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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 440 458
Rank change year-on-year +48 +18 +306
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Firepower 29 55 64
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.60% 1.47% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 17 10 59
10th Percentile £58,250 £59,325 £42,230
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,563 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £76,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% +27.08% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £106,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +9.09%

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 1,807 3,729 3,276
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.09% 15.91% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,041 1,618 2,743
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%

Cisco Firepower
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cisco Firepower as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cisco Firepower trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cisco Firepower
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

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

Cisco Firepower
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cisco Firepower over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Cisco Firepower salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco Firepower
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) AWS
2 15 (51.72%) Azure
3 10 (34.48%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 29 (100.00%) Firewall
2 22 (75.86%) Cisco ASA
3 17 (58.62%) VPN
3 17 (58.62%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (51.72%) BGP
4 15 (51.72%) OSPF
5 14 (48.28%) WAN
6 13 (44.83%) IPsec
7 12 (41.38%) SD-WAN
8 11 (37.93%) MPLS
9 10 (34.48%) NX-OS
9 10 (34.48%) WLAN
10 9 (31.03%) LAN
11 5 (17.24%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (17.24%) NetScaler
11 5 (17.24%) VXLAN
12 4 (13.79%) Network Security
12 4 (13.79%) Wireshark
13 2 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
General
1 8 (27.59%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) French Language
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Network Engineer
2 9 (31.03%) Lead
3 8 (27.59%) Senior
4 7 (24.14%) Cisco Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Network Operations Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Operations Engineer
5 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 6 (20.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (17.24%) Infoblox Engineer
7 4 (13.79%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Cisco Consultant
8 2 (6.90%) Cisco Network Consultant
8 2 (6.90%) Consultant
8 2 (6.90%) ICT Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Network Consultant
8 2 (6.90%) Network Specialist
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 20 (68.97%) Data Centre
2 10 (34.48%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Change Management
2 11 (37.93%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (37.93%) Runbook
3 10 (34.48%) Cloud Security
4 9 (31.03%) Data Centre Operations
5 8 (27.59%) Incident Management
5 8 (27.59%) Network Monitoring
6 7 (24.14%) Network Architecture
6 7 (24.14%) Process Improvement
7 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.24%) Kalman Filter
8 5 (17.24%) Network Segmentation
9 4 (13.79%) Collaborative Culture
9 4 (13.79%) Incident Response
9 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 4 (13.79%) Network Management
10 2 (6.90%) High Availability
10 2 (6.90%) Load Balancing
10 2 (6.90%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (13.79%) CCNP
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) CCIE
3 2 (6.90%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Firmware
2 2 (6.90%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Ansible
1 2 (6.90%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Cisco
2 19 (65.52%) CheckPoint
3 14 (48.28%) Infoblox
3 14 (48.28%) SolarWinds
4 11 (37.93%) Meraki
5 10 (34.48%) Dynatrace
5 10 (34.48%) Fortinet
6 5 (17.24%) Palo Alto
7 2 (6.90%) Arista
7 2 (6.90%) Zscaler
8 1 (3.45%) Citrix
8 1 (3.45%) HP
8 1 (3.45%) Microsoft