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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 482 455
Rank change year-on-year -104 -27 -92
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 96 73 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.90% 1.87% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 42 75
10th Percentile £364 £342 £363
25th Percentile £422 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £543 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +5.85% +13.89%
75th Percentile £541 £588 £559
90th Percentile £648 £636 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £543 £515
% change year-on-year -7.83% +5.32% +14.47%
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 5,060 3,897 4,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.43% 11.81% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,979 2,376 2,817
10th Percentile £250 £243 £221
25th Percentile £400 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +1.70% -6.00% +10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 201 302
10th Percentile £15.18 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% -7.50% -10.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.35 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £44.50 £54.94
% change year-on-year -41.26% -19.00% -4.32%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -91 86 £500 -9.09% 19
UK excluding London -80 67 £500 -7.83% 16
North of England -52 36 £500 -13.04% 7
North West -38 24 £450 -23.24% 5
South East -47 24 £525 +34.62% 6
Work from Home -58 24 £463 -2.63% 8
London -83 18 £413 -23.26% 6
Yorkshire -32 11 £500 -9.09% 2
Midlands -49 5 £425 -19.05% 2
West Midlands -48 4 £375 -16.67% 2
Scotland -18 1 £425 -15.00%
East of England -25 1 £450 +36.36% 3
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 (8.33%) SAS
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (30.21%) Azure
2 24 (25.00%) AWS
3 7 (7.29%) GCP
3 7 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.21%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 86 (89.58%) Firewall
2 63 (65.63%) Cisco Firepower
3 53 (55.21%) BGP
4 51 (53.13%) VPN
5 50 (52.08%) OSPF
6 44 (45.83%) WAN
7 42 (43.75%) LAN
8 40 (41.67%) Network Security
9 33 (34.38%) IPsec
10 31 (32.29%) Cisco Nexus
11 27 (28.13%) EIGRP
11 27 (28.13%) Wireless
12 26 (27.08%) DNS
13 19 (19.79%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (16.67%) DHCP
14 16 (16.67%) TCP/IP
14 16 (16.67%) VLAN
15 13 (13.54%) BIG-IP
16 12 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
17 11 (11.46%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (16.67%) Finance
2 14 (14.58%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.46%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Banking
5 6 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 6 (6.25%) Police
6 5 (5.21%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.21%) Retail
7 4 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Law
8 2 (2.08%) Legal
8 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 75 (78.13%) Network Engineer
2 28 (29.17%) Senior
3 24 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 12 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 9 (9.38%) Architect
6 6 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) Security Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Cisco Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Network Architect
7 5 (5.21%) Network Security Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) NOC Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.13%) Data Centre Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Data Network Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Juniper Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Lead
9 3 (3.13%) Lead Architect
9 3 (3.13%) Security Hacker
9 3 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.33%) Terraform
2 4 (4.17%) LDAP
2 4 (4.17%) SAML
3 3 (3.13%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 27 (28.13%) Data Centre
2 13 (13.54%) PKI
3 6 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.17%) Fibre Optics
4 4 (4.17%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.50%) Windows
2 10 (10.42%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) CatOS
3 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.50%) ITIL
2 23 (23.96%) Network Monitoring
3 21 (21.88%) Change Management
4 15 (15.63%) Load Balancing
5 13 (13.54%) High Availability
6 12 (12.50%) Security Operations
7 11 (11.46%) Network Virtualisation
7 11 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (9.38%) Project Delivery
9 9 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (9.38%) Virtual Environments
10 8 (8.33%) Migration
10 8 (8.33%) Patch Management
10 8 (8.33%) Zero Trust
11 7 (7.29%) Cloud Security
11 7 (7.29%) Computer Science
11 7 (7.29%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.33%) Python
2 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.08%) Bash
Qualifications
1 51 (53.13%) Security Cleared
2 36 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 28 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (28.13%) CCNP
5 16 (16.67%) DV Cleared
6 8 (8.33%) Degree
7 7 (7.29%) CCIE
7 7 (7.29%) CCSE
8 5 (5.21%) CCNA
8 5 (5.21%) CCSM
9 4 (4.17%) CISSP
9 4 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
10 3 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
11 2 (2.08%) CCIE Security
11 2 (2.08%) GIAC
12 1 (1.04%) CCSA
12 1 (1.04%) GCIA
12 1 (1.04%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) NIST
2 6 (6.25%) SLA
3 4 (4.17%) NCSC
4 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (19.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (15.63%) VMware NSX
3 12 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.21%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (8.33%) Ansible
2 4 (4.17%) Cisco CUCM
2 4 (4.17%) FortiGate
2 4 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.13%) Grafana
3 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.04%) Nagios
4 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.04%) SCCM
Vendors
1 96 (100.00%) Cisco
2 67 (69.79%) Palo Alto
3 56 (58.33%) CheckPoint
4 32 (33.33%) F5
5 25 (26.04%) VMware
6 23 (23.96%) Fortinet
7 18 (18.75%) SolarWinds
8 14 (14.58%) Meraki
9 12 (12.50%) Microsoft
10 9 (9.38%) Juniper
11 7 (7.29%) Citrix
12 6 (6.25%) ServiceNow
13 4 (4.17%) Becrypt
14 3 (3.13%) Arista
14 3 (3.13%) Aruba
14 3 (3.13%) Dell
14 3 (3.13%) Infoblox
14 3 (3.13%) Tufin
15 2 (2.08%) AlgoSec
15 2 (2.08%) Google