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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 424 638
Rank change year-on-year -6 +214 -87
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 151 285 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.50% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.79% 4.00% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 206 150
10th Percentile £335 £273 £300
25th Percentile £391 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £466 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.92% +3.61% +7.08%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £537
90th Percentile £825 £650 £672
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +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 5,406 7,129 9,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.45% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,227 4,606 6,336
10th Percentile £205 £235 £233
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £690 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 460 376
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -30.84% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.09 £50.83
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.55 £65.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.22 £21.50
% change year-on-year +151.88% -15.28% -5.49%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +7 138 £502 +0.40% 47
UK excluding London -8 89 £475 +5.56% 45
Work from Home +45 60 £515 +3.00% 14
South East +32 51 £460 +5.14% 11
London +33 48 £506 -15.63% 9
North of England +25 19 £475 +5.56% 7
North West +10 14 £514 +14.17% 5
East of England +10 12 £425 +54.55% 7
West Midlands +17 6 £750 +114.29% 5
Midlands +11 6 £750 +87.50% 8
North East - 5 £375 -
Scotland +32 2 £365 -11.52% 9
South West -27 2 £535 +5.68% 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 (1.32%) Confluence
1 2 (1.32%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.66%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (3.31%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.26%) AWS
2 14 (9.27%) Azure
3 6 (3.97%) GitHub
4 5 (3.31%) OCI
5 4 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.32%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.32%) Route 53
8 1 (0.66%) GCP
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 130 (86.09%) Firewall
2 68 (45.03%) BGP
3 63 (41.72%) OSPF
4 55 (36.42%) Cisco ISE
5 52 (34.44%) Cisco Nexus
6 45 (29.80%) IPsec
7 43 (28.48%) VPN
7 43 (28.48%) WAN
8 40 (26.49%) EIGRP
9 39 (25.83%) LAN
10 37 (24.50%) Cisco Firepower
11 35 (23.18%) Network Security
12 33 (21.85%) HSRP
12 33 (21.85%) MPLS
13 26 (17.22%) Wireless
14 25 (16.56%) SNMP
15 24 (15.89%) Wi-Fi
16 22 (14.57%) NetScaler
17 20 (13.25%) DNS
17 20 (13.25%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.65%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (6.62%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.99%) Git
3 2 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 18 (11.92%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.60%) Finance
3 15 (9.93%) Telecoms
4 12 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.62%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.99%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.99%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Electronics
9 2 (1.32%) Law
9 2 (1.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 93 (61.59%) Network Engineer
2 24 (15.89%) Senior
3 17 (11.26%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 16 (10.60%) Senior Network Engineer
5 14 (9.27%) Cisco Engineer
5 14 (9.27%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 13 (8.61%) Architect
6 13 (8.61%) Operations Engineer
7 10 (6.62%) Network Operations Engineer
8 8 (5.30%) Network Specialist
9 7 (4.64%) Analyst
9 7 (4.64%) Consultant
9 7 (4.64%) Network Analyst
9 7 (4.64%) Network Consultant
9 7 (4.64%) Network Security Analyst
9 7 (4.64%) Security Analyst
10 6 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) Network Architect
10 6 (3.97%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (3.97%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.95%) Jinja
2 9 (5.96%) 802.1X
3 5 (3.31%) Web Services
4 3 (1.99%) EDI
4 3 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.32%) .NET
6 1 (0.66%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.54%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.64%) Security Posture
3 6 (3.97%) Clustering
3 6 (3.97%) PKI
4 3 (1.99%) CCTV
4 3 (1.99%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.99%) SCADA
5 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.32%) NHS
6 1 (0.66%) CMDB
6 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.66%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.30%) Linux
2 7 (4.64%) Windows
3 4 (2.65%) Unix
4 1 (0.66%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.66%) Windows 8
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (18.54%) ITIL
2 24 (15.89%) Change Management
3 21 (13.91%) Network Management
4 18 (11.92%) ITSM
5 17 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (9.27%) High Availability
7 13 (8.61%) Load Balancing
8 12 (7.95%) DevOps
8 12 (7.95%) Network Design
8 12 (7.95%) Network Monitoring
9 11 (7.28%) Incident Management
9 11 (7.28%) Roadmaps
9 11 (7.28%) Technical Architecture
10 10 (6.62%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 9 (5.96%) Mentoring
11 9 (5.96%) Network Architecture
11 9 (5.96%) Network Virtualisation
11 9 (5.96%) Performance Management
12 8 (5.30%) Decision-Making
13 7 (4.64%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (17.88%) Python
2 15 (9.93%) Perl
3 12 (7.95%) Tcl
4 5 (3.31%) SQL
5 2 (1.32%) Bash
5 2 (1.32%) C#
5 2 (1.32%) Go
5 2 (1.32%) Java
5 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 82 (54.30%) Cisco Certification
2 74 (49.01%) CCNP
3 58 (38.41%) Security Cleared
4 40 (26.49%) SC Cleared
5 30 (19.87%) CCNA
6 15 (9.93%) CCIE
7 13 (8.61%) DV Cleared
8 11 (7.28%) JNCIA
9 9 (5.96%) AWS Certification
10 7 (4.64%) CISM
11 6 (3.97%) CCSA
12 5 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.31%) Azure Certification
12 5 (3.31%) CCDP
12 5 (3.31%) CCIE Data Center
12 5 (3.31%) JNCIS
13 4 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (2.65%) Degree
14 3 (1.99%) JNCIP
14 3 (1.99%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.97%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (8.61%) Firmware
1 13 (8.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (7.95%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.65%) ProxySG
4 3 (1.99%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.66%) KVM
Systems Management
1 20 (13.25%) Ansible
2 16 (10.60%) FortiGate
3 12 (7.95%) Nessus
4 11 (7.28%) Terraform
5 5 (3.31%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (2.65%) Nagios
6 4 (2.65%) OpenView
7 3 (1.99%) Kibana
8 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.66%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 151 (100.00%) Cisco
2 95 (62.91%) Palo Alto
3 44 (29.14%) Juniper
4 37 (24.50%) SolarWinds
5 36 (23.84%) CheckPoint
6 34 (22.52%) F5
7 23 (15.23%) Citrix
8 17 (11.26%) Infoblox
9 16 (10.60%) Fortinet
10 14 (9.27%) VMware
11 13 (8.61%) Zscaler
12 12 (7.95%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (7.28%) Blue Coat
14 9 (5.96%) Meraki
15 8 (5.30%) Microsoft
16 7 (4.64%) Splunk
17 6 (3.97%) Aruba
18 5 (3.31%) Arista
18 5 (3.31%) Google
18 5 (3.31%) Symantec