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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 400 446
Rank change year-on-year -173 +46 -1
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 72 116 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.40% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.58% 3.11% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 64 114
10th Percentile £300 £340 £335
25th Percentile £400 £423 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £530 £513
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +3.41% +2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £638
90th Percentile £575 £625 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% +5.56%

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 4,553 3,733 5,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.65% 12.77% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,848 2,297 3,382
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -1.52% -4.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 175 423
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.57
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.88 £17.35
Median hourly rate £42.25 £37.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -2.60% +102.63%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.69 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £24.76 £45.88
% change year-on-year +112.04% -46.03% +148.00%

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 30 April 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 13 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 30 April 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 -139 65 £463 -15.91% 24
UK excluding London -139 43 £500 -2.44% 21
London -55 23 £400 -27.27% 6
Work from Home -61 17 £463 -7.50% 11
South East -48 11 £525 -9.87% 4
Midlands -65 10 £340 -36.74% 8
South West -31 9 £525 +5.00% 3
West Midlands -52 9 £320 -34.36% 7
North West -65 8 £472 -18.00% 3
North of England -106 8 £472 -18.00% 5
East of England -42 3 £463 +14.91% 1
Scotland -5 1 £425 -6.85%
Wales -17 1 £550 +29.41%

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:

Applications
1 8 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.83%) AWS
1 15 (20.83%) Azure
2 5 (6.94%) GCP
3 2 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 61 (84.72%) Firewall
2 44 (61.11%) BGP
3 43 (59.72%) WAN
4 35 (48.61%) Network Security
5 34 (47.22%) LAN
5 34 (47.22%) OSPF
5 34 (47.22%) VPN
6 26 (36.11%) MPLS
7 24 (33.33%) IPsec
8 21 (29.17%) Cisco Nexus
9 20 (27.78%) Wireless
10 17 (23.61%) Cisco IOS
11 16 (22.22%) EIGRP
12 15 (20.83%) Multicast
12 15 (20.83%) Wireshark
13 14 (19.44%) BIG-IP
13 14 (19.44%) SD-WAN
14 13 (18.06%) Cisco Firepower
14 13 (18.06%) DNS
15 12 (16.67%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Git
1 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (29.17%) Finance
2 15 (20.83%) Financial Institution
3 10 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.78%) Aviation
6 2 (2.78%) Law
6 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.78%) Retail
6 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 42 (58.33%) Network Engineer
2 18 (25.00%) Senior
3 9 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) Architect
5 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Core Network Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Data Centre Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Data Network Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Design Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) IP Design Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) IP Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) IP Network Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Juniper Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.22%) LDAP
2 10 (13.89%) SAML
3 5 (6.94%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.72%) PKI
3 4 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.50%) Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 5 (6.94%) CatOS
4 3 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.83%) Change Management
2 14 (19.44%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 11 (15.28%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (11.11%) High Availability
7 8 (11.11%) ITIL
7 8 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
8 7 (9.72%) Migration
9 6 (8.33%) Break/Fix
9 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (8.33%) Performance Management
9 6 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (6.94%) Network Design
10 5 (6.94%) Network Virtualisation
10 5 (6.94%) Security Operations
11 4 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (5.56%) Low Latency
11 4 (5.56%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.67%) Python
2 4 (5.56%) PHP
3 3 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 23 (31.94%) SC Cleared
3 12 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (13.89%) CCNP
4 10 (13.89%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.94%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (5.56%) APMG
6 4 (5.56%) CCIE
6 4 (5.56%) Degree
6 4 (5.56%) GIAC
6 4 (5.56%) SSCP
7 3 (4.17%) CCNA
7 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.17%) GSEC
8 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.78%) BC Cleared
8 2 (2.78%) CCSE
8 2 (2.78%) CCSM
8 2 (2.78%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.67%) SLA
2 8 (11.11%) NIST
3 6 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.78%) NCSC
6 1 (1.39%) GRC
6 1 (1.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 21 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (15.28%) Active Directory
2 11 (15.28%) VMware NSX
3 8 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) FortiGate
1 10 (13.89%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (9.72%) Ansible
3 6 (8.33%) vCenter Server
4 5 (6.94%) Terraform
5 4 (5.56%) Grafana
6 3 (4.17%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.17%) SCOM
7 2 (2.78%) Iperf
7 2 (2.78%) Nmap
Vendors
1 72 (100.00%) Cisco
2 46 (63.89%) Palo Alto
3 36 (50.00%) F5
4 31 (43.06%) CheckPoint
5 23 (31.94%) VMware
6 18 (25.00%) Fortinet
7 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
8 9 (12.50%) Juniper
9 8 (11.11%) SolarWinds
10 5 (6.94%) ServiceNow
11 4 (5.56%) Arista
11 4 (5.56%) Meraki
11 4 (5.56%) Tufin
11 4 (5.56%) Zscaler
12 3 (4.17%) McAfee
12 3 (4.17%) NetScout
13 2 (2.78%) Aruba
13 2 (2.78%) Dell
13 2 (2.78%) Forcepoint
14 1 (1.39%) Becrypt