The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco Nexus skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco Nexus 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 of the Communications & Networking category 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 Nexus
Rank - 54 -
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - 0.322% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 3.030% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £450 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £325
% change year-on-year
- +11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £25.00 £21.88
% change year-on-year
+38.00% +14.28%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
48 66 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 10.93% 10.63% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 33
Average daily rate £375 £250 £254
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -1.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £100 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 9
Average hourly rate £13.00 £30.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.66% +100.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Cisco Nexus
West Midlands

Cisco Nexus
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Nexus across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Birmingham Cisco Nexus Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Cisco Nexus Daily Rate Trend

Cisco Nexus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Cisco Nexus 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 Nexus.

1 3 (100.00%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (33.33%) SonicWALL
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (33.33%) Junos
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) X.25
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server

Cisco Nexus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Cisco Nexus 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 Nexus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) Junos
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) X.25
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Debian
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) SonicWALL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle