Cisco ASA Contract Job Trends in the North West

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Cisco ASA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 78 118
Rank change year-on-year -57 +40 +51
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 5 42 23
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.21% 1.82% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.51% 13.38% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 18
10th Percentile £383 £446 £386
25th Percentile £454 £472 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.81% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £629 £575 £488
90th Percentile £634 £578 £529
England median daily rate £500 £510 £486
% change year-on-year -1.96% +4.94% -6.99%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 332 314 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.70% 13.58% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 161 351
10th Percentile £170 £213 £300
25th Percentile £356 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £682 £685 £669
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 12
10th Percentile £15.50 £29.91 -
25th Percentile £17.75 £42.66 £15.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £48.56 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +174.04% -10.87%
75th Percentile £71.19 £51.91 £47.11
90th Percentile £74.26 £52.08 £49.78
England median hourly rate £34.00 £49.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -30.61% -13.26% +26.38%

Cisco ASA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Cisco ASA job vacancy trend in the North West

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Cisco ASA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Cisco ASA

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco ASA in the North West over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco ASA in the North West

Cisco ASA
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Cisco ASA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Cisco ASA

Cisco ASA
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 18 November 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
Manchester -7 3 £611 +16.43% 2
Lancashire - 1 £335 -
Merseyside - 1 - - 2
Cisco ASA
England

Cisco ASA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) MPLS
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Network Management
2 2 (40.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) BCP
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Tech Ops
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (20.00%) McAfee
5 1 (20.00%) Meraki
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds