Cisco ASA Contracts

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 451 378
Rank change year-on-year +17 -73 +229
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 105 139 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.32% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.70% 2.56% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 94 236
10th Percentile £330 £350 £273
25th Percentile £419 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +13.61% -5.26%
75th Percentile £578 £553 £578
90th Percentile £625 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £514 £450
% change year-on-year -2.68% +14.17% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £33.73
25th Percentile £100.50 - £37.19
Median hourly rate £103.00 - £58.66
75th Percentile £105.50 - £62.92
90th Percentile - - £64.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate £103.00 - £58.66
% change year-on-year - - +44.98%

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 3,890 5,433 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.42% 12.50% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,342 3,208 4,616
10th Percentile £230 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 428 433
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.81 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +114.29% -27.74%
75th Percentile £60.41 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.32 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -36.17% +115.91% -2.22%

Cisco ASA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cisco ASA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco ASA in the UK

Cisco ASA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco ASA.

Daily rate trend for Cisco ASA in the UK

Cisco ASA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco ASA over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco ASA in the UK

Cisco ASA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco ASA.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco ASA in the UK

Cisco ASA
Top 16 Contract 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 3 July 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
England +25 89 £525 +2.44% 137
UK excluding London +16 66 £500 -2.68% 85
Work from Home +8 38 £475 -9.52% 54
London +36 32 £525 +3.96% 60
North of England +16 29 £550 +6.80% 23
North West +12 24 £563 +9.22% 15
Midlands +17 11 £488 -35.00% 19
West Midlands +7 7 £450 -40.00% 11
South West +33 6 £500 -6.54% 7
East of England +14 6 £403 -26.82% 8
Wales - 6 £425 - 3
Yorkshire - 5 £550 - 5
South East +18 4 £330 -25.63% 15
Scotland -2 4 £456 +21.67% 10
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 8
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

Cisco ASA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (0.95%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.43%) AWS
1 12 (11.43%) Azure
2 2 (1.90%) GCP
2 2 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (0.95%) GitHub
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 96 (91.43%) Firewall
2 52 (49.52%) Cisco Firepower
3 36 (34.29%) Network Security
4 35 (33.33%) BGP
5 31 (29.52%) OSPF
6 29 (27.62%) Cisco Nexus
7 28 (26.67%) EIGRP
8 27 (25.71%) IPsec
9 26 (24.76%) VPN
10 25 (23.81%) WAN
11 22 (20.95%) Wireless
12 21 (20.00%) LAN
13 17 (16.19%) HSRP
14 16 (15.24%) Cisco ISE
15 14 (13.33%) DNS
16 13 (12.38%) Wi-Fi
17 12 (11.43%) DHCP
18 11 (10.48%) SD-WAN
19 10 (9.52%) MPLS
20 9 (8.57%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (5.71%) JIRA
3 2 (1.90%) GitLab
General
1 15 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.62%) Finance
2 8 (7.62%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.86%) Advertising
4 3 (2.86%) Banking
5 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.95%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.95%) Law
6 1 (0.95%) Legal
6 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.95%) Military
6 1 (0.95%) Police
Job Titles
1 85 (80.95%) Network Engineer
2 19 (18.10%) Security Engineer
3 18 (17.14%) Network Security Engineer
3 18 (17.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 12 (11.43%) Cisco Engineer
4 12 (11.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 11 (10.48%) Senior
6 9 (8.57%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Architect
8 6 (5.71%) Network Architect
9 5 (4.76%) Field Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Network Field Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Principal Network Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Principal Security Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Senior Cisco Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Firewall Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.86%) JSON
2 1 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.10%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.76%) Security Posture
3 3 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.90%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.90%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (23.81%) Migration
2 18 (17.14%) Network Monitoring
3 15 (14.29%) ITIL
4 10 (9.52%) Network Design
4 10 (9.52%) Network Management
5 7 (6.67%) Agile
5 7 (6.67%) Load Balancing
6 6 (5.71%) Change Management
7 5 (4.76%) Asset Management
7 5 (4.76%) Network Segmentation
8 4 (3.81%) Business Strategy
8 4 (3.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (3.81%) Incident Management
8 4 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (3.81%) Project Delivery
9 3 (2.86%) Cloud Security
9 3 (2.86%) Network Load Balancing
9 3 (2.86%) Process Improvement
9 3 (2.86%) Project Management
9 3 (2.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 45 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 43 (40.95%) SC Cleared
3 40 (38.10%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (30.48%) CCNP
5 13 (12.38%) CCIE
6 10 (9.52%) CCNA
7 4 (3.81%) Degree
7 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.86%) CCIE Security
9 2 (1.90%) CISSP
10 1 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.95%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 1 (0.95%) CCIE Service Provider
10 1 (0.95%) CCIE Wireless
10 1 (0.95%) CCSP
10 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.95%) GIAC
10 1 (0.95%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.90%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.90%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (8.57%) Ansible
2 7 (6.67%) FortiGate
3 4 (3.81%) ZABBIX
4 2 (1.90%) Terraform
5 1 (0.95%) Cisco LMS
5 1 (0.95%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.95%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 105 (100.00%) Cisco
2 55 (52.38%) Palo Alto
3 52 (49.52%) CheckPoint
4 27 (25.71%) F5
5 20 (19.05%) SolarWinds
6 13 (12.38%) Fortinet
7 8 (7.62%) Juniper
8 5 (4.76%) AlgoSec
8 5 (4.76%) ServiceNow
9 4 (3.81%) Aruba
9 4 (3.81%) Infoblox
9 4 (3.81%) Zscaler
10 3 (2.86%) Meraki
10 3 (2.86%) VMware
11 2 (1.90%) Arista
11 2 (1.90%) Microsoft
11 2 (1.90%) Splunk
11 2 (1.90%) Tufin
12 1 (0.95%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.95%) Refinitiv