Cisco Firepower Contracts in the Thames Valley

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Cisco Firepower skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco Firepower over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 138 148
Rank change year-on-year +39 +10 +13
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 3 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.26% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.19% 1.16% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £492 - £551
25th Percentile £495 £463 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £555
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -14.41% +5.91%
75th Percentile £549 £488 £558
90th Percentile £572 - £559
South East median daily rate £575 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +21.05% -7.32% +64.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 605 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.68% 22.52% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 295 291
10th Percentile £242 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +2.46% +5.51%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £570
90th Percentile £618 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 50 15
10th Percentile - £17.79 £19.70
25th Percentile - £23.78 £25.75
Median hourly rate £14.20 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.15% -1.52% +288.24%
75th Percentile £22.09 £85.65 £80.25
90th Percentile £31.44 £87.47 £81.22
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Cisco Firepower as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Firepower in the Thames Valley

Cisco Firepower
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Firepower in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Firepower in the Thames Valley

Cisco Firepower
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +27 2 £538 +13.16% 7
Buckinghamshire +16 1 £500 - 2
Cisco Firepower
South East

Cisco Firepower
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) Broadband
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) IPv6
2 1 (33.33%) Junos
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Principal Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) SAP