Cisco Firepower Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 424 423
Rank change year-on-year +99 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 71 23 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.098% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.13% 0.66% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 20 59
10th Percentile £335 £367 £230
25th Percentile £463 £375 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £509 £372
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% +36.90% +1.22%
75th Percentile £775 £553 £491
90th Percentile - £592 £630
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £420
% change year-on-year -1.90% +25.00% +0.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,328 3,498 4,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.25% 14.91% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,904 2,201 2,615
10th Percentile £201 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 321 234
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.01
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cisco Firepower as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Firepower in the UK excluding London

Cisco Firepower
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Firepower in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Firepower in the UK excluding London

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Firepower in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Firepower in the UK excluding London

Cisco Firepower
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Firepower in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Firepower in the UK excluding London

Cisco Firepower
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +60 43 £500 -4.76% 13
North of England +44 20 £515 +0.49% 7
North West +28 17 £515 -6.36% 6
Midlands +37 7 £750 +44.65% 5
West Midlands +28 7 £750 +30.43% 4
Yorkshire +21 3 £475 - 1
East of England +6 1 £350 -9.68% 3
Cisco Firepower
UK

Cisco Firepower
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (2.82%) Azure
2 1 (1.41%) AWS
2 1 (1.41%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 48 (67.61%) BGP
2 35 (49.30%) WAN
3 32 (45.07%) Firewall
4 31 (43.66%) MPLS
5 26 (36.62%) SSL
6 25 (35.21%) Cisco ASA
7 23 (32.39%) Cisco ISE
8 22 (30.99%) OSPF
9 21 (29.58%) IPsec
10 17 (23.94%) EIGRP
10 17 (23.94%) HSRP
11 16 (22.54%) Spanning Tree
12 14 (19.72%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (18.31%) NetScaler
14 12 (16.90%) LAN
14 12 (16.90%) SNMP
14 12 (16.90%) VPN
15 7 (9.86%) SD-WAN
16 6 (8.45%) Cisco Nexus
17 5 (7.04%) Network Security
General
1 25 (35.21%) Finance
2 9 (12.68%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.45%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Advertising
5 1 (1.41%) Local Government
5 1 (1.41%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (53.52%) Architect
2 33 (46.48%) Network Architect
3 30 (42.25%) Network Engineer
4 15 (21.13%) Senior
5 10 (14.08%) Senior Network Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Architect
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Network Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Build Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Cisco Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Cisco Network Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Cisco Security Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Network Build Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Network Security Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Security Architect
9 3 (4.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.90%) Jinja
2 5 (7.04%) Web Services
3 4 (5.63%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (54.93%) Network Management
2 33 (46.48%) Network Design
3 30 (42.25%) Customer Requirements
4 24 (33.80%) Technical Leadership
5 19 (26.76%) ITIL
6 14 (19.72%) Project Delivery
7 13 (18.31%) Change Management
8 12 (16.90%) DevOps
8 12 (16.90%) ITSM
9 9 (12.68%) Mentoring
10 5 (7.04%) Analytics
10 5 (7.04%) Data Analytics
10 5 (7.04%) Migration
10 5 (7.04%) Network Architecture
10 5 (7.04%) Performance Management
10 5 (7.04%) Programme Management
10 5 (7.04%) Resource Management
10 5 (7.04%) Service Delivery
10 5 (7.04%) Storage Management
10 5 (7.04%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.90%) Perl
1 12 (16.90%) Python
1 12 (16.90%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 53 (74.65%) Security Cleared
2 33 (46.48%) Cisco Certification
3 26 (36.62%) SC Cleared
4 22 (30.99%) CCNP
5 20 (28.17%) CCNA
6 9 (12.68%) CCIE
7 6 (8.45%) DV Cleared
8 5 (7.04%) CCIE Data Center
9 4 (5.63%) CCIE Security
9 4 (5.63%) CISSP
10 3 (4.23%) JNCIA
11 2 (2.82%) JNCIS
11 2 (2.82%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (1.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (18.31%) Firmware
2 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (43.66%) Endace
2 12 (16.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 68 (95.77%) Cisco
2 45 (63.38%) Juniper
3 41 (57.75%) F5
4 19 (26.76%) Palo Alto
5 15 (21.13%) SolarWinds
6 13 (18.31%) Citrix
7 7 (9.86%) CheckPoint
8 5 (7.04%) Infoblox
8 5 (7.04%) Symantec
8 5 (7.04%) Zscaler
9 2 (2.82%) Meraki
10 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
10 1 (1.41%) QinetiQ
10 1 (1.41%) VMware