City of London CCNA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) 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 CCNA over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Cobham Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Immingham Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Romford Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	169	136
Rank change on same period last year	-33
Matching contract IT job ads	46	59
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.060 %
As % of the category below	5.431 %	8.754 %
Daily rates quoted	18	28
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£263
Average daily rate	£346	£271
% change on same period last year	+27.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£279
UK excluding London average daily rate	£277	£309
% change on same period last year	-10.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	£16.00
Average hourly rate	£24.29	£17.10
% change on same period last year	+42.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.57	£18.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.28	£25.67
% change on same period last year	-1.50 %
Qualifications City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	847	674
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.129 %	0.682 %
Daily rates quoted	397	318
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£387
Average daily rate	£392	£414
% change on same period last year	-5.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£441
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.16	£18.52
Average hourly rate	£24.71	£19.36
% change on same period last year	+27.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.25	£20.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
CCNA 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 CCNA 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 CCNA across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNA across the City of London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNA across the City of London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CCNA 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 CCNA.

1 96 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 66 (68.75 %) Cisco 3 42 (43.75 %) CCNP 4 41 (42.71 %) Firewall 5 32 (33.33 %) Windows 6 24 (25.00 %) WAN 7 22 (22.92 %) Microsoft Certification 8 21 (21.88 %) ITIL 9 20 (20.83 %) Finance 10 19 (19.79 %) MCSE 10 19 (19.79 %) VPN 10 19 (19.79 %) LAN 11 17 (17.71 %) VoIP 12 16 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 13 15 (15.63 %) BGP

14 14 (14.58 %) MPLS 14 14 (14.58 %) DNS 15 13 (13.54 %) UNIX 15 13 (13.54 %) Telecoms 16 12 (12.50 %) VMware 16 12 (12.50 %) Banking 16 12 (12.50 %) Network Security 16 12 (12.50 %) OSPF 16 12 (12.50 %) Active Directory 17 10 (10.42 %) TCP/IP 17 10 (10.42 %) PRINCE2 17 10 (10.42 %) SAN 18 9 (9.375 %) Windows Server 2003 18 9 (9.375 %) Linux 19 8 (8.333 %) CCSA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CCNA 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 CCNA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.042 %) HTML 1 1 (1.042 %) .NET 1 1 (1.042 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (1.042 %) CSS 1 1 (1.042 %) XML 1 1 (1.042 %) .NET Framework 1 1 (1.042 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 7 (7.292 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (3.125 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (3.125 %) Apache 2 3 (3.125 %) Tomcat 3 2 (2.083 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (1.042 %) IIS 4 1 (1.042 %) SharePoint 4 1 (1.042 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 4 (4.167 %) MS Office 2 2 (2.083 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.042 %) MS Visio 3 1 (1.042 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 41 (42.71 %) Firewall 2 24 (25.00 %) WAN 3 19 (19.79 %) VPN 3 19 (19.79 %) LAN 4 17 (17.71 %) VoIP 5 15 (15.63 %) BGP 6 14 (14.58 %) MPLS 6 14 (14.58 %) DNS 7 12 (12.50 %) OSPF 7 12 (12.50 %) Network Security 8 10 (10.42 %) SAN 8 10 (10.42 %) TCP/IP 9 8 (8.333 %) Internet 10 6 (6.250 %) MD110 10 6 (6.250 %) Cisco PIX 11 4 (4.167 %) IPsec 11 4 (4.167 %) DHCP 11 4 (4.167 %) Ethernet 12 3 (3.125 %) DEFINITY 12 3 (3.125 %) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.083 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (1.042 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.042 %) MySQL	General 1 20 (20.83 %) Finance 2 13 (13.54 %) Telecoms 3 12 (12.50 %) Banking 4 8 (8.333 %) Investment Banking 5 7 (7.292 %) Insurance 6 3 (3.125 %) Financial Institution 6 3 (3.125 %) Health 7 2 (2.083 %) Back Office 8 1 (1.042 %) Construction 8 1 (1.042 %) Government 8 1 (1.042 %) Pensions 8 1 (1.042 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 25 (26.04 %) Network Engineer 2 16 (16.67 %) Analyst 3 13 (13.54 %) Support Engineer 4 9 (9.375 %) Cisco Engineer 4 9 (9.375 %) Network Support 5 7 (7.292 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 7 (7.292 %) Administrator 5 7 (7.292 %) Support Analyst 5 7 (7.292 %) Consultant 6 6 (6.250 %) Systems Administrator 6 6 (6.250 %) Network Analyst 6 6 (6.250 %) Security Engineer 7 5 (5.208 %) Network Specialist 7 5 (5.208 %) 3rd Line Support 7 5 (5.208 %) Network Support Engineer 8 4 (4.167 %) Network Security Engineer 8 4 (4.167 %) Project Manager 8 4 (4.167 %) Data Analyst 8 4 (4.167 %) Voice Analyst 9 3 (3.125 %) Voice Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (8.333 %) Video Conferencing 2 2 (2.083 %) Fat Client 2 2 (2.083 %) Thin Client 2 2 (2.083 %) Clustering 3 1 (1.042 %) CESG 3 1 (1.042 %) e-Health 3 1 (1.042 %) Japanese Language 3 1 (1.042 %) CLARiiON
Operating Systems 1 32 (33.33 %) Windows 2 13 (13.54 %) UNIX 3 9 (9.375 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (9.375 %) Linux 4 6 (6.250 %) Solaris 5 4 (4.167 %) Windows 2000 6 3 (3.125 %) Windows XP 7 1 (1.042 %) Mac OS X Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (21.88 %) ITIL 2 10 (10.42 %) PRINCE2 3 8 (8.333 %) Network Design 4 5 (5.208 %) Release Management 4 5 (5.208 %) Project Management 4 5 (5.208 %) Service Delivery 5 4 (4.167 %) Configuration Management 5 4 (4.167 %) Migration 5 4 (4.167 %) Asset Management 5 4 (4.167 %) Incident Management 6 3 (3.125 %) Investment Management 6 3 (3.125 %) Risk Management 7 2 (2.083 %) Service Management 7 2 (2.083 %) Data Protection 7 2 (2.083 %) SC Cleared 7 2 (2.083 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (1.042 %) Validation 8 1 (1.042 %) Change Management 8 1 (1.042 %) Time Management 8 1 (1.042 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 3 (3.125 %) Shell Script 2 1 (1.042 %) C# 2 1 (1.042 %) JavaScript 2 1 (1.042 %) PHP 2 1 (1.042 %) SQL 2 1 (1.042 %) VB	Qualifications 1 96 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 42 (43.75 %) CCNP 3 22 (22.92 %) Microsoft Certification 4 19 (19.79 %) MCSE 5 8 (8.333 %) CCSA 5 8 (8.333 %) Degree 6 7 (7.292 %) CISSP 7 6 (6.250 %) CCVP 7 6 (6.250 %) CCIE 8 5 (5.208 %) MCSA 8 5 (5.208 %) CCSE 9 4 (4.167 %) ITIL Certification 10 3 (3.125 %) Check Point Certification 10 3 (3.125 %) CCDA 10 3 (3.125 %) CCA 10 3 (3.125 %) Citrix Certification 10 3 (3.125 %) CCEA 11 2 (2.083 %) PRINCE2 Certification 11 2 (2.083 %) RHCE 11 2 (2.083 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.083 %) SLA	System Software 1 12 (12.50 %) Active Directory 2 6 (6.250 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (3.125 %) VMware ESX 4 2 (2.083 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (1.042 %) VMware Server 5 1 (1.042 %) Squid 5 1 (1.042 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 7 (7.292 %) OpenView 2 3 (3.125 %) CiscoWorks 3 1 (1.042 %) Netcool 3 1 (1.042 %) NNM	Vendors 1 66 (68.75 %) Cisco 2 16 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 3 12 (12.50 %) VMware 4 8 (8.333 %) Microsoft 5 6 (6.250 %) Juniper 5 6 (6.250 %) Ericsson 5 6 (6.250 %) Blue Coat 6 5 (5.208 %) Nokia 6 5 (5.208 %) IBM 6 5 (5.208 %) HP 7 4 (4.167 %) EMC 7 4 (4.167 %) Citrix 7 4 (4.167 %) Symbian 7 4 (4.167 %) Reuters 7 4 (4.167 %) Bloomberg 8 3 (3.125 %) Lotus 8 3 (3.125 %) Red Hat 8 3 (3.125 %) Oracle 8 3 (3.125 %) Avaya 8 3 (3.125 %) Siemens