The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Cisco Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco
Rank 20 36 32
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -4
Contract jobs citing Cisco 19 13 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 5.793% 3.081% 1.916%
As % of the Vendors category 12.50% 7.386% 5.618%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 2
Average daily rate £275 £250 £169
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +48.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £159 £114
10% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £328 £224
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.08% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
Average hourly rate £17.50 £47.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.15% +251.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +2.38%
All Vendors
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
152 176 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 46.34% 41.71% 34.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 85 39
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £418 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 14
Average hourly rate £22.50 £40.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.75% +220.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.83 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.35 £47.50 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Cisco
Cambridgeshire

Cisco
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Cisco Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Cisco Daily Rate Trend

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridge Cisco Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Cisco Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridge Cisco Hourly Rate Histogram

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Cisco 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.

1 25 (47.17%) VPN
2 19 (35.85%) WAN
3 18 (33.96%) Windows
4 17 (32.08%) LAN
5 14 (26.42%) VoIP
5 14 (26.42%) ITIL
6 12 (22.64%) VMware
7 11 (20.75%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (20.75%) Linux
7 11 (20.75%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (18.87%) Red Hat
8 10 (18.87%) Firewall
8 10 (18.87%) EMC
8 10 (18.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (16.98%) VMware ESX
9 9 (16.98%) NetApp
9 9 (16.98%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (16.98%) Oracle
10 8 (15.09%) MPLS
10 8 (15.09%) Replication
10 8 (15.09%) VLAN
10 8 (15.09%) Brocade
10 8 (15.09%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (15.09%) EMC NetWorker
11 7 (13.21%) Wireless
12 6 (11.32%) CheckPoint
12 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
12 6 (11.32%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Management
13 5 (9.434%) iPad

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Cisco 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.547%) MS Exchange
1 4 (7.547%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (3.774%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (3.774%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.774%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (5.660%) Acrobat
2 2 (3.774%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (47.17%) VPN
2 19 (35.85%) WAN
3 17 (32.08%) LAN
4 14 (26.42%) VoIP
5 10 (18.87%) Firewall
6 8 (15.09%) MPLS
6 8 (15.09%) VLAN
6 8 (15.09%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (13.21%) Wireless
8 6 (11.32%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (9.434%) TCP/IP
9 5 (9.434%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (7.547%) DMZ
10 4 (7.547%) DNS
10 4 (7.547%) DHCP
11 3 (5.660%) HSRP
11 3 (5.660%) SNMP
11 3 (5.660%) OSPF
11 3 (5.660%) IPsec
11 3 (5.660%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.774%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (3.774%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (5.660%) Finance
2 2 (3.774%) Danish Language
2 2 (3.774%) French Language
2 2 (3.774%) German Language
2 2 (3.774%) Hebrew Language
2 2 (3.774%) Swedish Language
2 2 (3.774%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.887%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (1.887%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (47.17%) Administrator
2 22 (41.51%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (13.21%) Network Engineer
4 5 (9.434%) Desktop Support
5 4 (7.547%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (7.547%) Support Engineer
5 4 (7.547%) Analyst
6 3 (5.660%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.660%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 3 (5.660%) Desktop Engineer
6 3 (5.660%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (5.660%) Storage Administrator
7 2 (3.774%) Team Leader
7 2 (3.774%) Support Team Leader
7 2 (3.774%) Desktop Support Team Leader
7 2 (3.774%) Desktop Team Leader
7 2 (3.774%) Mac Engineer
7 2 (3.774%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (1.887%) Network Consultant
8 1 (1.887%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Replication
2 5 (9.434%) iPad
2 5 (9.434%) iPhone
3 2 (3.774%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.887%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 18 (33.96%) Windows
2 11 (20.75%) Linux
3 10 (18.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (9.434%) Mac OS X
5 3 (5.660%) UNIX
5 3 (5.660%) Windows XP
5 3 (5.660%) Windows 7
6 2 (3.774%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (3.774%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (26.42%) ITIL
2 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (5.660%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (3.774%) Migration
4 2 (3.774%) Network Design
4 2 (3.774%) Load Balancing
4 2 (3.774%) Incident Management
4 2 (3.774%) Configuration Management
5 1 (1.887%) WAN Optimisation
5 1 (1.887%) E-Commerce
5 1 (1.887%) Project Management
5 1 (1.887%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.774%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (20.75%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (9.434%) CCNP
3 4 (7.547%) CCNA
4 3 (5.660%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.660%) MCP
4 3 (5.660%) MCSE
4 3 (5.660%) MCSA
5 2 (3.774%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (3.774%) Degree
5 2 (3.774%) NCIE
6 1 (1.887%) CCIE
6 1 (1.887%) RHCE
6 1 (1.887%) CISSP
6 1 (1.887%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.887%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.660%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.887%) GAMP
2 1 (1.887%) GxP
2 1 (1.887%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (20.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (16.98%) VMware ESX
3 4 (7.547%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.660%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) EMC NetWorker
2 5 (9.434%) Nagios
3 4 (7.547%) Cisco CUCM
4 3 (5.660%) Cacti
4 3 (5.660%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (1.887%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) VMware
2 10 (18.87%) Red Hat
2 10 (18.87%) EMC
3 9 (16.98%) NetApp
3 9 (16.98%) Oracle
4 8 (15.09%) Brocade
5 6 (11.32%) CheckPoint
5 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
6 4 (7.547%) Riverbed
6 4 (7.547%) BT
7 3 (5.660%) Adobe
7 3 (5.660%) HP
7 3 (5.660%) Remedy
8 2 (3.774%) Altiris
8 2 (3.774%) Polycom
8 2 (3.774%) IBM
8 2 (3.774%) Exinda
8 2 (3.774%) F5
9 1 (1.887%) Juniper
9 1 (1.887%) Dell
Cambridge, East Anglia
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