Cisco ASA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 307 312
Rank change year-on-year +48 +5 +82
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 80 92 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.44% 0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.05% 2.67% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 69 104
10th Percentile £365 £335 £273
25th Percentile £419 £375 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £528
90th Percentile £625 £825 £575
UK median daily rate £535 £513 £489
% change year-on-year +4.39% +4.86% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £30.65
25th Percentile - - £43.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
75th Percentile - - £63.23
90th Percentile - - £65.78
UK median hourly rate - - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - +169.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,973 3,448 3,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 16.62% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,978 2,282
10th Percentile £200 £203 £210
25th Percentile £305 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £584
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £518
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.39% +3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 360 327
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.48 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £30.04 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -24.90% +110.53% -32.74%

Cisco ASA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cisco ASA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco ASA in the UK excluding London

Cisco ASA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco ASA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco ASA in the UK excluding London

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco ASA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco ASA in the UK excluding London

Cisco ASA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco ASA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco ASA in the UK excluding London

Cisco ASA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +42 38 £575 +21.05% 7
North West +35 35 £575 +11.92% 1
South East +3 9 £583 +26.63% 15
South West +47 8 £518 -3.27% 1
East of England +24 7 £403 -5.29% 2
Wales - 7 £425 - 3
Midlands +19 6 £538 -28.33% 7
Scotland +16 5 £456 +25.00%
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £625 - 6
West Midlands +11 2 £488 -35.00% 6
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -
Cisco ASA
UK

Cisco ASA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.00%) AWS
2 7 (8.75%) Azure
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) GitHub
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 71 (88.75%) Firewall
2 47 (58.75%) Cisco Firepower
3 45 (56.25%) BGP
4 41 (51.25%) OSPF
5 29 (36.25%) EIGRP
6 27 (33.75%) IPsec
6 27 (33.75%) VPN
7 25 (31.25%) Cisco Nexus
8 24 (30.00%) HSRP
9 21 (26.25%) WAN
9 21 (26.25%) Wireless
10 16 (20.00%) Network Security
11 15 (18.75%) LAN
12 11 (13.75%) Cisco Wireless
13 9 (11.25%) SD-WAN
13 9 (11.25%) TCP/IP
13 9 (11.25%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (8.75%) DNS
15 6 (7.50%) Cisco IOS
15 6 (7.50%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) JIRA
1 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
1 7 (8.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.25%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.50%) Advertising
4 1 (1.25%) Finance
4 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 69 (86.25%) Network Engineer
2 21 (26.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) Cisco Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Senior
5 7 (8.75%) Network Security Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Security Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Field Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Network Field Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Architect
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
8 2 (2.50%) Consultant
8 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (2.50%) Technical Architect
9 1 (1.25%) Firewall Engineer
9 1 (1.25%) Implementation Specialist
9 1 (1.25%) Juniper Engineer
9 1 (1.25%) LAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) PKI
4 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.25%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (15.00%) Network Management
2 11 (13.75%) Migration
3 8 (10.00%) ITIL
4 6 (7.50%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (6.25%) Change Management
5 5 (6.25%) Network Design
6 4 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (5.00%) Incident Management
6 4 (5.00%) Load Balancing
7 3 (3.75%) Adaptive Security
7 3 (3.75%) CI/CD
7 3 (3.75%) DevSecOps
7 3 (3.75%) Requirements Management
7 3 (3.75%) TOGAF
8 2 (2.50%) Containerisation
8 2 (2.50%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (2.50%) Knowledge Transfer
8 2 (2.50%) Network Architecture
8 2 (2.50%) Technology Strategy
8 2 (2.50%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 46 (57.50%) Security Cleared
2 42 (52.50%) SC Cleared
3 28 (35.00%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (28.75%) CCNP
5 12 (15.00%) CCNA
6 9 (11.25%) CCIE
7 8 (10.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.50%) MCSE
8 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.25%) CCIE Wireless
9 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.50%) NCSC
1 2 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 80 (100.00%) Cisco
2 48 (60.00%) Palo Alto
3 31 (38.75%) CheckPoint
4 10 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 8 (10.00%) F5
5 8 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 8 (10.00%) VMware
6 4 (5.00%) Meraki
7 3 (3.75%) Juniper
7 3 (3.75%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.50%) Arista
8 2 (2.50%) Blue Coat
8 2 (2.50%) McAfee
8 2 (2.50%) Splunk
8 2 (2.50%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.25%) Aerohive Networks
9 1 (1.25%) Aruba
9 1 (1.25%) Citrix
9 1 (1.25%) Ekahau
9 1 (1.25%) Symantec