The first table below looks at the demand for CCNA in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCNA 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 Buckinghamshire 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 Associate (CCNA)
Rank 61 65 72
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +7
Contract jobs citing CCNA 7 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.864% 1.025% 0.562%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.256% 5.102% 2.532%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
Average daily rate £338 £280 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.53% +36.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £280 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £280 £302
UK excluding London average daily rate £296 £275 £290
% change year-on-year
+7.72% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £14.96 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £23.25
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -3.22%
All Qualifications
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
215 196 237
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 26.54% 20.08% 22.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 77 104
Average daily rate £300 £255 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £113 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £401 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 19
Average hourly rate £18.73 £15.75 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.92% -4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £10.70 £9.46
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.08 £50.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
CCNA
South East

CCNA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire CCNA Jobs Demand Trend

CCNA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire CCNA Daily Rate Trend

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNA across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire CCNA Daily Rate Histogram

CCNA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire CCNA Hourly Rate Trend

CCNA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +3 6 £338 +20.53%
CCNA
South East

CCNA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing CCNA 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 CCNA.

1 15 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (66.67%) VMware
2 10 (66.67%) Cisco
3 9 (60.00%) HP
3 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
4 8 (53.33%) Hyper-V
4 8 (53.33%) WAN
5 7 (46.67%) LAN
6 6 (40.00%) Windows
6 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (40.00%) OpenView
6 6 (40.00%) Juniper
6 6 (40.00%) F5
7 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (33.33%) SAN
7 5 (33.33%) CCSP
7 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
7 5 (33.33%) VPN
7 5 (33.33%) MS Exchange
8 4 (26.67%) Oracle
8 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
8 4 (26.67%) MCSE
8 4 (26.67%) SMTP
8 4 (26.67%) Internet
8 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (26.67%) Citrix
8 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
8 4 (26.67%) Cryptography

CCNA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (20.00%) SOAP
1 3 (20.00%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 3 (20.00%) Lync
3 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Visio
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) WAN
2 7 (46.67%) LAN
3 5 (33.33%) SAN
3 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 5 (33.33%) VPN
4 4 (26.67%) SMTP
4 4 (26.67%) Internet
4 4 (26.67%) Firewall
4 4 (26.67%) IPsec
4 4 (26.67%) NAS
5 3 (20.00%) iSCSI
5 3 (20.00%) VoIP
6 2 (13.33%) MPLS
6 2 (13.33%) Network Security
7 1 (6.667%) Unified Communications
7 1 (6.667%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (6.667%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (6.667%) ICMP
7 1 (6.667%) ADSL
7 1 (6.667%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) NOC Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.667%) Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Junior
4 1 (6.667%) Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Network Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Network Support
4 1 (6.667%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cryptography
2 3 (20.00%) Clustering
3 2 (13.33%) Thin Client
3 2 (13.33%) Fat Client
3 2 (13.33%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (6.667%) PKI
4 1 (6.667%) e-Health
4 1 (6.667%) IVR
4 1 (6.667%) CESG
4 1 (6.667%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Vista
4 1 (6.667%) Linux
4 1 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (13.33%) Service Management
3 1 (6.667%) Network Management
3 1 (6.667%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.667%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (33.33%) CCSP
5 4 (26.67%) MCSE
5 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
5 4 (26.67%) MCTS
6 3 (20.00%) ISEB
6 3 (20.00%) MCP
7 1 (6.667%) JNCIA
7 1 (6.667%) JNCIS
7 1 (6.667%) JNCIP
7 1 (6.667%) CISSP
7 1 (6.667%) MCSA
7 1 (6.667%) CCIE
7 1 (6.667%) CCNP
7 1 (6.667%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (53.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (20.00%) XenApp
4 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) OpenView
2 3 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (6.667%) SCCM
3 1 (6.667%) SCOM
3 1 (6.667%) SCVMM
3 1 (6.667%) OVSD
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) VMware
1 10 (66.67%) Cisco
2 9 (60.00%) HP
3 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (40.00%) Juniper
3 6 (40.00%) F5
4 4 (26.67%) Oracle
4 4 (26.67%) Citrix
5 3 (20.00%) StorageTek
5 3 (20.00%) Sun
6 1 (6.667%) Nortel
6 1 (6.667%) Avaya
6 1 (6.667%) Genesys