Cisco Firepower Contracts in the Midlands

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Cisco Firepower skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco Firepower over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 155 191
Rank change year-on-year +30 +36 -36
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 8 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.30% 0.15% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.72% 0.99% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 6
10th Percentile £450 £477 £334
25th Percentile £638 £498 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £519 £420
Median % change year-on-year +44.65% +23.45% -
75th Percentile £775 £543 £450
90th Percentile - £570 -
England median daily rate £515 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -1.90% +31.24% -8.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

Cisco Firepower is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 464 505 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.23% 15.38% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 331 390
10th Percentile £200 £248 £163
25th Percentile £300 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £618
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 32
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £15.94 £14.55
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +18.11% +16.87%
75th Percentile £24.35 £28.13 £20.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%

Cisco Firepower
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Cisco Firepower as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Firepower in the Midlands

Cisco Firepower
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Firepower in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Firepower in the Midlands

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Firepower in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Firepower in the Midlands

Cisco Firepower
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Firepower within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +32 7 £750 +30.43% 3
East Midlands +10 1 £550 +6.08%
Cisco Firepower
England

Cisco Firepower
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco ISE
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
1 6 (75.00%) VPN
1 6 (75.00%) WAN
2 5 (62.50%) DHCP
2 5 (62.50%) DNS
2 5 (62.50%) Internet
2 5 (62.50%) LAN
2 5 (62.50%) MPLS
2 5 (62.50%) PBX
2 5 (62.50%) SD-WAN
2 5 (62.50%) VoIP
2 5 (62.50%) WLAN
3 2 (25.00%) CATAPAN
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (12.50%) HSRP
4 1 (12.50%) IPsec
4 1 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (12.50%) VLAN
General
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
1 5 (62.50%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 6 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Architectural Design
2 5 (62.50%) Customer Requirements
2 5 (62.50%) Data Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) ITIL
2 5 (62.50%) Network Architecture
2 5 (62.50%) Performance Management
2 5 (62.50%) Programme Management
2 5 (62.50%) Resource Management
2 5 (62.50%) SOA
2 5 (62.50%) Storage Management
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (62.50%) TOGAF
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Security Management
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (75.00%) CCIE
3 5 (62.50%) CCIE Data Center
4 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) CCDP
5 1 (12.50%) CCNA
5 1 (12.50%) CCNP
5 1 (12.50%) CISSP
5 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) CheckPoint
2 5 (62.50%) Infoblox
2 5 (62.50%) Palo Alto
2 5 (62.50%) Symantec
2 5 (62.50%) Zscaler
3 2 (25.00%) Juniper
4 1 (12.50%) F5