The first table below looks at the demand for CCNP 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 CCNP over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Rank 170 153 186
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +33
Contract jobs citing CCNP 33 65 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.517% 0.826% 0.602%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.511% 6.041% 4.880%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 36 23
Average daily rate £383 £390 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.92% +0.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £268 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £488 £453
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £313
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
Average hourly rate - £40.00 £36.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +10.34%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.25 £25.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+53.00% -31.50%
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
940 1076 1209
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 14.74% 13.68% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 646 767
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 50 53
Average hourly rate £36.29 £17.85 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+103.30% -15.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £28.20 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
CCNP
London

CCNP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London CCNP Jobs Demand Trend

CCNP
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London CCNP Daily Rate Trend

CCNP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London CCNP Daily Rate Histogram

CCNP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London CCNP Hourly Rate Trend

CCNP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CCNP 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 CCNP.

1 57 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 54 (94.74%) Cisco
3 25 (43.86%) MPLS
4 23 (40.35%) CCIE
4 23 (40.35%) LAN
5 19 (33.33%) WAN
6 18 (31.58%) CCNA
6 18 (31.58%) Firewall
7 15 (26.32%) BGP
8 14 (24.56%) OSPF
9 13 (22.81%) CheckPoint
9 13 (22.81%) CCDP
10 11 (19.30%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (17.54%) Finance
11 10 (17.54%) Network Security
12 9 (15.79%) Juniper
12 9 (15.79%) Internet
13 8 (14.04%) Cisco IOS
13 8 (14.04%) Project Management
14 7 (12.28%) CCSA
14 7 (12.28%) CCSE
14 7 (12.28%) Network Design
14 7 (12.28%) VoIP
14 7 (12.28%) Cisco PIX
14 7 (12.28%) Cisco Nexus
15 6 (10.53%) Network Management
15 6 (10.53%) Banking
15 6 (10.53%) Migration
16 5 (8.772%) Investment Banking
16 5 (8.772%) Windows

CCNP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CCNP 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 CCNP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.754%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (1.754%) Apache
1 1 (1.754%) MS Exchange
1 1 (1.754%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 25 (43.86%) MPLS
2 23 (40.35%) LAN
3 19 (33.33%) WAN
4 18 (31.58%) Firewall
5 15 (26.32%) BGP
6 14 (24.56%) OSPF
7 11 (19.30%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (17.54%) Network Security
9 9 (15.79%) Internet
10 8 (14.04%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (12.28%) VoIP
11 7 (12.28%) Cisco PIX
11 7 (12.28%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (8.772%) VPN
13 4 (7.018%) SSL
13 4 (7.018%) EIGRP
13 4 (7.018%) Wireless
14 3 (5.263%) TACACS
14 3 (5.263%) DNS
14 3 (5.263%) SNMP
General
1 10 (17.54%) Finance
2 6 (10.53%) Banking
3 5 (8.772%) Investment Banking
4 4 (7.018%) French Language
5 3 (5.263%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.754%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 27 (47.37%) Network Engineer
2 7 (12.28%) Consultant
2 7 (12.28%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (7.018%) Architect
3 4 (7.018%) Network Design Engineer
3 4 (7.018%) Design Engineer
3 4 (7.018%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (7.018%) Security Engineer
3 4 (7.018%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (5.263%) Network Architect
4 3 (5.263%) Technical Leader
4 3 (5.263%) Data Centre Engineer
5 2 (3.509%) Cisco Voice Engineer
5 2 (3.509%) Voice Engineer
5 2 (3.509%) Cisco Consultant
5 2 (3.509%) Support Engineer
5 2 (3.509%) Security Consultant
6 1 (1.754%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (1.754%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (1.754%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.754%) Management Information System
1 1 (1.754%) SecurID
1 1 (1.754%) Hedge funds
1 1 (1.754%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.772%) Windows
2 2 (3.509%) UNIX
2 2 (3.509%) Linux
2 2 (3.509%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.754%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.754%) Solaris
3 1 (1.754%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.754%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (14.04%) Project Management
2 7 (12.28%) Network Design
3 6 (10.53%) Network Management
3 6 (10.53%) Migration
4 3 (5.263%) ITIL
5 2 (3.509%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (3.509%) Load Balancing
5 2 (3.509%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (3.509%) Validation
6 1 (1.754%) Change Management
6 1 (1.754%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (1.754%) Incident Management
6 1 (1.754%) Project Planning
6 1 (1.754%) Network Load Balancing
6 1 (1.754%) Problem Management
6 1 (1.754%) Configuration Management
6 1 (1.754%) PRINCE
6 1 (1.754%) Change Control
6 1 (1.754%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.754%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 57 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (40.35%) CCIE
3 18 (31.58%) CCNA
4 13 (22.81%) CCDP
5 7 (12.28%) CCSA
5 7 (12.28%) CCSE
6 5 (8.772%) Security Cleared
7 4 (7.018%) CCSP
8 3 (5.263%) CCIP
8 3 (5.263%) CCDA
8 3 (5.263%) SC Cleared
8 3 (5.263%) DV Cleared
9 2 (3.509%) CCA
9 2 (3.509%) Citrix Certification
9 2 (3.509%) CCEA
9 2 (3.509%) CCVP
10 1 (1.754%) MCITP
10 1 (1.754%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.754%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.754%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.263%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.263%) UAG
2 1 (1.754%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.754%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.754%) XenApp
2 1 (1.754%) XenDesktop
2 1 (1.754%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (5.263%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (3.509%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (1.754%) Backup Exec
3 1 (1.754%) CiscoWorks
3 1 (1.754%) OpenView
3 1 (1.754%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (1.754%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (1.754%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 54 (94.74%) Cisco
2 13 (22.81%) CheckPoint
3 9 (15.79%) Juniper
4 5 (8.772%) F5
5 3 (5.263%) HP
5 3 (5.263%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.509%) Twitter
6 2 (3.509%) Aruba
6 2 (3.509%) Citrix
6 2 (3.509%) VMware
7 1 (1.754%) Radware
7 1 (1.754%) Brocade
7 1 (1.754%) Speakerbus
7 1 (1.754%) NetScout
7 1 (1.754%) Redback
7 1 (1.754%) IronPort
7 1 (1.754%) Reuters
7 1 (1.754%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.754%) NetApp
7 1 (1.754%) Nokia
City, London
Ideal candidates will have a background in Network engineering ideally with experience in a Cisco environment with the following technical skills: * Cisco LAN technology (6500, 3750, layer 2...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £250 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City Of London
This urgent contract role is working at a customer site in London as part of the Network and Storage team, which is responsible for the management, administration and...
GSA Techsource
Rate: GBP250 per day
Posted: 25 May 2013
City of London
Technically you will have strong working experience and knowledge of Cisco, routing and switching, LAN, WAN, MAN, WLAN, Cisco FWSM, ASA, Fortinet, Firewalls, Cisco PIX and Juniper NetScreen...
DP Connect Ltd
Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
It is essential that you display a clear record of implementing Cisco based networks in secure and challenging environments, as well as a good understanding of network technologies.....
Reed Technology
Rate: £300 - £500 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Roc Search / Network Engineer / - OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, MPLS Core Networking, CCNP, CCDP, BCNE / Contract / London... Essential Skills: 3+ years in a technical operations or engineering role within...
Roc Search
Posted: 21 May 2013