The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cambridgeshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco
Rank 21 30 45
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +15
Contract jobs citing Cisco 36 35 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 6.294% 4.828% 2.233%
As % of the Vendors category 12.68% 10.45% 5.303%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 3
Average daily rate £243 £275 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.81% +57.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £160 £115
10% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £360 £255
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-8.20% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 9
Average hourly rate £17.50 £14.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.68% +7.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.90 £12.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.80 £37.50 £14.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.13 £20.00 £21.94
% change year-on-year
+15.62% -8.83%
All Vendors
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
284 335 264
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 49.65% 46.21% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 171 102
Average daily rate £325 £325 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £205 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 37 56
Average hourly rate £16.50 £22.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +69.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £9.93 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £47.50 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Cisco
East of England

Cisco
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cambridgeshire Cisco Hourly Rate Histogram

Cisco
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridge +11 15 £275 +15.78% 6
Peterborough -1 13 £223 -16.03% 3
Cisco
East of England

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 30 (40.54%) Windows
2 24 (32.43%) VPN
3 22 (29.73%) Firewall
4 20 (27.03%) LAN
4 20 (27.03%) VoIP
4 20 (27.03%) WAN
5 18 (24.32%) Microsoft
5 18 (24.32%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (21.62%) ITIL
7 15 (20.27%) CheckPoint
8 13 (17.57%) CCNA
8 13 (17.57%) MS Exchange
8 13 (17.57%) VMware
8 13 (17.57%) VLAN
9 12 (16.22%) Linux
10 11 (14.86%) Active Directory
10 11 (14.86%) Wireless
10 11 (14.86%) VMware Infrastructure
10 11 (14.86%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (13.51%) VMware ESX
11 10 (13.51%) EMC
12 9 (12.16%) NetApp
12 9 (12.16%) Red Hat
12 9 (12.16%) Exchange Server 2010
12 9 (12.16%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (10.81%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 8 (10.81%) Brocade
13 8 (10.81%) Nagios
13 8 (10.81%) CCNP

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 Development
1 2 (2.703%) CSS
2 1 (1.351%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 13 (17.57%) MS Exchange
2 9 (12.16%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (8.108%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (5.405%) Lync
5 3 (4.054%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.703%) IBM Notes
7 1 (1.351%) Apache
7 1 (1.351%) IIS
7 1 (1.351%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.351%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.351%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (1.351%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 7 (9.459%) MS Excel
2 5 (6.757%) MS Office
3 3 (4.054%) Acrobat
4 2 (2.703%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (9.459%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (32.43%) VPN
2 22 (29.73%) Firewall
3 20 (27.03%) LAN
3 20 (27.03%) VoIP
3 20 (27.03%) WAN
4 13 (17.57%) VLAN
5 11 (14.86%) Wireless
5 11 (14.86%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (12.16%) Cisco Nexus
7 8 (10.81%) OSPF
8 7 (9.459%) IPsec
8 7 (9.459%) Internet
8 7 (9.459%) SNMP
8 7 (9.459%) HSRP
9 6 (8.108%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (8.108%) TCP/IP
9 6 (8.108%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (6.757%) DNS
10 5 (6.757%) Cisco PIX
11 4 (5.405%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.108%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.757%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.351%) MySQL
3 1 (1.351%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (1.351%) Subversion
General
1 5 (6.757%) Telecoms
2 3 (4.054%) Finance
2 3 (4.054%) Banking
3 2 (2.703%) Investment Banking
3 2 (2.703%) Danish Language
3 2 (2.703%) French Language
3 2 (2.703%) German Language
3 2 (2.703%) Hebrew Language
3 2 (2.703%) Swedish Language
4 1 (1.351%) Marketing
4 1 (1.351%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (24.32%) Administrator
2 16 (21.62%) Systems Administrator
3 12 (16.22%) Network Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) Analyst
5 7 (9.459%) Cisco Engineer
6 6 (8.108%) Desktop Support
7 5 (6.757%) Support Analyst
7 5 (6.757%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 4 (5.405%) 3rd Line Support
8 4 (5.405%) Support Engineer
9 3 (4.054%) Consultant
9 3 (4.054%) Storage Administrator
9 3 (4.054%) Desktop Engineer
9 3 (4.054%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 3 (4.054%) Technical Analyst
10 2 (2.703%) Support Team Leader
10 2 (2.703%) Desktop Support Team Leader
10 2 (2.703%) 1st Line Support Analyst
10 2 (2.703%) Genesys Consultant
10 2 (2.703%) Mac Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Replication
2 5 (6.757%) iPad
2 5 (6.757%) iPhone
3 2 (2.703%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.351%) CLARiiON
4 1 (1.351%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.351%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 30 (40.54%) Windows
2 12 (16.22%) Linux
3 8 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (9.459%) Windows 7
4 7 (9.459%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (8.108%) Windows XP
5 6 (8.108%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (6.757%) Mac OS X
7 3 (4.054%) UNIX
8 1 (1.351%) Solaris
8 1 (1.351%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.62%) ITIL
2 6 (8.108%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (5.405%) E-Commerce
3 4 (5.405%) Migration
4 3 (4.054%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (4.054%) Load Balancing
4 3 (4.054%) Network Management
5 2 (2.703%) Network Design
5 2 (2.703%) Incident Management
5 2 (2.703%) Service Delivery
5 2 (2.703%) Configuration Management
6 1 (1.351%) IC Design
6 1 (1.351%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (1.351%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.054%) SQL
2 1 (1.351%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.351%) Perl
2 1 (1.351%) Python
2 1 (1.351%) Bash shell
2 1 (1.351%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (24.32%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (17.57%) CCNA
3 8 (10.81%) CCNP
4 7 (9.459%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.757%) MCP
6 4 (5.405%) MCSE
7 3 (4.054%) MCSA
7 3 (4.054%) Degree
8 2 (2.703%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.703%) NCIE
9 1 (1.351%) CCSA
9 1 (1.351%) CISSP
9 1 (1.351%) RHCE
9 1 (1.351%) Security Cleared
9 1 (1.351%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.757%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.351%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (14.86%) Active Directory
1 11 (14.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (13.51%) VMware ESX
3 6 (8.108%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.351%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.351%) Samba
4 1 (1.351%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.351%) NFS
4 1 (1.351%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (10.81%) EMC NetWorker
1 8 (10.81%) Nagios
2 6 (8.108%) Cisco CUCM
3 5 (6.757%) Cacti
3 5 (6.757%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (1.351%) AppManager
Vendors
1 18 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.27%) CheckPoint
3 13 (17.57%) VMware
4 10 (13.51%) EMC
5 9 (12.16%) NetApp
5 9 (12.16%) Red Hat
6 8 (10.81%) Brocade
6 8 (10.81%) HP
7 7 (9.459%) Oracle
8 6 (8.108%) Altiris
9 5 (6.757%) Adobe
10 4 (5.405%) Juniper
11 3 (4.054%) Remedy
11 3 (4.054%) Citrix
11 3 (4.054%) Riverbed
11 3 (4.054%) F5
11 3 (4.054%) Exinda
12 2 (2.703%) Nokia
12 2 (2.703%) Lotus
12 2 (2.703%) IBM
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