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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 457 427
Rank change year-on-year -95 -30 -89
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 87 60 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.02% 1.83% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 36 61
10th Percentile £370 £400 £381
25th Percentile £447 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% +14.44%
75th Percentile £550 £622 £573
90th Percentile £649 £650 £763
UK median daily rate £492 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -10.55% +7.84% +13.33%
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 4,315 3,278 3,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.38% 11.98% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,597 2,040 2,339
10th Percentile £250 £237 £248
25th Percentile £400 £364 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.45% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 164 234
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.19
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.11 £22.10
Median hourly rate £28.00 £41.48 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -32.49% -27.68% +1.52%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.53 £78.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £43.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -40.23% -17.14% -7.06%

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 8 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 8 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 -54 38 £496 -11.82% 2
North West -41 26 £450 -23.24% 2
South East -51 25 £525 -8.70% 4
London -83 15 £425 -19.05% 18
Yorkshire -35 11 £500 -9.09%
Midlands -60 5 £425 -17.07% 2
West Midlands -48 4 £375 -16.67% 2
East of England -23 1 £450 - 3
South West -45 1 £700 +30.84% 1
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 (9.20%) SAS
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 28 (32.18%) Azure
2 22 (25.29%) AWS
3 8 (9.20%) 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 61 (70.11%) Cisco Firepower
3 48 (55.17%) VPN
4 45 (51.72%) BGP
5 42 (48.28%) OSPF
6 37 (42.53%) Network Security
6 37 (42.53%) WAN
7 36 (41.38%) LAN
8 32 (36.78%) IPsec
9 28 (32.18%) Cisco Nexus
10 27 (31.03%) DNS
11 26 (29.89%) Wireless
12 23 (26.44%) EIGRP
13 19 (21.84%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (19.54%) 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%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.79%) Finance
3 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.90%) Banking
5 6 (6.90%) Police
6 5 (5.75%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.75%) Retail
7 3 (3.45%) 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 69 (79.31%) Network Engineer
2 25 (28.74%) Senior
3 23 (26.44%) Senior Network Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Architect
6 6 (6.90%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 6 (6.90%) Security Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Network Security Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) NOC Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Cisco Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Network Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.45%) Lead
9 3 (3.45%) Lead Architect
9 3 (3.45%) Security Hacker
9 3 (3.45%) Technical Leader
10 2 (2.30%) Data Centre Engineer
10 2 (2.30%) Firewall Architect
10 2 (2.30%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.05%) Terraform
2 4 (4.60%) LDAP
2 4 (4.60%) SAML
3 3 (3.45%) 802.1X
4 2 (2.30%) REST
5 1 (1.15%) gRPC
5 1 (1.15%) NETCONF
5 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 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.94%) Windows
2 10 (11.49%) Linux
3 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.15%) CatOS
4 1 (1.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.23%) ITIL
2 23 (26.44%) Network Monitoring
3 18 (20.69%) Change Management
4 13 (14.94%) Load Balancing
4 13 (14.94%) Technical Leadership
5 12 (13.79%) High Availability
5 12 (13.79%) Security Operations
6 11 (12.64%) Network Virtualisation
7 10 (11.49%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (11.49%) Project Delivery
8 9 (10.34%) Migration
8 9 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (10.34%) Virtual Environments
9 8 (9.20%) Patch Management
10 7 (8.05%) Cloud Security
10 7 (8.05%) Incident Management
10 7 (8.05%) Zero Trust
11 6 (6.90%) Computer Science
11 6 (6.90%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.34%) Python
2 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.45%) 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 15 (17.24%) 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%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (1.15%) CCIE Security
11 1 (1.15%) CCNA CyberOps
11 1 (1.15%) DBS Check
11 1 (1.15%) JNCIE
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 13 (14.94%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.75%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (9.20%) 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 58 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 49 (56.32%) CheckPoint
4 27 (31.03%) F5
5 25 (28.74%) VMware
6 20 (22.99%) Fortinet
7 17 (19.54%) SolarWinds
8 12 (13.79%) Microsoft
9 11 (12.64%) Meraki
10 7 (8.05%) Juniper
11 6 (6.90%) Citrix
11 6 (6.90%) ServiceNow
12 4 (4.60%) Becrypt
13 3 (3.45%) AlgoSec
13 3 (3.45%) Infoblox
14 2 (2.30%) Arista
14 2 (2.30%) Aruba
14 2 (2.30%) Avaya
14 2 (2.30%) Dell
14 2 (2.30%) Tufin