The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco ASA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
Rank 122 131 147
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +16
Permanent jobs citing Cisco ASA 31 24 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.985% 0.695% 0.344%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.524% 4.571% 2.597%
Number of salaries quoted 15 20 6
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £29,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,500 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.97%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
412 525 462
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 13.09% 15.20% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 217 339 324
Average salary £41,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £23,000 £21,600
10% offered a salary of more than £45,700 £77,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Cisco ASA
UK

Cisco ASA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Cisco ASA Salary Trend

Cisco ASA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Cisco ASA across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow - 7 - -
Aberdeen +6 4 £35,000 -12.50%
Highlands - 4 £25,000 -
Edinburgh -8 3 £47,500 +18.75%
West Lothian - 1 - -
Cisco ASA
UK

Cisco ASA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 59 (100.00%) Cisco
2 56 (94.92%) Firewall
3 46 (77.97%) Cisco Certification
4 34 (57.63%) CCNP
5 28 (47.46%) Cisco PIX
6 27 (45.76%) Finance
6 27 (45.76%) Juniper
7 22 (37.29%) CheckPoint
7 22 (37.29%) WAN
7 22 (37.29%) Windows
8 21 (35.59%) CCNA
8 21 (35.59%) Blue Coat
8 21 (35.59%) Network Security
9 20 (33.90%) F5
9 20 (33.90%) Telecoms
9 20 (33.90%) Wireless
9 20 (33.90%) TCP/IP
9 20 (33.90%) VPN
10 19 (32.20%) Websense
10 19 (32.20%) DNS
10 19 (32.20%) CCSE
10 19 (32.20%) JNCIS
11 18 (30.51%) DHCP
12 17 (28.81%) LAN
13 15 (25.42%) EIGRP
14 14 (23.73%) BGP
14 14 (23.73%) MPLS
15 13 (22.03%) MS Exchange
15 13 (22.03%) Microsoft
16 12 (20.34%) Ethernet

Cisco ASA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (5.085%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 13 (22.03%) MS Exchange
2 10 (16.95%) Exchange Server 2010
2 10 (16.95%) Exchange Server 2003
2 10 (16.95%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (3.390%) Apache
4 1 (1.695%) nginx
4 1 (1.695%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.695%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.390%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 56 (94.92%) Firewall
2 28 (47.46%) Cisco PIX
3 22 (37.29%) WAN
4 21 (35.59%) Network Security
5 20 (33.90%) Wireless
5 20 (33.90%) TCP/IP
5 20 (33.90%) VPN
6 19 (32.20%) DNS
7 18 (30.51%) DHCP
8 17 (28.81%) LAN
9 15 (25.42%) EIGRP
10 14 (23.73%) BGP
10 14 (23.73%) MPLS
11 12 (20.34%) Ethernet
11 12 (20.34%) SNMP
12 11 (18.64%) OSPF
13 9 (15.25%) WLAN
14 8 (13.56%) SSL
14 8 (13.56%) Cisco IOS
14 8 (13.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.780%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.390%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (3.390%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.695%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.695%) MySQL
General
1 27 (45.76%) Finance
2 20 (33.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (66.10%) Network Engineer
2 20 (33.90%) Security Engineer
2 20 (33.90%) Network Security Engineer
3 19 (32.20%) Firewall Engineer
4 18 (30.51%) Support Engineer
5 10 (16.95%) Network Support
5 10 (16.95%) Network Support Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (6.780%) Consultant
7 4 (6.780%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (5.085%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.085%) Cisco Consultant
8 3 (5.085%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 3 (5.085%) Cisco Engineer
8 3 (5.085%) Cisco Network Consultant
8 3 (5.085%) Network Consultant
9 2 (3.390%) Administrator
9 2 (3.390%) Systems Administrator
9 2 (3.390%) Network Administrator
10 1 (1.695%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Client/Server
2 1 (1.695%) Clustering
2 1 (1.695%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (37.29%) Windows
2 10 (16.95%) Windows Server 2003
2 10 (16.95%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (15.25%) Linux
4 4 (6.780%) Solaris
4 4 (6.780%) CentOS
4 4 (6.780%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.390%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.64%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (13.56%) Business Continuity
3 7 (11.86%) Capacity Management
4 6 (10.17%) Service Delivery
4 6 (10.17%) Network Design
5 5 (8.475%) Load Balancing
6 3 (5.085%) Resource Management
7 2 (3.390%) Network Architecture
8 1 (1.695%) Incident Management
8 1 (1.695%) Fault Management
8 1 (1.695%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (1.695%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (1.695%) Business Transformation
8 1 (1.695%) ITIL
8 1 (1.695%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 46 (77.97%) Cisco Certification
2 34 (57.63%) CCNP
3 21 (35.59%) CCNA
4 19 (32.20%) CCSE
4 19 (32.20%) JNCIS
5 7 (11.86%) CCSP
6 6 (10.17%) CCIE
6 6 (10.17%) CCDP
6 6 (10.17%) CCIP
6 6 (10.17%) CCVP
7 2 (3.390%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (16.95%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.475%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.390%) XenApp
3 2 (3.390%) ProxySG
3 2 (3.390%) VMware ESX
4 1 (1.695%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.695%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 3 (5.085%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (100.00%) Cisco
2 27 (45.76%) Juniper
3 22 (37.29%) CheckPoint
4 21 (35.59%) Blue Coat
5 20 (33.90%) F5
6 19 (32.20%) Websense
7 13 (22.03%) Microsoft
8 11 (18.64%) HP
8 11 (18.64%) Dell
9 7 (11.86%) VMware
10 5 (8.475%) Citrix
11 3 (5.085%) EMC
12 2 (3.390%) Symantec
12 2 (3.390%) Oracle
12 2 (3.390%) Axway
13 1 (1.695%) Riverbed
13 1 (1.695%) NetApp
13 1 (1.695%) Nortel
13 1 (1.695%) Avaya