NGFW Contracts with Work from Home Options

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 420 590
Rank change year-on-year +71 +170 -133
Contract jobs citing NGFW 3 50 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.19% 0.099%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 1.69% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 33 24
10th Percentile £412 £420 £306
25th Percentile £418 £450 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £625 £506
Median % change year-on-year -30.80% +23.46% +12.50%
75th Percentile £443 £688 £597
90th Percentile £447 £725 £647
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £513
% change year-on-year - +7.32% +13.89%
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,623 2,957 4,340
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.55% 11.44% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 1,970 2,945
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -4.53% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 101 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £24.50 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £24.13 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.79% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.50 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £19.00 £27.88
% change year-on-year +102.63% -31.84% +1.36%

NGFW
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing NGFW as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NGFW trend for jobs with a WFH option

NGFW
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing NGFW.

NGFW daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NGFW
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) DDNS
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DSL
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) ISDN
3 1 (33.33%) Junos
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) TACACS
3 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Network Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Adaptive Security
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Information Management
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) SABSA
2 1 (33.33%) Statistics
2 1 (33.33%) WAN Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
3 1 (33.33%) CCSP
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (33.33%) Forcepoint
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) Meraki
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Zscaler