Cheshire Cisco Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts within the Cheshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certification
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coatbridge Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	38
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	12	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	14.63 %	19.23 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£363
Average daily rate	£349	£363
% change on same period last year	-3.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£314
% change on same period last year	+6.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.68	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£28.01	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-6.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.34	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.66	£30.46
% change on same period last year	-2.60 %
Qualifications Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	82	104
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.134 %	0.114 %
Daily rates quoted	26	30
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£287
Average daily rate	£326	£291
% change on same period last year	+12.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£326
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.59	£25.41
Average hourly rate	£28.72	£27.41
% change on same period last year	+4.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.86	£29.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.69	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+2.77 %
Cisco Certification North West

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.

Cisco Certification
Demand Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

Cisco Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 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
Chester	-	4	-	-
Warrington	-10	2	-	-
Crewe	-	1	-	-

Cisco Certification North West

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Cisco Certification 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 Certification.

1 24 (75.00 %) Cisco 1 24 (75.00 %) CCNA 2 16 (50.00 %) CCNP 3 14 (43.75 %) LAN 4 13 (40.63 %) WAN 5 8 (25.00 %) Firewall 5 8 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 6 7 (21.88 %) Ethernet 7 6 (18.75 %) Microsoft 7 6 (18.75 %) ATM 7 6 (18.75 %) ISDN 7 6 (18.75 %) Nortel 7 6 (18.75 %) EIGRP 8 5 (15.63 %) IP Telephony 8 5 (15.63 %) Network Security

8 5 (15.63 %) Frame Relay 8 5 (15.63 %) ITIL 8 5 (15.63 %) VPN 9 4 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 9 4 (12.50 %) Avaya 10 3 (9.375 %) CheckPoint 10 3 (9.375 %) Migration 11 2 (6.250 %) Telecoms 11 2 (6.250 %) Validation 11 2 (6.250 %) BGP 11 2 (6.250 %) SAN 11 2 (6.250 %) Microsoft Certification 11 2 (6.250 %) C 11 2 (6.250 %) Windows 11 2 (6.250 %) Linux

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Cisco Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.125 %) .NET	Applications 1 2 (6.250 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) assyst	Communications & Networking 1 14 (43.75 %) LAN 2 13 (40.63 %) WAN 3 8 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (25.00 %) Firewall 4 7 (21.88 %) Ethernet 5 6 (18.75 %) ISDN 5 6 (18.75 %) EIGRP 5 6 (18.75 %) ATM 6 5 (15.63 %) VPN 6 5 (15.63 %) Frame Relay 6 5 (15.63 %) IP Telephony 6 5 (15.63 %) Network Security 7 2 (6.250 %) VLAN 7 2 (6.250 %) Cisco PIX 7 2 (6.250 %) SAN 7 2 (6.250 %) BGP 8 1 (3.125 %) DNS 8 1 (3.125 %) SNMP 8 1 (3.125 %) Broadband 8 1 (3.125 %) LDAP
General 1 2 (6.250 %) Telecoms 2 1 (3.125 %) Automotive 2 1 (3.125 %) Government 2 1 (3.125 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 18 (56.25 %) Network Engineer 2 9 (28.13 %) Cisco Engineer 3 6 (18.75 %) Cisco Network Engineer 4 5 (15.63 %) Network Support 4 5 (15.63 %) Technical Engineer 5 3 (9.375 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (6.250 %) Technical Support 6 2 (6.250 %) Security Specialist 6 2 (6.250 %) Technical Support Engineer 6 2 (6.250 %) Network Specialist 7 1 (3.125 %) Network Security Specialist 7 1 (3.125 %) Network Support Specialist 7 1 (3.125 %) Cisco Consultant 7 1 (3.125 %) Firewall Specialist 7 1 (3.125 %) Cisco Security Specialist 7 1 (3.125 %) Lead Network Engineer 7 1 (3.125 %) Data Network Analyst 7 1 (3.125 %) Operations Analyst 7 1 (3.125 %) Cisco Specialist 7 1 (3.125 %) Test Engineer
Operating Systems 1 2 (6.250 %) Windows 1 2 (6.250 %) Linux 2 1 (3.125 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (15.63 %) ITIL 2 4 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (9.375 %) Migration 4 2 (6.250 %) Validation 5 1 (3.125 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (3.125 %) Network Design 5 1 (3.125 %) Network Planning 5 1 (3.125 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (6.250 %) C 2 1 (3.125 %) Java	Qualifications 1 24 (75.00 %) CCNA 2 16 (50.00 %) CCNP 3 2 (6.250 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (6.250 %) MCSE 4 1 (3.125 %) CCSE 4 1 (3.125 %) CCIP 4 1 (3.125 %) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.125 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (6.250 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 2 (6.250 %) OpenView 1 2 (6.250 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 24 (75.00 %) Cisco 2 6 (18.75 %) Microsoft 2 6 (18.75 %) Nortel 3 4 (12.50 %) Avaya 4 3 (9.375 %) CheckPoint 5 2 (6.250 %) HP 6 1 (3.125 %) Websense 6 1 (3.125 %) 3Com