City of London CCDP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) in IT contracts within the City of London region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CCDP over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cardiff City of London Croydon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Kent Leeds London Midlands Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Stevenage Surrey Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	224	180
Rank change on same period last year	-44
Matching contract IT job ads	2	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	0.225 %	2.643 %
Daily rates quoted	0	9
Average minimum daily rate	-	£441
Average daily rate	-	£452
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£464
UK excluding London average daily rate	£404	£353
% change on same period last year	+14.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.00	£38.75
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
Qualifications City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	889	719
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.173 %	0.716 %
Daily rates quoted	442	322
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£385
Average daily rate	£392	£410
% change on same period last year	-4.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£419	£434
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£329
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	51	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.87	£18.98
Average hourly rate	£23.47	£19.81
% change on same period last year	+18.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.07	£20.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.31	£25.67
% change on same period last year	-5.30 %
CCDP London

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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 3 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (66.67 %) CCIE 2 2 (66.67 %) CCNP 2 2 (66.67 %) Finance 3 1 (33.33 %) Tandem 3 1 (33.33 %) Banking 3 1 (33.33 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (33.33 %) Ethernet 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 3 1 (33.33 %) Juniper 3 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (33.33 %) MPLS 3 1 (33.33 %) BGP 3 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 3 1 (33.33 %) IPsec

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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 1 (33.33 %) Ethernet 1 1 (33.33 %) MPLS 1 1 (33.33 %) BGP 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 1 1 (33.33 %) IPsec	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Banking 2 1 (33.33 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Tandem
Qualifications 1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (66.67 %) CCIE 2 2 (66.67 %) CCNP	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Juniper 1 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint