City of London Cisco Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Cisco Engineer role in IT contracts within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Enfield England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stockton-on-Tees Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	182	158
Rank change on same period last year	-24
Matching contract IT job ads	26	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	0.364 %	0.508 %
Daily rates quoted	14	16
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£402
Average daily rate	£328	£416
% change on same period last year	-21.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£430
UK excluding London average daily rate	£398	£335
% change on same period last year	+19.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£20.00
% change on same period last year	+12.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.12	£22.51
% change on same period last year	+38.24 %
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	7142	6495
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	10.10 %	6.575 %
Daily rates quoted	3860	2665
Average minimum daily rate	£406	£444
Average daily rate	£442	£472
% change on same period last year	-6.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£478	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	312	227
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.77	£23.09
Average hourly rate	£24.61	£24.40
% change on same period last year	+0.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.45	£25.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Cisco Engineer 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.

Cisco Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Engineer 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 Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

Cisco Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Cisco Engineer in their job title 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 with Cisco Engineer in their job title.

1 37 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 27 (72.97 %) Cisco Certification 3 26 (70.27 %) Firewall 4 17 (45.95 %) CheckPoint 4 17 (45.95 %) CCNP 5 14 (37.84 %) CCNA 5 14 (37.84 %) WAN 6 13 (35.14 %) Banking 7 12 (32.43 %) Cisco PIX 7 12 (32.43 %) Cisco ASA 8 11 (29.73 %) LAN 8 11 (29.73 %) BGP 8 11 (29.73 %) Nokia 9 10 (27.03 %) SSL 10 9 (24.32 %) VPN

11 8 (21.62 %) DNS 11 8 (21.62 %) NetScreen 12 7 (18.92 %) DHCP 13 6 (16.22 %) Migration 13 6 (16.22 %) OSPF 14 5 (13.51 %) SMTP 14 5 (13.51 %) FTP 14 5 (13.51 %) HTTP 14 5 (13.51 %) HTTPS 15 4 (10.81 %) Investment Banking 15 4 (10.81 %) CCIE 15 4 (10.81 %) Windows 15 4 (10.81 %) Finance 16 3 (8.108 %) MPLS 16 3 (8.108 %) Windows Server 2003

Cisco Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Cisco Engineer in their job title 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 with Cisco Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (2.703 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (2.703 %) Exchange Server 2007 1 1 (2.703 %) Office Communications Server	Communications & Networking 1 26 (70.27 %) Firewall 2 14 (37.84 %) WAN 3 12 (32.43 %) Cisco PIX 3 12 (32.43 %) Cisco ASA 4 11 (29.73 %) BGP 4 11 (29.73 %) LAN 5 10 (27.03 %) SSL 6 9 (24.32 %) VPN 7 8 (21.62 %) DNS 7 8 (21.62 %) NetScreen 8 7 (18.92 %) DHCP 9 6 (16.22 %) OSPF 10 5 (13.51 %) HTTPS 10 5 (13.51 %) SMTP 10 5 (13.51 %) FTP 10 5 (13.51 %) HTTP 11 3 (8.108 %) MPLS 11 3 (8.108 %) VLAN 12 2 (5.405 %) Network Security 12 2 (5.405 %) Intranet
General 1 13 (35.14 %) Banking 2 4 (10.81 %) Finance 2 4 (10.81 %) Investment Banking 3 2 (5.405 %) Law 4 1 (2.703 %) Government 4 1 (2.703 %) Retail	Miscellaneous 1 3 (8.108 %) Russian Language 2 1 (2.703 %) e-Health
Operating Systems 1 4 (10.81 %) Windows 2 3 (8.108 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (5.405 %) UNIX 3 2 (5.405 %) Linux 3 2 (5.405 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (16.22 %) Migration 2 3 (8.108 %) Data Protection 3 2 (5.405 %) ITIL 4 1 (2.703 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (2.703 %) Network Design 4 1 (2.703 %) Problem Management 4 1 (2.703 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (2.703 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 3 (8.108 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 27 (72.97 %) Cisco Certification 2 17 (45.95 %) CCNP 3 14 (37.84 %) CCNA 4 4 (10.81 %) CCIE 5 3 (8.108 %) CCDP 5 3 (8.108 %) Degree 6 2 (5.405 %) CCVP 7 1 (2.703 %) Microsoft Certification 7 1 (2.703 %) CNE 7 1 (2.703 %) Novell Certification 7 1 (2.703 %) Check Point Certification 7 1 (2.703 %) CCSA 7 1 (2.703 %) CISSP 7 1 (2.703 %) CCIP 7 1 (2.703 %) CCSP 7 1 (2.703 %) MCSE 7 1 (2.703 %) MCT
System Software 1 2 (5.405 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (8.108 %) CiscoWorks 2 1 (2.703 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 37 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 17 (45.95 %) CheckPoint 3 11 (29.73 %) Nokia 4 3 (8.108 %) Microsoft 5 2 (5.405 %) HP 5 2 (5.405 %) Intel 5 2 (5.405 %) Nortel 5 2 (5.405 %) Blue Coat 6 1 (2.703 %) Concord 6 1 (2.703 %) Citrix 6 1 (2.703 %) Juniper 6 1 (2.703 %) Novell 6 1 (2.703 %) Lotus 6 1 (2.703 %) Mitel