Cisco ASA Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 326 507
Rank change year-on-year +35 +181 -79
Contract jobs citing Cisco ASA 54 128 105
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.52% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.52% 4.50% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 91 66
10th Percentile £328 £344 £328
25th Percentile £350 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £534
90th Percentile £638 £650 £575
UK median daily rate £508 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +7.00% +5.56% +7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £60.92
25th Percentile - £51.37 £60.92
Median hourly rate - £55.32 £60.93
Median % change year-on-year - -9.20% -1.73%
75th Percentile - £59.28 £60.93
90th Percentile - - £60.93
UK median hourly rate - £62.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year - +169.57% -56.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,533 2,844 4,340
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.54% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,882 2,941
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 95 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £24.38 £57.50 £48.04
Median % change year-on-year -57.61% +19.69% +17.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.56
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%

Cisco ASA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cisco ASA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cisco ASA trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cisco ASA.

Cisco ASA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cisco ASA over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Cisco ASA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cisco ASA.

Cisco ASA hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.70%) Confluence
1 2 (3.70%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.37%) AWS
2 6 (11.11%) GitHub
3 5 (9.26%) Azure
4 4 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.70%) Route 53
6 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 44 (81.48%) Firewall
2 27 (50.00%) BGP
3 25 (46.30%) OSPF
4 22 (40.74%) Cisco Nexus
5 20 (37.04%) WAN
6 16 (29.63%) Cisco ISE
7 14 (25.93%) EIGRP
7 14 (25.93%) VPN
8 13 (24.07%) Network Security
8 13 (24.07%) SNMP
9 12 (22.22%) IPsec
9 12 (22.22%) LAN
10 11 (20.37%) MPLS
11 10 (18.52%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (14.81%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (14.81%) Wireless
13 7 (12.96%) HSRP
13 7 (12.96%) SD-WAN
13 7 (12.96%) Spanning Tree
13 7 (12.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Finance
4 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (42.59%) Network Engineer
2 10 (18.52%) Senior
3 8 (14.81%) Operations Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Architect
5 6 (11.11%) Consultant
5 6 (11.11%) Network Consultant
5 6 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
5 6 (11.11%) Senior Network Consultant
6 5 (9.26%) Network Architect
6 5 (9.26%) Network Operations Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Technical Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Network Specialist
7 3 (5.56%) Network Technical Architect
7 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Integration Manager
8 2 (3.70%) Technology Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) Jinja
2 3 (5.56%) EDI
3 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Clustering
1 6 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.56%) CCTV
2 3 (5.56%) Operational Technology
2 3 (5.56%) PKI
2 3 (5.56%) SCADA
3 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.85%) NHS
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Linux
1 3 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.22%) ITIL
2 10 (18.52%) High Availability
2 10 (18.52%) Network Design
3 9 (16.67%) Change Management
3 9 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (12.96%) Network Management
5 6 (11.11%) DevOps
5 6 (11.11%) ITSM
5 6 (11.11%) Load Balancing
5 6 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (9.26%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (7.41%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (7.41%) CI/CD
7 4 (7.41%) Incident Management
7 4 (7.41%) Roadmaps
7 4 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (7.41%) Service Management
8 3 (5.56%) Investment Management
8 3 (5.56%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.52%) Python
2 6 (11.11%) Perl
2 6 (11.11%) Tcl
3 1 (1.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (70.37%) CCNP
1 38 (70.37%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (27.78%) CCNA
3 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
4 13 (24.07%) SC Cleared
5 9 (16.67%) CCIE
6 8 (14.81%) JNCIA
7 5 (9.26%) CCDP
7 5 (9.26%) JNCIS
8 4 (7.41%) AWS Certification
8 4 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (5.56%) CCSA
9 3 (5.56%) JNCIP
9 3 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (3.70%) CISM
10 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (20.37%) VMware NSX
3 7 (12.96%) Firmware
4 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.85%) KVM
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Ansible
2 6 (11.11%) Terraform
3 5 (9.26%) FortiGate
4 3 (5.56%) Kibana
5 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.70%) Nagios
5 2 (3.70%) Nessus
5 2 (3.70%) OpenView
6 1 (1.85%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 54 (100.00%) Cisco
2 38 (70.37%) Palo Alto
3 16 (29.63%) Juniper
4 12 (22.22%) SolarWinds
4 12 (22.22%) VMware
5 8 (14.81%) Citrix
6 7 (12.96%) F5
6 7 (12.96%) Splunk
6 7 (12.96%) Zscaler
7 6 (11.11%) Aruba
7 6 (11.11%) CheckPoint
8 5 (9.26%) Arista
9 4 (7.41%) Fortinet
9 4 (7.41%) Meraki
10 3 (5.56%) Blue Coat
10 3 (5.56%) Infoblox
11 2 (3.70%) AlienVault
12 1 (1.85%) Extreme Networks
12 1 (1.85%) ScienceLogic
12 1 (1.85%) Veeam