The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco ASA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
Rank 70 57 71
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +14
Permanent jobs citing Cisco ASA 22 17 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 1.869% 2.384% 2.757%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.560% 9.884% 13.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 29
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -1.31%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £39,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.59%
All Communications & Networking
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
257 172 217
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 21.84% 24.12% 20.63%
Number of salaries quoted 216 161 184
Average salary £42,000 £35,000 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -1.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £51,250
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Cisco ASA
South East

Cisco ASA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Cisco ASA Salary Trend

Cisco ASA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Cisco ASA across the Kent region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Kent Cisco ASA Salary Histogram

Cisco ASA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco ASA within the Kent region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Maidstone -2 1 £42,500 -10.52%
Cisco ASA
South East

Cisco ASA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 45 (100.00%) Cisco
2 36 (80.00%) Firewall
3 29 (64.44%) CheckPoint
4 23 (51.11%) Network Security
5 22 (48.89%) Cisco PIX
5 22 (48.89%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (48.89%) Juniper
5 22 (48.89%) CCNP
6 19 (42.22%) F5
7 17 (37.78%) CCSP
8 15 (33.33%) CCNA
9 13 (28.89%) Windows
10 12 (26.67%) VPN
10 12 (26.67%) NetScreen
11 11 (24.44%) TCP/IP
11 11 (24.44%) CCSE
11 11 (24.44%) BIG-IP
12 10 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
13 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
13 9 (20.00%) CCSA
14 8 (17.78%) Network Management
14 8 (17.78%) LAN
15 7 (15.56%) WAN
15 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
15 7 (15.56%) MCSE
15 7 (15.56%) MCSA
15 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (13.33%) CISSP
16 6 (13.33%) CSS
16 6 (13.33%) CCIE

Cisco ASA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 Development
1 6 (13.33%) CSS
2 1 (2.222%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.222%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.222%) MS Exchange
1 1 (2.222%) SAS
1 1 (2.222%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (2.222%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (2.222%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (4.444%) MS Office
1 2 (4.444%) MS Excel
1 2 (4.444%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 36 (80.00%) Firewall
2 23 (51.11%) Network Security
3 22 (48.89%) Cisco PIX
4 12 (26.67%) NetScreen
4 12 (26.67%) VPN
5 11 (24.44%) TCP/IP
5 11 (24.44%) BIG-IP
6 8 (17.78%) LAN
7 7 (15.56%) WAN
8 4 (8.889%) FWSM
8 4 (8.889%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (6.667%) Wireless
10 2 (4.444%) OSPF
10 2 (4.444%) BGP
10 2 (4.444%) EIGRP
10 2 (4.444%) DNS
11 1 (2.222%) SAN
11 1 (2.222%) MPLS
11 1 (2.222%) DHCP
11 1 (2.222%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.222%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 6 (13.33%) Finance
2 4 (8.889%) Banking
3 3 (6.667%) Advertising
4 2 (4.444%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 24 (53.33%) Network Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Security Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Deployment Engineer
3 10 (22.22%) Lead Network Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) Consultant
5 7 (15.56%) Network Security Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Sales Consultant
6 5 (11.11%) Pre Sales Consultant
7 3 (6.667%) Analyst
7 3 (6.667%) Network Consultant
7 3 (6.667%) Security Analyst
7 3 (6.667%) IT Security Analyst
8 2 (4.444%) Network Security Consultant
8 2 (4.444%) IT Security Engineer
8 2 (4.444%) Junior
8 2 (4.444%) Security Consultant
8 2 (4.444%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.444%) Pre Sales Engineer
9 1 (2.222%) Network Infrastructure Manager
9 1 (2.222%) Senior Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.444%) Computer Science
2 1 (2.222%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.89%) Windows
2 10 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (4.444%) Linux
5 1 (2.222%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (2.222%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.78%) Network Management
2 6 (13.33%) Data Protection
3 5 (11.11%) ITIL
4 4 (8.889%) Change Management
4 4 (8.889%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (8.889%) GAP Analysis
5 3 (6.667%) Project Management
5 3 (6.667%) SIEM
6 2 (4.444%) Network Design
7 1 (2.222%) Incident Management
7 1 (2.222%) Load Balancing
7 1 (2.222%) BCP
7 1 (2.222%) ITSM
7 1 (2.222%) Data Security
7 1 (2.222%) Risk Management
7 1 (2.222%) Data Governance
7 1 (2.222%) Information Governance
7 1 (2.222%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.222%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (48.89%) CCNP
1 22 (48.89%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (37.78%) CCSP
3 15 (33.33%) CCNA
4 11 (24.44%) CCSE
5 9 (20.00%) CCSA
6 7 (15.56%) MCSE
6 7 (15.56%) MCSA
6 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (13.33%) CISSP
7 6 (13.33%) CCIE
7 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
7 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
8 4 (8.889%) PCI QSA
9 2 (4.444%) Degree
10 1 (2.222%) CCDP
10 1 (2.222%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) PCI DSS
2 5 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (8.889%) QA
4 2 (4.444%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.222%) Terminal Services
2 1 (2.222%) VMware ESX
2 1 (2.222%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.222%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (6.667%) MIMEsweeper
1 3 (6.667%) SCCM
2 2 (4.444%) Cacti
2 2 (4.444%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (4.444%) OpenView
3 1 (2.222%) CiscoWorks
3 1 (2.222%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.222%) WSUS
3 1 (2.222%) HP SIM
3 1 (2.222%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 45 (100.00%) Cisco
2 29 (64.44%) CheckPoint
3 22 (48.89%) Juniper
4 19 (42.22%) F5
5 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
6 6 (13.33%) VMware
6 6 (13.33%) Twitter
7 5 (11.11%) HP
8 4 (8.889%) Citrix
9 3 (6.667%) Websense
10 2 (4.444%) Fortinet
11 1 (2.222%) ProCurve
11 1 (2.222%) Sourcefire
11 1 (2.222%) IBM