The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco Nexus skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.608% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.703% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
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
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
74 75 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.49% 17.69% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 34 19
Average daily rate £298 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.80% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 22 12
Average hourly rate £37.00 £41.25 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.30% +17.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £10.75 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Cisco Nexus
Cambridgeshire

Cisco Nexus
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 4 (66.67%) VPN
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (50.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (33.33%) MPLS
4 2 (33.33%) CCNP
4 2 (33.33%) LAN
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) BIG-IP
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
4 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 2 (33.33%) Polycom
4 2 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (33.33%) Riverbed
4 2 (33.33%) FCoE
4 2 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (33.33%) F5
4 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (16.67%) WAN Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
5 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (16.67%) VLAN
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (16.67%) VMware

Cisco Nexus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) WAN
1 4 (66.67%) VPN
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) BIG-IP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) FCoE
2 2 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Network Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (16.67%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) WAN Optimisation
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GAMP
1 1 (16.67%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (33.33%) Polycom
3 2 (33.33%) Riverbed
3 2 (33.33%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Dell
4 1 (16.67%) EMC