Berkshire CCNP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) in IT contracts within the Berkshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CCNP over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Location Aberdeen Angus Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Blackburn Bootle Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Cobham County Antrim Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Goole Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Huddersfield Hull Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	115	107
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	14	54
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.055 %
As % of the category below	4.058 %	10.84 %
Daily rates quoted	6	24
Average minimum daily rate	£403	£308
Average daily rate	£447	£315
% change on same period last year	+41.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£492	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£329
% change on same period last year	-5.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£24.67
Average hourly rate	-	£26.75
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£28.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£32.23
% change on same period last year	-5.85 %
Qualifications Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	345	498
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.459 %	0.505 %
Daily rates quoted	92	144
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£323
Average daily rate	£378	£333
% change on same period last year	+13.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	80
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.49	£27.70
Average hourly rate	£16.41	£29.22
% change on same period last year	-43.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.33	£30.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.94	£25.67
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
CCNP South East

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.

CCNP
Demand Trend

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

CCNP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNP across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

CCNP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 CCNP within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 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
Reading	-12	5	£456	+57.93 %
Bracknell	+22	2	-	-
Slough	-	1	£500	-

CCNP South East

CCNP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing CCNP 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 CCNP.

1 35 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 28 (80.00 %) Cisco 3 14 (40.00 %) CCNA 4 13 (37.14 %) VPN 5 11 (31.43 %) TCP/IP 5 11 (31.43 %) MPLS 6 10 (28.57 %) Firewall 7 9 (25.71 %) Government 8 7 (20.00 %) OSPF 8 7 (20.00 %) CCDP 8 7 (20.00 %) CCIE 8 7 (20.00 %) WAN 8 7 (20.00 %) LAN 8 7 (20.00 %) VoIP 8 7 (20.00 %) Security Cleared

9 6 (17.14 %) Network Design 10 5 (14.29 %) Telecoms 10 5 (14.29 %) CCIP 10 5 (14.29 %) CheckPoint 11 4 (11.43 %) BGP 11 4 (11.43 %) Juniper 11 4 (11.43 %) PPP 11 4 (11.43 %) RIP 11 4 (11.43 %) Validation 11 4 (11.43 %) IPsec 11 4 (11.43 %) SC Cleared 12 3 (8.571 %) VLAN 12 3 (8.571 %) Intrusion Detection 12 3 (8.571 %) BIG-IP 12 3 (8.571 %) Military

CCNP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing CCNP 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 CCNP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 13 (37.14 %) VPN 2 11 (31.43 %) MPLS 2 11 (31.43 %) TCP/IP 3 10 (28.57 %) Firewall 4 7 (20.00 %) OSPF 4 7 (20.00 %) LAN 4 7 (20.00 %) VoIP 4 7 (20.00 %) WAN 5 4 (11.43 %) BGP 5 4 (11.43 %) PPP 5 4 (11.43 %) RIP 5 4 (11.43 %) IPsec 6 3 (8.571 %) Intrusion Detection 6 3 (8.571 %) BIG-IP 6 3 (8.571 %) VLAN 7 2 (5.714 %) Cisco IPT 7 2 (5.714 %) IP Telephony 7 2 (5.714 %) SNMP 7 2 (5.714 %) Wireless 7 2 (5.714 %) EIGRP	General 1 9 (25.71 %) Government 2 5 (14.29 %) Telecoms 3 3 (8.571 %) Military 4 1 (2.857 %) Pensions 4 1 (2.857 %) Finance 4 1 (2.857 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 14 (40.00 %) Network Engineer 2 7 (20.00 %) Consultant 3 6 (17.14 %) Cisco Engineer 3 6 (17.14 %) Network Specialist 4 5 (14.29 %) Cisco Network Engineer 4 5 (14.29 %) Design Engineer 5 4 (11.43 %) Cisco Consultant 6 3 (8.571 %) Network Design Engineer 6 3 (8.571 %) Architect 7 2 (5.714 %) Solutions Architect 7 2 (5.714 %) Support Engineer 7 2 (5.714 %) Cisco Architect 7 2 (5.714 %) Cisco Solutions Architect 7 2 (5.714 %) Voice Consultant 8 1 (2.857 %) UNIX Support 8 1 (2.857 %) Implementation Specialist 8 1 (2.857 %) Security Consultant 8 1 (2.857 %) Network Consultant 8 1 (2.857 %) Technical Architect 8 1 (2.857 %) Network Support Engineer	Operating Systems 1 2 (5.714 %) UNIX 2 1 (2.857 %) Solaris 2 1 (2.857 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (20.00 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (17.14 %) Network Design 3 4 (11.43 %) Validation 3 4 (11.43 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (5.714 %) DV Cleared 4 2 (5.714 %) Load Balancing 5 1 (2.857 %) Security Testing 5 1 (2.857 %) Information Security 5 1 (2.857 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 1 (2.857 %) C 1 1 (2.857 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 35 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 14 (40.00 %) CCNA 3 7 (20.00 %) CCDP 3 7 (20.00 %) CCIE 4 5 (14.29 %) CCIP 5 3 (8.571 %) CCSP 6 2 (5.714 %) CCVP 7 1 (2.857 %) HNC 7 1 (2.857 %) CCSA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.857 %) QA
Systems Management 1 1 (2.857 %) OpenView 1 1 (2.857 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 28 (80.00 %) Cisco 2 5 (14.29 %) CheckPoint 3 4 (11.43 %) Juniper 4 1 (2.857 %) Nokia 4 1 (2.857 %) HP 4 1 (2.857 %) 3Com 4 1 (2.857 %) Mitel