The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco ASA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco ASA over the 3 months to 17 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
Rank 89 76 94
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +18
Permanent jobs citing Cisco ASA 3 17 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.284% 1.269% 0.454%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.459% 10.18% 4.217%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 3
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% +17.64%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £39,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.59%
All Communications & Networking
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
122 167 166
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 11.54% 12.46% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 68 105 108
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -28.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £77,500 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Cisco ASA
Scotland

Cisco ASA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Cisco ASA Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco ASA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Cisco ASA across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Cisco ASA Salary Trend

Cisco ASA
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Cisco ASA.

1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Blue Coat
2 2 (66.67%) ProxySG
2 2 (66.67%) Axway
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
3 1 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 1 (33.33%) NetScreen
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) SMTP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Fault Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) FWSM
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms

Cisco ASA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Cisco ASA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) FWSM
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) SMTP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 1 (33.33%) NetScreen
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Network Support Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Network Support
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Fault Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) Blue Coat
2 2 (66.67%) Axway