Cisco ASA Contracts in England

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cisco ASA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco ASA over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 424 370
Rank change year-on-year +22 -54 +185
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 90 121 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.32% 0.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.67% 2.51% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 84 211
10th Percentile £331 £350 £285
25th Percentile £425 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.89% -
75th Percentile £588 £553 £600
90th Percentile £630 £615 £656
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £450
% change year-on-year -2.20% +13.61% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £32.45
25th Percentile £100.50 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £103.00 - £55.32
75th Percentile £105.50 - £62.00
90th Percentile - - £65.78
UK median hourly rate £103.00 - £55.32
% change year-on-year - - -9.20%

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 3,368 4,826 6,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.70% 12.95% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,079 2,874 3,961
10th Percentile £235 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £502
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.30% +0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 392 378
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +108.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.26
% change year-on-year -5.56% +102.16% -23.40%

Cisco ASA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cisco ASA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco ASA in England

Cisco ASA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco ASA in England.

Daily rate trend for Cisco ASA in England

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco ASA in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco ASA in England

Cisco ASA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco ASA in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco ASA in England

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 5 July 2025. 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
London +35 32 £525 +2.94% 48
North of England +16 30 £550 +6.80% 20
North West +9 24 £563 +9.22% 14
Midlands +12 11 £488 -35.00% 17
West Midlands +6 7 £450 -40.00% 8
South West +37 6 £500 -6.54% 5
East of England +15 6 £403 -26.82% 5
Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 4
South East +13 4 £330 -26.67% 9
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 9
Cisco ASA
UK

Cisco ASA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.78%) AWS
1 7 (7.78%) Azure
2 1 (1.11%) GCP
2 1 (1.11%) GitHub
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 81 (90.00%) Firewall
2 39 (43.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 29 (32.22%) Network Security
4 28 (31.11%) BGP
5 24 (26.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 24 (26.67%) IPsec
5 24 (26.67%) OSPF
6 22 (24.44%) EIGRP
7 20 (22.22%) LAN
7 20 (22.22%) WAN
8 19 (21.11%) VPN
9 17 (18.89%) HSRP
9 17 (18.89%) Wireless
10 15 (16.67%) DNS
11 14 (15.56%) Cisco ISE
12 13 (14.44%) DHCP
13 12 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (11.11%) TCP/IP
15 9 (10.00%) BIG-IP
15 9 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) JIRA
1 6 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.22%) GitLab
General
1 14 (15.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.78%) Finance
3 7 (7.78%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.33%) Advertising
4 3 (3.33%) Banking
5 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.11%) Law
6 1 (1.11%) Legal
6 1 (1.11%) Military
6 1 (1.11%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (78.89%) Network Engineer
2 18 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 17 (18.89%) Security Engineer
4 16 (17.78%) Network Security Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Architect
6 7 (7.78%) Cisco Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Network Architect
7 6 (6.67%) Senior
8 5 (5.56%) Field Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Network Field Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Senior Network Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Cisco Architect
10 3 (3.33%) Cisco Network Architect
10 3 (3.33%) Consultant
10 3 (3.33%) Firewall Specialist
10 3 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Principal Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.56%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.44%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.22%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (18.89%) Migration
2 15 (16.67%) ITIL
2 15 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 10 (11.11%) Network Management
4 8 (8.89%) Network Design
5 7 (7.78%) Agile
5 7 (7.78%) Load Balancing
6 6 (6.67%) Change Management
7 5 (5.56%) Asset Management
8 4 (4.44%) Business Strategy
8 4 (4.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (4.44%) Incident Management
8 4 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (4.44%) Network Segmentation
9 3 (3.33%) Cloud Security
9 3 (3.33%) Network Virtualisation
9 3 (3.33%) Process Improvement
9 3 (3.33%) Project Delivery
9 3 (3.33%) Roadmaps
9 3 (3.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 41 (45.56%) Security Cleared
2 39 (43.33%) SC Cleared
3 27 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (23.33%) CCNP
5 10 (11.11%) CCNA
6 8 (8.89%) CCIE
7 4 (4.44%) Degree
7 4 (4.44%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.22%) CCIE Security
8 2 (2.22%) CISSP
9 1 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.11%) CCIE Service Provider
9 1 (1.11%) CCIE Wireless
9 1 (1.11%) CCSP
9 1 (1.11%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.11%) GIAC
9 1 (1.11%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.22%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (8.89%) Ansible
2 5 (5.56%) FortiGate
3 3 (3.33%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.11%) Cisco LMS
4 1 (1.11%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 90 (100.00%) Cisco
2 53 (58.89%) CheckPoint
3 50 (55.56%) Palo Alto
4 25 (27.78%) F5
5 17 (18.89%) SolarWinds
6 10 (11.11%) Fortinet
7 8 (8.89%) Juniper
8 5 (5.56%) ServiceNow
9 4 (4.44%) AlgoSec
9 4 (4.44%) Aruba
9 4 (4.44%) Infoblox
9 4 (4.44%) Zscaler
10 3 (3.33%) VMware
11 2 (2.22%) Arista
11 2 (2.22%) Meraki
11 2 (2.22%) Microsoft
12 1 (1.11%) Bloomberg
12 1 (1.11%) Refinitiv
12 1 (1.11%) Splunk
12 1 (1.11%) Tufin