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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 749 725 767
Rank change year-on-year -24 +42 -206
Permanent jobs citing Cisco ASA 129 252 509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.96% 1.59% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 85 191 356
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,375 £44,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £79,500 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -

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 13,484 15,812 21,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.62% 15.62% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,395 8,040 11,809
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,875 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% -3.23% +3.33%

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 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco ASA in the UK

Cisco ASA
Top 15 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 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +29 106 £55,000 +0.92% 28
UK excluding London -42 99 £53,000 +6.00% 31
South East +9 27 £53,000 -3.64% 7
South West -11 27 £52,073 +15.72% 1
Work from Home -24 27 £55,000 -15.38% 11
London +72 24 £70,000 +19.66% 4
West Midlands +7 16 £52,500 +16.67% 2
Midlands -12 16 £52,500 +16.67% 5
Wales +22 11 - -
North of England +32 7 £49,000 -8.84% 6
Scotland -57 6 £65,000 +52.94% 8
East of England +11 5 £70,000 +29.03% 4
Yorkshire +69 3 £49,000 -20.00% 1
North West 0 3 £55,000 +10.00% 5
North East -4 1 £42,155 -15.69%

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:

Applications
1 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (25.58%) AWS
2 32 (24.81%) Azure
3 11 (8.53%) GCP
4 5 (3.88%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 109 (84.50%) Firewall
2 52 (40.31%) WAN
3 49 (37.98%) BGP
4 45 (34.88%) OSPF
5 35 (27.13%) Cisco Firepower
6 33 (25.58%) LAN
7 31 (24.03%) Cisco ISE
7 31 (24.03%) SD-WAN
8 29 (22.48%) VPN
9 26 (20.16%) Cisco Nexus
9 26 (20.16%) EIGRP
10 22 (17.05%) VLAN
11 21 (16.28%) DMVPN
11 21 (16.28%) Wireless
12 20 (15.50%) MPLS
13 19 (14.73%) Spanning Tree
14 17 (13.18%) Cisco Wireless
14 17 (13.18%) IPsec
15 16 (12.40%) Cisco IOS
16 15 (11.63%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.33%) JIRA
1 3 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (10.85%) Aerospace
1 14 (10.85%) Finance
2 12 (9.30%) Telecoms
3 6 (4.65%) Banking
3 6 (4.65%) Investment Banking
4 5 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (3.88%) Military
5 4 (3.10%) Publishing
5 4 (3.10%) Social Skills
6 3 (2.33%) Police
6 3 (2.33%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Billing
7 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Games
8 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (57.36%) Network Engineer
2 51 (39.53%) Senior
3 37 (28.68%) Senior Network Engineer
4 13 (10.08%) Consultant
4 13 (10.08%) Senior Consultant
5 12 (9.30%) Senior Network Consultant
6 11 (8.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (8.53%) Project Consultant
6 11 (8.53%) Senior Project Consultant
7 10 (7.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) 3rd Line Support
8 9 (6.98%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) Network Support
9 8 (6.20%) Network Specialist
10 6 (4.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) Linux Engineer
11 5 (3.88%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 5 (3.88%) IT Engineer
11 5 (3.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.88%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.40%) 802.1X
2 6 (4.65%) LDAP
3 5 (3.88%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (23.26%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.75%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.65%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.55%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.78%) CMDB
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.83%) Linux
2 14 (10.85%) Windows
3 7 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (23.26%) Network Design
2 18 (13.95%) Actionable Insight
2 18 (13.95%) ITIL
3 16 (12.40%) Change Control
4 15 (11.63%) Migration
5 14 (10.85%) Change Management
6 13 (10.08%) Agile
6 13 (10.08%) Customer Service
7 12 (9.30%) Incident Management
7 12 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (8.53%) Configuration Management
8 11 (8.53%) DevOps
9 10 (7.75%) Load Balancing
9 10 (7.75%) Network Monitoring
9 10 (7.75%) Network Virtualisation
10 9 (6.98%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (6.98%) Mentoring
10 9 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (6.98%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 8 (6.20%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.28%) Python
2 16 (12.40%) Bash
3 10 (7.75%) Shell Script
4 6 (4.65%) Perl
5 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 73 (56.59%) Security Cleared
2 66 (51.16%) Cisco Certification
3 51 (39.53%) CCNP
4 34 (26.36%) CCNA
5 30 (23.26%) SC Cleared
6 26 (20.16%) DV Cleared
7 9 (6.98%) CCIE
8 3 (2.33%) CCDA
8 3 (2.33%) CCSA
9 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.55%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 2 (1.55%) CCIP
10 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.78%) CCDP
10 1 (0.78%) CCNP Voice
10 1 (0.78%) CCSP
10 1 (0.78%) Check Point Certification
10 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.78%) MCSA
10 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.88%) SLA
2 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 15 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (10.08%) VMware NSX
3 6 (4.65%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.33%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.78%) NFS
5 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (18.60%) Ansible
2 22 (17.05%) FortiGate
3 13 (10.08%) Puppet
4 10 (7.75%) Progress Chef
5 6 (4.65%) Kubernetes
5 6 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (4.65%) vCenter Server
6 5 (3.88%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (3.88%) Opsview
7 3 (2.33%) Terraform
8 2 (1.55%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.78%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 129 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (31.01%) Fortinet
3 35 (27.13%) Palo Alto
4 34 (26.36%) CheckPoint
5 32 (24.81%) Juniper
6 28 (21.71%) VMware
7 25 (19.38%) McAfee
8 20 (15.50%) F5
9 19 (14.73%) Microsoft
10 17 (13.18%) Red Hat
11 11 (8.53%) Oracle
11 11 (8.53%) SolarWinds
12 7 (5.43%) Meraki
13 5 (3.88%) Aruba
14 3 (2.33%) Avaya
14 3 (2.33%) Huawei
14 3 (2.33%) ServiceNow
15 2 (1.55%) Citrix
15 2 (1.55%) HP
15 2 (1.55%) LogicMonitor