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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 394 407
Rank change year-on-year -143 +13 +96
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 80 128 175
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.44% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.83% 3.29% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 68 104
10th Percentile £300 £373 £327
25th Percentile £400 £423 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £481
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.10% -8.48%
75th Percentile £538 £582 £620
90th Percentile £588 £625 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £63.89
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - £76.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +18.67%

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 4,375 3,894 5,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.09% 13.30% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,827 2,392 3,579
10th Percentile £213 £210 £205
25th Percentile £375 £364 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +4.21% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +0.53% -0.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 142 394
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.01 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £18.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +71.05%
75th Percentile £65.50 £63.06 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +29.05% -29.16% +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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -140 69 £456 -8.75% 20
UK excluding London -131 49 £475 -5.00% 19
London -43 25 £400 -13.98% 1
Work from Home -42 20 £463 +2.78% 4
Midlands -60 11 £340 -35.24% 4
West Midlands -49 10 £340 -24.44% 3
South East -50 10 £523 -7.52% 7
North of England -117 10 £440 -20.00% 6
South West -20 9 £525 +5.00% 1
North West -78 8 £472 -14.27% 4
Scotland +6 5 £425 -6.85%
East of England -24 3 £285 -29.19% 2
Yorkshire -57 2 £440 -28.16% 2
Wales -16 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 7 (8.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.50%) AWS
2 21 (26.25%) Azure
3 10 (12.50%) GCP
4 6 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 66 (82.50%) Firewall
2 54 (67.50%) BGP
3 50 (62.50%) WAN
4 44 (55.00%) OSPF
5 40 (50.00%) Network Security
6 38 (47.50%) LAN
7 37 (46.25%) VPN
8 31 (38.75%) MPLS
9 25 (31.25%) EIGRP
9 25 (31.25%) Wireless
10 23 (28.75%) SD-WAN
11 22 (27.50%) Cisco Nexus
12 20 (25.00%) IPsec
13 18 (22.50%) Cisco Firepower
14 17 (21.25%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (18.75%) Cisco ISE
15 15 (18.75%) DNS
15 15 (18.75%) Multicast
15 15 (18.75%) VLAN
15 15 (18.75%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Git
1 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (25.00%) Finance
2 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 15 (18.75%) Financial Institution
4 13 (16.25%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.50%) Aviation
8 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Retail
8 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.25%) Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Law
9 1 (1.25%) Legal
9 1 (1.25%) Military
9 1 (1.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (48.75%) Network Engineer
2 18 (22.50%) Senior
3 11 (13.75%) Architect
4 10 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Network Architect
7 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.75%) Consultant
9 3 (3.75%) Core Network Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Design Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) IP Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) IP Network Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Network Consultant
9 3 (3.75%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.25%) LDAP
2 7 (8.75%) SAML
3 5 (6.25%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.50%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.75%) PKI
3 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Linux
2 6 (7.50%) Ubuntu
3 4 (5.00%) CatOS
4 2 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.50%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (20.00%) Change Management
3 15 (18.75%) Load Balancing
4 11 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (12.50%) ITIL
5 10 (12.50%) Migration
5 10 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (10.00%) High Availability
7 7 (8.75%) Incident Response
7 7 (8.75%) Network Design
7 7 (8.75%) Network Virtualisation
7 7 (8.75%) Project Delivery
7 7 (8.75%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (8.75%) Strategic Thinking
7 7 (8.75%) Zero Trust
8 6 (7.50%) Break/Fix
8 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (7.50%) Network Monitoring
8 6 (7.50%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) Python
2 4 (5.00%) PHP
3 2 (2.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 24 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (27.50%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (25.00%) CCNP
5 9 (11.25%) DV Cleared
6 8 (10.00%) CCIE
7 6 (7.50%) CISSP
7 6 (7.50%) Degree
8 5 (6.25%) AWS Certification
8 5 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (6.25%) GIAC
9 4 (5.00%) APMG
9 4 (5.00%) Azure Certification
9 4 (5.00%) CCIE Security
9 4 (5.00%) CCNA
9 4 (5.00%) SSCP
10 3 (3.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (3.75%) CCSP
10 3 (3.75%) GSEC
11 2 (2.50%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (16.25%) NIST
2 12 (15.00%) SLA
3 5 (6.25%) GDPR
3 5 (6.25%) PCI DSS
4 4 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.50%) NCSC
6 1 (1.25%) GRC
6 1 (1.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 24 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (15.00%) VMware NSX
3 8 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (8.75%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.25%) Firmware
5 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (13.75%) Ansible
2 10 (12.50%) FortiGate
3 8 (10.00%) Terraform
4 7 (8.75%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (7.50%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.75%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (3.75%) Grafana
6 3 (3.75%) SCOM
7 2 (2.50%) Iperf
7 2 (2.50%) Nmap
7 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 80 (100.00%) Cisco
2 51 (63.75%) Palo Alto
3 39 (48.75%) F5
4 30 (37.50%) CheckPoint
5 24 (30.00%) VMware
6 23 (28.75%) Fortinet
7 13 (16.25%) Juniper
8 10 (12.50%) Meraki
8 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
8 10 (12.50%) SolarWinds
9 5 (6.25%) Zscaler
10 4 (5.00%) Forcepoint
10 4 (5.00%) NetScout
10 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
10 4 (5.00%) Tufin
11 3 (3.75%) Arista
11 3 (3.75%) McAfee
12 2 (2.50%) Dell
13 1 (1.25%) EMC
13 1 (1.25%) Red Hat