Cisco Firepower Contract Job Trends

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Cisco Firepower skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 464 495
Rank change year-on-year -87 +31 +194
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 40 86 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.00% 2.00% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 55 53
10th Percentile £413 £363 £252
25th Percentile £419 £419 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile - £575 £533
90th Percentile £508 £613 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £77.19
90th Percentile - - £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - -7.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,990 4,295 5,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.73% 12.77% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,611 2,528 3,692
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £364 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £602
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £473 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 141 333
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.46 £22.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -37.94% +50.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £80.30 £70.00 £75.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +21.43% -38.04% +38.45%

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cisco Firepower job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Firepower

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Firepower over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Firepower

Cisco Firepower
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
UK excluding London -80 34 £500 - 8
England -86 30 £500 - 11
South East -10 23 £500 - 3
Scotland +14 9 £425 +6.25% 1
Work from Home -10 5 £438 +9.38% 4
London -23 4 £388 -28.74% 4
West Midlands -26 1 £450 -10.00% 1
Midlands -40 1 £450 -10.00% 1
Yorkshire -41 1 - - 1
North of England -86 1 - - 3

Cisco Firepower
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (15.00%) Azure
2 5 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) GCP
3 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 30 (75.00%) Cisco ISE
2 24 (60.00%) Cisco IOS
3 23 (57.50%) Junos
4 18 (45.00%) Firewall
5 16 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (22.50%) BGP
6 9 (22.50%) Cisco Nexus
7 8 (20.00%) EIGRP
7 8 (20.00%) OSPF
8 7 (17.50%) SD-WAN
8 7 (17.50%) WAN
9 6 (15.00%) NX-OS
10 5 (12.50%) Wireless
11 4 (10.00%) Cisco Wireless
11 4 (10.00%) Network Security
11 4 (10.00%) VLAN
12 3 (7.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 3 (7.50%) LAN
13 2 (5.00%) MPLS
13 2 (5.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Finance
3 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Military
3 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (67.50%) Network Engineer
2 21 (52.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 21 (52.50%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 21 (52.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 21 (52.50%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 20 (50.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 15 (37.50%) 3rd Line Support
4 15 (37.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 15 (37.50%) Network Support
4 15 (37.50%) Network Support Engineer
4 15 (37.50%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Network Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Senior
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Lead
7 1 (2.50%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.00%) PKI
3 1 (2.50%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.50%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 17 (42.50%) Windows
1 17 (42.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) ITSM
2 17 (42.50%) Service Management
3 6 (15.00%) Project Delivery
3 6 (15.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 4 (10.00%) Change Management
4 4 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (7.50%) Migration
6 2 (5.00%) Network Design
6 2 (5.00%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (5.00%) Security Architecture
7 1 (2.50%) Business Strategy
7 1 (2.50%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (2.50%) CI/CD
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security
7 1 (2.50%) High Availability
7 1 (2.50%) Kalman Filter
7 1 (2.50%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (2.50%) Roadmaps
7 1 (2.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (2.50%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (2.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (67.50%) Security Cleared
2 22 (55.00%) DV Cleared
3 9 (22.50%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (20.00%) CCNP
5 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) CCIE
6 1 (2.50%) CCIE Routing and Switching
System Software
1 24 (60.00%) VMware NSX
2 17 (42.50%) Active Directory
3 6 (15.00%) Firmware
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (55.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (7.50%) Ansible
2 3 (7.50%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.50%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) Cisco
2 25 (62.50%) Juniper
3 24 (60.00%) SolarWinds
4 6 (15.00%) Palo Alto
5 5 (12.50%) Broadcom
5 5 (12.50%) F5
5 5 (12.50%) Meraki
6 3 (7.50%) VMware
7 1 (2.50%) Arista
7 1 (2.50%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.50%) Citrix
7 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.50%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.50%) NetScout
7 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.50%) SevOne