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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 417 478
Rank change year-on-year +35 +61 -83
Contract jobs citing NGFW 6 36 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.15% 0.095%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 1.02% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 17
10th Percentile £333 £400 £420
25th Percentile £426 £453 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +35.00%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile - £725 £627
UK median daily rate £550 £565 £538
% change year-on-year -2.65% +5.02% +26.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.92
25th Percentile - - £60.92
Median hourly rate - - £60.93
75th Percentile - - £60.93
90th Percentile - - £60.93
UK median hourly rate - - £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 3,326 3,532 4,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.24% 15.03% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,900 2,223 2,634
10th Percentile £202 £206 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -4.16% +3.30% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 320 237
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.63
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.47 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.85% -14.12% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £59.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% -

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 12 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 12 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 West +2 3 £600 +23.08%
South East +14 2 £460 -23.33% 2
Midlands +30 1 £263 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £263 - 2
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 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (33.33%) LAN
4 2 (33.33%) Wireless
5 1 (16.67%) BGP
5 1 (16.67%) DDNS
5 1 (16.67%) DHCP
5 1 (16.67%) DSL
5 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
5 1 (16.67%) ISDN
5 1 (16.67%) MPLS
5 1 (16.67%) OSPF
5 1 (16.67%) SAN
5 1 (16.67%) SSL
5 1 (16.67%) TACACS
5 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Back Office
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) PKI
3 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Adaptive Security
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Information Management
3 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (16.67%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (83.33%) CCNA
3 4 (66.67%) CCNP
4 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) Degree
6 1 (16.67%) CCIE
6 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Forcepoint
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds