NGFW Contracts in London

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 457 557
Rank change year-on-year +66 +100 -77
Contract jobs citing NGFW 2 36 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.011% 0.14% 0.095%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.12% 1.38% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 28 16
10th Percentile £426 £391 -
25th Percentile £426 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £533 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.37% +6.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £464 £638 £613
90th Percentile £471 £716 £666
England median daily rate £425 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +22.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,669 2,614 3,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 10.22% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,835 2,562
10th Percentile £215 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +14.58%
75th Percentile £619 £669 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 89
10th Percentile £14.48 £18.93 £16.45
25th Percentile £16.71 £22.75 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% +29.35% -43.11%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.50 £44.50
90th Percentile £59.75 £76.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.07 £23.91
% change year-on-year +134.40% -28.63% +3.96%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for NGFW in London

NGFW
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for NGFW in London

NGFW
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Central London +31 1 £450 -30.23%
NGFW
England

NGFW
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CA
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto