Bedfordshire Cisco Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts within the Bedfordshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certification
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cobham Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Grangemouth Grays Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hull Immingham Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	40
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching contract IT job ads	3	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	16.67 %	8.333 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£190	£250
Average daily rate	£190	£263
% change on same period last year	-27.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£190	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-16.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.79	£25.45
% change on same period last year	+1.35 %
Qualifications Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	18	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.024 %
Daily rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum daily rate	£216	£237
Average daily rate	£216	£244
% change on same period last year	-11.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£216	£251
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£331
% change on same period last year	+0.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£27.00	£31.25
% change on same period last year	-13.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.00	£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.62	£25.79
% change on same period last year	-4.55 %
Cisco Certification East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Cisco Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bedford	-	3	£190	-

Cisco Certification East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 14 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 14 (100.00 %) CCNA 2 7 (50.00 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (50.00 %) CCNP 2 7 (50.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (50.00 %) MCSE 2 7 (50.00 %) LAN 2 7 (50.00 %) WAN 3 6 (42.86 %) Finance 4 4 (28.57 %) Financial Institution 4 4 (28.57 %) Wi-Fi 4 4 (28.57 %) Ethernet 5 3 (21.43 %) RIP 5 3 (21.43 %) Windows 5 3 (21.43 %) MPLS

5 3 (21.43 %) OSPF 5 3 (21.43 %) BGP 5 3 (21.43 %) NetScreen 5 3 (21.43 %) MS Exchange 5 3 (21.43 %) ADSL 5 3 (21.43 %) ISDN 5 3 (21.43 %) Firewall 5 3 (21.43 %) Active Directory 5 3 (21.43 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 3 (21.43 %) Network Security 5 3 (21.43 %) Construction 6 2 (14.29 %) Health 6 2 (14.29 %) Telecoms 7 1 (7.143 %) MS Office 7 1 (7.143 %) MS Visio

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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.

Application Platforms 1 3 (21.43 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (21.43 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Office 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 7 (50.00 %) LAN 1 7 (50.00 %) WAN 1 7 (50.00 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (28.57 %) Ethernet 2 4 (28.57 %) Wi-Fi 3 3 (21.43 %) Network Security 3 3 (21.43 %) ADSL 3 3 (21.43 %) ISDN 3 3 (21.43 %) RIP 3 3 (21.43 %) MPLS 3 3 (21.43 %) OSPF 3 3 (21.43 %) BGP 3 3 (21.43 %) NetScreen 3 3 (21.43 %) Firewall	General 1 6 (42.86 %) Finance 2 4 (28.57 %) Financial Institution 3 3 (21.43 %) Construction 4 2 (14.29 %) Health 4 2 (14.29 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 7 (50.00 %) Analyst 1 7 (50.00 %) Network Analyst 2 4 (28.57 %) Helpdesk Support 2 4 (28.57 %) 2nd Line Support 3 3 (21.43 %) Administrator 3 3 (21.43 %) Windows Administrator	Operating Systems 1 3 (21.43 %) Windows
Qualifications 1 14 (100.00 %) CCNA 2 7 (50.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (50.00 %) MCSE 2 7 (50.00 %) CCNP	System Software 1 3 (21.43 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 14 (100.00 %) Cisco