Cisco Firepower Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Cisco Firepower skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 16 24
Rank change year-on-year -20 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 4 14 14
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 1.40% 8.64% 5.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.15% 24.14% 37.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 11
10th Percentile £372 - £463
25th Percentile £420 £563 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £575 £515
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% +11.65% +14.44%
75th Percentile £448 £613 £515
90th Percentile £449 £628 £519
North West median daily rate £450 £575 £515
% change year-on-year -21.74% +11.65% +14.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 65 58 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 22.81% 35.80% 15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 22 27
10th Percentile £330 £300 £446
25th Percentile £366 £414 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £483 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -22.80% +28.60%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £670
90th Percentile £630 £638 £688
North West median daily rate £487 £447 £515
% change year-on-year +8.95% -13.22% +13.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.22
Median hourly rate - - £48.56
75th Percentile - - £51.91
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £17.50 £27.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% -43.16% +184.77%

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Cisco Firepower job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

Cisco Firepower
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
Barrow-in-Furness -15 4 £447 -22.26% 2
Cisco Firepower
North West

Cisco Firepower
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki