City of London Cisco Certification Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification 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 Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the 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.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Altrincham Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Esher Essex Exeter Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire Horsham Ilford Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Larne Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Melton Mowbray Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Teddington Teesside Telford Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2012	Same period 2011	Same period 2010
Rank	116	153	170
Rank change year-on-year	+37 +17
Matching contract IT job ads	101	98	71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London	1.279 %	0.989 %	0.722 %
As % of the Qualifications category	9.387 %	8.000 %	6.781 %
Number of daily rates quoted	60	43	34
Average daily rate	£400	£340	£340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+17.64 % -
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£274	£200	£183
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£500	£543
UK excluding London average daily rate	£314	£300	£300
% change year-on-year	+4.58 % -
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	9	6
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£35.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+14.28 % +75.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	£30.00	£20.00
% change year-on-year	-25.00 % +50.00 %
All Qualifications City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Qualifications category	1076	1225	1047
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London	13.63 %	12.37 %	10.65 %
Number of daily rates quoted	652	780	648
Average daily rate	£425	£450	£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-5.55 % +12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£252	£263	£245
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£575
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£350	£325
% change year-on-year	- +7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted	45	51	33
Average hourly rate	£18.00	£21.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-14.28 % +5.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£14.88	£15.80
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£23.25	£36.50	£27.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.00	£24.00	£18.00
% change year-on-year	-4.16 % +33.33 %
Cisco Certification London

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Certification 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 Cisco Certification 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 Cisco Certification across the City of London region over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cisco Certification 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 Cisco Certification.

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cisco Certification 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 Cisco Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (1.887 %) Software Packaging 2 1 (0.472 %) FIX Protocol 2 1 (0.472 %) OCX 2 1 (0.472 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 13 (6.132 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (5.660 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 10 (4.717 %) Exchange Server 2010 4 5 (2.358 %) Lync 4 5 (2.358 %) SharePoint 5 3 (1.415 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (0.943 %) IIS 6 2 (0.943 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 7 1 (0.472 %) Moodle 7 1 (0.472 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (0.472 %) Apache 7 1 (0.472 %) CMS
Applications 1 11 (5.189 %) MS Visio 2 5 (2.358 %) MS Excel 3 3 (1.415 %) MS Office 4 1 (0.472 %) Office 365 4 1 (0.472 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.472 %) AutoCAD 4 1 (0.472 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 3 (1.415 %) Sage 200 1 3 (1.415 %) Sage 1000 1 3 (1.415 %) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking 1 91 (42.92 %) Firewall 2 82 (38.68 %) LAN 3 78 (36.79 %) WAN 4 45 (21.23 %) VPN 5 36 (16.98 %) VoIP 5 36 (16.98 %) Network Security 5 36 (16.98 %) Cisco ASA 6 35 (16.51 %) BGP 7 31 (14.62 %) OSPF 8 28 (13.21 %) TCP/IP 9 26 (12.26 %) DNS 10 24 (11.32 %) Cisco IOS 11 23 (10.85 %) Wireless 12 21 (9.906 %) MPLS 13 19 (8.962 %) DHCP 14 17 (8.019 %) Cisco PIX 15 14 (6.604 %) SAN 16 12 (5.660 %) NetScreen 17 11 (5.189 %) VLAN 17 11 (5.189 %) Cisco ICM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (3.774 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 1 (0.472 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 34 (16.04 %) Finance 2 26 (12.26 %) Banking 3 18 (8.491 %) Telecoms 4 10 (4.717 %) Electronics 5 6 (2.830 %) Investment Banking 6 3 (1.415 %) Corporate Banking 7 1 (0.472 %) Arabic Language 7 1 (0.472 %) French Language 7 1 (0.472 %) Portuguese Language 7 1 (0.472 %) Russian Language 7 1 (0.472 %) Law 7 1 (0.472 %) Legal 7 1 (0.472 %) Publishing 7 1 (0.472 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (0.472 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 73 (34.43 %) Network Engineer 2 25 (11.79 %) Cisco Engineer 3 24 (11.32 %) Consultant 4 16 (7.547 %) Analyst 4 16 (7.547 %) Network Support 5 15 (7.075 %) Network Specialist 6 14 (6.604 %) Network Consultant 7 11 (5.189 %) Cisco Network Engineer 8 10 (4.717 %) Architect 8 10 (4.717 %) Senior Network Engineer 9 9 (4.245 %) Network Analyst 9 9 (4.245 %) Security Engineer 9 9 (4.245 %) Support Engineer 10 8 (3.774 %) Project Manager 10 8 (3.774 %) Administrator 10 8 (3.774 %) Network Manager 11 7 (3.302 %) Senior Network Specialist 11 7 (3.302 %) Infrastructure Engineer 11 7 (3.302 %) Systems Administrator 11 7 (3.302 %) Network Security Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 10 (4.717 %) IVR 2 6 (2.830 %) Thin Client 2 6 (2.830 %) Video Conferencing 2 6 (2.830 %) Fat Client 3 5 (2.358 %) Open Source 4 4 (1.887 %) Computer Science 5 3 (1.415 %) SecurID 5 3 (1.415 %) Blackberry 6 2 (0.943 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 2 (0.943 %) NHS 6 2 (0.943 %) PKI 7 1 (0.472 %) SWIFT 7 1 (0.472 %) Video on Demand 7 1 (0.472 %) Derivative 7 1 (0.472 %) Cryptography 7 1 (0.472 %) Replication 7 1 (0.472 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 55 (25.94 %) Windows 2 34 (16.04 %) Linux 3 19 (8.962 %) Windows Server 2008 4 14 (6.604 %) Windows Server 2003 5 13 (6.132 %) UNIX 6 8 (3.774 %) Windows XP 7 5 (2.358 %) Windows 7 7 5 (2.358 %) Windows 2000 8 4 (1.887 %) Mac OS X 9 3 (1.415 %) Windows Vista 10 1 (0.472 %) Mac OS 10 1 (0.472 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 40 (18.87 %) ITIL 2 18 (8.491 %) Project Management 3 17 (8.019 %) Network Management 4 14 (6.604 %) Load Balancing 5 11 (5.189 %) PRINCE2 5 11 (5.189 %) Migration 5 11 (5.189 %) Change Management 6 10 (4.717 %) Network Design 6 10 (4.717 %) Root Cause Analysis 7 7 (3.302 %) E-Commerce 8 6 (2.830 %) Service Delivery 9 5 (2.358 %) WAN Optimisation 9 5 (2.358 %) Problem Management 10 4 (1.887 %) Service Management 10 4 (1.887 %) Stakeholder Management 10 4 (1.887 %) Information Security 10 4 (1.887 %) Incident Management 10 4 (1.887 %) Time Management 11 3 (1.415 %) Continuous Improvement 11 3 (1.415 %) Change Control
Programming Languages 1 10 (4.717 %) Erlang 2 6 (2.830 %) C 2 6 (2.830 %) PowerShell 3 3 (1.415 %) Perl 4 2 (0.943 %) SQL 5 1 (0.472 %) Bash shell 5 1 (0.472 %) Tcl 5 1 (0.472 %) PHP 5 1 (0.472 %) C#	Qualifications 1 115 (54.25 %) CCNP 2 101 (47.64 %) CCNA 3 71 (33.49 %) CCIE 4 37 (17.45 %) CCVP 5 22 (10.38 %) Microsoft Certification 5 22 (10.38 %) Security Cleared 6 21 (9.906 %) CCIP 7 20 (9.434 %) Degree 8 17 (8.019 %) MCSE 9 13 (6.132 %) CCSA 10 12 (5.660 %) CISSP 11 11 (5.189 %) SC Cleared 12 10 (4.717 %) CCSE 12 10 (4.717 %) CCDP 12 10 (4.717 %) JNCIP 12 10 (4.717 %) JNCIE 12 10 (4.717 %) MCITP 13 9 (4.245 %) JNCIA 13 9 (4.245 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 13 9 (4.245 %) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.358 %) SLA 2 3 (1.415 %) ISO/IEC 27001 3 2 (0.943 %) PCI DSS 4 1 (0.472 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 31 (14.62 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 16 (7.547 %) Active Directory 3 8 (3.774 %) XenApp 4 7 (3.302 %) XenServer 5 6 (2.830 %) VMware ESX 6 4 (1.887 %) Terminal Services 7 3 (1.415 %) VMware ESXi 7 3 (1.415 %) XenDesktop 8 2 (0.943 %) ISA Server 9 1 (0.472 %) UAG 9 1 (0.472 %) vSphere 9 1 (0.472 %) Hyper-V 9 1 (0.472 %) Nmap
Systems Management 1 14 (6.604 %) Cisco CUCM 2 7 (3.302 %) CiscoWorks 3 6 (2.830 %) OpenView 4 5 (2.358 %) WSUS 4 5 (2.358 %) Backup Exec 5 3 (1.415 %) Cisco UCCX 5 3 (1.415 %) Unicenter 5 3 (1.415 %) Tivoli 6 2 (0.943 %) Cisco IPCC 6 2 (0.943 %) SCOM 6 2 (0.943 %) Ionix 7 1 (0.472 %) SolarWinds Orion 7 1 (0.472 %) Cisco UCCE 7 1 (0.472 %) Zenoss 7 1 (0.472 %) Norton AntiVirus 7 1 (0.472 %) Netcool 7 1 (0.472 %) Nagios 7 1 (0.472 %) Nessus	Vendors 1 165 (77.83 %) Cisco 2 49 (23.11 %) VMware 3 46 (21.70 %) CheckPoint 4 37 (17.45 %) Juniper 5 32 (15.09 %) Citrix 6 23 (10.85 %) F5 7 21 (9.906 %) Microsoft 7 21 (9.906 %) HP 8 19 (8.962 %) Avaya 9 11 (5.189 %) Nokia 10 10 (4.717 %) CyberTech 11 9 (4.245 %) SolarWinds 12 8 (3.774 %) Blue Coat 12 8 (3.774 %) NetApp 13 6 (2.830 %) Nortel 13 6 (2.830 %) Remedy 13 6 (2.830 %) Infoblox 13 6 (2.830 %) Imperva 14 5 (2.358 %) AirMagnet 14 5 (2.358 %) Polycom