Buckinghamshire CCNP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) in IT contracts within the Buckinghamshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CCNP over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bicester Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Crewe Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	91
Rank change on same period last year	+47
Matching contract IT job ads	37	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	19.68 %	3.518 %
Daily rates quoted	18	1
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£372
Average daily rate	£422	£372
% change on same period last year	+13.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£466	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£316
% change on same period last year	+14.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.58	£27.49
% change on same period last year	+14.89 %
Qualifications Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	188	199
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.263 %	0.200 %
Daily rates quoted	88	56
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£317
Average daily rate	£317	£332
% change on same period last year	-4.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£323
% change on same period last year	+4.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.95	£26.28
Average hourly rate	£23.71	£27.17
% change on same period last year	-12.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.47	£28.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.40	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-1.74 %
CCNP South East

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.

CCNP
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNP across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	+26	30	£422	+13.35 %

CCNP South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 63 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 59 (93.65 %) Cisco 3 46 (73.02 %) WAN 4 44 (69.84 %) LAN 5 42 (66.67 %) Security Cleared 6 40 (63.49 %) Network Design 7 30 (47.62 %) SC Cleared 8 25 (39.68 %) Intranet 8 25 (39.68 %) Internet 9 24 (38.10 %) Government 10 20 (31.75 %) Cisco PIX 11 19 (30.16 %) Firewall 12 17 (26.98 %) Migration 13 13 (20.63 %) VLAN 13 13 (20.63 %) SNMP

13 13 (20.63 %) SSH 14 12 (19.05 %) DV Cleared 15 11 (17.46 %) CCIE 16 8 (12.70 %) Symantec 16 8 (12.70 %) Microsoft 17 7 (11.11 %) OSPF 18 6 (9.524 %) CCDP 19 5 (7.937 %) Finance 19 5 (7.937 %) EIGRP 20 4 (6.349 %) BGP 20 4 (6.349 %) CCNA 21 3 (4.762 %) VoIP 22 2 (3.175 %) Cisco ASA 22 2 (3.175 %) NetScreen 22 2 (3.175 %) DSLAM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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.

Applications 1 2 (3.175 %) MS Excel 1 2 (3.175 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 46 (73.02 %) WAN 2 44 (69.84 %) LAN 3 25 (39.68 %) Intranet 3 25 (39.68 %) Internet 4 20 (31.75 %) Cisco PIX 5 19 (30.16 %) Firewall 6 13 (20.63 %) SSH 6 13 (20.63 %) VLAN 6 13 (20.63 %) SNMP 7 7 (11.11 %) OSPF 8 5 (7.937 %) EIGRP 9 4 (6.349 %) BGP 10 3 (4.762 %) VoIP 11 2 (3.175 %) VPN 11 2 (3.175 %) DSLAM 11 2 (3.175 %) MPLS 11 2 (3.175 %) NetScreen 11 2 (3.175 %) Wireless 11 2 (3.175 %) Network Security 11 2 (3.175 %) Cisco ASA
General 1 24 (38.10 %) Government 2 5 (7.937 %) Finance 3 2 (3.175 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 30 (47.62 %) Network Engineer 2 21 (33.33 %) Design Engineer 3 20 (31.75 %) Network Design Engineer 4 18 (28.57 %) Consultant 5 9 (14.29 %) Network Consultant 6 6 (9.524 %) Network Designer 6 6 (9.524 %) Network Support 7 5 (7.937 %) 2nd Line Support 8 4 (6.349 %) Cisco Engineer 9 3 (4.762 %) Cisco Network Engineer 9 3 (4.762 %) Network Architect 9 3 (4.762 %) Cisco Consultant 9 3 (4.762 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 9 3 (4.762 %) Support Engineer 9 3 (4.762 %) Network Support Engineer 9 3 (4.762 %) IT Consultant 9 3 (4.762 %) Architect 10 2 (3.175 %) Network Security Engineer 10 2 (3.175 %) Senior Network Engineer 10 2 (3.175 %) Implementation Consultant
Operating Systems 1 2 (3.175 %) Windows 2 1 (1.587 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 42 (66.67 %) Security Cleared 2 40 (63.49 %) Network Design 3 30 (47.62 %) SC Cleared 4 17 (26.98 %) Migration 5 12 (19.05 %) DV Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (1.587 %) C	Qualifications 1 63 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 11 (17.46 %) CCIE 3 6 (9.524 %) CCDP 4 4 (6.349 %) CCNA 5 1 (1.587 %) CCVP
System Software 1 1 (1.587 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 59 (93.65 %) Cisco 2 8 (12.70 %) Microsoft 2 8 (12.70 %) Symantec 3 2 (3.175 %) Blue Coat 3 2 (3.175 %) Huawei 3 2 (3.175 %) CheckPoint