Cisco Firepower Contracts

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Firepower skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco Firepower over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 628 731
Rank change year-on-year +128 +103 -88
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 86 70 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.57% 0.97% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 53 86
10th Percentile £333 £354 £289
25th Percentile £453 £425 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £519 £438
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +18.51% +3.43%
75th Percentile £691 £575 £550
90th Percentile £775 £638 £637
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £475 £372
% change year-on-year +8.42% +27.69% -0.80%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Cisco Firepower is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,474 7,207 9,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.73% 12.39% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,273 4,657 6,246
10th Percentile £205 £235 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +3.30% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 472 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.44 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.47 £21.50
% change year-on-year +149.85% -14.12% -10.42%

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Firepower over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Firepower.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Top 12 Contract 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 12 May 2024. 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
England +132 85 £515 -1.90% 39
UK excluding London +107 72 £515 +8.42% 35
South East +54 43 £500 -4.76% 12
North of England +32 20 £515 +14.44% 7
Work from Home +105 18 £515 +3.02% 21
North West +28 17 £515 +14.44% 6
London +73 9 £400 -27.27% 12
Midlands +33 8 £750 +44.65% 3
West Midlands +23 7 £750 +30.43% 3
Yorkshire +23 3 £475 - 1
East Midlands +19 1 £550 +6.08%
East of England +6 1 £350 -9.68% 3

Cisco Firepower
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.33%) Azure
2 1 (1.16%) AWS
2 1 (1.16%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 48 (55.81%) BGP
2 41 (47.67%) Firewall
3 39 (45.35%) WAN
4 31 (36.05%) Cisco ASA
4 31 (36.05%) MPLS
5 27 (31.40%) Cisco ISE
6 26 (30.23%) SSL
7 22 (25.58%) OSPF
8 21 (24.42%) IPsec
9 17 (19.77%) EIGRP
9 17 (19.77%) HSRP
10 16 (18.60%) Spanning Tree
11 14 (16.28%) VPN
11 14 (16.28%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (15.12%) LAN
12 13 (15.12%) NetScaler
13 12 (13.95%) SNMP
14 10 (11.63%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (11.63%) Network Security
14 10 (11.63%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (33.72%) Finance
2 12 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.98%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.49%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.16%) Advertising
6 1 (1.16%) Legal
6 1 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (48.84%) Architect
2 41 (47.67%) Network Engineer
3 35 (40.70%) Network Architect
4 19 (22.09%) Senior
5 12 (13.95%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (11.63%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Senior Architect
8 5 (5.81%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (5.81%) Senior Network Architect
9 4 (4.65%) Build Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Cisco Architect
9 4 (4.65%) Cisco Network Architect
9 4 (4.65%) Cisco Security Architect
9 4 (4.65%) Network Build Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Network Security Architect
9 4 (4.65%) Security Architect
9 4 (4.65%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Network Security Engineer
11 2 (2.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.95%) Jinja
2 5 (5.81%) Web Services
3 4 (4.65%) 802.1X
4 2 (2.33%) .NET
4 2 (2.33%) JSON
4 2 (2.33%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.16%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.77%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.33%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.16%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.16%) NHS
3 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.16%) PKI
3 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (45.35%) Network Management
2 33 (38.37%) Network Design
3 30 (34.88%) Customer Requirements
4 24 (27.91%) Technical Leadership
5 22 (25.58%) ITIL
6 14 (16.28%) Project Delivery
7 13 (15.12%) Change Management
7 13 (15.12%) DevOps
8 12 (13.95%) ITSM
9 9 (10.47%) Mentoring
10 7 (8.14%) Migration
11 5 (5.81%) Data Analytics
11 5 (5.81%) Network Architecture
11 5 (5.81%) Performance Management
11 5 (5.81%) Programme Management
11 5 (5.81%) Resource Management
11 5 (5.81%) Service Delivery
11 5 (5.81%) SOA
11 5 (5.81%) Technical Architecture
11 5 (5.81%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.93%) Python
2 12 (13.95%) Perl
2 12 (13.95%) Tcl
3 4 (4.65%) Bash
4 3 (3.49%) C#
4 3 (3.49%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.49%) SQL
5 2 (2.33%) Go
5 2 (2.33%) Java
5 2 (2.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 60 (69.77%) Security Cleared
2 39 (45.35%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (38.37%) SC Cleared
4 27 (31.40%) CCNP
5 20 (23.26%) CCNA
6 11 (12.79%) CCIE
7 8 (9.30%) CISSP
8 6 (6.98%) DV Cleared
9 5 (5.81%) CCIE Data Center
10 4 (4.65%) CCIE Security
11 3 (3.49%) JNCIA
12 2 (2.33%) CEH
12 2 (2.33%) CISM
12 2 (2.33%) Degree
12 2 (2.33%) JNCIS
12 2 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (2.33%) RHCE
12 2 (2.33%) SANS
13 1 (1.16%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (15.12%) Firmware
2 3 (3.49%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (36.05%) Endace
2 16 (18.60%) Ansible
3 3 (3.49%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.33%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (2.33%) Terraform
5 1 (1.16%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.16%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 83 (96.51%) Cisco
2 45 (52.33%) F5
2 45 (52.33%) Juniper
3 22 (25.58%) Palo Alto
4 17 (19.77%) SolarWinds
5 13 (15.12%) Citrix
6 10 (11.63%) CheckPoint
7 9 (10.47%) Infoblox
8 7 (8.14%) Symantec
9 5 (5.81%) Zscaler
10 3 (3.49%) AlgoSec
10 3 (3.49%) VMware
11 2 (2.33%) AlienVault
11 2 (2.33%) ArcSight
11 2 (2.33%) CA
11 2 (2.33%) Carbon Black
11 2 (2.33%) Fortinet
11 2 (2.33%) LogRhythm
11 2 (2.33%) Meraki
11 2 (2.33%) Microsoft