The first table below looks at the demand for CCIE 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 CCIE over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
Rank 183 170 234
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +64
Contract jobs citing CCIE 18 43 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.286% 0.553% 0.122%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.909% 4.053% 0.985%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 6
Average daily rate £400 £425 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% -0.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £360 £306
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £625 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -21.87%
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
943 1061 1218
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 14.98% 13.64% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 639 775
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £253 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £573 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 45 51
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 £14.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £25.50 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
CCIE
London

CCIE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London CCIE Jobs Demand Trend

CCIE
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London CCIE Daily Rate Trend

CCIE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCIE across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London CCIE Daily Rate Histogram

CCIE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London CCIE Hourly Rate Trend

CCIE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CCIE 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 CCIE.

1 38 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 34 (89.47%) Cisco
3 23 (60.53%) CCNP
4 17 (44.74%) LAN
4 17 (44.74%) WAN
4 17 (44.74%) MPLS
5 15 (39.47%) Finance
6 13 (34.21%) Firewall
7 12 (31.58%) BGP
8 11 (28.95%) OSPF
8 11 (28.95%) Juniper
9 10 (26.32%) Migration
10 8 (21.05%) Banking
10 8 (21.05%) Internet
10 8 (21.05%) CCDP
10 8 (21.05%) F5
11 7 (18.42%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (18.42%) Wireless
11 7 (18.42%) IP Telephony
11 7 (18.42%) Network Design
11 7 (18.42%) JNCIE
12 6 (15.79%) VMware
12 6 (15.79%) Load Balancing
12 6 (15.79%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (13.16%) Riverbed
13 5 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
13 5 (13.16%) Polycom
13 5 (13.16%) DNS
13 5 (13.16%) CheckPoint

CCIE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CCIE 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 CCIE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.632%) SOAP
1 1 (2.632%) XML
1 1 (2.632%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.632%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.632%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (44.74%) LAN
1 17 (44.74%) WAN
1 17 (44.74%) MPLS
2 13 (34.21%) Firewall
3 12 (31.58%) BGP
4 11 (28.95%) OSPF
5 8 (21.05%) Internet
6 7 (18.42%) Wireless
6 7 (18.42%) IP Telephony
6 7 (18.42%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (13.16%) DNS
8 5 (13.16%) Ethernet
8 5 (13.16%) SNMP
9 4 (10.53%) DHCP
9 4 (10.53%) VLAN
9 4 (10.53%) Cisco IPT
9 4 (10.53%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (10.53%) Network Security
9 4 (10.53%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.632%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 15 (39.47%) Finance
2 8 (21.05%) Banking
3 4 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.53%) French Language
4 3 (7.895%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.263%) Law
5 2 (5.263%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Network Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Architect
3 8 (21.05%) Consultant
4 5 (13.16%) Network Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Network Design Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Firewall Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Design Engineer
6 3 (7.895%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (7.895%) Security Architect
7 2 (5.263%) Security Consultant
7 2 (5.263%) Network Consultant
7 2 (5.263%) Cisco Consultant
8 1 (2.632%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 1 (2.632%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.632%) Cisco Security Consultant
8 1 (2.632%) Voice Engineer
8 1 (2.632%) Voice Consultant
8 1 (2.632%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (2.632%) Data Centre Architect
8 1 (2.632%) Cisco Voice Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (7.895%) PKI
3 1 (2.632%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.632%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.632%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) Migration
2 7 (18.42%) Network Design
3 6 (15.79%) Load Balancing
4 4 (10.53%) Network Architecture
4 4 (10.53%) Network Management
4 4 (10.53%) Project Planning
5 3 (7.895%) Security Architecture
5 3 (7.895%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 3 (7.895%) Information Security
5 3 (7.895%) Project Management
5 3 (7.895%) GAP Analysis
5 3 (7.895%) Identity Management
6 2 (5.263%) Validation
6 2 (5.263%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (5.263%) ITIL
6 2 (5.263%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (2.632%) RUP
7 1 (2.632%) Zachman Framework
7 1 (2.632%) TOGAF
7 1 (2.632%) WAN Optimisation
Qualifications
1 38 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (60.53%) CCNP
3 8 (21.05%) CCDP
4 7 (18.42%) JNCIE
5 4 (10.53%) CCSA
5 4 (10.53%) CCSE
6 3 (7.895%) CCVP
7 2 (5.263%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (5.263%) SC Cleared
7 2 (5.263%) Security Cleared
7 2 (5.263%) CCNA
7 2 (5.263%) CCSP
8 1 (2.632%) Degree
8 1 (2.632%) CCDA
8 1 (2.632%) CCIP
8 1 (2.632%) CCA
8 1 (2.632%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (2.632%) CCEA
8 1 (2.632%) NCDA
8 1 (2.632%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) PCI DSS
2 3 (7.895%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.895%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.895%) Forefront TMG
2 3 (7.895%) UAG
3 1 (2.632%) Xen
3 1 (2.632%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.632%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Cisco CUCM
1 4 (10.53%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.632%) BladeLogic
2 1 (2.632%) Cisco UCCE
2 1 (2.632%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 34 (89.47%) Cisco
2 11 (28.95%) Juniper
3 8 (21.05%) F5
4 6 (15.79%) VMware
5 5 (13.16%) CheckPoint
5 5 (13.16%) Polycom
5 5 (13.16%) Riverbed
5 5 (13.16%) Aruba
6 4 (10.53%) Sourcefire
6 4 (10.53%) HP
6 4 (10.53%) Fortinet
7 3 (7.895%) Twitter
8 2 (5.263%) Citrix
9 1 (2.632%) NetApp
9 1 (2.632%) Siemens
9 1 (2.632%) Microsoft
9 1 (2.632%) Oracle
9 1 (2.632%) SAP
9 1 (2.632%) Brocade
9 1 (2.632%) BT