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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 494 457
Rank change year-on-year -115 -37 -122
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 84 57 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.65% 1.53% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 37 58
10th Percentile £358 £374 £409
25th Percentile £447 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +14.44%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £571
90th Percentile £650 £628 £589
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
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 5,084 3,735 4,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.31% 11.46% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,934 2,338 2,593
10th Percentile £231 £219 £228
25th Percentile £390 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 200 213
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.11 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.28 £42.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.34% -15.84% -10.53%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £73.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -32.94% -25.89% -0.26%

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 29 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 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 29 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 -105 76 £500 -6.54% 42
UK excluding London -74 61 £500 -4.76% 31
North of England -53 36 £484 -12.09% 14
North West -35 24 £449 -22.00% 7
Work from Home -59 21 £459 -12.52% 20
South East -54 18 £555 -3.48% 7
London -92 14 £500 +17.65% 12
Yorkshire -35 11 £500 -9.09% 5
South West -37 3 £700 +30.84% 2
Midlands -46 3 £450 -5.26% 4
West Midlands -47 3 £450 - 4
Scotland -31 1 £425 -2.86%
North East - 1 £200 - 2

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 (9.52%) SAS
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.62%) Azure
2 14 (16.67%) AWS
3 9 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 77 (91.67%) Firewall
2 57 (67.86%) Cisco Firepower
3 50 (59.52%) VPN
4 40 (47.62%) BGP
5 39 (46.43%) OSPF
6 38 (45.24%) Network Security
7 35 (41.67%) LAN
8 34 (40.48%) WAN
9 28 (33.33%) IPsec
10 27 (32.14%) DNS
11 26 (30.95%) Cisco Nexus
12 25 (29.76%) Wireless
13 23 (27.38%) EIGRP
14 20 (23.81%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (21.43%) DHCP
16 16 (19.05%) VLAN
17 12 (14.29%) TCP/IP
18 11 (13.10%) SSL
19 10 (11.90%) NetScaler
20 9 (10.71%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.71%) Finance
3 8 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.33%) Banking
5 5 (5.95%) Police
6 4 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.57%) Legal
7 3 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.57%) Retail
8 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 66 (78.57%) Network Engineer
2 23 (27.38%) Senior
3 22 (26.19%) Senior Network Engineer
4 12 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 9 (10.71%) Security Engineer
6 8 (9.52%) Architect
6 8 (9.52%) Network Security Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Network Architect
8 5 (5.95%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.57%) Lead
10 3 (3.57%) Lead Architect
10 3 (3.57%) NOC Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Security Hacker
10 3 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.57%) Technical Leader
11 2 (2.38%) Implementation Engineer
11 2 (2.38%) Network Implementation Engineer
11 2 (2.38%) Network Technical Architect
11 2 (2.38%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.52%) Terraform
2 3 (3.57%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.57%) LDAP
2 3 (3.57%) SAML
3 2 (2.38%) REST
4 1 (1.19%) gRPC
4 1 (1.19%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.19%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 13 (15.48%) PKI
3 6 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.76%) Fibre Optics
4 4 (4.76%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.57%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.29%) Windows
2 9 (10.71%) Linux
3 3 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.19%) CatOS
4 1 (1.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.90%) ITIL
2 18 (21.43%) Network Monitoring
3 17 (20.24%) Change Management
4 12 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 10 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (11.90%) Project Delivery
5 10 (11.90%) Security Operations
5 10 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (10.71%) High Availability
6 9 (10.71%) Zero Trust
7 8 (9.52%) Incident Management
7 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure Maintenance
7 8 (9.52%) Patch Management
8 7 (8.33%) Migration
8 7 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
8 7 (8.33%) Performance Analysis
9 6 (7.14%) SIEM
9 6 (7.14%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.71%) Python
2 6 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.95%) Bash
Qualifications
1 50 (59.52%) Security Cleared
2 33 (39.29%) SC Cleared
3 23 (27.38%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (26.19%) CCNP
5 16 (19.05%) DV Cleared
6 7 (8.33%) CCIE
7 5 (5.95%) CCSE
7 5 (5.95%) Degree
8 3 (3.57%) CCNA
8 3 (3.57%) CCSM
8 3 (3.57%) CISSP
8 3 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.38%) CCIE Security
9 2 (2.38%) GIAC
10 1 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.19%) CCNA CyberOps
10 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.71%) NIST
2 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.76%) NCSC
3 3 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (17.86%) VMware NSX
2 13 (15.48%) Active Directory
3 12 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.19%) Firmware
5 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (10.71%) Ansible
2 4 (4.76%) Cisco CUCM
3 3 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.38%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.19%) Nagios
5 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 84 (100.00%) Cisco
2 54 (64.29%) Palo Alto
3 49 (58.33%) CheckPoint
4 22 (26.19%) F5
5 19 (22.62%) VMware
6 18 (21.43%) Fortinet
6 18 (21.43%) SolarWinds
7 16 (19.05%) Meraki
8 12 (14.29%) Microsoft
9 8 (9.52%) Citrix
10 5 (5.95%) AlgoSec
10 5 (5.95%) Juniper
11 4 (4.76%) Becrypt
11 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow
12 3 (3.57%) Infoblox
13 2 (2.38%) Aruba
13 2 (2.38%) Avaya
13 2 (2.38%) Dell
13 2 (2.38%) Google
13 2 (2.38%) Tufin