Cisco Firepower Jobs

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Cisco Firepower skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cisco Firepower over the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 639 613 865
Rank change year-on-year -26 +252 +141
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Firepower 145 156 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.27% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.30% 1.76% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 91 130 191
10th Percentile £51,250 £39,433 £37,343
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,625 £72,127 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,750
% change year-on-year -4.17% +18.23% -3.33%

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 11,185 8,861 18,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.71% 15.09% 12.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4,067 6,706 10,980
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,768 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,236 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -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 26 October 2024.

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 26 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -42 143 £60,000 +2.56% 32
UK excluding London -55 106 £57,500 -4.17% 20
South East +16 72 £57,500 -14.81% 5
Work from Home +8 38 £80,000 +39.13% 14
London +21 31 £80,000 +14.29% 12
North of England -20 19 £57,500 +27.78% 12
North West -28 16 £57,500 +41.98% 9
Midlands -30 12 £72,500 +31.82% 2
West Midlands -26 11 £73,750 +28.26% 2
Yorkshire +21 3 £57,500 -4.17% 3
South West -2 2 £55,000 +9.34% 1
East of England -57 2 - - 1
East Midlands -23 1 £72,500 +80.03%

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 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.59%) Azure
2 5 (3.45%) Entra ID
3 4 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.38%) AWS
4 2 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (1.38%) IaaS
5 1 (0.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (0.69%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.69%) GCP
5 1 (0.69%) PaaS
5 1 (0.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (46.21%) Cisco ASA
2 64 (44.14%) Firewall
3 56 (38.62%) BGP
4 55 (37.93%) OSPF
5 52 (35.86%) SD-WAN
6 50 (34.48%) EIGRP
7 48 (33.10%) IPsec
7 48 (33.10%) WAN
8 47 (32.41%) VPN
9 45 (31.03%) Network Security
10 43 (29.66%) SSL
11 42 (28.97%) TCP/IP
12 39 (26.90%) VLAN
13 36 (24.83%) Ethernet
14 35 (24.14%) VXLAN
15 34 (23.45%) Ethernet VPN
15 34 (23.45%) RIP
16 30 (20.69%) Cisco ISE
17 15 (10.34%) NGFW
18 14 (9.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.83%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.07%) JIRA
General
1 33 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 4 (2.76%) Telecoms
3 2 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (1.38%) Finance
3 2 (1.38%) Law
3 2 (1.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (1.38%) Retail
4 1 (0.69%) Banking
4 1 (0.69%) Billing
4 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (53.79%) Network Engineer
2 47 (32.41%) Senior
3 28 (19.31%) Consultant
4 27 (18.62%) Network Consultant
5 25 (17.24%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 24 (16.55%) Security Consultant
7 23 (15.86%) Network Security Consultant
8 22 (15.17%) Architect
9 21 (14.48%) Cisco Architect
9 21 (14.48%) Cisco Security Architect
9 21 (14.48%) Security Architect
9 21 (14.48%) Senior Architect
9 21 (14.48%) Senior Cisco Architect
9 21 (14.48%) Senior Security Architect
10 20 (13.79%) Senior Consultant
10 20 (13.79%) Senior Network Consultant
11 18 (12.41%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 16 (11.03%) Senior Network Security Consultant
12 16 (11.03%) Senior Security Consultant
13 15 (10.34%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (24.83%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 38 (26.21%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.45%) Driving Licence
3 4 (2.76%) HP StoreVirtual
4 3 (2.07%) Tandem
5 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.69%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.69%) CMDB
6 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Replication
6 1 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.03%) Windows
2 14 (9.66%) Linux
2 14 (9.66%) Windows Server
3 7 (4.83%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.14%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.69%) Time Management
2 28 (19.31%) Agile
3 25 (17.24%) Presales
4 23 (15.86%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (14.48%) Analytics
5 21 (14.48%) Customer Engagement
5 21 (14.48%) Software Licensing
6 17 (11.72%) Migration
7 15 (10.34%) ITSM
8 14 (9.66%) ITIL
9 13 (8.97%) Network Management
10 9 (6.21%) Scenario Testing
11 8 (5.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (5.52%) Service Delivery
12 7 (4.83%) Commercial Awareness
12 7 (4.83%) Mentoring
13 6 (4.14%) Open Source
13 6 (4.14%) Project Delivery
14 5 (3.45%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.52%) Python
2 6 (4.14%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.07%) SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (65.52%) Cisco Certification
2 78 (53.79%) Security Cleared
3 69 (47.59%) CCNP
4 64 (44.14%) CCNA
5 49 (33.79%) DV Cleared
6 30 (20.69%) SC Cleared
7 21 (14.48%) Degree
8 15 (10.34%) CCIE
9 11 (7.59%) CCSA
9 11 (7.59%) CCSE
10 8 (5.52%) JNCIA
11 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.69%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 1 (0.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.83%) GDPR
2 2 (1.38%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 16 (11.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (8.97%) VMware NSX
3 11 (7.59%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.76%) vSphere
5 3 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.38%) NFS
7 1 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (14.48%) Stealthwatch
2 15 (10.34%) FortiGate
3 7 (4.83%) McAfee ePO
4 6 (4.14%) Ansible
5 5 (3.45%) ZABBIX
6 4 (2.76%) Nessus
6 4 (2.76%) WSUS
7 3 (2.07%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.38%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.38%) Nagios
8 2 (1.38%) WMI
9 1 (0.69%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 145 (100.00%) Cisco
2 56 (38.62%) Juniper
3 52 (35.86%) Palo Alto
4 41 (28.28%) F5
5 40 (27.59%) Fortinet
6 37 (25.52%) Microsoft
7 28 (19.31%) Meraki
8 27 (18.62%) CheckPoint
9 23 (15.86%) VMware
10 22 (15.17%) Aruba
11 21 (14.48%) Adobe
11 21 (14.48%) Apple
12 15 (10.34%) SolarWinds
13 13 (8.97%) Citrix
14 12 (8.28%) McAfee
15 7 (4.83%) arcserve
16 5 (3.45%) Arista
16 5 (3.45%) Blue Coat
16 5 (3.45%) Red Hat
16 5 (3.45%) Zscaler