London median hourly rate £25.63 £38.75 £23.80
% change year-on-year -33.86% +62.82% -34.38%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NGFW relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

NGFW job vacancy trend in West London

NGFW
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing NGFW.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing NGFW

NGFW
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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
Hillingdon - 1 - -
NGFW
London

NGFW
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Contract Negotiation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust