The first table below looks at the demand for CCNP in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCNP over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Birmingham region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Rank 40 51 39
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -12
Contract jobs citing CCNP 3 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.683% 0.805% 1.949%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.839% 5.319% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 7
Average daily rate £400 £300 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -4.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £313
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.25 £25.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+53.00% -31.50%
All Qualifications
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
62 94 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 14.12% 15.14% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 59 41
Average daily rate £363 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £230 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
Average hourly rate £32.50 £17.50 £13.15
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+85.71% +33.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £12.00 £12.26
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £17.50 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
CCNP
West Midlands

CCNP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CCNP across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Birmingham CCNP Jobs Demand Trend

CCNP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CCNP across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham CCNP Daily Rate Trend

CCNP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham CCNP Hourly Rate Trend

CCNP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 8 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco
3 4 (50.00%) LAN
3 4 (50.00%) WAN
3 4 (50.00%) CCNA
3 4 (50.00%) Firewall
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (37.50%) VMware
4 3 (37.50%) Windows
4 3 (37.50%) VLAN
4 3 (37.50%) SonicWALL
5 2 (25.00%) Veeam
5 2 (25.00%) EqualLogic
5 2 (25.00%) Junos
5 2 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (25.00%) Business Transformation
5 2 (25.00%) S-PLUS
5 2 (25.00%) iSCSI
5 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (25.00%) HP
5 2 (25.00%) Dell
5 2 (25.00%) SAN
5 2 (25.00%) MPLS
6 1 (12.50%) McAfee
6 1 (12.50%) BGP
6 1 (12.50%) X.25

CCNP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) S-PLUS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) LAN
1 4 (50.00%) WAN
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) VLAN
3 2 (25.00%) Junos
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (25.00%) SAN
3 2 (25.00%) MPLS
4 1 (12.50%) BGP
4 1 (12.50%) X.25
4 1 (12.50%) Extranet
4 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (12.50%) Wireless
4 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Network Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Support
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Technical Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) EqualLogic
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Debian
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
2 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
2 1 (12.50%) Fund Management
2 1 (12.50%) Wealth Management
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (50.00%) CCNA
3 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (12.50%) CCIE
4 1 (12.50%) CCSE
4 1 (12.50%) VCP4
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) SonicWALL
3 2 (25.00%) Veeam
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) HP
3 2 (25.00%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) McAfee
4 1 (12.50%) NetApp
4 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) Blue Coat
4 1 (12.50%) WatchGuard
4 1 (12.50%) F5