Bedfordshire Cisco Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Cleethorpes Cobham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Fife Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Immingham Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rochester Romford Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	36
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	6	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	7.692 %	0.595 %
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	£342	£334
% change on same period last year	+2.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£25.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.91	£26.28
% change on same period last year	-9.01 %
Vendors Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	78	168
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.103 %	0.167 %
Daily rates quoted	18	35
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£290
Average daily rate	£320	£297
% change on same period last year	+7.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£303
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.67	£20.91
Average hourly rate	£18.08	£21.03
% change on same period last year	-14.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.50	£21.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.70	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.50 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Cisco 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.

1 16 (76.19 %) Cisco Certification 2 15 (71.43 %) CCNA 3 8 (38.10 %) LAN 3 8 (38.10 %) WAN 3 8 (38.10 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (38.10 %) Finance 4 7 (33.33 %) MCSE 4 7 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 4 7 (33.33 %) CCNP 5 5 (23.81 %) Financial Institution 6 4 (19.05 %) Wi-Fi 6 4 (19.05 %) Active Directory 6 4 (19.05 %) Ethernet 6 4 (19.05 %) MPLS 6 4 (19.05 %) MS Exchange

6 4 (19.05 %) ADSL 6 4 (19.05 %) Windows 7 3 (14.29 %) ISDN 7 3 (14.29 %) MS Visio 7 3 (14.29 %) OSPF 7 3 (14.29 %) BGP 7 3 (14.29 %) RIP 7 3 (14.29 %) Construction 7 3 (14.29 %) NetScreen 7 3 (14.29 %) Telecoms 7 3 (14.29 %) Firewall 7 3 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 3 (14.29 %) Network Security 8 2 (9.524 %) Service Delivery 8 2 (9.524 %) Health

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Cisco 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 4 (19.05 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (4.762 %) IIS	Applications 1 3 (14.29 %) MS Visio 2 1 (4.762 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 8 (38.10 %) LAN 1 8 (38.10 %) WAN 1 8 (38.10 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (19.05 %) Wi-Fi 2 4 (19.05 %) Ethernet 2 4 (19.05 %) MPLS 2 4 (19.05 %) ADSL 3 3 (14.29 %) ISDN 3 3 (14.29 %) OSPF 3 3 (14.29 %) BGP 3 3 (14.29 %) RIP 3 3 (14.29 %) NetScreen 3 3 (14.29 %) Firewall 3 3 (14.29 %) Network Security 4 2 (9.524 %) VPN 5 1 (4.762 %) DNS 5 1 (4.762 %) DHCP 5 1 (4.762 %) VoIP 5 1 (4.762 %) FTP 5 1 (4.762 %) IP Telephony	General 1 8 (38.10 %) Finance 2 5 (23.81 %) Financial Institution 3 3 (14.29 %) Construction 3 3 (14.29 %) Telecoms 4 2 (9.524 %) Health
Job Titles 1 10 (47.62 %) Network Analyst 1 10 (47.62 %) Analyst 2 4 (19.05 %) 2nd Line Support 2 4 (19.05 %) Helpdesk Support 3 3 (14.29 %) Infrastructure Manager 3 3 (14.29 %) Administrator 3 3 (14.29 %) Windows Administrator 4 1 (4.762 %) IT Manager 4 1 (4.762 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Network Support Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Network Support 4 1 (4.762 %) Network Manager 4 1 (4.762 %) Cisco Network Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Cisco Analyst	Operating Systems 1 4 (19.05 %) Windows 2 1 (4.762 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (4.762 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (9.524 %) Service Delivery 1 2 (9.524 %) ITIL 2 1 (4.762 %) Project Management 2 1 (4.762 %) Network Design	Programming Languages 1 1 (4.762 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 16 (76.19 %) Cisco Certification 2 15 (71.43 %) CCNA 3 7 (33.33 %) MCSE 3 7 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 7 (33.33 %) CCNP	System Software 1 4 (19.05 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 1 (4.762 %) Microsoft 1 1 (4.762 %) Avaya 1 1 (4.762 %) Nortel 1 1 (4.762 %) WatchGuard