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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 303 237
Rank change year-on-year -13 -66 +155
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 51 72 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.39% 0.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.34% 2.58% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 49 134
10th Percentile £325 £363 £273
25th Percentile £438 £456 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +14.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £525
90th Percentile £625 £775 £583
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £450
% change year-on-year +0.49% +13.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile £100.50 - £39.09
Median hourly rate £103.00 - £56.66
75th Percentile £105.50 - £64.98
90th Percentile - - £70.99
UK median hourly rate £103.00 - £56.66
% change year-on-year - - +52.22%

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 2,176 2,795 3,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.19% 15.27% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,285 1,640 2,140
10th Percentile £204 £206 £205
25th Percentile £331 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £457
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.36% +1.60%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £575
90th Percentile £640 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 276 190
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.56 £20.50
Median hourly rate £43.25 £54.88 £56.91
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% -3.58% +116.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £76.19
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £49.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -5.61% -9.26% +54.29%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -11 24 £575 +11.65% 9
North West -11 18 £586 +13.83% 3
Midlands -10 10 £525 -30.00% 4
West Midlands -14 6 £450 -40.00% 3
Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 2
South East +11 5 £330 -30.53% 10
South West +30 4 £500 +8.11% 7
Wales - 4 £425 - 2
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 1
East of England -1 3 £330 -40.00% 4
Scotland -15 2 £488 +30.00% 8
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (3.92%) AWS
1 2 (3.92%) Azure
2 1 (1.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 49 (96.08%) Firewall
2 23 (45.10%) Cisco Firepower
3 21 (41.18%) BGP
4 18 (35.29%) OSPF
5 15 (29.41%) EIGRP
6 13 (25.49%) HSRP
6 13 (25.49%) IPsec
7 8 (15.69%) Cisco Nexus
7 8 (15.69%) DHCP
7 8 (15.69%) DNS
7 8 (15.69%) TCP/IP
8 7 (13.73%) Network Security
9 6 (11.76%) Cisco ISE
9 6 (11.76%) LAN
9 6 (11.76%) WAN
10 5 (9.80%) Wireless
11 4 (7.84%) BIG-IP
11 4 (7.84%) VPN
11 4 (7.84%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) JIRA
General
1 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.80%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.88%) Finance
4 2 (3.92%) Advertising
5 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.96%) Military
5 1 (1.96%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (86.27%) Network Engineer
2 11 (21.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Security Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Field Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Firewall Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Network Field Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Consultant
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Cisco Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Architect
9 1 (1.96%) Network Consultant
9 1 (1.96%) Technical Consultant
9 1 (1.96%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.96%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.61%) Migration
2 6 (11.76%) ITIL
2 6 (11.76%) Network Management
3 5 (9.80%) Change Management
4 4 (7.84%) Agile
4 4 (7.84%) Asset Management
5 3 (5.88%) Incident Management
5 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (5.88%) Load Balancing
5 3 (5.88%) Network Design
6 2 (3.92%) Cloud Security
6 2 (3.92%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (3.92%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (3.92%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (3.92%) Security Architecture
7 1 (1.96%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (1.96%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (1.96%) SIEM
7 1 (1.96%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 1 (1.96%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.96%) Bash
2 1 (1.96%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 18 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 17 (33.33%) CCNP
4 7 (13.73%) CCNA
5 5 (9.80%) CCIE
6 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.96%) CCIE Security
7 1 (1.96%) CCIE Wireless
7 1 (1.96%) CISSP
7 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.96%) Degree
7 1 (1.96%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Firmware
1 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Ansible
2 2 (3.92%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.96%) Iperf
3 1 (1.96%) Nmap
Vendors
1 51 (100.00%) Cisco
2 35 (68.63%) CheckPoint
3 26 (50.98%) Palo Alto
4 10 (19.61%) Fortinet
5 8 (15.69%) F5
5 8 (15.69%) SolarWinds
6 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.92%) Meraki
8 1 (1.96%) Arista
8 1 (1.96%) Splunk
8 1 (1.96%) VMware
8 1 (1.96%) Zscaler