Cisco Firepower Contracts in England

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 454 588 671
Rank change year-on-year +134 +83 -81
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 84 67 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.68% 1.09% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 51 71
10th Percentile £343 £375 £263
25th Percentile £453 £488 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £372
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +47.85% -17.33%
75th Percentile £691 £581 £502
90th Percentile £775 £638 £648
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -6.36% +37.50% -8.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,997 6,165 7,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.52% 12.21% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,051 5,204
10th Percentile £206 £231 £220
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.41% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 439 303
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.82 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +108.55% -21.29% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.20
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.48
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.41
% change year-on-year +100.00% -33.12% +1.46%

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Firepower in England

Cisco Firepower
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Firepower in England

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Firepower in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Firepower in England

Cisco Firepower
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Firepower in England

Cisco Firepower
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 East +51 40 £475 -7.32% 12
North of England +37 20 £515 -6.36% 7
North West +29 17 £515 -4.19% 5
London +88 12 £425 -22.73% 16
West Midlands +37 7 £750 +30.43% 5
Midlands +28 7 £750 +44.65% 6
Yorkshire +22 3 £475 -13.64% 2
East of England +9 1 £350 - 5
Cisco Firepower
UK

Cisco Firepower
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.38%) Azure
2 1 (1.19%) AWS
2 1 (1.19%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 46 (54.76%) BGP
2 42 (50.00%) Firewall
3 38 (45.24%) WAN
4 31 (36.90%) Cisco ASA
5 29 (34.52%) Cisco ISE
5 29 (34.52%) MPLS
6 24 (28.57%) SSL
7 22 (26.19%) OSPF
8 21 (25.00%) IPsec
9 17 (20.24%) EIGRP
9 17 (20.24%) HSRP
10 16 (19.05%) Spanning Tree
11 15 (17.86%) VPN
12 14 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (15.48%) LAN
13 13 (15.48%) NetScaler
14 12 (14.29%) SNMP
15 11 (13.10%) SD-WAN
16 10 (11.90%) Cisco Nexus
17 9 (10.71%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (32.14%) Finance
2 12 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.76%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.19%) Advertising
6 1 (1.19%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (47.62%) Architect
2 38 (45.24%) Network Engineer
3 33 (39.29%) Network Architect
4 19 (22.62%) Senior
5 12 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) Senior Architect
8 6 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
8 6 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (5.95%) Senior Network Architect
10 4 (4.76%) Cisco Architect
10 4 (4.76%) Cisco Network Architect
10 4 (4.76%) Cisco Security Architect
10 4 (4.76%) Network Security Architect
10 4 (4.76%) Security Architect
11 2 (2.38%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 2 (2.38%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) Jinja
2 5 (5.95%) Web Services
3 4 (4.76%) 802.1X
4 2 (2.38%) .NET
4 2 (2.38%) HTML
4 2 (2.38%) JSON
4 2 (2.38%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.24%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.38%) Cyberattack
2 2 (2.38%) Hedge funds
2 2 (2.38%) PKI
3 1 (1.19%) NHS
3 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (44.05%) Network Management
2 28 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 28 (33.33%) Network Design
3 23 (27.38%) Technical Leadership
4 22 (26.19%) ITIL
5 14 (16.67%) DevOps
6 13 (15.48%) Change Management
7 12 (14.29%) ITSM
8 9 (10.71%) Mentoring
8 9 (10.71%) Project Delivery
9 8 (9.52%) Network Virtualisation
10 5 (5.95%) Analytics
10 5 (5.95%) Architectural Design
10 5 (5.95%) Data Analytics
10 5 (5.95%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (5.95%) Programme Management
10 5 (5.95%) SOA
10 5 (5.95%) Storage Management
10 5 (5.95%) Technical Architecture
10 5 (5.95%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.43%) Python
2 12 (14.29%) Perl
2 12 (14.29%) Tcl
3 4 (4.76%) Bash
3 4 (4.76%) C#
3 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.76%) SQL
4 2 (2.38%) Go
4 2 (2.38%) Java
4 2 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 59 (70.24%) Security Cleared
2 38 (45.24%) Cisco Certification
3 32 (38.10%) SC Cleared
4 27 (32.14%) CCNP
5 20 (23.81%) CCNA
6 10 (11.90%) CCIE
7 9 (10.71%) DV Cleared
8 6 (7.14%) CISSP
9 5 (5.95%) CCIE Data Center
10 4 (4.76%) CCIE Security
11 3 (3.57%) JNCIA
12 2 (2.38%) CEH
12 2 (2.38%) CISM
12 2 (2.38%) JNCIS
12 2 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (2.38%) RHCE
12 2 (2.38%) SANS
13 1 (1.19%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (15.48%) Firmware
2 5 (5.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (28.57%) Endace
2 16 (19.05%) Ansible
3 3 (3.57%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.38%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (2.38%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (2.38%) Stealthwatch
4 2 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 81 (96.43%) Cisco
2 42 (50.00%) Juniper
3 38 (45.24%) F5
4 22 (26.19%) Palo Alto
5 17 (20.24%) SolarWinds
6 13 (15.48%) Citrix
7 10 (11.90%) CheckPoint
8 9 (10.71%) Infoblox
9 7 (8.33%) Symantec
9 7 (8.33%) VMware
10 5 (5.95%) Zscaler
11 3 (3.57%) AlgoSec
11 3 (3.57%) Microsoft
12 2 (2.38%) ArcSight
12 2 (2.38%) CA
12 2 (2.38%) Carbon Black
12 2 (2.38%) Fortinet
12 2 (2.38%) LogRhythm
12 2 (2.38%) Meraki
12 2 (2.38%) Splunk