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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 456 422
Rank change year-on-year -87 -34 -90
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 86 61 105
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.22% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.00% 1.82% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 35 71
10th Percentile £369 £361 £363
25th Percentile £440 £438 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% +14.44%
75th Percentile £547 £599 £559
90th Percentile £649 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £473 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -14.09% +7.32% +13.89%
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 4,295 3,358 4,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.40% 12.19% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,585 2,087 2,484
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £686 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 168 266
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £27.11 £43.00 £55.75
Median % change year-on-year -36.95% -22.86% -1.32%
75th Percentile £65.17 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £46.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.78% -7.50% -11.49%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -51 36 £500 -13.04% 7
North West -30 24 £450 -23.24% 5
South East -46 24 £525 +34.62% 6
London -78 18 £413 -25.00% 6
Yorkshire -33 11 £500 -9.09% 2
Midlands -65 5 £425 -19.05% 2
West Midlands -47 4 £375 -16.67% 2
East of England -22 1 £450 +36.36% 3
North East - 1 £200 -
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 (9.30%) SAS
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 28 (32.56%) Azure
2 22 (25.58%) AWS
3 7 (8.14%) GCP
3 7 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.81%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 76 (88.37%) Firewall
2 59 (68.60%) Cisco Firepower
3 47 (54.65%) BGP
4 46 (53.49%) VPN
5 44 (51.16%) OSPF
6 40 (46.51%) WAN
7 39 (45.35%) LAN
8 35 (40.70%) Network Security
9 31 (36.05%) IPsec
10 28 (32.56%) Cisco Nexus
11 26 (30.23%) DNS
12 24 (27.91%) EIGRP
13 23 (26.74%) Wireless
14 18 (20.93%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (18.60%) DHCP
15 16 (18.60%) TCP/IP
16 15 (17.44%) VLAN
17 13 (15.12%) BIG-IP
18 11 (12.79%) SSL
19 10 (11.63%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (18.60%) Finance
2 13 (15.12%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.98%) Banking
5 6 (6.98%) Financial Institution
5 6 (6.98%) Police
6 5 (5.81%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.81%) Retail
7 3 (3.49%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.16%) Law
9 1 (1.16%) Legal
Job Titles
1 68 (79.07%) Network Engineer
2 26 (30.23%) Senior
3 22 (25.58%) Senior Network Engineer
4 9 (10.47%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 7 (8.14%) Architect
6 6 (6.98%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Cisco Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) NOC Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.49%) Data Centre Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Data Network Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Juniper Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Lead
9 3 (3.49%) Lead Architect
9 3 (3.49%) Network Architect
9 3 (3.49%) Security Hacker
9 3 (3.49%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.14%) Terraform
2 4 (4.65%) LDAP
2 4 (4.65%) SAML
3 3 (3.49%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.74%) Data Centre
2 13 (15.12%) PKI
3 6 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.65%) Fibre Optics
5 4 (4.65%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.33%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.16%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.95%) Windows
2 10 (11.63%) Linux
3 1 (1.16%) CatOS
3 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.53%) ITIL
2 22 (25.58%) Network Monitoring
3 18 (20.93%) Change Management
4 13 (15.12%) Load Balancing
5 12 (13.95%) Security Operations
6 11 (12.79%) High Availability
6 11 (12.79%) Network Virtualisation
6 11 (12.79%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (10.47%) Virtual Environments
9 8 (9.30%) Migration
9 8 (9.30%) Patch Management
9 8 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (9.30%) Project Delivery
9 8 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (8.14%) Cloud Security
10 7 (8.14%) Computer Science
10 7 (8.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (8.14%) Incident Management
10 7 (8.14%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.30%) Python
2 3 (3.49%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 43 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (34.88%) SC Cleared
3 25 (29.07%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (27.91%) CCNP
5 14 (16.28%) DV Cleared
6 8 (9.30%) Degree
7 6 (6.98%) CCSE
8 5 (5.81%) CCIE
8 5 (5.81%) CCNA
8 5 (5.81%) CCSM
9 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (3.49%) AWS Certification
10 3 (3.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
11 2 (2.33%) CISSP
12 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (1.16%) CCNA CyberOps
12 1 (1.16%) CCSP
12 1 (1.16%) GIAC
12 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.98%) NIST
1 6 (6.98%) SLA
2 4 (4.65%) NCSC
3 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (22.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (17.44%) VMware NSX
3 12 (13.95%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.81%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (8.14%) Ansible
2 4 (4.65%) Cisco CUCM
2 4 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.49%) FortiGate
3 3 (3.49%) Grafana
3 3 (3.49%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.16%) Nagios
4 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 86 (100.00%) Cisco
2 59 (68.60%) Palo Alto
3 51 (59.30%) CheckPoint
4 28 (32.56%) F5
5 25 (29.07%) VMware
6 19 (22.09%) Fortinet
7 16 (18.60%) SolarWinds
8 11 (12.79%) Microsoft
9 9 (10.47%) Meraki
10 7 (8.14%) Juniper
11 6 (6.98%) ServiceNow
12 5 (5.81%) Citrix
13 4 (4.65%) Becrypt
14 3 (3.49%) Arista
14 3 (3.49%) Dell
14 3 (3.49%) Infoblox
15 2 (2.33%) AlgoSec
15 2 (2.33%) Aruba
15 2 (2.33%) Google
15 2 (2.33%) Tufin