Cisco Firepower Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Cisco Firepower skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.77% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £495 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 - -
75th Percentile £652 - -
90th Percentile £653 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £575 £515
% change year-on-year -21.74% +11.65% +14.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

Cisco Firepower falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 145 81 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.64% 13.61% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 54 27
10th Percentile £295 £318 £199
25th Percentile £415 £375 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £613 £584 £525
90th Percentile £650 £688 £623
North West median daily rate £496 £450 £507
% change year-on-year +10.28% -11.24% +8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
75th Percentile £17.75 - -
90th Percentile £27.45 - -
North West median hourly rate £17.75 £45.08 £45.88
% change year-on-year -60.63% -1.74% +175.06%

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco Firepower relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Cisco Firepower job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cisco Firepower.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cisco Firepower

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Firepower in Cheshire over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Firepower in Cheshire

Cisco Firepower
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 July 2026. 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
Knutsford - 4 £648 -
Crewe - 2 £505 - 2
Cisco Firepower
North West

Cisco Firepower
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 2 (33.33%) HSRP
2 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (33.33%) IPsec
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) tcpdump
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (33.33%) Boundary Protection
1 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
2 1 (16.67%) GCIA
2 1 (16.67%) GCIH
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Suricata
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (66.67%) CheckPoint
3 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft