Cisco ASA Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Cisco ASA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 104 113
Rank change year-on-year -36 +9 +19
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 7 4 30
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.25% 0.26% 1.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.77% 1.43% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 22
10th Percentile £456 £569 £337
25th Percentile £478 £586 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +6.96% +12.75%
75th Percentile £544 £623 £825
90th Percentile £554 £627 £934
South East median daily rate £523 £583 £460
% change year-on-year -10.30% +26.63% -8.00%

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 395 279 667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.11% 18.26% 23.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 137 324
10th Percentile £255 £242 £205
25th Percentile £370 £375 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £571
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 52
10th Percentile £16.01 - £18.00
25th Percentile £19.17 £14.20 £24.00
Median hourly rate £27.88 £16.60 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +67.95% -65.95% +18.18%
75th Percentile £49.03 £23.38 £85.65
90th Percentile £73.60 £45.01 £87.52
South East median hourly rate £42.71 £54.88 £57.35
% change year-on-year -22.18% -4.32% +27.44%

Cisco ASA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Cisco ASA job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cisco ASA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cisco ASA

Cisco ASA
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cisco ASA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cisco ASA

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 29 March 2026. 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 -17 6 £523 -15.04% 3
Berkshire -30 1 £500 - 1
Cisco ASA
South East

Cisco ASA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (71.43%) BGP
2 5 (71.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 5 (71.43%) IPsec
2 5 (71.43%) OSPF
3 4 (57.14%) BIG-IP
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (57.14%) ICMP
3 4 (57.14%) Network Security
3 4 (57.14%) NGFW
3 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 4 (57.14%) Wireless
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (42.86%) LAN
4 3 (42.86%) WAN
5 2 (28.57%) VSAN
6 1 (14.29%) 5G
6 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) NOC Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Core Network Design Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Core Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) IP Design Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) IP Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) IP Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
1 5 (71.43%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (57.14%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (42.86%) ITSM
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Service Management
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Change Management
4 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
4 2 (28.57%) Presales
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
5 1 (14.29%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
2 2 (28.57%) CCSE
2 2 (28.57%) CCSM
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 6 (85.71%) VMware
3 5 (71.43%) F5
4 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
4 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
5 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (14.29%) Juniper
6 1 (14.29%) NetScout