Cisco ASA Contracts

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco ASA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco ASA over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 443 655
Rank change year-on-year +21 +212 -148
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 159 268 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.45% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.81% 3.63% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 194 132
10th Percentile £335 £313 £293
25th Percentile £400 £403 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +17.65% +1.13%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £496
90th Percentile £825 £650 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 6
10th Percentile - £31.70 £18.82
25th Percentile - £45.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £62.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - +169.57% -50.54%
75th Percentile - £63.23 £52.19
90th Percentile - £76.26 £60.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year - +169.57% -50.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Cisco ASA is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,652 7,386 9,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.98% 12.32% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,383 4,806 6,382
10th Percentile £205 £231 £228
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% +3.95% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £433
% change year-on-year - +9.70% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 486 366
10th Percentile £13.57 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.35 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +1.85%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £50.58
90th Percentile £67.40 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

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 26 April 2024.

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 13 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 26 April 2024. 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 +31 148 £502 -4.15% 30
UK excluding London +31 96 £475 +5.56% 31
Work from Home +51 60 £515 -0.96% 6
London +53 53 £500 -13.98% 6
South East +37 52 £460 -8.00% 7
North of England +30 19 £475 +11.76% 7
North West +23 14 £514 +20.88% 4
East of England +17 12 £425 +54.55% 1
South West -9 8 £535 +9.74% 3
West Midlands +27 6 £750 +114.29% 3
Midlands +18 6 £750 +73.01% 5
North East - 5 £375 -
Scotland +25 2 £365 -16.57% 7

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 2 (1.26%) Confluence
1 2 (1.26%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.63%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (3.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.58%) AWS
2 17 (10.69%) Azure
3 6 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (3.77%) GitHub
3 6 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (3.14%) OCI
5 4 (2.52%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.52%) Route 53
6 2 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.26%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.26%) GCP
6 2 (1.26%) IaaS
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 138 (86.79%) Firewall
2 75 (47.17%) BGP
3 65 (40.88%) OSPF
4 60 (37.74%) Cisco Nexus
5 58 (36.48%) WAN
6 54 (33.96%) LAN
6 54 (33.96%) VPN
7 49 (30.82%) Cisco ISE
8 42 (26.42%) IPsec
9 38 (23.90%) Network Security
10 36 (22.64%) EIGRP
11 34 (21.38%) Wireless
12 32 (20.13%) MPLS
13 31 (19.50%) Cisco Firepower
14 30 (18.87%) HSRP
15 29 (18.24%) Wi-Fi
16 25 (15.72%) Spanning Tree
17 24 (15.09%) SNMP
18 22 (13.84%) WLAN
19 20 (12.58%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (1.89%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (6.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.89%) Git
3 2 (1.26%) JIRA
General
1 19 (11.95%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.06%) Finance
3 14 (8.81%) Telecoms
4 13 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.18%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.89%) Police
8 2 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.26%) Electronics
8 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.26%) Law
8 2 (1.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 97 (61.01%) Network Engineer
2 26 (16.35%) Senior
3 21 (13.21%) Cisco Engineer
3 21 (13.21%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 17 (10.69%) Senior Network Engineer
5 14 (8.81%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 13 (8.18%) Operations Engineer
7 12 (7.55%) Architect
7 12 (7.55%) Network Specialist
8 10 (6.29%) Network Operations Engineer
9 8 (5.03%) Consultant
9 8 (5.03%) Network Consultant
10 7 (4.40%) Analyst
10 7 (4.40%) Network Analyst
10 7 (4.40%) Network Security Analyst
10 7 (4.40%) Security Analyst
10 7 (4.40%) Senior Consultant
10 7 (4.40%) Senior Network Consultant
11 6 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.77%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.55%) Jinja
2 9 (5.66%) 802.1X
3 5 (3.14%) Web Services
4 3 (1.89%) EDI
5 2 (1.26%) .NET
5 2 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.63%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.75%) Data Centre
2 11 (6.92%) PKI
3 7 (4.40%) Security Posture
4 6 (3.77%) Clustering
5 3 (1.89%) CCTV
5 3 (1.89%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.89%) SCADA
6 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.63%) CMDB
7 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) NHS
7 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.66%) Linux
2 7 (4.40%) Windows
3 4 (2.52%) Unix
4 2 (1.26%) CentOS
4 2 (1.26%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (19.50%) Change Management
2 30 (18.87%) ITIL
3 22 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (11.95%) Network Design
5 16 (10.06%) High Availability
6 15 (9.43%) Incident Management
7 14 (8.81%) Load Balancing
7 14 (8.81%) Network Management
8 12 (7.55%) Agile
8 12 (7.55%) DevOps
8 12 (7.55%) ITSM
8 12 (7.55%) Network Monitoring
9 11 (6.92%) Mentoring
9 11 (6.92%) Network Architecture
9 11 (6.92%) Roadmaps
9 11 (6.92%) Technical Architecture
10 10 (6.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (6.29%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (6.29%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.50%) Python
2 15 (9.43%) Perl
3 12 (7.55%) Tcl
4 4 (2.52%) SQL
5 2 (1.26%) Bash
5 2 (1.26%) C#
5 2 (1.26%) Go
5 2 (1.26%) Java
5 2 (1.26%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 83 (52.20%) Cisco Certification
2 74 (46.54%) CCNP
3 60 (37.74%) Security Cleared
4 41 (25.79%) SC Cleared
5 30 (18.87%) CCNA
6 15 (9.43%) CCIE
7 13 (8.18%) DV Cleared
8 11 (6.92%) JNCIA
9 9 (5.66%) AWS Certification
10 7 (4.40%) CISM
11 6 (3.77%) CCSA
11 6 (3.77%) Degree
12 5 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.14%) Azure Certification
12 5 (3.14%) CCDP
12 5 (3.14%) CCIE Data Center
12 5 (3.14%) JNCIS
13 4 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (1.89%) JNCIP
14 3 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.77%) SLA
2 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (8.81%) VMware NSX
2 13 (8.18%) Firmware
2 13 (8.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.52%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.63%) KVM
Systems Management
1 23 (14.47%) FortiGate
2 22 (13.84%) Ansible
3 13 (8.18%) Terraform
4 12 (7.55%) Nessus
5 5 (3.14%) SolarWinds Orion
6 3 (1.89%) Kibana
6 3 (1.89%) Nagios
6 3 (1.89%) OpenView
7 2 (1.26%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.26%) Puppet
8 1 (0.63%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 159 (100.00%) Cisco
2 100 (62.89%) Palo Alto
3 53 (33.33%) Juniper
4 38 (23.90%) CheckPoint
5 36 (22.64%) F5
6 30 (18.87%) SolarWinds
7 19 (11.95%) Fortinet
8 17 (10.69%) Citrix
8 17 (10.69%) Infoblox
9 15 (9.43%) VMware
10 13 (8.18%) Zscaler
11 12 (7.55%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (6.92%) Blue Coat
13 10 (6.29%) Meraki
14 8 (5.03%) Extreme Networks
15 7 (4.40%) Microsoft
15 7 (4.40%) Splunk
16 5 (3.14%) Aruba
16 5 (3.14%) Google
16 5 (3.14%) Symantec