Cisco Firepower Contracts

Cisco Firepower (formerly Sourcefire Firepower)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 635 719
Rank change year-on-year +122 +84 -81
Contract jobs citing Cisco Firepower 87 78 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.54% 1.06% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 61 84
10th Percentile £345 £375 £287
25th Percentile £425 £475 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +37.50% -8.36%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £519
90th Percentile £775 £638 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £525 £325
% change year-on-year -1.90% +61.54% -11.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,643 7,361 9,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.94% 12.33% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,382 4,789 6,330
10th Percentile £205 £235 £228
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% +3.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 478 360
10th Percentile £13.57 £9.80 £14.87
25th Percentile £17.35 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £19.00 £27.88
Median % change year-on-year +102.63% -31.84% +1.36%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.40 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -10.42%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Firepower over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Firepower.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Firepower in the UK

Cisco Firepower
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +124 86 £515 -6.36% 47
UK excluding London +102 70 £515 -1.90% 39
South East +51 42 £475 -7.32% 12
North of England +34 20 £515 -6.36% 7
North West +30 17 £515 -4.19% 5
Work from Home +102 16 £515 -0.68% 20
London +88 12 £425 -22.73% 16
West Midlands +34 7 £750 +30.43% 5
Midlands +29 7 £750 +44.65% 6
Yorkshire +22 3 £475 -13.64% 2
East of England +13 1 £350 - 4

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:

Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.30%) Azure
2 1 (1.15%) AWS
2 1 (1.15%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 47 (54.02%) BGP
2 42 (48.28%) Firewall
3 39 (44.83%) WAN
4 31 (35.63%) Cisco ASA
5 30 (34.48%) MPLS
6 29 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
7 25 (28.74%) SSL
8 22 (25.29%) OSPF
9 21 (24.14%) IPsec
10 17 (19.54%) EIGRP
10 17 (19.54%) HSRP
11 16 (18.39%) Spanning Tree
12 15 (17.24%) VPN
13 14 (16.09%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (14.94%) LAN
14 13 (14.94%) NetScaler
15 12 (13.79%) SNMP
16 11 (12.64%) SD-WAN
17 10 (11.49%) Cisco Nexus
17 10 (11.49%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (32.18%) Finance
2 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.90%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.60%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.15%) Advertising
7 1 (1.15%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (47.13%) Architect
2 39 (44.83%) Network Engineer
3 34 (39.08%) Network Architect
4 19 (21.84%) Senior
5 12 (13.79%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Senior Architect
8 6 (6.90%) 3rd Line Support
8 6 (6.90%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (5.75%) Senior Network Architect
10 4 (4.60%) Cisco Architect
10 4 (4.60%) Cisco Network Architect
10 4 (4.60%) Cisco Security Architect
10 4 (4.60%) Network Security Architect
10 4 (4.60%) Security Architect
11 3 (3.45%) Security Engineer
12 2 (2.30%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.79%) Jinja
2 5 (5.75%) Web Services
3 4 (4.60%) 802.1X
4 2 (2.30%) .NET
4 2 (2.30%) HTML
4 2 (2.30%) JSON
4 2 (2.30%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.54%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.30%) Cyberattack
2 2 (2.30%) Hedge funds
2 2 (2.30%) PKI
3 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.15%) NHS
3 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (43.68%) Network Management
2 29 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 29 (33.33%) Network Design
3 24 (27.59%) Technical Leadership
4 22 (25.29%) ITIL
5 14 (16.09%) DevOps
6 13 (14.94%) Change Management
7 12 (13.79%) ITSM
8 10 (11.49%) Project Delivery
9 9 (10.34%) Mentoring
10 8 (9.20%) Network Virtualisation
11 5 (5.75%) Analytics
11 5 (5.75%) Architectural Design
11 5 (5.75%) Data Analytics
11 5 (5.75%) Network Architecture
11 5 (5.75%) Performance Management
11 5 (5.75%) Programme Management
11 5 (5.75%) Resource Management
11 5 (5.75%) Technical Architecture
11 5 (5.75%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.69%) Python
2 12 (13.79%) Perl
2 12 (13.79%) Tcl
3 4 (4.60%) Bash
3 4 (4.60%) C#
3 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.60%) SQL
4 2 (2.30%) Go
4 2 (2.30%) Java
4 2 (2.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 61 (70.11%) Security Cleared
2 39 (44.83%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (37.93%) SC Cleared
4 28 (32.18%) CCNP
5 20 (22.99%) CCNA
6 10 (11.49%) CCIE
7 9 (10.34%) DV Cleared
8 7 (8.05%) CISSP
9 5 (5.75%) CCIE Data Center
10 4 (4.60%) CCIE Security
11 3 (3.45%) JNCIA
12 2 (2.30%) CEH
12 2 (2.30%) CISM
12 2 (2.30%) Degree
12 2 (2.30%) JNCIS
12 2 (2.30%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (2.30%) RHCE
12 2 (2.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (14.94%) Firmware
2 5 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (29.89%) Endace
2 16 (18.39%) Ansible
3 3 (3.45%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.30%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (2.30%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (2.30%) Stealthwatch
4 2 (2.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 84 (96.55%) Cisco
2 44 (50.57%) Juniper
3 40 (45.98%) F5
4 22 (25.29%) Palo Alto
5 17 (19.54%) SolarWinds
6 13 (14.94%) Citrix
7 10 (11.49%) CheckPoint
8 9 (10.34%) Infoblox
9 7 (8.05%) Symantec
9 7 (8.05%) VMware
10 5 (5.75%) Zscaler
11 3 (3.45%) AlgoSec
11 3 (3.45%) Microsoft
12 2 (2.30%) AlienVault
12 2 (2.30%) ArcSight
12 2 (2.30%) CA
12 2 (2.30%) Fortinet
12 2 (2.30%) LogRhythm
12 2 (2.30%) Meraki
12 2 (2.30%) Splunk