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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 410 609
Rank change year-on-year -12 +199 -42
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 153 296 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.53% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.82% 4.15% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 217 159
10th Percentile £335 £273 £312
25th Percentile £400 £375 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% - +8.43%
75th Percentile £579 £575 £550
90th Percentile £820 £650 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.78% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 6
10th Percentile - £37.30 £18.82
25th Percentile - £49.46 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £62.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - +169.57% -56.60%
75th Percentile - £63.23 £52.19
90th Percentile - £67.06 £60.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year - +169.57% -56.60%

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 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -29 137 £508 +7.00% 46
UK excluding London -23 93 £490 +8.78% 41
Work from Home +43 63 £515 +3.00% 19
South East +19 50 £460 +2.22% 12
London +18 43 £513 -10.87% 10
North of England +14 21 £490 +8.78% 6
North West +12 16 £515 +14.44% 6
East of England +3 12 £425 +54.55% 6
Midlands +15 7 £750 +73.41% 7
West Midlands +8 7 £750 +80.18% 6
North East - 5 £375 -
Scotland +29 3 £375 -9.09% 8
South West -26 3 £535 +11.17% 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 2 (1.31%) Confluence
1 2 (1.31%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.65%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (3.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (11.76%) AWS
2 15 (9.80%) Azure
3 6 (3.92%) GitHub
4 5 (3.27%) OCI
5 4 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.31%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.31%) GCP
7 2 (1.31%) Route 53
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 131 (85.62%) Firewall
2 70 (45.75%) BGP
3 63 (41.18%) OSPF
4 57 (37.25%) Cisco ISE
5 49 (32.03%) Cisco Nexus
6 46 (30.07%) IPsec
7 44 (28.76%) EIGRP
8 42 (27.45%) Cisco Firepower
9 41 (26.80%) VPN
9 41 (26.80%) WAN
10 40 (26.14%) Network Security
11 36 (23.53%) HSRP
12 35 (22.88%) LAN
13 31 (20.26%) MPLS
14 25 (16.34%) NetScaler
14 25 (16.34%) SNMP
15 23 (15.03%) Wireless
16 22 (14.38%) DNS
17 21 (13.73%) Wi-Fi
18 20 (13.07%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.61%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (4.58%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (2.61%) JIRA
General
1 18 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.46%) Finance
3 15 (9.80%) Telecoms
4 12 (7.84%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.96%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.31%) Electronics
8 2 (1.31%) Law
8 2 (1.31%) Marketing
9 1 (0.65%) Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (63.40%) Network Engineer
2 23 (15.03%) Senior
3 16 (10.46%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 15 (9.80%) Senior Network Engineer
5 12 (7.84%) Architect
5 12 (7.84%) Cisco Engineer
5 12 (7.84%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 12 (7.84%) Operations Engineer
6 10 (6.54%) Network Operations Engineer
7 9 (5.88%) Consultant
7 9 (5.88%) Network Consultant
8 8 (5.23%) Network Specialist
9 6 (3.92%) Analyst
9 6 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (3.92%) Network Analyst
9 6 (3.92%) Network Security Analyst
9 6 (3.92%) Security Analyst
9 6 (3.92%) Senior Consultant
9 6 (3.92%) Senior Network Consultant
10 5 (3.27%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.84%) Jinja
2 9 (5.88%) 802.1X
3 5 (3.27%) Web Services
4 3 (1.96%) EDI
4 3 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.31%) .NET
6 1 (0.65%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.92%) Clustering
2 6 (3.92%) PKI
2 6 (3.92%) Security Posture
3 3 (1.96%) CCTV
3 3 (1.96%) Operational Technology
3 3 (1.96%) SCADA
4 1 (0.65%) CMDB
4 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.65%) NHS
4 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.58%) Windows
2 4 (2.61%) Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.65%) Windows 8
3 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (18.95%) ITIL
2 25 (16.34%) Change Management
3 23 (15.03%) Network Management
4 21 (13.73%) ITSM
5 17 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (9.15%) High Availability
6 14 (9.15%) Network Monitoring
7 13 (8.50%) Load Balancing
8 12 (7.84%) DevOps
8 12 (7.84%) Network Design
9 11 (7.19%) Technical Architecture
10 10 (6.54%) Incident Management
11 9 (5.88%) Mentoring
11 9 (5.88%) Network Virtualisation
11 9 (5.88%) Performance Management
11 9 (5.88%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 8 (5.23%) Network Architecture
12 8 (5.23%) Roadmaps
12 8 (5.23%) SIEM
13 7 (4.58%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (15.69%) Python
2 12 (7.84%) Perl
2 12 (7.84%) Tcl
3 2 (1.31%) Bash
3 2 (1.31%) C#
3 2 (1.31%) Go
3 2 (1.31%) Java
3 2 (1.31%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.31%) Ruby
3 2 (1.31%) SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (54.25%) Cisco Certification
2 76 (49.67%) CCNP
3 61 (39.87%) Security Cleared
4 44 (28.76%) SC Cleared
5 34 (22.22%) CCNA
6 16 (10.46%) CCIE
7 12 (7.84%) DV Cleared
8 11 (7.19%) JNCIA
9 9 (5.88%) AWS Certification
9 9 (5.88%) CCSA
10 6 (3.92%) CISM
11 5 (3.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.27%) Azure Certification
11 5 (3.27%) CCDP
11 5 (3.27%) CCIE Data Center
11 5 (3.27%) JNCIS
12 3 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.96%) CISSP
12 3 (1.96%) Degree
12 3 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.27%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (8.50%) Firmware
1 13 (8.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (7.19%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.61%) ProxySG
4 3 (1.96%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (11.11%) Ansible
2 16 (10.46%) FortiGate
3 11 (7.19%) Nessus
3 11 (7.19%) Terraform
4 5 (3.27%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (2.61%) Nagios
5 4 (2.61%) OpenView
6 3 (1.96%) Kibana
7 2 (1.31%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.65%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 153 (100.00%) Cisco
2 101 (66.01%) Palo Alto
3 44 (28.76%) Juniper
4 43 (28.10%) CheckPoint
5 40 (26.14%) SolarWinds
6 37 (24.18%) F5
7 26 (16.99%) Citrix
8 23 (15.03%) Fortinet
9 18 (11.76%) Infoblox
10 15 (9.80%) Zscaler
11 13 (8.50%) Blue Coat
11 13 (8.50%) VMware
12 11 (7.19%) ScienceLogic
13 9 (5.88%) Aruba
14 8 (5.23%) Meraki
14 8 (5.23%) Microsoft
15 7 (4.58%) AlgoSec
15 7 (4.58%) Splunk
16 5 (3.27%) Google
16 5 (3.27%) Symantec