Cisco ASA Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Cisco ASA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 77 90
Rank change year-on-year -46 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.20% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.41% 3.13% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £447 £578 -
25th Percentile £448 £583 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £611 £525
Median % change year-on-year -26.63% +16.43% +10.53%
75th Percentile £449 £633 £550
90th Percentile £450 £636 -
North West median daily rate £450 £586 £515
% change year-on-year -23.24% +13.83% +14.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 166 96 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 8.43% 9.63% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 56 134
10th Percentile £250 £193 £224
25th Percentile £375 £344 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% -17.07% +10.22%
75th Percentile £575 £528 £775
90th Percentile £630 £644 £850
North West median daily rate £492 £447 £510
% change year-on-year +10.07% -12.35% +8.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £12.98 - £37.25
25th Percentile £15.25 - £40.63
Median hourly rate £17.06 £20.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.70% -57.89% +187.88%
75th Percentile £18.06 - £76.38
90th Percentile £22.06 - £92.95
North West median hourly rate £17.75 £45.08 £46.69
% change year-on-year -60.63% -3.45% +179.92%

Cisco ASA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco ASA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Cisco ASA job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cisco ASA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cisco ASA

Cisco ASA
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cisco ASA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cisco ASA

Cisco ASA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (75.00%) NetScaler
2 3 (75.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) F5
2 3 (75.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds