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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 637 725
Rank change year-on-year +125 +88 -72
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 88 79 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.59% 1.08% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 62 88
10th Percentile £338 £369 £278
25th Percentile £463 £457 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +31.24% -5.43%
75th Percentile £699 £575 £541
90th Percentile £775 £637 £632
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £519 £350
% change year-on-year -0.68% +48.14% -4.76%

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 5,525 7,311 9,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.80% 12.38% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,306 4,755 6,321
10th Percentile £205 £240 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 473 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.54% -31.56% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%

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 5 May 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 11 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 5 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
England +138 87 £515 -1.90% 49
UK excluding London +95 72 £515 -0.68% 40
South East +57 44 £500 -2.44% 13
North of England +38 20 £515 -6.36% 7
Work from Home +112 17 £515 +3.00% 25
North West +34 17 £515 -1.90% 6
London +93 11 £413 -25.00% 18
West Midlands +29 7 £750 +30.43% 5
Midlands +29 7 £750 +50.98% 6
Yorkshire +19 3 £475 -13.64% 1
East of England +15 1 £350 -9.68% 3

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 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.27%) Azure
2 1 (1.14%) AWS
2 1 (1.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 47 (53.41%) BGP
2 42 (47.73%) Firewall
3 39 (44.32%) WAN
4 31 (35.23%) Cisco ASA
5 30 (34.09%) MPLS
6 28 (31.82%) Cisco ISE
7 25 (28.41%) SSL
8 22 (25.00%) OSPF
9 21 (23.86%) IPsec
10 17 (19.32%) EIGRP
10 17 (19.32%) HSRP
11 16 (18.18%) Spanning Tree
12 15 (17.05%) VPN
13 14 (15.91%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (14.77%) LAN
14 13 (14.77%) NetScaler
15 12 (13.64%) SNMP
16 11 (12.50%) SD-WAN
17 10 (11.36%) Cisco Nexus
17 10 (11.36%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (31.82%) Finance
2 12 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.55%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.14%) Advertising
7 1 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (47.73%) Network Engineer
2 41 (46.59%) Architect
3 34 (38.64%) Network Architect
4 19 (21.59%) Senior
5 12 (13.64%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (11.36%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Senior Architect
8 5 (5.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Network Architect
9 4 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support
9 4 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Build Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Cisco Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Cisco Network Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Cisco Security Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Network Build Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Network Security Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Security Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.64%) Jinja
2 5 (5.68%) Web Services
3 4 (4.55%) 802.1X
4 2 (2.27%) .NET
4 2 (2.27%) HTML
4 2 (2.27%) JSON
4 2 (2.27%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.32%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.27%) Cyberattack
2 2 (2.27%) Hedge funds
2 2 (2.27%) PKI
3 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.14%) NHS
3 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (43.18%) Network Management
2 32 (36.36%) Network Design
3 29 (32.95%) Customer Requirements
4 24 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
5 22 (25.00%) ITIL
6 14 (15.91%) DevOps
6 14 (15.91%) Project Delivery
7 13 (14.77%) Change Management
8 12 (13.64%) ITSM
9 9 (10.23%) Mentoring
10 7 (7.95%) Migration
11 6 (6.82%) Network Virtualisation
12 5 (5.68%) Analytics
12 5 (5.68%) Architectural Design
12 5 (5.68%) Data Analytics
12 5 (5.68%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (5.68%) Knowledge Transfer
12 5 (5.68%) Programme Management
12 5 (5.68%) SOA
12 5 (5.68%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.45%) Python
2 12 (13.64%) Perl
2 12 (13.64%) Tcl
3 4 (4.55%) Bash
3 4 (4.55%) C#
3 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.55%) SQL
4 2 (2.27%) Go
4 2 (2.27%) Java
4 2 (2.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 60 (68.18%) Security Cleared
2 39 (44.32%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 28 (31.82%) CCNP
5 20 (22.73%) CCNA
6 10 (11.36%) CCIE
7 7 (7.95%) CISSP
7 7 (7.95%) DV Cleared
8 5 (5.68%) CCIE Data Center
9 4 (4.55%) CCIE Security
10 3 (3.41%) JNCIA
11 2 (2.27%) CEH
11 2 (2.27%) CISM
11 2 (2.27%) Degree
11 2 (2.27%) JNCIS
11 2 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (2.27%) RHCE
11 2 (2.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (14.77%) Firmware
2 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (34.09%) Endace
2 16 (18.18%) Ansible
3 3 (3.41%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.27%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (2.27%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (2.27%) Stealthwatch
4 2 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 85 (96.59%) Cisco
2 46 (52.27%) Juniper
3 44 (50.00%) F5
4 22 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 17 (19.32%) SolarWinds
6 13 (14.77%) Citrix
7 10 (11.36%) CheckPoint
8 9 (10.23%) Infoblox
9 7 (7.95%) Symantec
10 5 (5.68%) VMware
10 5 (5.68%) Zscaler
11 3 (3.41%) AlgoSec
11 3 (3.41%) Microsoft
12 2 (2.27%) ArcSight
12 2 (2.27%) CA
12 2 (2.27%) Carbon Black
12 2 (2.27%) Fortinet
12 2 (2.27%) LogRhythm
12 2 (2.27%) Meraki
12 2 (2.27%) Splunk