Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco ASA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco ASA over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 534 678 770
Rank change year-on-year +144 +92 -314
Permanent jobs citing Cisco ASA 209 430 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.35% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.59% 2.80% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 189 307 295
10th Percentile £37,199 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £80,000 £72,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £51,480 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.90% +2.96% -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,066 15,350 16,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.15% 12.38% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 6,330 10,317 11,453
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cisco ASA in the UK

Cisco ASA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco ASA over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Cisco ASA in the UK

Cisco ASA
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco ASA within the UK over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +156 188 £54,000 -2.70% 54
UK excluding London +150 150 £54,000 +4.90% 37
Work from Home +107 108 £50,000 -23.08% 24
South West +89 57 £52,073 +9.63% 7
London +190 54 £55,000 -15.38% 23
North of England +158 35 £50,000 - 5
South East +150 17 £49,000 +3.16% 8
Yorkshire +99 17 £57,500 +4.55% 2
Midlands +42 13 £43,000 -16.47% 11
East of England +95 11 £65,000 +13.04% 3
West Midlands +66 10 £43,000 -16.47% 7
Scotland +60 10 £63,750 +26.24% 4
North West +98 9 £50,000 - 3
North East +58 9 £39,005 -21.99%
Northern Ireland +41 7 £68,000 +36.00%
East Midlands +27 3 £36,120 -19.73% 4

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 5 (2.39%) Skype for Business
2 4 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 43 (20.57%) Azure
2 26 (12.44%) AWS
3 23 (11.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (3.83%) Nutanix
4 8 (3.83%) Rubrik
5 6 (2.87%) IaaS
5 6 (2.87%) SaaS
6 5 (2.39%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.39%) PaaS
7 3 (1.44%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.48%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.48%) GitHub
8 1 (0.48%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.48%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 178 (85.17%) Firewall
2 121 (57.89%) WAN
3 94 (44.98%) BGP
4 85 (40.67%) Wireless
5 83 (39.71%) OSPF
6 79 (37.80%) SD-WAN
7 74 (35.41%) Cisco Firepower
8 63 (30.14%) VPN
9 58 (27.75%) LAN
10 52 (24.88%) MPLS
10 52 (24.88%) Network Security
11 51 (24.40%) Cisco Nexus
12 34 (16.27%) BIG-IP
12 34 (16.27%) Cisco ISE
13 22 (10.53%) IPsec
13 22 (10.53%) Spanning Tree
14 21 (10.05%) EIGRP
15 20 (9.57%) Wi-Fi
16 19 (9.09%) DNS
17 18 (8.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.48%) Git
General
1 54 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.96%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.13%) Finance
4 14 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.78%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.31%) Police
7 7 (3.35%) Military
8 4 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Legal
10 2 (0.96%) Advertising
10 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Retail
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
11 1 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 121 (57.89%) Network Engineer
2 59 (28.23%) Senior
3 44 (21.05%) Senior Network Engineer
4 24 (11.48%) Security Engineer
5 20 (9.57%) Network Security Engineer
6 18 (8.61%) Architect
7 17 (8.13%) Network Architect
8 15 (7.18%) Lead
9 14 (6.70%) Consultant
10 12 (5.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
12 10 (4.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.78%) Network Consultant
12 10 (4.78%) Senior Network Consultant
13 8 (3.83%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (2.87%) Network Specialist
15 5 (2.39%) Infrastructure Team Leader
15 5 (2.39%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.83%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.48%) .NET
2 1 (0.48%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 90 (43.06%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.78%) Tandem
3 6 (2.87%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.39%) PKI
5 4 (1.91%) NHS
6 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.44%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.96%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.48%) CMDB
8 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.48%) Eurex
8 1 (0.48%) IoT
8 1 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.79%) Windows
2 21 (10.05%) Windows Server
3 18 (8.61%) Linux
4 13 (6.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (5.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (3.35%) Unix
7 6 (2.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.39%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.96%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.96%) Solaris
11 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (30.62%) ITIL
2 49 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (16.75%) Load Balancing
4 21 (10.05%) Cybersecurity
5 18 (8.61%) Incident Management
5 18 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (7.66%) Budget Management
6 16 (7.66%) Presales
7 13 (6.22%) Incident Response
8 10 (4.78%) B2B
8 10 (4.78%) Change Management
8 10 (4.78%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (4.78%) Network Management
8 10 (4.78%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 9 (4.31%) Network Virtualisation
10 8 (3.83%) High Availability
10 8 (3.83%) Project Delivery
10 8 (3.83%) Project Management
10 8 (3.83%) Security Operations
11 7 (3.35%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.70%) Python
2 8 (3.83%) Bash
3 6 (2.87%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.91%) Perl
5 2 (0.96%) Go
5 2 (0.96%) SQL
6 1 (0.48%) C#
6 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 120 (57.42%) Cisco Certification
2 101 (48.33%) CCNP
3 77 (36.84%) CCNA
4 51 (24.40%) Security Cleared
5 38 (18.18%) SC Cleared
6 18 (8.61%) Degree
7 17 (8.13%) CCSE
7 17 (8.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (7.18%) CCIE
8 15 (7.18%) DV Cleared
9 14 (6.70%) MCP
9 14 (6.70%) MCSE
10 11 (5.26%) CCSA
11 4 (1.91%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 4 (1.91%) MCSA
12 3 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.44%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (0.96%) CCDP
13 2 (0.96%) CCIE Security
13 2 (0.96%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.05%) SLA
2 13 (6.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.96%) NIST
4 2 (0.96%) PMO
5 1 (0.48%) GRC
System Software
1 27 (12.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (10.53%) VMware NSX
3 19 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 10 (4.78%) vSphere
5 5 (2.39%) Firmware
5 5 (2.39%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.44%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.44%) vCloud
7 1 (0.48%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.48%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 77 (36.84%) FortiGate
2 9 (4.31%) Ansible
3 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.87%) Puppet
4 4 (1.91%) Cisco CUCM
4 4 (1.91%) Nessus
5 3 (1.44%) CASB
5 3 (1.44%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (1.44%) DatAdvantage
5 3 (1.44%) Nagios
5 3 (1.44%) QRadar
5 3 (1.44%) Stealthwatch
5 3 (1.44%) WhatsUp Gold
6 2 (0.96%) SCOM
6 2 (0.96%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.96%) VxRail
7 1 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.48%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (0.48%) SCCM
7 1 (0.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 209 (100.00%) Cisco
2 92 (44.02%) CheckPoint
3 71 (33.97%) Meraki
4 69 (33.01%) Fortinet
5 54 (25.84%) VMware
6 51 (24.40%) F5
6 51 (24.40%) Microsoft
7 46 (22.01%) Palo Alto
8 27 (12.92%) SolarWinds
9 26 (12.44%) Aruba
10 17 (8.13%) Juniper
11 16 (7.66%) Dell
11 16 (7.66%) HP
12 13 (6.22%) Citrix
13 10 (4.78%) Huawei
14 9 (4.31%) Veeam
15 8 (3.83%) Avaya
15 8 (3.83%) Forcepoint
15 8 (3.83%) IronPort
16 7 (3.35%) McAfee