The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco IPT 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 IPT over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco IP Telephony (CIPT)
Rank 206 209 240
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +31
Contract jobs citing Cisco IPT 4 3 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.059% 0.039% 0.110%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.475% 0.320% 1.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 8
Average daily rate £360 £333 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.27% -1.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £354 £319 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £372 £347 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £380 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.90% +26.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £23.75 - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £13.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.57%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
842 938 1047
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.42% 12.12% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 633 671
Average daily rate £375 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 29 86
Average hourly rate £25.00 £23.50 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% +10.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £18.10 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £103.80 £41.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
Cisco IPT
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Cisco IPT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Cisco IPT Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco IPT
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Cisco IPT Daily Rate Trend

Cisco IPT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Cisco IPT Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco IPT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cisco IPT 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 IPT.

1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (50.00%) CCIE
4 3 (30.00%) MPLS
4 3 (30.00%) OSPF
4 3 (30.00%) BGP
4 3 (30.00%) WAN
4 3 (30.00%) VoIP
4 3 (30.00%) Wireless
4 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 3 (30.00%) IP Telephony
4 3 (30.00%) Riverbed
5 2 (20.00%) Aruba
5 2 (20.00%) Polycom
5 2 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (20.00%) Finance
5 2 (20.00%) CCVP
5 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (20.00%) Network Design
5 2 (20.00%) Brocade
5 2 (20.00%) LAN
5 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (20.00%) CCNP
5 2 (20.00%) SAN
5 2 (20.00%) Citrix
5 2 (20.00%) Internet

Cisco IPT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cisco IPT 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 IPT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) J2EE
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) MPLS
1 3 (30.00%) OSPF
1 3 (30.00%) BGP
1 3 (30.00%) WAN
1 3 (30.00%) VoIP
1 3 (30.00%) Wireless
1 3 (30.00%) IP Telephony
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (20.00%) LAN
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (20.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) Internet
2 2 (20.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (10.00%) HSRP
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) PSTN
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Network Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Voice Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Telephony Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Avaya Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (10.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (10.00%) Online Games
2 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) UNIX
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (20.00%) Network Design
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL
1 2 (20.00%) WAN Optimisation
2 1 (10.00%) Change Management
2 1 (10.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) C
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) Jython
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (50.00%) CCIE
3 2 (20.00%) CCVP
3 2 (20.00%) CCNP
4 1 (10.00%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) XenApp
1 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Riverbed
3 2 (20.00%) Aruba
3 2 (20.00%) Polycom
3 2 (20.00%) Brocade
3 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) NetApp
4 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (10.00%) Avaya
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Blue Coat
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