The first table below looks at the demand for CCDP in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCDP over the 3 months to 22 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 Qualifications for the City of London 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
Rank 196 209 237
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +28
Contract jobs citing CCDP 9 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.140% 0.075% 0.041%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.944% 0.552% 0.339%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
Average daily rate £435 £550 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.90% +37.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
-14.47% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £23.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+70.21% -14.54%
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
953 1086 1179
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 14.82% 13.61% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 656 748
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £251 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £574 £599 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 49 53
Average hourly rate £41.50 £18.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+130.55% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £23.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
CCDP
London

CCDP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CCDP across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

City of London CCDP Jobs Demand Trend

CCDP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CCDP across the City of London region.

City of London CCDP Daily Rate Trend

CCDP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CCDP across the City of London region.

City of London CCDP Hourly Rate Trend

CCDP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CCDP 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 CCDP.

1 14 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (92.86%) Cisco
3 12 (85.71%) CCNP
4 10 (71.43%) MPLS
5 8 (57.14%) CCIE
6 7 (50.00%) LAN
6 7 (50.00%) WAN
6 7 (50.00%) BGP
7 6 (42.86%) OSPF
8 5 (35.71%) Network Design
9 4 (28.57%) French Language
9 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
9 4 (28.57%) CCNA
9 4 (28.57%) CCDA
9 4 (28.57%) Finance
10 3 (21.43%) CCSA
10 3 (21.43%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (21.43%) CCSE
11 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
11 2 (14.29%) Network Security
11 2 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
11 2 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (14.29%) Validation
11 2 (14.29%) Migration
11 2 (14.29%) Firewall
11 2 (14.29%) BGP-4
11 2 (14.29%) DNS
11 2 (14.29%) IPv6
12 1 (7.143%) CCSP

CCDP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CCDP 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 CCDP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) MPLS
2 7 (50.00%) LAN
2 7 (50.00%) WAN
2 7 (50.00%) BGP
3 6 (42.86%) OSPF
4 3 (21.43%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (14.29%) Network Security
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (14.29%) Firewall
5 2 (14.29%) BGP-4
5 2 (14.29%) DNS
5 2 (14.29%) IPv6
6 1 (7.143%) SNMP
6 1 (7.143%) VPN
6 1 (7.143%) EIGRP
6 1 (7.143%) TACACS
6 1 (7.143%) Wireless
6 1 (7.143%) IPsec
6 1 (7.143%) HSRP
General
1 4 (28.57%) French Language
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.143%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Network Design Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Design Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Network Design
2 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (14.29%) Validation
2 2 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
3 1 (7.143%) Project Planning
3 1 (7.143%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.143%) Security Architecture
3 1 (7.143%) Network Architecture
3 1 (7.143%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (85.71%) CCNP
3 8 (57.14%) CCIE
4 4 (28.57%) CCNA
4 4 (28.57%) CCDA
5 3 (21.43%) CCSA
5 3 (21.43%) CCSE
6 1 (7.143%) CCSP
6 1 (7.143%) CCVP
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.143%) Juniper
3 1 (7.143%) Aruba
3 1 (7.143%) F5
3 1 (7.143%) Riverbed
3 1 (7.143%) SolarWinds
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