Belfast Cisco Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts within the Belfast 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 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certification
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coatbridge Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	25
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	8	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	40.00 %	25.00 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£350
Average daily rate	£338	£375
% change on same period last year	-10.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£314
% change on same period last year	+6.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.66	£30.46
% change on same period last year	-2.60 %
Qualifications Belfast
Matching contract IT job ads	20	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.009 %
Daily rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£350
Average daily rate	£355	£436
% change on same period last year	-18.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£521
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£326
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.99	-
Average hourly rate	£15.49	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.99	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.69	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+2.77 %
Cisco Certification County Antrim

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 Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

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

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 Belfast region.

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 6 (75.00 %) CCNA 2 5 (62.50 %) Cisco 2 5 (62.50 %) CCNP 3 4 (50.00 %) ITIL 4 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (37.50 %) MCSE 4 3 (37.50 %) Oracle Financials 4 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 3 (37.50 %) SharePoint 4 3 (37.50 %) LAN 4 3 (37.50 %) WAN 4 3 (37.50 %) VPN 4 3 (37.50 %) SSL 4 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 4 3 (37.50 %) VB.NET

4 3 (37.50 %) .NET 4 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 4 3 (37.50 %) SQL Server 4 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 4 3 (37.50 %) BizTalk Server 4 3 (37.50 %) CheckPoint 4 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 4 3 (37.50 %) Service Management 4 3 (37.50 %) Firewall 4 3 (37.50 %) Finance 4 3 (37.50 %) Education 4 3 (37.50 %) CCSA 4 3 (37.50 %) CCSE 4 3 (37.50 %) MOS 4 3 (37.50 %) Intrusion Detection

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 Development 1 3 (37.50 %) .NET 2 2 (25.00 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) SharePoint 1 3 (37.50 %) BizTalk Server
Business Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle Financials	Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) LAN 1 3 (37.50 %) WAN 1 3 (37.50 %) VPN 1 3 (37.50 %) SSL 1 3 (37.50 %) Firewall 1 3 (37.50 %) Intrusion Detection 2 1 (12.50 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL Server 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 8/8i	General 1 3 (37.50 %) Finance 1 3 (37.50 %) Education
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Architect 2 2 (25.00 %) Network Consultant 2 2 (25.00 %) Senior Consultant 2 2 (25.00 %) Consultant 2 2 (25.00 %) Information Architect 2 2 (25.00 %) Senior Network Consultant 2 2 (25.00 %) Firewall Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Specialist 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Specialist 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Architect	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) ITIL 2 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 2 3 (37.50 %) Service Management 2 3 (37.50 %) Business Analysis 2 3 (37.50 %) Technical Architecture 3 2 (25.00 %) Information Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 6 (75.00 %) CCNA 2 5 (62.50 %) CCNP 3 3 (37.50 %) MCSE 3 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (37.50 %) CCSA 3 3 (37.50 %) CCSE 3 3 (37.50 %) MOS 4 2 (25.00 %) Degree 5 1 (12.50 %) CCIE
Vendors 1 5 (62.50 %) Cisco 2 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 3 (37.50 %) CheckPoint 2 3 (37.50 %) Oracle