Cisco Firepower Job Trends

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Cisco Firepower skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 583 737
Rank change year-on-year -70 +154 +63
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Firepower 80 81 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.17% 1.21% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 45 69 109
10th Percentile £48,250 £51,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £54,000 £54,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £87,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £62,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -7.20% +17.92% -3.64%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,810 6,698 13,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.34% 15.08% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,374 3,758 9,431
10th Percentile £27,694 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -10.11% -1.11%

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cisco Firepower job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Firepower.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Firepower

Cisco Firepower
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Firepower over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Top 13 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 13 June 2026. 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 -67 78 £70,000 +7.69% 11
London +4 41 £76,250 -11.59% 3
UK excluding London -83 37 £58,000 -7.20% 9
Work from Home +6 33 £77,500 +19.23% 6
South East -17 11 £67,500 +8.00% 5
North of England -41 11 £52,500 -19.23% 2
South West -60 10 £47,500 -13.64%
North West +7 8 £52,500 -25.00%
West Midlands -21 3 £58,750 -26.56% 2
Midlands -27 3 £58,750 -9.62% 2
Yorkshire -41 3 £70,000 +16.67% 2
East of England - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £36,000 -

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 37 (46.25%) AWS
2 31 (38.75%) Azure
3 13 (16.25%) AWS Direct Connect
4 11 (13.75%) SaaS
4 11 (13.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.25%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 69 (86.25%) Firewall
2 55 (68.75%) WAN
3 46 (57.50%) LAN
4 44 (55.00%) Cisco ASA
5 42 (52.50%) VPN
6 33 (41.25%) BGP
7 28 (35.00%) Cisco ISE
7 28 (35.00%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (33.75%) OSPF
8 27 (33.75%) SD-WAN
9 22 (27.50%) MPLS
10 18 (22.50%) Network Security
11 17 (21.25%) NX-OS
11 17 (21.25%) VLAN
11 17 (21.25%) WLAN
12 14 (17.50%) IPsec
13 13 (16.25%) VXLAN
14 12 (15.00%) NetScaler
15 10 (12.50%) Wireless
16 9 (11.25%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (28.75%) Finance
2 20 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.50%) Public Sector
4 11 (13.75%) Banking
5 10 (12.50%) Retail
5 10 (12.50%) Retail Banking
6 9 (11.25%) Marketing
6 9 (11.25%) Telecoms
7 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 56 (70.00%) Network Engineer
2 20 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 16 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 14 (17.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) Senior
6 10 (12.50%) Architect
6 10 (12.50%) Network Operations Engineer
6 10 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
7 9 (11.25%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (11.25%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (10.00%) LAN Engineer
8 8 (10.00%) LAN/WAN Engineer
8 8 (10.00%) WAN Engineer
9 7 (8.75%) Firewall Engineer
9 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
10 6 (7.50%) Collaboration Engineer
11 5 (6.25%) Network Architect
11 5 (6.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.25%) XMPP
2 8 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 46 (57.50%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.50%) PKI
3 9 (11.25%) FlexPod
3 9 (11.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (11.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (11.25%) Onboarding
3 9 (11.25%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (8.75%) Management Information System
5 6 (7.50%) Replication
6 4 (5.00%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.25%) Windows
2 7 (8.75%) Linux
2 7 (8.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (26.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 19 (23.75%) Load Balancing
4 18 (22.50%) ITIL
5 16 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
6 13 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (16.25%) Technical Leadership
7 12 (15.00%) Change Management
7 12 (15.00%) Computer Science
7 12 (15.00%) Zero Trust
8 10 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (12.50%) High Availability
8 10 (12.50%) Network Design
8 10 (12.50%) Process Improvement
8 10 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (11.25%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (11.25%) Data Management
9 9 (11.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 9 (11.25%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (48.75%) Cisco Certification
2 37 (46.25%) CCNP
3 21 (26.25%) CCNA
3 21 (26.25%) Security Cleared
4 18 (22.50%) SC Cleared
5 16 (20.00%) CCIE
6 14 (17.50%) Degree
7 12 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (13.75%) CCSE
9 10 (12.50%) CCSA
9 10 (12.50%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.25%) CCSM
10 1 (1.25%) CISSP
10 1 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) QA
1 4 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (11.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (8.75%) vSphere
3 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (7.50%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (5.00%) Firmware
4 4 (5.00%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.25%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.75%) Ansible
1 11 (13.75%) FortiGate
2 9 (11.25%) Check_MK
2 9 (11.25%) Cisco CUCM
2 9 (11.25%) Grafana
3 7 (8.75%) Terraform
4 6 (7.50%) Endace
5 5 (6.25%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.25%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 80 (100.00%) Cisco
2 39 (48.75%) Fortinet
3 31 (38.75%) Palo Alto
4 28 (35.00%) CheckPoint
5 26 (32.50%) SolarWinds
6 15 (18.75%) Meraki
7 14 (17.50%) Juniper
8 13 (16.25%) Dynatrace
9 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
10 9 (11.25%) Splunk
10 9 (11.25%) VMware
11 7 (8.75%) F5
11 7 (8.75%) ServiceNow
12 6 (7.50%) Aruba
12 6 (7.50%) NetApp
13 4 (5.00%) Arista
13 4 (5.00%) Broadcom
13 4 (5.00%) HP
14 2 (2.50%) Zscaler
15 1 (1.25%) AlgoSec