Cisco ASA Contract Job Trends in the South West

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Cisco ASA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 113 117
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +42
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 3 13 34
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.13% 0.62% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.22% 4.13% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 12
10th Percentile £333 £288 -
25th Percentile £381 £384 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -11.90% +19.32%
75th Percentile £494 £517 £550
90th Percentile £498 £565 -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - £63.20
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £76.25
England median hourly rate £103.00 - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +11.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 245 315 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.52% 14.91% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 194 263
10th Percentile £225 £250 £250
25th Percentile £325 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.85% -10.23% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £663
90th Percentile £720 £684 £736
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 19 69
10th Percentile £15.62 £11.75 £46.25
25th Percentile £25.94 £38.13 £48.32
Median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +19.49% -13.09%
75th Percentile £64.75 £75.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £66.14 - £76.25
England median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -17.07% -26.39% +23.78%

Cisco ASA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Cisco ASA job vacancy trend in the South West

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco ASA in the South West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco ASA in the South West

Cisco ASA
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Cisco ASA
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Wiltshire - 2 £488 -
Dorset +2 1 £300 -35.14%
Cisco ASA
England

Cisco ASA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) McAfee