Cisco Firepower Contracts

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Firepower skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco Firepower over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 600 689
Rank change year-on-year +122 +89 -20
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 97 82 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.79% 1.15% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 63 92
10th Percentile £375 £274 £286
25th Percentile £463 £375 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% +5.56% +6.38%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £550
90th Percentile £775 £635 £621
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £450 £381
% change year-on-year +14.44% +18.11% +1.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Cisco Firepower 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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cisco Firepower as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Firepower.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Firepower over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Firepower.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Firepower within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +101 92 £515 +8.42% 35
UK excluding London +76 76 £515 +14.44% 29
South East +48 45 £500 -9.09% 9
Work from Home +100 22 £515 +14.47% 19
North of England +29 21 £515 +14.44% 5
North West +25 18 £515 +14.44% 5
London +68 11 £463 -11.90% 12
Midlands +24 8 £750 +53.85% 5
West Midlands +17 7 £750 +57.89% 5
Yorkshire +20 3 £475 -
East Midlands +10 1 £550 +10.72%
East of England -1 1 £350 -26.32% 1
South West - 1 £725 - 1

Cisco Firepower
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.12%) Azure
2 3 (3.09%) AWS
2 3 (3.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 59 (60.82%) BGP
2 52 (53.61%) Firewall
3 42 (43.30%) Cisco ASA
4 39 (40.21%) WAN
5 35 (36.08%) Cisco ISE
6 33 (34.02%) IPsec
6 33 (34.02%) MPLS
6 33 (34.02%) OSPF
7 29 (29.90%) EIGRP
8 27 (27.84%) HSRP
9 26 (26.80%) SSL
10 23 (23.71%) NetScaler
11 16 (16.49%) Spanning Tree
12 15 (15.46%) VPN
13 13 (13.40%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (12.37%) LAN
14 12 (12.37%) SD-WAN
14 12 (12.37%) SNMP
15 11 (11.34%) Network Security
16 10 (10.31%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 2 (2.06%) JIRA
1 2 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (29.90%) Finance
2 13 (13.40%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.19%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (2.06%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.03%) Advertising
5 1 (1.03%) Legal
5 1 (1.03%) Local Government
5 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (52.58%) Network Engineer
2 42 (43.30%) Architect
3 34 (35.05%) Network Architect
4 18 (18.56%) Senior
5 13 (13.40%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 11 (11.34%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (7.22%) Senior Architect
8 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (5.15%) Senior Network Architect
9 4 (4.12%) Build Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Cisco Architect
9 4 (4.12%) Cisco Network Architect
9 4 (4.12%) Cisco Security Architect
9 4 (4.12%) Network Build Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Network Security Architect
9 4 (4.12%) Security Architect
10 3 (3.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Network Security Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Security Engineer
11 2 (2.06%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.37%) Jinja
2 5 (5.15%) Web Services
3 4 (4.12%) 802.1X
4 2 (2.06%) .NET
4 2 (2.06%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.03%) HTML
5 1 (1.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.56%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.06%) Cyberattack
2 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.03%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.03%) PKI
3 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (50.52%) Network Management
2 33 (34.02%) Network Design
3 30 (30.93%) Customer Requirements
4 23 (23.71%) Technical Leadership
5 22 (22.68%) ITIL
6 21 (21.65%) ITSM
7 15 (15.46%) Project Delivery
8 13 (13.40%) Change Management
8 13 (13.40%) DevOps
9 11 (11.34%) Migration
10 8 (8.25%) Mentoring
11 6 (6.19%) Knowledge Transfer
12 5 (5.15%) Analytics
12 5 (5.15%) Architectural Design
12 5 (5.15%) Data Analytics
12 5 (5.15%) Service Delivery
12 5 (5.15%) SOA
12 5 (5.15%) Storage Management
12 5 (5.15%) Technical Architecture
12 5 (5.15%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.53%) Python
2 12 (12.37%) Perl
2 12 (12.37%) Tcl
3 4 (4.12%) Bash
4 3 (3.09%) C#
4 3 (3.09%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.09%) SQL
5 2 (2.06%) Go
5 2 (2.06%) Java
5 2 (2.06%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 68 (70.10%) Security Cleared
2 39 (40.21%) SC Cleared
3 38 (39.18%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (26.80%) CCNP
5 22 (22.68%) CCNA
6 10 (10.31%) CCIE
7 7 (7.22%) CISSP
8 6 (6.19%) DV Cleared
9 5 (5.15%) CCIE Data Center
10 4 (4.12%) CCIE Security
11 3 (3.09%) JNCIA
12 2 (2.06%) CEH
12 2 (2.06%) CISM
12 2 (2.06%) JNCIS
12 2 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (2.06%) RHCE
12 2 (2.06%) SANS
13 1 (1.03%) CCDP
System Software
1 13 (13.40%) Firmware
2 2 (2.06%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (32.99%) Endace
2 15 (15.46%) Ansible
3 2 (2.06%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.06%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (1.03%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.03%) Stealthwatch
4 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 94 (96.91%) Cisco
2 49 (50.52%) F5
2 49 (50.52%) Juniper
3 33 (34.02%) Palo Alto
4 26 (26.80%) SolarWinds
5 23 (23.71%) Citrix
6 13 (13.40%) CheckPoint
7 10 (10.31%) Infoblox
8 7 (7.22%) Symantec
8 7 (7.22%) Zscaler
9 3 (3.09%) AlgoSec
9 3 (3.09%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.09%) Meraki
9 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
10 2 (2.06%) ArcSight
10 2 (2.06%) Aruba
10 2 (2.06%) Blue Coat
10 2 (2.06%) LogRhythm
10 2 (2.06%) McAfee
10 2 (2.06%) VMware