Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco ASA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco ASA over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 781 731 779
Rank change year-on-year -50 +48 -192
Permanent jobs citing Cisco ASA 130 230 516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.96% 1.48% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 78 176 360
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,469 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,562 15,535 22,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.13% 15.99% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,412 7,743 11,780
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

Cisco ASA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cisco ASA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco ASA in the UK

Cisco ASA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco ASA.

Salary trend for Cisco ASA in the UK

Cisco ASA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco ASA over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco ASA in the UK

Cisco ASA
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco ASA within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -4 109 £53,500 -2.73% 45
UK excluding London -42 99 £52,500 - 40
South West -4 33 £50,000 +2.56% 4
South East -7 29 £53,000 -3.20% 10
Work from Home -41 26 £56,250 -13.46% 19
London +66 24 £70,000 +16.67% 13
West Midlands -5 14 £52,500 +2.44% 5
Midlands -21 14 £52,500 +2.44% 7
Wales +14 11 - -
East of England -5 5 £70,000 +29.03% 6
North of England +8 4 £48,250 -8.10% 6
Scotland -67 3 £75,000 +76.47% 9
Yorkshire +64 2 £43,250 -32.42%
North West -9 2 £48,750 -2.50% 6

Cisco ASA
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 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.31%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (27.69%) Azure
2 35 (26.92%) AWS
3 12 (9.23%) GCP
4 5 (3.85%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.77%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 108 (83.08%) Firewall
2 51 (39.23%) WAN
3 46 (35.38%) BGP
4 43 (33.08%) OSPF
5 33 (25.38%) Cisco ISE
5 33 (25.38%) SD-WAN
5 33 (25.38%) VPN
6 30 (23.08%) Cisco Firepower
6 30 (23.08%) LAN
7 27 (20.77%) Cisco Nexus
8 26 (20.00%) EIGRP
9 23 (17.69%) DMVPN
10 22 (16.92%) Software-Defined Networking
10 22 (16.92%) VLAN
11 21 (16.15%) MPLS
11 21 (16.15%) Wireless
12 20 (15.38%) IPsec
13 18 (13.85%) Cisco Wireless
14 16 (12.31%) HSRP
15 15 (11.54%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.08%) JIRA
2 3 (2.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (14.62%) Aerospace
2 15 (11.54%) Finance
3 12 (9.23%) Telecoms
4 6 (4.62%) Banking
4 6 (4.62%) Investment Banking
5 5 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.85%) Social Skills
6 4 (3.08%) Publishing
7 3 (2.31%) Billing
7 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.31%) Military
8 2 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.54%) Games
9 1 (0.77%) Police
9 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (58.46%) Network Engineer
2 54 (41.54%) Senior
3 41 (31.54%) Senior Network Engineer
4 14 (10.77%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 13 (10.00%) Consultant
6 12 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (9.23%) Senior Consultant
6 12 (9.23%) Senior Network Consultant
7 11 (8.46%) Project Consultant
7 11 (8.46%) Senior Project Consultant
8 10 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (6.92%) 3rd Line Support
9 9 (6.92%) Network Support
10 7 (5.38%) Network Specialist
11 6 (4.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) Linux Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) IT Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.31%) 802.1X
2 6 (4.62%) LDAP
3 5 (3.85%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.31%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.54%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.46%) Linux
2 15 (11.54%) Windows
3 8 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (5.38%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.31%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (23.85%) Network Design
2 23 (17.69%) ITIL
3 22 (16.92%) Agile
4 18 (13.85%) Actionable Insight
5 17 (13.08%) Migration
6 15 (11.54%) Change Control
7 14 (10.77%) Change Management
7 14 (10.77%) Collaborative Working
7 14 (10.77%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 13 (10.00%) Customer Service
8 13 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (9.23%) DevOps
10 11 (8.46%) Load Balancing
10 11 (8.46%) Network Monitoring
11 10 (7.69%) Configuration Management
11 10 (7.69%) Incident Management
11 10 (7.69%) Mentoring
11 10 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
11 10 (7.69%) Time Management
12 8 (6.15%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.15%) Python
2 16 (12.31%) Bash
3 10 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 6 (4.62%) Perl
5 3 (2.31%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 78 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 55 (42.31%) Cisco Certification
3 41 (31.54%) CCNP
4 31 (23.85%) CCNA
4 31 (23.85%) DV Cleared
5 29 (22.31%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.62%) CCIE
7 4 (3.08%) CCSA
8 3 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.31%) CCDA
9 2 (1.54%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 2 (1.54%) CCIP
9 2 (1.54%) CCSE
10 1 (0.77%) CCDP
10 1 (0.77%) CCSP
10 1 (0.77%) CISSP
10 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.77%) Degree
10 1 (0.77%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.77%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.85%) SLA
2 1 (0.77%) GDPR
2 1 (0.77%) QA
System Software
1 22 (16.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (13.85%) VMware NSX
3 6 (4.62%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.85%) vSphere
5 4 (3.08%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.54%) NFS
6 2 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.77%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (18.46%) Ansible
2 23 (17.69%) FortiGate
3 13 (10.00%) Puppet
4 10 (7.69%) Progress Chef
5 7 (5.38%) vCenter Server
6 6 (4.62%) Kubernetes
6 6 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (3.85%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (3.85%) Opsview
8 3 (2.31%) Terraform
8 3 (2.31%) VxRail
9 2 (1.54%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.54%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (1.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 130 (100.00%) Cisco
2 43 (33.08%) Fortinet
3 37 (28.46%) Palo Alto
4 35 (26.92%) CheckPoint
4 35 (26.92%) Juniper
5 34 (26.15%) VMware
6 27 (20.77%) McAfee
7 26 (20.00%) F5
8 24 (18.46%) Microsoft
9 18 (13.85%) Red Hat
10 17 (13.08%) SolarWinds
11 11 (8.46%) Oracle
12 7 (5.38%) Meraki
13 6 (4.62%) Aruba
14 5 (3.85%) Citrix
15 3 (2.31%) Avaya
15 3 (2.31%) Dell
15 3 (2.31%) ServiceNow
16 2 (1.54%) Imperva
16 2 (1.54%) SonicWALL