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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 401 389
Rank change year-on-year +18 -12 +199
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 88 136 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.37% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.80% 2.85% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 100 182
10th Percentile £378 £335 £276
25th Percentile £459 £379 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £502 £495
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +1.41% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £632 £825 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £470
% change year-on-year +3.30% +8.14% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £37.30
25th Percentile - - £49.46
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
75th Percentile - - £63.23
90th Percentile - - £67.06
UK median hourly rate - - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - +169.57%

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 3,138 4,777 5,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.07% 13.12% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,956 2,882 3,858
10th Percentile £218 £210 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £518
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.41% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 384 415
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.02 £16.30 £10.63
Median hourly rate £34.50 £40.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +128.57% -26.81%
75th Percentile £63.63 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +116.22% -32.73%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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
North of England +26 32 £575 +21.05% 8
London +45 30 £550 +7.32% 21
North West +25 29 £575 +11.92%
East of England +20 7 £403 -5.29%
South East +1 7 £448 -2.72% 17
South West +46 6 £500 -6.54% 3
Midlands +9 6 £538 -28.33% 12
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 5
Yorkshire - 3 £600 - 6
West Midlands +8 2 £488 -35.00% 6
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 (1.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.09%) AWS
1 8 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (1.14%) GitHub
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 75 (85.23%) Firewall
2 41 (46.59%) Cisco Firepower
3 35 (39.77%) BGP
4 31 (35.23%) OSPF
5 29 (32.95%) IPsec
6 28 (31.82%) WAN
7 27 (30.68%) VPN
8 26 (29.55%) Network Security
9 25 (28.41%) Cisco Nexus
9 25 (28.41%) LAN
10 22 (25.00%) EIGRP
11 21 (23.86%) HSRP
12 17 (19.32%) Wireless
13 13 (14.77%) DNS
14 12 (13.64%) MPLS
15 11 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (11.36%) TCP/IP
17 9 (10.23%) Cisco ISE
18 8 (9.09%) DHCP
18 8 (9.09%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.27%) GitLab
3 1 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.82%) Finance
3 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.41%) Advertising
4 3 (3.41%) Banking
5 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.14%) Legal
6 1 (1.14%) Military
6 1 (1.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 67 (76.14%) Network Engineer
2 18 (20.45%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 15 (17.05%) Network Security Engineer
3 15 (17.05%) Security Engineer
4 10 (11.36%) Architect
5 6 (6.82%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Network Architect
5 6 (6.82%) Senior
6 5 (5.68%) Field Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Network Field Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Cisco Architect
8 3 (3.41%) Cisco Network Architect
8 3 (3.41%) Consultant
8 3 (3.41%) Firewall Specialist
8 3 (3.41%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Principal Network Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Principal Security Engineer
9 2 (2.27%) LAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.41%) JSON
2 1 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.05%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.27%) PKI
6 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Linux
1 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
2 14 (15.91%) Migration
3 12 (13.64%) Network Management
4 11 (12.50%) ITIL
5 8 (9.09%) Network Design
6 6 (6.82%) Adaptive Security
6 6 (6.82%) Change Management
6 6 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (6.82%) Load Balancing
7 4 (4.55%) Business Strategy
7 4 (4.55%) Incident Management
8 3 (3.41%) CI/CD
8 3 (3.41%) Network Load Balancing
8 3 (3.41%) Network Segmentation
8 3 (3.41%) Network Virtualisation
8 3 (3.41%) Project Delivery
8 3 (3.41%) Project Management
8 3 (3.41%) Requirements Management
8 3 (3.41%) Roadmaps
8 3 (3.41%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 47 (53.41%) Security Cleared
2 44 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 25 (28.41%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (18.18%) CCNP
5 11 (12.50%) CCNA
6 7 (7.95%) CCIE
7 5 (5.68%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.27%) Degree
8 2 (2.27%) MCSE
8 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.14%) CCIE Security
9 1 (1.14%) CCIE Service Provider
9 1 (1.14%) CCIE Wireless
9 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.27%) NCSC
1 2 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (7.95%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (7.95%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.41%) ZABBIX
3 2 (2.27%) Ansible
3 2 (2.27%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.14%) Cisco LMS
4 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.14%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 88 (100.00%) Cisco
2 51 (57.95%) Palo Alto
3 43 (48.86%) CheckPoint
4 19 (21.59%) F5
5 13 (14.77%) SolarWinds
6 10 (11.36%) Juniper
7 9 (10.23%) Fortinet
8 8 (9.09%) VMware
9 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
10 4 (4.55%) Aruba
10 4 (4.55%) Zscaler
11 3 (3.41%) AlgoSec
11 3 (3.41%) Infoblox
12 2 (2.27%) Arista
12 2 (2.27%) Meraki
13 1 (1.14%) Barracuda Networks
13 1 (1.14%) Blue Coat
13 1 (1.14%) Refinitiv
13 1 (1.14%) Splunk
13 1 (1.14%) Tufin