Aberdeen Cisco Certification Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Aberdeen region.

Cisco Certification
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Aldershot Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Horsham Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Luton Maidstone Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Reading Rickmansworth Rochdale Romsey Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Skipton Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	13	14	17
Rank change year-on-year	+1 +3
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2	4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen	1.471 %	1.852 %	2.247 %
As % of the Qualifications category	7.692 %	9.524 %	20.00 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0	1
Average daily rate	£263	-	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£300	£317
% change year-on-year	- -5.360 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	1
Average hourly rate	-	-	£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	£29.75	£26.00
% change year-on-year	-24.36 % +14.42 %
All Qualifications Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Qualifications category	13	21	20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen	19.12 %	19.44 %	11.24 %
Daily rates quoted	6	4	2
Average daily rate	£594	£95	£200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+524.73 % -52.50 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£350	£350
% change year-on-year	-7.140 % -
Hourly rates quoted	0	1	7
Average hourly rate	-	£25.00	£13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	- +85.18 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.00	£25.00	£25.00
% change year-on-year	-16.00 % -
Cisco Certification Scotland

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Cisco Certification
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Aberdeen region.

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Aberdeen region.

Cisco Certification
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Cisco Certification also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Cisco Certification.

1 2 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 2 (100.00 %) CCNA 2 1 (50.00 %) Firewall 2 1 (50.00 %) Telecoms 2 1 (50.00 %) VSAT 2 1 (50.00 %) Nortel 2 1 (50.00 %) CCNP 2 1 (50.00 %) LAN

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Cisco Certification also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Cisco Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (50.00 %) Firewall 1 1 (50.00 %) VSAT 1 1 (50.00 %) LAN	General 1 1 (50.00 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (50.00 %) Telecoms Engineer	Qualifications 1 2 (100.00 %) CCNA 2 1 (50.00 %) CCNP
Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 1 (50.00 %) Nortel