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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 392 429
Rank change year-on-year -150 +37 -61
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 60 89 124
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.47% 2.77% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 46 87
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £400 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £543 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +5.85% +7.89%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £553
90th Percentile £650 £631 £768
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -7.50% -2.44% +13.89%

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 4,093 3,210 4,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 12.85% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,545 1,998 2,854
10th Percentile £250 £228 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -0.96% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 132 396
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.69 £13.68
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.56 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.96 £39.66 £45.44
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -12.72% +139.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £27.69 £44.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -37.78% +7.23% +118.42%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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
London -83 20 £400 -25.58% 11
South East -45 19 £523 +58.33% 7
Midlands -54 7 £340 -35.24% 4
South West -32 6 £538 +7.50% 1
West Midlands -57 6 £320 -28.89% 2
North West -62 5 £643 +11.83% 2
North of England -100 5 £643 +11.83% 5
East of England -32 1 £450 +11.80% 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:

Applications
1 5 (8.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.67%) AWS
2 18 (30.00%) Azure
3 5 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (78.33%) Firewall
2 38 (63.33%) WAN
3 37 (61.67%) BGP
4 31 (51.67%) Network Security
4 31 (51.67%) VPN
5 30 (50.00%) LAN
6 27 (45.00%) OSPF
7 23 (38.33%) MPLS
8 22 (36.67%) IPsec
9 19 (31.67%) Cisco Firepower
10 15 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 15 (25.00%) Multicast
11 14 (23.33%) DNS
11 14 (23.33%) Wireless
12 13 (21.67%) BIG-IP
12 13 (21.67%) EIGRP
13 11 (18.33%) SD-WAN
14 10 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
14 10 (16.67%) SSL
15 9 (15.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Git
General
1 21 (35.00%) Finance
2 12 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.33%) Retail
5 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.33%) Aviation
7 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Law
7 1 (1.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 33 (55.00%) Network Engineer
2 19 (31.67%) Senior
3 8 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Security Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Architect
5 6 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) NOC Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Data Centre Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Data Network Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Juniper Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Firewall Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Network Security Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Technical Architect
10 1 (1.67%) Junior
10 1 (1.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.67%) LDAP
2 7 (11.67%) SAML
3 6 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 10 (16.67%) PKI
3 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.67%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (13.33%) Windows
3 6 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (5.00%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.00%) ITIL
1 15 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 13 (21.67%) Load Balancing
3 12 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (18.33%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (15.00%) Change Management
7 8 (13.33%) High Availability
7 8 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
8 6 (10.00%) Network Design
8 6 (10.00%) Security Operations
8 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
9 5 (8.33%) Cloud Security
9 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (8.33%) Migration
9 5 (8.33%) Presales
9 5 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (8.33%) SIEM
10 4 (6.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.33%) Python
2 4 (6.67%) PHP
3 3 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (21.67%) DV Cleared
4 11 (18.33%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (16.67%) CCNP
6 5 (8.33%) CCSE
6 5 (8.33%) CCSM
6 5 (8.33%) Degree
7 4 (6.67%) APMG
7 4 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (6.67%) GIAC
7 4 (6.67%) SSCP
8 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
8 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (5.00%) GSEC
9 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
9 2 (3.33%) BC Cleared
9 2 (3.33%) CCNA
9 2 (3.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) SLA
2 10 (16.67%) NIST
3 6 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (6.67%) NCSC
5 1 (1.67%) GRC
5 1 (1.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 25 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (21.67%) VMware NSX
3 11 (18.33%) Active Directory
3 11 (18.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (10.00%) Ansible
2 6 (10.00%) vCenter Server
3 5 (8.33%) FortiGate
3 5 (8.33%) Terraform
4 4 (6.67%) Grafana
5 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.00%) SCOM
6 2 (3.33%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (3.33%) Iperf
6 2 (3.33%) Nmap
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 60 (100.00%) Cisco
2 44 (73.33%) Palo Alto
3 30 (50.00%) F5
4 28 (46.67%) CheckPoint
4 28 (46.67%) VMware
5 16 (26.67%) Fortinet
6 12 (20.00%) SolarWinds
7 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
8 6 (10.00%) Juniper
8 6 (10.00%) ServiceNow
9 4 (6.67%) Arista
10 3 (5.00%) Becrypt
11 2 (3.33%) Aruba
11 2 (3.33%) Dell
11 2 (3.33%) Tufin
11 2 (3.33%) Zscaler
12 1 (1.67%) EMC
12 1 (1.67%) Forcepoint
12 1 (1.67%) McAfee
12 1 (1.67%) NetScout