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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 404 431
Rank change year-on-year -37 +27 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Firepower 22 17 43
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.087% 0.10% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.00% 0.99% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12 9 10
10th Percentile £44,750 £56,400 £53,700
25th Percentile £50,563 £58,750 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -14.75% +32.61%
75th Percentile £107,500 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile - £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -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 2,209 1,718 2,596
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.77% 10.46% 12.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,339 986 1,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £42,178
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -10.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £38,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +29.87% -26.67% +2.94%

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 16 October 2026.

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 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Direct Connect
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (18.18%) SaaS
3 4 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 19 (86.36%) Firewall
2 15 (68.18%) LAN
2 15 (68.18%) WAN
3 11 (50.00%) BGP
3 11 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 11 (50.00%) VPN
4 8 (36.36%) Cisco ISE
4 8 (36.36%) OSPF
4 8 (36.36%) VXLAN
5 7 (31.82%) MPLS
5 7 (31.82%) WLAN
6 6 (27.27%) Network Security
6 6 (27.27%) Wireless
7 5 (22.73%) SD-WAN
7 5 (22.73%) VLAN
8 4 (18.18%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (18.18%) NetScaler
8 4 (18.18%) NX-OS
8 4 (18.18%) Unified Communications
8 4 (18.18%) WebEx
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Banking
3 4 (18.18%) Marketing
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 4 (18.18%) Retail
3 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Network Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Network Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Network Infrastructure Team Leader
3 3 (13.64%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Network Support
3 3 (13.64%) Network Support Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Network Team Leader
3 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Support Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Team Leader
4 1 (4.55%) Collaboration Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Network Communications Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Unified Communications Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) XMPP
2 3 (13.64%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 4 (18.18%) FlexPod
2 4 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 4 (18.18%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (13.64%) Replication
3 3 (13.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Technical Leadership
2 9 (40.91%) Mentoring
3 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (31.82%) Network Architecture
4 7 (31.82%) Roadmaps
5 6 (27.27%) Change Management
5 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (18.18%) Customer Engagement
6 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (18.18%) Data Management
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (18.18%) Network Segmentation
6 4 (18.18%) Performance Management
6 4 (18.18%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (18.18%) Zero Trust
7 3 (13.64%) Incident Management
7 3 (13.64%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) CCNP
1 8 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (13.64%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) CCIE
3 1 (4.55%) CCIE Routing and Switching
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 3 (13.64%) Virtual Servers
1 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (13.64%) vSphere
2 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) FortiGate
2 5 (22.73%) Ansible
3 4 (18.18%) Cisco CUCM
3 4 (18.18%) Grafana
4 3 (13.64%) Stealthwatch
5 1 (4.55%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (31.82%) Fortinet
3 5 (22.73%) Palo Alto
3 5 (22.73%) SolarWinds
4 4 (18.18%) CheckPoint
4 4 (18.18%) Dynatrace
4 4 (18.18%) Meraki
4 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 4 (18.18%) Splunk
4 4 (18.18%) VMware
5 3 (13.64%) Arista
5 3 (13.64%) Aruba
5 3 (13.64%) NetApp
6 1 (4.55%) Mellanox
6 1 (4.55%) NVIDIA