The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco ASA skills in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 London 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 295 283 406
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +123
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 82 132 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.379% 0.490% 0.116%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.912% 3.574% 1.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 94 20
Average daily rate £376 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.48% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £292 £275 £191
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £450 £466
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £313 £315
% change year-on-year
- -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 3
Average hourly rate £89.25 £25.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+250.00% -29.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £25.50 £28.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £25.50 £39.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £25.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
-21.50% +7.02%
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2816 3693 3382
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.00% 13.71% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1707 2249 1938
Average daily rate £400 £388 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 145 221
Average hourly rate £21.34 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.17% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.27 £14.90 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Cisco ASA
England

Cisco ASA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London 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 London 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
City of London +17 26 £350 -11.39%
Hammersmith - 4 - -
Uxbridge +5 1 - -
Cisco ASA
England

Cisco ASA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 156 (100.00%) Cisco
2 107 (68.59%) Firewall
3 105 (67.31%) Cisco Certification
4 71 (45.51%) LAN
5 67 (42.95%) WAN
6 59 (37.82%) Windows
6 59 (37.82%) Citrix
7 54 (34.62%) VPN
8 50 (32.05%) CCNA
9 49 (31.41%) CCNP
10 48 (30.77%) MS Exchange
11 47 (30.13%) Active Directory
12 46 (29.49%) VMware
13 45 (28.85%) Cisco PIX
14 42 (26.92%) Windows Server 2003
15 41 (26.28%) Windows Server 2008
16 40 (25.64%) MPLS
16 40 (25.64%) BGP
17 39 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
18 38 (24.36%) F5
19 37 (23.72%) ITIL
20 36 (23.08%) CheckPoint
21 35 (22.44%) Wireless
21 35 (22.44%) Microsoft Certification
21 35 (22.44%) Juniper
21 35 (22.44%) Cisco Nexus
22 34 (21.79%) DNS
22 34 (21.79%) MCSE
23 32 (20.51%) Microsoft
23 32 (20.51%) SAN

Cisco ASA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 (9.615%) HTML
2 3 (1.923%) Application Packaging
3 2 (1.282%) Middleware
3 2 (1.282%) ASP
4 1 (0.641%) Google Maps API
Application Platforms
1 48 (30.77%) MS Exchange
2 30 (19.23%) Exchange Server 2010
3 27 (17.31%) Exchange Server 2007
4 10 (6.410%) Exchange Server 2003
5 7 (4.487%) SharePoint
6 5 (3.205%) Lync
7 4 (2.564%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (1.923%) SharePoint 2010
9 2 (1.282%) IIS
9 2 (1.282%) Apache
9 2 (1.282%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.641%) CloudStack
10 1 (0.641%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 5 (3.205%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.641%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 107 (68.59%) Firewall
2 71 (45.51%) LAN
3 67 (42.95%) WAN
4 54 (34.62%) VPN
5 45 (28.85%) Cisco PIX
6 40 (25.64%) MPLS
6 40 (25.64%) BGP
7 35 (22.44%) Wireless
7 35 (22.44%) Cisco Nexus
8 34 (21.79%) DNS
9 32 (20.51%) SAN
10 28 (17.95%) Internet
10 28 (17.95%) DHCP
11 27 (17.31%) OSPF
12 26 (16.67%) Network Security
13 22 (14.10%) VoIP
14 19 (12.18%) EIGRP
15 17 (10.90%) Ethernet
15 17 (10.90%) IP Telephony
16 15 (9.615%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.410%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.205%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (3.205%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (1.923%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (1.923%) MySQL
4 1 (0.641%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (1.923%) InstallShield
2 1 (0.641%) Hudson
2 1 (0.641%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (0.641%) JIRA
2 1 (0.641%) Subversion
General
1 30 (19.23%) Finance
2 9 (5.769%) Telecoms
3 3 (1.923%) Financial Institution
4 2 (1.282%) Banking
4 2 (1.282%) Games
5 1 (0.641%) Law
5 1 (0.641%) Legal
5 1 (0.641%) Publishing
5 1 (0.641%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (35.90%) Network Engineer
2 17 (10.90%) Analyst
2 17 (10.90%) 3rd Line Support
3 16 (10.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 16 (10.26%) Support Engineer
4 11 (7.051%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 11 (7.051%) Administrator
4 11 (7.051%) Systems Administrator
5 10 (6.410%) IT Support Engineer
5 10 (6.410%) IT Support
6 9 (5.769%) Senior Network Engineer
6 9 (5.769%) Firewall Engineer
7 8 (5.128%) Cisco Engineer
8 7 (4.487%) Architect
9 6 (3.846%) Network Specialist
9 6 (3.846%) Security Engineer
9 6 (3.846%) Technical Specialist
9 6 (3.846%) Network Security Engineer
10 5 (3.205%) Consultant
10 5 (3.205%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.90%) Blackberry
2 10 (6.410%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (5.128%) Clustering
4 6 (3.846%) EqualLogic
5 5 (3.205%) PKI
6 3 (1.923%) Statistics
6 3 (1.923%) e-Health
7 2 (1.282%) SecurID
7 2 (1.282%) Online Games
7 2 (1.282%) Celerra
7 2 (1.282%) iPhone
7 2 (1.282%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.282%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.282%) iPad
8 1 (0.641%) Open Source
8 1 (0.641%) EFT
8 1 (0.641%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.641%) Replication
8 1 (0.641%) CLARiiON
8 1 (0.641%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 59 (37.82%) Windows
2 42 (26.92%) Windows Server 2003
3 41 (26.28%) Windows Server 2008
4 19 (12.18%) Windows 7
5 16 (10.26%) Windows XP
6 12 (7.692%) Linux
7 11 (7.051%) Mac OS X
8 3 (1.923%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.282%) Debian
9 2 (1.282%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.282%) UNIX
10 1 (0.641%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (23.72%) ITIL
2 23 (14.74%) Network Design
3 22 (14.10%) Service Management
4 21 (13.46%) Project Management
4 21 (13.46%) PRINCE2
5 17 (10.90%) Network Management
6 15 (9.615%) Business Analysis
7 13 (8.333%) Network Architecture
7 13 (8.333%) Migration
8 11 (7.051%) Load Balancing
9 9 (5.769%) Change Management
9 9 (5.769%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (5.128%) Project Planning
11 7 (4.487%) E-Commerce
11 7 (4.487%) Service Delivery
12 6 (3.846%) Software Deployment
13 5 (3.205%) Change Control
13 5 (3.205%) Root Cause Analysis
13 5 (3.205%) Kanban
13 5 (3.205%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.18%) SQL
2 3 (1.923%) VBScript
2 3 (1.923%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.641%) Bash shell
3 1 (0.641%) PHP
3 1 (0.641%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 105 (67.31%) Cisco Certification
2 50 (32.05%) CCNA
3 49 (31.41%) CCNP
4 35 (22.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 34 (21.79%) MCSE
6 16 (10.26%) CCIE
7 13 (8.333%) Security Cleared
7 13 (8.333%) MCITP
8 11 (7.051%) CCA
8 11 (7.051%) Citrix Certification
8 11 (7.051%) CCEA
9 10 (6.410%) CCDP
10 8 (5.128%) JNCIE
10 8 (5.128%) CCSP
11 7 (4.487%) CCIP
11 7 (4.487%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (3.205%) SC Cleared
13 4 (2.564%) JNCIA
13 4 (2.564%) DV Cleared
14 3 (1.923%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.46%) SLA
2 8 (5.128%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (30.13%) Active Directory
2 39 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (10.26%) XenApp
4 11 (7.051%) XenDesktop
5 9 (5.769%) vSphere
6 8 (5.128%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 4 (2.564%) VMware ESX
8 2 (1.282%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (1.282%) ISA Server
8 2 (1.282%) vCloud
9 1 (0.641%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.641%) Forefront TMG
9 1 (0.641%) UAG
9 1 (0.641%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.641%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.641%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 10 (6.410%) FortiGate
2 9 (5.769%) Cisco CUCM
3 3 (1.923%) SCCM
3 3 (1.923%) WMI
4 2 (1.282%) Nagios
4 2 (1.282%) CiscoWorks
4 2 (1.282%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.641%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.641%) Splunk
5 1 (0.641%) Zenoss
5 1 (0.641%) SCOM
5 1 (0.641%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 156 (100.00%) Cisco
2 59 (37.82%) Citrix
3 46 (29.49%) VMware
4 38 (24.36%) F5
5 36 (23.08%) CheckPoint
6 35 (22.44%) Juniper
7 32 (20.51%) Microsoft
8 24 (15.38%) HP
9 16 (10.26%) Fortinet
10 15 (9.615%) NetApp
11 10 (6.410%) SolarWinds
12 9 (5.769%) Sourcefire
13 8 (5.128%) Blue Coat
13 8 (5.128%) Aruba
14 6 (3.846%) Altiris
14 6 (3.846%) Polycom
14 6 (3.846%) Red Hat
14 6 (3.846%) Dell
14 6 (3.846%) EMC
14 6 (3.846%) Infoblox
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
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