Cisco Firepower Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Cisco Firepower skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 37 47
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 +24
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.80% 0.49% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.94% 3.23% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 £490 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £510 -
90th Percentile £551 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £523 £500 -
% change year-on-year +4.50% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 63 31 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 10.08% 15.27% 21.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 19 70
10th Percentile £253 £257 £320
25th Percentile £510 £476 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £583 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% +10.43% +5.50%
75th Percentile £615 £630 £581
90th Percentile £643 £666 £825
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £557 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +9.70% -3.33% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £22.52
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile - - £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £14.20 £24.00
% change year-on-year +153.52% -40.83% -

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Cisco Firepower job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Cisco Firepower

Cisco Firepower
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) ICMP
2 3 (60.00%) IPsec
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) NGFW
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) Wireless
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (40.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) NOC Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (40.00%) Presales
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) CCSE
1 2 (40.00%) CCSM
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) F5
3 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow