Cisco ASA Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Cisco ASA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.51% - 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.76% - 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £496 - -
25th Percentile £505 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 - -
75th Percentile £649 - -
90th Percentile £652 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £586 £515
% change year-on-year -23.24% +13.83% +14.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

Cisco ASA falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 145 81 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.64% 13.61% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 54 27
10th Percentile £295 £318 £199
25th Percentile £415 £375 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £613 £584 £525
90th Percentile £650 £688 £623
North West median daily rate £496 £450 £507
% change year-on-year +10.28% -11.24% +8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
75th Percentile £17.75 - -
90th Percentile £27.45 - -
North West median hourly rate £17.75 £45.08 £45.88
% change year-on-year -60.63% -1.74% +175.06%

Cisco ASA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco ASA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Cisco ASA job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cisco ASA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cisco ASA

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco ASA in Cheshire over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco ASA in Cheshire

Cisco ASA
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cisco ASA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cisco ASA

Cisco ASA
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco ASA within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Crewe - 2 £505 - 2
Knutsford - 2 £648 -
Cisco ASA
North West

Cisco ASA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (50.00%) HSRP
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) Boundary Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft