Cisco ASA Contract Job Trends

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Cisco ASA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 485 458
Rank change year-on-year -98 -27 -98
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 95 69 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.87% 1.80% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 43 69
10th Percentile £358 £335 £378
25th Percentile £431 £416 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% +6.80% +14.44%
75th Percentile £544 £588 £568
90th Percentile £648 £648 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.76% +14.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £103.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £103.00 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,090 3,824 4,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.40% 11.68% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,998 2,347 2,711
10th Percentile £234 £235 £230
25th Percentile £397 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £466 £500
% change year-on-year +3.11% -6.90% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 200 276
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.11 £21.37
Median hourly rate £26.00 £43.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.53% -15.69% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.84 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -39.20% -25.89% +1.52%

Cisco ASA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cisco ASA job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco ASA over the 6 months to 7 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco ASA in the UK

Cisco ASA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Cisco ASA
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 September 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
England -79 87 £500 -9.09% 29
UK excluding London -61 71 £500 -9.09% 14
North of England -49 38 £496 -11.82% 2
North West -40 26 £450 -23.24% 2
South East -52 25 £525 +5.00% 5
Work from Home -56 22 £463 -7.50% 12
London -84 15 £425 -19.05% 18
Yorkshire -35 11 £500 -9.09%
Midlands -60 5 £425 -17.07% 2
West Midlands -49 4 £375 -16.67% 2
East of England -19 1 £450 +36.36% 3
Scotland -28 1 £425 -8.11%
South West -44 1 £700 +30.84% 1
North East - 1 £200 -

Cisco ASA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.42%) SAS
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 28 (29.47%) Azure
2 23 (24.21%) AWS
3 8 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.32%) GCP
5 5 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 85 (89.47%) Firewall
2 63 (66.32%) Cisco Firepower
3 53 (55.79%) VPN
4 49 (51.58%) BGP
5 46 (48.42%) OSPF
6 41 (43.16%) Network Security
6 41 (43.16%) WAN
7 40 (42.11%) LAN
8 33 (34.74%) IPsec
9 30 (31.58%) Wireless
10 29 (30.53%) Cisco Nexus
11 27 (28.42%) DNS
12 25 (26.32%) EIGRP
13 20 (21.05%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (17.89%) DHCP
14 17 (17.89%) VLAN
15 16 (16.84%) TCP/IP
16 14 (14.74%) BIG-IP
17 13 (13.68%) Cisco ISE
18 12 (12.63%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (14.74%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.63%) Finance
3 10 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.32%) Banking
5 6 (6.32%) Police
6 5 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.26%) Retail
7 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.16%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.16%) Legal
9 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.11%) Law
9 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 75 (78.95%) Network Engineer
2 27 (28.42%) Senior
3 25 (26.32%) Senior Network Engineer
4 13 (13.68%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Architect
6 7 (7.37%) Security Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Network Architect
8 5 (5.26%) NOC Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Cisco Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.16%) Lead
10 3 (3.16%) Lead Architect
10 3 (3.16%) Security Hacker
10 3 (3.16%) Technical Leader
11 2 (2.11%) Firewall Architect
11 2 (2.11%) Juniper Engineer
11 2 (2.11%) Network Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.42%) Terraform
2 4 (4.21%) LDAP
2 4 (4.21%) SAML
3 3 (3.16%) 802.1X
4 2 (2.11%) REST
5 1 (1.05%) gRPC
5 1 (1.05%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.05%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.32%) Data Centre
2 13 (13.68%) PKI
3 6 (6.32%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (6.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.32%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.21%) Fibre Optics
4 4 (4.21%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.16%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.68%) Windows
2 10 (10.53%) Linux
3 2 (2.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.05%) CatOS
4 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.95%) ITIL
2 24 (25.26%) Network Monitoring
3 20 (21.05%) Change Management
4 16 (16.84%) Load Balancing
5 14 (14.74%) High Availability
6 13 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
7 12 (12.63%) Security Operations
8 11 (11.58%) Network Virtualisation
9 10 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (10.53%) Project Delivery
9 10 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (9.47%) Migration
10 9 (9.47%) Virtual Environments
11 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Maintenance
11 8 (8.42%) Patch Management
11 8 (8.42%) Zero Trust
12 7 (7.37%) Cloud Security
12 7 (7.37%) Incident Management
12 7 (7.37%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.47%) Python
2 4 (4.21%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 52 (54.74%) Security Cleared
2 37 (38.95%) SC Cleared
3 27 (28.42%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (26.32%) CCNP
5 17 (17.89%) DV Cleared
6 7 (7.37%) CCIE
6 7 (7.37%) CCSE
6 7 (7.37%) Degree
7 5 (5.26%) CCNA
7 5 (5.26%) CCSM
8 3 (3.16%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.16%) CISSP
8 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.11%) CCIE Security
9 2 (2.11%) GIAC
10 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.05%) CCNA CyberOps
10 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) NIST
2 5 (5.26%) SLA
3 4 (4.21%) NCSC
4 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (15.79%) VMware NSX
3 13 (13.68%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (9.47%) Ansible
2 4 (4.21%) Cisco CUCM
2 4 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.16%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.11%) Grafana
4 2 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.05%) Nagios
5 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 95 (100.00%) Cisco
2 65 (68.42%) Palo Alto
3 53 (55.79%) CheckPoint
4 30 (31.58%) F5
5 25 (26.32%) VMware
6 22 (23.16%) Fortinet
7 19 (20.00%) SolarWinds
8 16 (16.84%) Meraki
9 13 (13.68%) Microsoft
10 8 (8.42%) Citrix
10 8 (8.42%) Juniper
11 6 (6.32%) ServiceNow
12 4 (4.21%) Becrypt
13 3 (3.16%) AlgoSec
13 3 (3.16%) Aruba
13 3 (3.16%) Infoblox
14 2 (2.11%) Avaya
14 2 (2.11%) Dell
14 2 (2.11%) Google
14 2 (2.11%) Tufin