The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco ASA skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco ASA over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
Rank 325 307 446
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +139
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 197 285 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.474% 0.534% 0.222%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.225% 3.399% 1.697%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 146 50
Average daily rate £325 £338 £303
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% +11.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £226 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £436 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £313 £315
% change year-on-year
- -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 15
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.25 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.81% +1.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.63 £22.95 £21.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £38.50 £38.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £25.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
-21.50% +7.02%
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6108 8385 7368
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.69% 15.72% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3064 3932 3397
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 561 752
Average hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.81 £12.21
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Cisco ASA
UK

Cisco ASA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco ASA across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

England Cisco ASA Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cisco ASA across the England region.

England Cisco ASA Daily Rate Trend

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco ASA across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Cisco ASA Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco ASA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cisco ASA across the England region.

England Cisco ASA Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco ASA
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco ASA across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Cisco ASA Hourly Rate Histogram

Cisco ASA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco ASA within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London -12 82 £376 +11.48%
South East -41 40 £318 -9.28%
Yorkshire +24 28 £338 +18.42%
East of England +26 17 £325 +2.36%
South West +27 10 £275 -
North West +11 6 £240 -21.63%
West Midlands +3 6 £319 +82.14%
East Midlands 0 6 £313 +89.39%
North East +12 3 £300 -14.21%
Cisco ASA
UK

Cisco ASA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Cisco ASA also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Cisco ASA.

1 368 (100.00%) Cisco
2 292 (79.35%) Firewall
3 224 (60.87%) Cisco Certification
4 137 (37.23%) CCNP
5 134 (36.41%) CheckPoint
6 126 (34.24%) CCNA
7 114 (30.98%) Windows
8 113 (30.71%) VPN
9 106 (28.80%) LAN
10 105 (28.53%) Cisco PIX
11 102 (27.72%) WAN
12 99 (26.90%) Juniper
13 88 (23.91%) F5
14 85 (23.10%) BGP
14 85 (23.10%) VMware
15 81 (22.01%) Active Directory
16 76 (20.65%) Windows Server 2008
17 75 (20.38%) Citrix
18 74 (20.11%) ITIL
19 73 (19.84%) Wireless
20 70 (19.02%) OSPF
20 70 (19.02%) Network Security
21 68 (18.48%) HP
22 67 (18.21%) Windows Server 2003
23 65 (17.66%) MPLS
23 65 (17.66%) Cisco Nexus
24 64 (17.39%) DNS
24 64 (17.39%) MS Exchange
25 60 (16.30%) Microsoft
26 54 (14.67%) VMware Infrastructure

Cisco ASA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Cisco ASA also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Cisco ASA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (4.076%) HTML
2 12 (3.261%) CSS
3 3 (0.815%) Application Packaging
4 2 (0.543%) J2EE
4 2 (0.543%) ASP
4 2 (0.543%) COM
4 2 (0.543%) Middleware
5 1 (0.272%) XML
5 1 (0.272%) .NET
5 1 (0.272%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 1 (0.272%) XMPP
5 1 (0.272%) Google Maps API
Application Platforms
1 64 (17.39%) MS Exchange
2 46 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 27 (7.337%) Exchange Server 2007
4 22 (5.978%) Exchange Server 2003
5 12 (3.261%) IIS
6 10 (2.717%) Lync
7 9 (2.446%) Apache
8 8 (2.174%) SharePoint
9 7 (1.902%) Tomcat
10 4 (1.087%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.815%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.272%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.272%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.272%) CloudStack
Applications
1 9 (2.446%) MS Excel
2 3 (0.815%) MS Office
3 2 (0.543%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.272%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.272%) MS Project
4 1 (0.272%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.272%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (0.272%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 292 (79.35%) Firewall
2 113 (30.71%) VPN
3 106 (28.80%) LAN
4 105 (28.53%) Cisco PIX
5 102 (27.72%) WAN
6 85 (23.10%) BGP
7 73 (19.84%) Wireless
8 70 (19.02%) OSPF
8 70 (19.02%) Network Security
9 65 (17.66%) MPLS
9 65 (17.66%) Cisco Nexus
10 64 (17.39%) DNS
11 50 (13.59%) DHCP
12 49 (13.32%) VoIP
13 48 (13.04%) Internet
14 44 (11.96%) SAN
15 43 (11.68%) FWSM
16 42 (11.41%) TCP/IP
17 41 (11.14%) BIG-IP
18 35 (9.511%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.337%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.891%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (1.359%) MySQL
3 5 (1.359%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (0.815%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (0.272%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.272%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.272%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (1.359%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 3 (0.815%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.272%) ClearQuest
3 1 (0.272%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.272%) CruiseControl
3 1 (0.272%) Subversion
3 1 (0.272%) Maven
3 1 (0.272%) JIRA
3 1 (0.272%) Hudson
3 1 (0.272%) Git (software)
General
1 45 (12.23%) Finance
2 34 (9.239%) Telecoms
3 7 (1.902%) Banking
4 5 (1.359%) Manufacturing
5 3 (0.815%) Financial Institution
6 2 (0.543%) Investment Banking
6 2 (0.543%) Retail
6 2 (0.543%) Games
6 2 (0.543%) Back Office
7 1 (0.272%) Publishing
7 1 (0.272%) Law
7 1 (0.272%) Legal
7 1 (0.272%) Military
7 1 (0.272%) Billing
7 1 (0.272%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 142 (38.59%) Network Engineer
2 50 (13.59%) Analyst
3 38 (10.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 37 (10.05%) Security Engineer
5 28 (7.609%) Support Engineer
6 27 (7.337%) Network Analyst
7 24 (6.522%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 22 (5.978%) Firewall Engineer
9 19 (5.163%) 3rd Line Support
10 18 (4.891%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 18 (4.891%) Network Specialist
10 18 (4.891%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 17 (4.620%) Network Security Engineer
12 15 (4.076%) Administrator
13 14 (3.804%) Security Specialist
13 14 (3.804%) Senior Network Engineer
14 13 (3.533%) Network Support
15 12 (3.261%) Systems Administrator
16 11 (2.989%) Architect
17 10 (2.717%) Network Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.891%) Blackberry
2 13 (3.533%) Clustering
2 13 (3.533%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (2.174%) EqualLogic
3 8 (2.174%) SecurID
4 7 (1.902%) Thin Client
4 7 (1.902%) Fat Client
5 6 (1.630%) PKI
6 4 (1.087%) IVR
7 3 (0.815%) CLARiiON
7 3 (0.815%) Client/Server
7 3 (0.815%) Statistics
7 3 (0.815%) e-Health
8 2 (0.543%) iPhone
8 2 (0.543%) SaaS
8 2 (0.543%) iPad
8 2 (0.543%) Online Games
8 2 (0.543%) Celerra
8 2 (0.543%) Device Driver
8 2 (0.543%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 114 (30.98%) Windows
2 76 (20.65%) Windows Server 2008
3 67 (18.21%) Windows Server 2003
4 45 (12.23%) Linux
5 37 (10.05%) Windows 7
6 19 (5.163%) Windows XP
7 15 (4.076%) CentOS
8 12 (3.261%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (2.989%) Mac OS X
9 11 (2.989%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (2.717%) Debian
11 8 (2.174%) Ubuntu
12 6 (1.630%) UNIX
13 4 (1.087%) VMS
14 2 (0.543%) Solaris
15 1 (0.272%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (20.11%) ITIL
2 36 (9.783%) Project Management
3 33 (8.967%) Network Management
4 32 (8.696%) Network Design
4 32 (8.696%) Migration
5 30 (8.152%) PRINCE2
6 24 (6.522%) Service Management
7 22 (5.978%) Load Balancing
8 17 (4.620%) Network Architecture
8 17 (4.620%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (4.620%) E-Commerce
9 15 (4.076%) Business Analysis
10 12 (3.261%) Change Management
11 11 (2.989%) Service Delivery
12 9 (2.446%) Configuration Management
13 8 (2.174%) Project Planning
14 6 (1.630%) Change Control
14 6 (1.630%) Software Deployment
15 5 (1.359%) Security Management
15 5 (1.359%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 24 (6.522%) SQL
2 8 (2.174%) PowerShell
2 8 (2.174%) C
3 3 (0.815%) VBScript
3 3 (0.815%) PHP
4 2 (0.543%) Java
5 1 (0.272%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.272%) Lisp
5 1 (0.272%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 224 (60.87%) Cisco Certification
2 137 (37.23%) CCNP
3 126 (34.24%) CCNA
4 41 (11.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 41 (11.14%) Security Cleared
5 40 (10.87%) MCSE
6 37 (10.05%) CCIE
7 27 (7.337%) SC Cleared
8 24 (6.522%) CCSP
9 14 (3.804%) CCDP
10 13 (3.533%) MCITP
11 12 (3.261%) CCSE
12 11 (2.989%) CCA
12 11 (2.989%) Citrix Certification
12 11 (2.989%) CCEA
13 9 (2.446%) CCIP
14 8 (2.174%) JNCIE
14 8 (2.174%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (2.174%) DV Cleared
15 7 (1.902%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.522%) SLA
2 15 (4.076%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.543%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.272%) GAMP
4 1 (0.272%) GxP
System Software
1 81 (22.01%) Active Directory
2 54 (14.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (7.337%) vSphere
4 21 (5.707%) XenApp
5 19 (5.163%) ProxySG
6 15 (4.076%) Hyper-V
7 14 (3.804%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (2.989%) XenDesktop
9 8 (2.174%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 7 (1.902%) VMware ESX
11 5 (1.359%) ISA Server
12 4 (1.087%) UAG
12 4 (1.087%) Forefront TMG
13 3 (0.815%) XenServer
14 2 (0.543%) vCloud
14 2 (0.543%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.272%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.272%) NFS
15 1 (0.272%) Snort
Systems Management
1 20 (5.435%) Cisco CUCM
2 12 (3.261%) FortiGate
3 11 (2.989%) Cisco UCCX
4 10 (2.717%) SCOM
5 8 (2.174%) CiscoWorks
6 7 (1.902%) SCCM
7 6 (1.630%) Nagios
7 6 (1.630%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.087%) SolarWinds Orion
8 4 (1.087%) Puppet
9 3 (0.815%) WMI
9 3 (0.815%) Cacti
9 3 (0.815%) Cisco UCCE
10 2 (0.543%) Cisco IPCC
10 2 (0.543%) MIMEsweeper
11 1 (0.272%) Backup Exec
11 1 (0.272%) OpenView
11 1 (0.272%) WSUS
11 1 (0.272%) PureDisk
11 1 (0.272%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 368 (100.00%) Cisco
2 134 (36.41%) CheckPoint
3 99 (26.90%) Juniper
4 88 (23.91%) F5
5 85 (23.10%) VMware
6 75 (20.38%) Citrix
7 68 (18.48%) HP
8 60 (16.30%) Microsoft
9 37 (10.05%) Blue Coat
10 26 (7.065%) SolarWinds
11 23 (6.250%) NetApp
12 22 (5.978%) Nokia
12 22 (5.978%) Red Hat
13 18 (4.891%) Fortinet
14 14 (3.804%) Sourcefire
14 14 (3.804%) Mitel
15 13 (3.533%) McAfee
16 12 (3.261%) Altiris
16 12 (3.261%) Infoblox
17 11 (2.989%) Dell
Hampshire
Essential skills: *CCNA *MPLS *ASA Firewalls *Layer 2 Switching *High Speed Routers & Switches Desirable Skills: *CCNP *Knowledge of IP Networking *Experience in Design & Configuration This is a fantastic...
Roc Search
Posted: 21 May 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Essential skills: *CCNA *MPLS *ASA Firewalls *Layer 2 Switching *High Speed Routers & Switches Desirable Skills: *CCNP *Knowledge of IP Networking *Experience in Design & Configuration This is a fantastic...
Roc Search
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Essential skills: *CCNA *MPLS *ASA Firewalls *Layer 2 Switching *High Speed Routers & Switches Desirable Skills: *CCNP *Knowledge of IP Networking *Experience in Design & Configuration This is a fantastic...
Roc Search
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
The requirement is for a resource to build and configure Checkpoint and ASA firewall possibly Blue Coats as per Client requirement i.e... Skills: Firewalls. Checkpoint. Cisco. McAfee...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Ideal candidates will have a background in Network engineering ideally with experience in a Cisco environment with the following technical skills: * Cisco LAN technology (6500, 3750, layer 2...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £250 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
This urgent contract role is working at a customer site in London as part of the Voice team, which is responsible for the management, administration and integrity of...
GSA Techsource
Rate: GBP300 - GBP340 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
Technically you will have strong working experience and knowledge of Cisco, routing and switching, LAN, WAN, MAN, WLAN, Cisco FWSM, ASA, Fortinet, Firewalls, Cisco PIX and Juniper NetScreen...
DP Connect Ltd
Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City Of London
This urgent contract role is working at a customer site in London as part of the Network and Storage team, which is responsible for the management, administration and...
GSA Techsource
Rate: GBP250 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
West London
ITIL Service Management... Scrum and KanBan Methodology experience... MPLS, IPSEC VPN, Firewalls and TACACS authentication. Wireless, VOIP and Security technologies... Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)... Citrix Netscalers. Juniper...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 20 May 2013
West Midlands
Key skills: - VMware 4/5, VMware site recovery manager, Veeam backups - SAN (HP, MSA, EVA) installations and configuration - Cisco Routers and Switches, ASA - VLANS layers 2/3 - MPLS,...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Key skills: - VMware 4/5, VMware site recovery manager, Veeam backups - SAN (HP, MSA, EVA) installations and configuration - Cisco Routers and Switches, ASA - VLANS layers 2/3 - MPLS,...
Computer Futures
Posted: 22 May 2013
North Yorkshire
We are seeking a CCNA qualified Network and Security specialist to work on my clients Checkpoint Firewall upgrade. Candidates must have the following experience: Proven track record of...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £280.00 - £320.00 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013
City of London
infrastructure, windows server, network, exchange, cisco, active directory, windows server, sql, citrix, lyncA leading investment firm require two Windows Infrastructure Analysts with different technical focuses for a minimum...
Hudson IT London
Rate: £350 - £465 per day
Posted: 19 May 2013
York, Yorkshire
My client is actively seeking a dynamic, communicable and intelligent Linux Build and Deployment Engineer with proven past experience in Linux based domains to deliver server and portal...
IQ Resourcing
Rate: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 3 May 2013