Cisco ASA Contracts in the Thames Valley

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 119 132
Rank change year-on-year +21 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 4 26 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.97% 0.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.59% 4.30% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 22 16
10th Percentile £569 £337 £400
25th Percentile £586 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £575 £505
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% +13.86% -
75th Percentile £623 £825 £570
90th Percentile £627 £934 £600
South East median daily rate £583 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +26.63% +2.22% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.75
Median hourly rate - - £33.50
75th Percentile - - £34.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £38.63

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 605 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.68% 22.52% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 295 291
10th Percentile £242 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +2.46% +5.51%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £570
90th Percentile £618 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 50 15
10th Percentile - £17.79 £19.70
25th Percentile - £23.78 £25.75
Median hourly rate £14.20 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.15% -1.52% +288.24%
75th Percentile £22.09 £85.65 £80.25
90th Percentile £31.44 £87.47 £81.22
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

Cisco ASA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Cisco ASA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco ASA in the Thames Valley

Cisco ASA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco ASA in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Cisco ASA in the Thames Valley

Cisco ASA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco ASA in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco ASA in the Thames Valley

Cisco ASA
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Buckinghamshire +5 3 £615 -23.13%
Berkshire +20 1 - - 6
Cisco ASA
South East

Cisco ASA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) MPLS
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) NGFW
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) VLAN
3 2 (50.00%) VSAN
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (25.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) IPsec
4 1 (25.00%) LAN
4 1 (25.00%) Network Security
4 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Adaptive Security
1 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (75.00%) Requirements Management
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) MCSE
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (50.00%) NCSC
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba