Birmingham Cisco Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts within the Birmingham 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certification
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire 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 County Antrim Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Grays Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Immingham Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes 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 Rochester Romford 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 Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	49
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	6	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	7.229 %	17.82 %
Daily rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£230
Average daily rate	£282	£242
% change on same period last year	+16.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£288	£255
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£329
% change on same period last year	-2.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£23.33
Average hourly rate	£37.50	£25.83
% change on same period last year	+45.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£28.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.53	£26.16
% change on same period last year	-2.40 %
Qualifications Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	83	101
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.110 %	0.101 %
Daily rates quoted	28	31
Average minimum daily rate	£248	£303
Average daily rate	£261	£322
% change on same period last year	-18.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£275	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£329
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.44	£26.26
Average hourly rate	£27.06	£28.13
% change on same period last year	-3.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.67	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.31	£25.67
% change on same period last year	-5.30 %
Cisco Certification West Midlands

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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Cisco Certification
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 11 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 11 (100.00 %) CCNA 2 8 (72.73 %) Firewall 3 6 (54.55 %) CheckPoint 3 6 (54.55 %) LAN 3 6 (54.55 %) WAN 4 5 (45.45 %) Nokia 4 5 (45.45 %) Blue Coat 4 5 (45.45 %) Cisco PIX 4 5 (45.45 %) Cisco ASA 5 4 (36.36 %) Network Design 5 4 (36.36 %) MPLS 5 4 (36.36 %) OSPF 5 4 (36.36 %) BGP 6 3 (27.27 %) DNS

7 2 (18.18 %) Citrix 7 2 (18.18 %) VPN 7 2 (18.18 %) Windows 7 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 7 2 (18.18 %) DSL 7 2 (18.18 %) Active Directory 7 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 8 1 (9.091 %) CCIE 8 1 (9.091 %) Nortel 8 1 (9.091 %) DHCP 8 1 (9.091 %) SNMP 8 1 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 8 1 (9.091 %) Problem Management 8 1 (9.091 %) Wireless

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Communications & Networking 1 8 (72.73 %) Firewall 2 6 (54.55 %) LAN 2 6 (54.55 %) WAN 3 5 (45.45 %) Cisco PIX 3 5 (45.45 %) Cisco ASA 4 4 (36.36 %) MPLS 4 4 (36.36 %) OSPF 4 4 (36.36 %) BGP 5 3 (27.27 %) DNS 6 2 (18.18 %) VPN 6 2 (18.18 %) DSL 7 1 (9.091 %) DHCP 7 1 (9.091 %) SNMP 7 1 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 7 1 (9.091 %) Wireless	Job Titles 1 10 (90.91 %) Network Engineer 2 5 (45.45 %) Cisco Engineer 3 4 (36.36 %) Senior Network Engineer 3 4 (36.36 %) Cisco Network Engineer 4 3 (27.27 %) Support Engineer 5 2 (18.18 %) Network Support Engineer 5 2 (18.18 %) Network Support 6 1 (9.091 %) Analyst 6 1 (9.091 %) Cisco Support 6 1 (9.091 %) Cisco Analyst 6 1 (9.091 %) Support Analyst
Operating Systems 1 2 (18.18 %) Windows 1 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (36.36 %) Network Design 2 1 (9.091 %) Problem Management
Qualifications 1 11 (100.00 %) CCNA 2 1 (9.091 %) CCIE	System Software 1 2 (18.18 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 11 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 6 (54.55 %) CheckPoint 3 5 (45.45 %) Nokia 3 5 (45.45 %) Blue Coat 4 2 (18.18 %) Citrix 4 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 5 1 (9.091 %) Nortel