Cisco Firepower Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Cisco Firepower skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 123 179
Rank change year-on-year -87 +56 +38
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 1 39 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.021% 1.09% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 7.05% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 17 5
10th Percentile - £408 £344
25th Percentile - £430 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £495 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +23.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile - £575 £438
90th Percentile - £588 £475
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -4.27%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 563 553 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.91% 15.40% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 311 513
10th Percentile £170 £163 £250
25th Percentile £305 £255 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -7.41% +5.08%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £593
90th Percentile £672 £675 £671
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 23
10th Percentile - £12.59 £15.73
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.33 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £32.88 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -31.57% +85.55% -17.58%
75th Percentile £67.25 £51.23 £24.39
90th Percentile £74.26 £51.91 £46.88
England median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -17.07% -26.39% +23.78%

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Cisco Firepower job vacancy trend in the North of England

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cisco Firepower.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cisco Firepower

Cisco Firepower
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Yorkshire -41 1 - - 3
Cisco Firepower
England

Cisco Firepower
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) RSA SecurID
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) SevOne
1 1 (100.00%) VMware