Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Firepower skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco Firepower over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 575 810 1014
Rank change year-on-year +235 +204 -358
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Firepower 158 285 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.23% 0.066%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.92% 1.81% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 137 192 73
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,270 £39,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,250 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,216
% change year-on-year +15.00% -0.43% +0.43%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,218 15,777 16,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.19% 12.54% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6,418 10,533 11,407
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Firepower over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Firepower within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +206 130 £60,000 - 31
UK excluding London +252 116 £57,500 +15.00% 18
Work from Home +182 59 £55,000 -15.38% 19
North of England +143 36 £53,750 +7.50% 5
London +162 35 £70,000 +7.69% 18
South East +161 21 £70,750 +28.64% 4
North West +117 19 £55,000 +10.00% 3
South West +80 17 £50,300 +25.75%
Scotland - 12 £58,750 - 4
East of England +102 11 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Yorkshire +90 10 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Midlands +115 8 £53,750 +19.44% 4
West Midlands +109 8 £53,750 +20.94% 4
Northern Ireland +37 7 £68,000 +36.00%
North East - 7 £39,005 -
Wales +17 4 £46,500 -22.50%

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.16%) SharePoint
1 5 (3.16%) Skype for Business
2 3 (1.90%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 36 (22.78%) Azure
2 22 (13.92%) AWS
3 9 (5.70%) GCP
3 9 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.27%) Cohesity
5 2 (1.27%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.27%) IaaS
5 2 (1.27%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.27%) PaaS
5 2 (1.27%) SaaS
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.63%) GitHub
6 1 (0.63%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 113 (71.52%) Firewall
2 77 (48.73%) Cisco ASA
3 73 (46.20%) WAN
4 50 (31.65%) Cisco ISE
5 49 (31.01%) Network Security
6 48 (30.38%) VPN
7 45 (28.48%) Wireless
8 44 (27.85%) SD-WAN
9 41 (25.95%) LAN
10 40 (25.32%) Cisco Nexus
11 36 (22.78%) BGP
12 30 (18.99%) OSPF
13 21 (13.29%) DHCP
14 20 (12.66%) DNS
14 20 (12.66%) MPLS
15 17 (10.76%) NGFW
15 17 (10.76%) TCP/IP
15 17 (10.76%) VLAN
16 15 (9.49%) EIGRP
17 14 (8.86%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.27%) Metadata
2 1 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (15.82%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.23%) Public Sector
2 13 (8.23%) Telecoms
3 7 (4.43%) Finance
4 4 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (1.90%) Retail
6 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (0.63%) Advertising
7 1 (0.63%) Publishing
7 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 95 (60.13%) Network Engineer
2 45 (28.48%) Senior
3 33 (20.89%) Senior Network Engineer
4 25 (15.82%) Architect
4 25 (15.82%) Network Architect
5 24 (15.19%) Security Engineer
6 20 (12.66%) Network Security Engineer
7 19 (12.03%) Cisco Engineer
7 19 (12.03%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 19 (12.03%) Consultant
8 18 (11.39%) Network Consultant
9 10 (6.33%) Senior Consultant
10 9 (5.70%) Security Consultant
10 9 (5.70%) Senior Network Consultant
10 9 (5.70%) Senior Network Security Engineer
10 9 (5.70%) Senior Security Engineer
11 8 (5.06%) Lead
11 8 (5.06%) Network Security Consultant
12 6 (3.80%) Senior Security Consultant
13 5 (3.16%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.06%) 802.1X
2 7 (4.43%) JSON
3 3 (1.90%) HTML
4 1 (0.63%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 44 (27.85%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.33%) Tandem
3 9 (5.70%) Public Cloud
4 8 (5.06%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.16%) NHS
5 5 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.90%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.90%) PKI
7 2 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.27%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.63%) CMDB
8 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.63%) LIMS
8 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.63%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.59%) Windows
2 10 (6.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.53%) Linux
4 3 (1.90%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) CatOS
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (17.09%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (10.76%) Project Delivery
3 16 (10.13%) Incident Management
3 16 (10.13%) Network Design
4 13 (8.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (8.23%) Network Monitoring
5 12 (7.59%) Incident Response
6 11 (6.96%) Change Management
7 10 (6.33%) B2B
7 10 (6.33%) ITIL
7 10 (6.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 9 (5.70%) Mentoring
8 9 (5.70%) Network Management
8 9 (5.70%) Proactive Monitoring
9 8 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (5.06%) Change Control
9 8 (5.06%) Network Virtualisation
9 8 (5.06%) Presales
10 7 (4.43%) Digital Engineering
10 7 (4.43%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.96%) Python
2 9 (5.70%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.53%) C#
4 3 (1.90%) Bash
4 3 (1.90%) Go
4 3 (1.90%) SQL
5 1 (0.63%) Java
5 1 (0.63%) Ruby
5 1 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 118 (74.68%) Cisco Certification
2 105 (66.46%) CCNP
3 59 (37.34%) CCNA
4 53 (33.54%) Security Cleared
5 44 (27.85%) SC Cleared
6 23 (14.56%) CCIE
7 14 (8.86%) CCSE
8 11 (6.96%) CCSA
9 7 (4.43%) Degree
10 6 (3.80%) CCDP
10 6 (3.80%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 4 (2.53%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.90%) CCDA
12 3 (1.90%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.63%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.90%) SLA
2 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.27%) PMO
3 1 (0.63%) HL7
3 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (13.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (9.49%) VMware NSX
3 7 (4.43%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.53%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.90%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.27%) Firmware
7 1 (0.63%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (12.03%) FortiGate
2 11 (6.96%) Cisco CUCM
3 9 (5.70%) Terraform
4 8 (5.06%) Ansible
5 7 (4.43%) Nessus
6 4 (2.53%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (1.90%) Stealthwatch
7 3 (1.90%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.27%) Endace
9 1 (0.63%) Nmap
9 1 (0.63%) RANCID
9 1 (0.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 158 (100.00%) Cisco
2 43 (27.22%) CheckPoint
3 37 (23.42%) Palo Alto
4 34 (21.52%) VMware
5 33 (20.89%) Fortinet
6 31 (19.62%) SolarWinds
7 30 (18.99%) F5
7 30 (18.99%) Meraki
8 26 (16.46%) Microsoft
9 22 (13.92%) Juniper
10 16 (10.13%) Aruba
11 11 (6.96%) Huawei
12 9 (5.70%) Splunk
13 8 (5.06%) HP
14 7 (4.43%) Blue Coat
14 7 (4.43%) CA
14 7 (4.43%) Google
15 5 (3.16%) Citrix
15 5 (3.16%) IronPort
16 4 (2.53%) Zscaler