Cisco Firepower Contracts in the North West

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 147 153
Rank change year-on-year +30 +6 -12
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 17 11 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.34% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.61% 2.61% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 11
10th Percentile £463 £464 -
25th Percentile £505 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £230
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% +133.70% +31.43%
75th Percentile £658 £550 £338
90th Percentile £775 £631 -
England median daily rate £515 £550 £367
% change year-on-year -6.36% +49.76% -18.39%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 369 421 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.29% 13.19% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 298 353
10th Percentile £199 £288 £183
25th Percentile £320 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% +21.62%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £586
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 13
10th Percentile £17.72 £17.92 £12.07
25th Percentile £18.48 £19.17 £16.23
Median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +68.92% -65.09%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £42.20
90th Percentile £83.76 £52.13 £63.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £23.91
% change year-on-year +112.54% -21.29% -4.36%

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Cisco Firepower as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Firepower in the North West

Cisco Firepower
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Firepower in the North West

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Firepower in the North West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Firepower in the North West

Cisco Firepower
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Cumbria - 13 £515 -
Manchester +13 4 £750 +39.53% 4
Cisco Firepower
England

Cisco Firepower
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 17 (100.00%) Firewall
2 13 (76.47%) BGP
2 13 (76.47%) Cisco ASA
2 13 (76.47%) Cisco ISE
2 13 (76.47%) EIGRP
2 13 (76.47%) HSRP
2 13 (76.47%) IPsec
2 13 (76.47%) NetScaler
2 13 (76.47%) OSPF
3 12 (70.59%) SNMP
3 12 (70.59%) Spanning Tree
3 12 (70.59%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (23.53%) Network Security
General
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Network Engineer
2 9 (52.94%) Senior
2 9 (52.94%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Architect
4 4 (23.53%) Cisco Architect
4 4 (23.53%) Cisco Network Architect
4 4 (23.53%) Cisco Security Architect
4 4 (23.53%) Network Architect
4 4 (23.53%) Network Security Architect
4 4 (23.53%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) Jinja
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Change Management
1 13 (76.47%) ITIL
1 13 (76.47%) Network Management
2 12 (70.59%) DevOps
2 12 (70.59%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Perl
1 12 (70.59%) Python
1 12 (70.59%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 16 (94.12%) CCNP
1 16 (94.12%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (76.47%) SC Cleared
2 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
3 12 (70.59%) CCNA
4 4 (23.53%) CCIE
4 4 (23.53%) CCIE Security
4 4 (23.53%) CISSP
System Software
1 13 (76.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Cisco
2 13 (76.47%) Citrix
2 13 (76.47%) Palo Alto
2 13 (76.47%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft