Cisco Firepower Contract Job Trends in London

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Cisco Firepower skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 369 412
Rank change year-on-year +15 +43 +150
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 8 19 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.060% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.60% 1.25% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 28
10th Percentile £404 £453 £252
25th Percentile £409 £519 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £563 £400
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% +40.63% -15.79%
75th Percentile £463 £625 £591
90th Percentile £508 £670 £613
England median daily rate £500 £538 £450
% change year-on-year -6.98% +19.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £69.50
25th Percentile - - £70.63
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £73.75
% change year-on-year - - -2.96%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,328 1,514 2,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.89% 9.38% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 963 1,595
10th Percentile £289 £250 £250
25th Percentile £404 £389 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £721 £750
England median daily rate £490 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +1.50% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 43
10th Percentile £18.56 £20.40 £18.93
25th Percentile - £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.37%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.05 £66.38 £79.50
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Firepower in London

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Cisco Firepower
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cisco Firepower.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cisco Firepower

Cisco Firepower
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
Central London +3 1 £425 -19.05%
Cisco Firepower
England

Cisco Firepower
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (62.50%) Wireless
4 4 (50.00%) DNS
4 4 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (37.50%) BIG-IP
5 3 (37.50%) DHCP
6 2 (25.00%) Network Security
6 2 (25.00%) VPN
7 1 (12.50%) BGP
7 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
7 1 (12.50%) OSPF
7 1 (12.50%) SNMP
7 1 (12.50%) SSL
7 1 (12.50%) VLAN
7 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Advertising
3 1 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
1 4 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (12.50%) Network Design
4 1 (12.50%) Runbook
4 1 (12.50%) Security Management
4 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) SIEM
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Debt
4 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (62.50%) CCNP
3 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (12.50%) CCSP
4 1 (12.50%) CISSP
4 1 (12.50%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) F5
3 4 (50.00%) AlgoSec
3 4 (50.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (37.50%) Infoblox
5 2 (25.00%) Meraki
5 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (12.50%) Bloomberg
6 1 (12.50%) Refinitiv
6 1 (12.50%) Tufin