Hybrid/Remote Cisco Firepower Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Cisco Firepower skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 429 442
Rank change year-on-year +25 +13 +240
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Firepower 15 37 56
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.091% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.88% 1.55% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 47
10th Percentile £56,400 £53,650 £39,531
25th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +39.13% -11.54%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £84,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,714 2,389 3,126
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.45% 11.96% 13.91%
Number of salaries quoted 995 1,383 2,616
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £74,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,489
UK median annual salary £37,750 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.10% +5.00% -4.76%

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cisco Firepower and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cisco Firepower job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Cisco Firepower
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cisco Firepower.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cisco Firepower

Cisco Firepower
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cisco Firepower over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Cisco Firepower salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cisco Firepower
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) Firewall
2 9 (60.00%) BGP
2 9 (60.00%) OSPF
3 8 (53.33%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (53.33%) WAN
4 7 (46.67%) IPsec
4 7 (46.67%) VPN
4 7 (46.67%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (40.00%) LAN
5 6 (40.00%) SD-WAN
6 5 (33.33%) MPLS
7 4 (26.67%) Network Security
7 4 (26.67%) NX-OS
7 4 (26.67%) WLAN
8 2 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (13.33%) NetScaler
8 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
8 2 (13.33%) VXLAN
9 1 (6.67%) HSRP
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) French Language
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Network Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) ICT Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infoblox Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Network Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Operations Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (13.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Change Management
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
1 4 (26.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (13.33%) High Availability
2 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (13.33%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
2 2 (13.33%) Network Design
2 2 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (13.33%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
2 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (13.33%) Runbook
2 2 (13.33%) Threat Analysis
2 2 (13.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (26.67%) CCNP
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) CCIE
3 2 (13.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Firmware
1 2 (13.33%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 5 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 4 (26.67%) Dynatrace
3 4 (26.67%) Infoblox
3 4 (26.67%) Meraki
3 4 (26.67%) SolarWinds
4 3 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (13.33%) Arista
6 1 (6.67%) Citrix
6 1 (6.67%) HP
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft