NGFW Contracts in the West Midlands

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring NGFW skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NGFW over the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 109 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing NGFW 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.12% 0.052% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.90% 0.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 £256 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £263 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.48% - -
75th Percentile £525 £269 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 221 333 428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.45% 17.35% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 210 258
10th Percentile £243 £229 £218
25th Percentile £325 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - -
75th Percentile £575 £628 £575
90th Percentile £655 £725 £716
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 9
10th Percentile £14.32 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £27.00 £11.88 £18.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -48.15% +44.00%
75th Percentile £39.74 £18.88 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.70 £23.75 £29.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £49.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% - +90.38%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing NGFW as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for NGFW in the West Midlands

NGFW
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NGFW in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for NGFW in the West Midlands

NGFW
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 July 2025. 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
Coventry -3 2 £500 +90.48% 1
NGFW
England

NGFW
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared