Cisco Firepower Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 440 557
Rank change year-on-year +113 +117 -101
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 17 31 66
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.08% 1.05% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 28 44
10th Percentile £420 £359 -
25th Percentile £463 £375 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £509 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% +27.31% -20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £625 £626 £613
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -1.90% +31.25% -5.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,580 2,950 4,339
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.36% 11.49% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 1,954 2,942
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £600
90th Percentile £713 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 101 103
10th Percentile £12.75 £24.50 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £25.88
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +23.51% +14.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% -3.51%

Cisco Firepower
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cisco Firepower as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cisco Firepower trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cisco Firepower.

Cisco Firepower daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cisco Firepower over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Cisco Firepower daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco Firepower
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cisco Firepower.

Cisco Firepower hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco Firepower
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 12 (70.59%) Firewall
2 10 (58.82%) Cisco ISE
3 8 (47.06%) Cisco ASA
4 7 (41.18%) BGP
4 7 (41.18%) EIGRP
4 7 (41.18%) HSRP
4 7 (41.18%) IPsec
4 7 (41.18%) NetScaler
4 7 (41.18%) OSPF
5 6 (35.29%) SNMP
5 6 (35.29%) Spanning Tree
5 6 (35.29%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (17.65%) Network Security
6 3 (17.65%) WAN
7 2 (11.76%) Internet
7 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
7 2 (11.76%) VPN
8 1 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (5.88%) LAN
8 1 (5.88%) WLAN
General
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Network Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Senior
3 4 (23.53%) Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Security Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Network Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Build Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Designer
6 1 (5.88%) Network Build Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Network Designer
6 1 (5.88%) Network Manager
6 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Jinja
2 2 (11.76%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cyberattack
1 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) ITIL
2 7 (41.18%) Change Management
2 7 (41.18%) Network Management
3 6 (35.29%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) ITSM
4 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (11.76%) SIEM
6 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
6 1 (5.88%) Incident Response
6 1 (5.88%) Information Security
6 1 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (5.88%) Network Segmentation
6 1 (5.88%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Project Management
6 1 (5.88%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) Perl
2 6 (35.29%) Tcl
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (52.94%) CCNP
2 9 (52.94%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 7 (41.18%) CCNA
4 3 (17.65%) CISSP
5 2 (11.76%) CEH
5 2 (11.76%) CISM
5 2 (11.76%) RHCE
5 2 (11.76%) SANS
6 1 (5.88%) CCIE
6 1 (5.88%) Degree
6 1 (5.88%) JNCIS
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Firmware
2 2 (11.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Ansible
2 3 (17.65%) FortiGate
3 2 (11.76%) Host Intrusion Detection System
3 2 (11.76%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) Endace
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (52.94%) Palo Alto
2 9 (52.94%) SolarWinds
3 7 (41.18%) Citrix
4 2 (11.76%) AlienVault
4 2 (11.76%) ArcSight
4 2 (11.76%) CA
4 2 (11.76%) Carbon Black
4 2 (11.76%) F5
4 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
4 2 (11.76%) Juniper
4 2 (11.76%) LogRhythm
4 2 (11.76%) Symantec
4 2 (11.76%) VMware