The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco IOS skills 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 IOS over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Communications & Networking category 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco IOS
Rank 200 199 222
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +23
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 5 16 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.078% 0.201% 0.197%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.595% 1.559% 1.941%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 16
Average daily rate £351 £475 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.10% +18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £350 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £352 £475 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £299 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.78% -7.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £15.50 - £28.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+30.00% -9.09%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
841 1026 979
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.08% 12.86% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 697 629
Average daily rate £391 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.15% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £270 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 39 75
Average hourly rate £50.25 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+128.40% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £17.55 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
Cisco IOS
London

Cisco IOS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco IOS across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

City of London Cisco IOS Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco IOS
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Cisco IOS Daily Rate Trend

Cisco IOS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Cisco IOS Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco IOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cisco IOS 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 IOS.

1 17 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (52.94%) VPN
2 9 (52.94%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (41.18%) OSPF
3 7 (41.18%) CCNP
4 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
4 6 (35.29%) DNS
4 6 (35.29%) Windows
4 6 (35.29%) Firewall
5 5 (29.41%) MS Office
5 5 (29.41%) LAN
5 5 (29.41%) VoIP
5 5 (29.41%) WAN
5 5 (29.41%) CCNA
5 5 (29.41%) Network Management
6 4 (23.53%) Mac OS
6 4 (23.53%) CCIE
6 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
6 4 (23.53%) DHCP
6 4 (23.53%) MS Exchange
6 4 (23.53%) MPLS
6 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
6 4 (23.53%) BGP
7 3 (17.65%) Workflow
7 3 (17.65%) Wireless
7 3 (17.65%) ITIL
7 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
7 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
7 3 (17.65%) SSL
7 3 (17.65%) SLA

Cisco IOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cisco IOS 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 IOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) MS Exchange
2 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 3 (17.65%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) MS Office
2 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
3 1 (5.882%) Vectorworks
3 1 (5.882%) CINEMA 4D
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) VPN
2 7 (41.18%) OSPF
3 6 (35.29%) DNS
3 6 (35.29%) Firewall
4 5 (29.41%) LAN
4 5 (29.41%) VoIP
4 5 (29.41%) WAN
5 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
5 4 (23.53%) DHCP
5 4 (23.53%) MPLS
5 4 (23.53%) BGP
6 3 (17.65%) Wireless
6 3 (17.65%) SSL
6 3 (17.65%) HSRP
7 2 (11.76%) MRTG
7 2 (11.76%) IPv6
7 2 (11.76%) WLAN
7 2 (11.76%) IPsec
7 2 (11.76%) VRRP
7 2 (11.76%) SAN
General
1 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.882%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.882%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Network Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) 1st Line Support
2 3 (17.65%) Help Desk Support
2 3 (17.65%) Help Desk Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Network Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Network Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Data Network Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.882%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.882%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Mac OS
3 2 (11.76%) Windows 7
3 2 (11.76%) Android
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (11.76%) Mac OS X
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.882%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Network Management
2 3 (17.65%) Workflow
2 3 (17.65%) ITIL
2 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
3 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (11.76%) Change Management
3 2 (11.76%) Validation
4 1 (5.882%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.882%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (5.882%) Software Distribution
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (41.18%) CCNP
3 5 (29.41%) CCNA
4 4 (23.53%) CCIE
5 3 (17.65%) CCDP
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (5.882%) MCSE
7 1 (5.882%) CCA
7 1 (5.882%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (5.882%) CCEA
7 1 (5.882%) CCDA
7 1 (5.882%) Degree
7 1 (5.882%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) UAG
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.882%) XenApp
4 1 (5.882%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
3 2 (11.76%) Citrix
3 2 (11.76%) OPNET
3 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Apple
4 1 (5.882%) Adobe
4 1 (5.882%) Riverbed
4 1 (5.882%) Infoblox
4 1 (5.882%) Aruba
4 1 (5.882%) Polycom
4 1 (5.882%) Brocade
4 1 (5.882%) F5
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