Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 15 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Bristol region.

 Cisco Certification
Location
3 months to
15 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank503952
Rank change year-on-year
Down-11Up+13
Matching contract IT job ads646
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol0.915 %0.753 %0.630 %
As % of the Qualifications category5.357 %3.846 %4.724 %
Daily rates quoted305
Average daily rate£325-£225
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted041
Average hourly rate-£37.50£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+15.38 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.00£35.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
-31.42 %+27.27 %
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
112104127
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol17.07 %19.59 %13.33 %
Daily rates quoted521749
Average daily rate£325£288£320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.04 %-10.15 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£205£225£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£505£510
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£350
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Hourly rates quoted144929
Average hourly rate£25.50£33.40£23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.65 %+45.21 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.95£15.60£13.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£110.00£37.40£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£28.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-28.57 %+12.00 %
Cisco Certification South WestCisco Certification
South West

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.

Cisco Certification
Demand Trend

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

Bristol Cisco Certification Demand Trend

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 Bristol region.

Bristol Cisco Certification Daily Rate Trend

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 Bristol region.

Bristol Cisco Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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.

110 (76.92 %)Cisco
110 (76.92 %)CCNA
28 (61.54 %)Microsoft
28 (61.54 %)Microsoft Certification
28 (61.54 %)Windows
28 (61.54 %)Linux
37 (53.85 %)Computer Science
46 (46.15 %)HP
46 (46.15 %)Electronics
46 (46.15 %)LAN
46 (46.15 %)MCP
46 (46.15 %)UNIX
46 (46.15 %)Windows XP
46 (46.15 %)Performance Testing
46 (46.15 %)Windows 2000 Server
53 (23.08 %)MS Visio
53 (23.08 %)CCNP
53 (23.08 %)CCIP
53 (23.08 %)Internet
53 (23.08 %)Firewall
62 (15.38 %)Degree
62 (15.38 %)MPLS
62 (15.38 %)BGP
62 (15.38 %)Telecoms
62 (15.38 %)MCSE
62 (15.38 %).NET
71 (7.692 %)MySQL
71 (7.692 %)Oracle
71 (7.692 %)COM
71 (7.692 %)XML

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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.

Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12 (15.38 %).NET
21 (7.692 %)COM
21 (7.692 %)XML
21 (7.692 %)JMS
21 (7.692 %)Spring
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (23.08 %)MS Visio
21 (7.692 %)Spreadsheet
21 (7.692 %)MS Excel
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
16 (46.15 %)LAN
23 (23.08 %)Internet
23 (23.08 %)Firewall
32 (15.38 %)MPLS
32 (15.38 %)BGP
41 (7.692 %)TACACS
41 (7.692 %)LDAP
41 (7.692 %)OSPF
41 (7.692 %)Extranet
41 (7.692 %)Wireless
41 (7.692 %)Cisco PIX
41 (7.692 %)Network Security
41 (7.692 %)WAAS
41 (7.692 %)WAN
41 (7.692 %)Ethernet
41 (7.692 %)HTTP
41 (7.692 %)SNMP
41 (7.692 %)TCP/IP
41 (7.692 %)VPN
41 (7.692 %)DNS
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (7.692 %)MySQL
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
16 (46.15 %)Electronics
22 (15.38 %)Telecoms
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
16 (46.15 %)Graduate
16 (46.15 %)Systems Engineer
16 (46.15 %)Test Engineer
16 (46.15 %)Systems Test Engineer
23 (23.08 %)Architect
31 (7.692 %)Junior
31 (7.692 %)Analyst
31 (7.692 %)Technical Architect
31 (7.692 %)Network Engineer
31 (7.692 %)Infrastructure Architect
31 (7.692 %)Network Analyst
31 (7.692 %)Network Architect
31 (7.692 %)Network Specialist
31 (7.692 %)Technical Leader
31 (7.692 %)Lead Architect
31 (7.692 %)Junior Architect
31 (7.692 %)Network Infrastructure Architect
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
17 (53.85 %)Computer Science
21 (7.692 %)Data Integration
21 (7.692 %)Open Source
21 (7.692 %)CCTV
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
18 (61.54 %)Windows
18 (61.54 %)Linux
26 (46.15 %)Windows XP
26 (46.15 %)Windows 2000 Server
26 (46.15 %)UNIX
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16 (46.15 %)Performance Testing
21 (7.692 %)Network Architecture
21 (7.692 %)ITIL
21 (7.692 %)SOA
21 (7.692 %)Validation
21 (7.692 %)Migration
21 (7.692 %)TOGAF
21 (7.692 %)Network Design
21 (7.692 %)Load Balancing
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
110 (76.92 %)CCNA
28 (61.54 %)Microsoft Certification
36 (46.15 %)MCP
43 (23.08 %)CCNP
43 (23.08 %)CCIP
52 (15.38 %)MCSE
52 (15.38 %)Degree
61 (7.692 %)ITIL Certification
61 (7.692 %)CCIE
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
110 (76.92 %)Cisco
28 (61.54 %)Microsoft
36 (46.15 %)HP
41 (7.692 %)BMC
41 (7.692 %)CheckPoint
41 (7.692 %)Remedy
41 (7.692 %)IronPort
41 (7.692 %)Oracle