Cisco ASA Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Cisco ASA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 453 426
Rank change year-on-year -93 -27 -97
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 87 61 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.22% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.03% 1.82% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 35 70
10th Percentile £371 £400 £361
25th Percentile £445 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £514
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.06% +14.17%
75th Percentile £550 £616 £550
90th Percentile £649 £645 £639
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -13.64% +7.58% +13.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £103.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £103.00 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,294 3,345 4,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.40% 12.13% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,582 2,079 2,417
10th Percentile £263 £238 £250
25th Percentile £400 £363 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £505
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.97% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £676 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 168 253
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £27.11 £42.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% -25.89% +1.52%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% -10.00% -9.09%

Cisco ASA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cisco ASA job vacancy trend in England

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco ASA in England over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco ASA in England

Cisco ASA
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Cisco ASA
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
North of England -50 38 £496 -13.74% 7
North West -43 26 £450 -24.69% 2
South East -40 25 £525 +10.53% 4
London -86 16 £425 -22.73% 16
Yorkshire -31 11 £500 -9.09% 4
Midlands -57 5 £425 -19.05% 3
West Midlands -51 4 £375 -16.67% 3
East of England -23 1 £450 +36.36% 3
North East - 1 £200 - 1
Cisco ASA
UK

Cisco ASA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (9.20%) SAS
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.03%) Azure
2 21 (24.14%) AWS
3 7 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.90%) GCP
5 5 (5.75%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 77 (88.51%) Firewall
2 60 (68.97%) Cisco Firepower
3 47 (54.02%) VPN
4 46 (52.87%) BGP
5 43 (49.43%) OSPF
6 39 (44.83%) WAN
7 38 (43.68%) LAN
8 36 (41.38%) Network Security
9 32 (36.78%) IPsec
10 28 (32.18%) Cisco Nexus
11 26 (29.89%) DNS
12 25 (28.74%) Wireless
13 24 (27.59%) EIGRP
14 19 (21.84%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (18.39%) DHCP
15 16 (18.39%) TCP/IP
15 16 (18.39%) VLAN
16 14 (16.09%) BIG-IP
17 12 (13.79%) SSL
18 11 (12.64%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (14.94%) Finance
1 13 (14.94%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.90%) Banking
4 6 (6.90%) Police
5 5 (5.75%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.75%) Retail
6 4 (4.60%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.30%) Legal
8 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 68 (78.16%) Network Engineer
2 27 (31.03%) Senior
3 23 (26.44%) Senior Network Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) Architect
6 6 (6.90%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) NOC Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Cisco Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.45%) Lead
9 3 (3.45%) Lead Architect
9 3 (3.45%) Network Architect
9 3 (3.45%) Security Hacker
9 3 (3.45%) Technical Leader
10 2 (2.30%) Data Network Engineer
10 2 (2.30%) Implementation Engineer
10 2 (2.30%) Network Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) Terraform
2 4 (4.60%) LDAP
2 4 (4.60%) SAML
3 3 (3.45%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.15%) gRPC
4 1 (1.15%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.15%) REST
4 1 (1.15%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.29%) Data Centre
2 13 (14.94%) PKI
3 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.60%) Fibre Optics
5 4 (4.60%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.45%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.79%) Windows
2 10 (11.49%) Linux
3 1 (1.15%) CatOS
3 1 (1.15%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.08%) ITIL
2 23 (26.44%) Network Monitoring
3 18 (20.69%) Change Management
4 13 (14.94%) Load Balancing
5 12 (13.79%) High Availability
5 12 (13.79%) Security Operations
5 12 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (12.64%) Network Virtualisation
7 10 (11.49%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (10.34%) Migration
8 9 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.34%) Project Delivery
8 9 (10.34%) Virtual Environments
9 8 (9.20%) Patch Management
9 8 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (8.05%) Cloud Security
10 7 (8.05%) Incident Management
10 7 (8.05%) Zero Trust
11 6 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (6.90%) Infrastructure Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.20%) Python
2 3 (3.45%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.30%) Bash
Qualifications
1 45 (51.72%) Security Cleared
2 32 (36.78%) SC Cleared
3 26 (29.89%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (27.59%) CCNP
5 14 (16.09%) DV Cleared
6 7 (8.05%) Degree
7 6 (6.90%) CCIE
7 6 (6.90%) CCSE
8 5 (5.75%) CCNA
8 5 (5.75%) CCSM
9 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.30%) CISSP
11 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.15%) CCIE Security
11 1 (1.15%) CCNA CyberOps
11 1 (1.15%) CCSP
11 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) NIST
2 5 (5.75%) SLA
3 4 (4.60%) NCSC
4 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (21.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (17.24%) VMware NSX
3 12 (13.79%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.75%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (8.05%) Ansible
2 4 (4.60%) Cisco CUCM
2 4 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.45%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.30%) Grafana
4 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.15%) Nagios
5 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 87 (100.00%) Cisco
2 59 (67.82%) Palo Alto
3 50 (57.47%) CheckPoint
4 28 (32.18%) F5
5 25 (28.74%) VMware
6 20 (22.99%) Fortinet
7 17 (19.54%) SolarWinds
8 11 (12.64%) Meraki
8 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
9 7 (8.05%) Juniper
10 6 (6.90%) Citrix
10 6 (6.90%) ServiceNow
11 4 (4.60%) Becrypt
12 3 (3.45%) Dell
12 3 (3.45%) Infoblox
13 2 (2.30%) AlgoSec
13 2 (2.30%) Aruba
13 2 (2.30%) Avaya
13 2 (2.30%) Google
13 2 (2.30%) Tufin