The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco Nexus 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 Nexus over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Nexus
Rank 183 207 219
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +12
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 20 10 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.311% 0.127% 0.176%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.384% 0.983% 1.745%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 7
Average daily rate £450 £400 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -23.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £325 £390
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £435 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £325
% change year-on-year
- +11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £21.88
% change year-on-year
+32.69% +18.85%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
839 1017 974
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.06% 12.94% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 692 637
Average daily rate £388 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.06% +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 42 39 71
Average hourly rate £54.00 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+145.45% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £17.55 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Cisco Nexus
London

Cisco Nexus
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Cisco Nexus Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Cisco Nexus Daily Rate Trend

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Nexus across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Cisco Nexus Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco Nexus
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Cisco Nexus Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco Nexus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cisco Nexus 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 Nexus.

1 32 (100.00%) Cisco
2 16 (50.00%) VMware
3 13 (40.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (40.63%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (40.63%) BGP
4 12 (37.50%) Firewall
5 10 (31.25%) OSPF
5 10 (31.25%) Migration
6 9 (28.13%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (28.13%) MPLS
6 9 (28.13%) Juniper
6 9 (28.13%) LAN
7 8 (25.00%) HP
7 8 (25.00%) CCNP
7 8 (25.00%) DNS
8 7 (21.88%) DHCP
8 7 (21.88%) Ethernet
8 7 (21.88%) CCIE
8 7 (21.88%) Linux
8 7 (21.88%) Wireless
8 7 (21.88%) Finance
8 7 (21.88%) F5
9 6 (18.75%) Junos
9 6 (18.75%) FCoE
9 6 (18.75%) FortiGate
9 6 (18.75%) IP Telephony
9 6 (18.75%) Sourcefire
9 6 (18.75%) Fortinet
9 6 (18.75%) VLAN
9 6 (18.75%) Network Architecture

Cisco Nexus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cisco Nexus 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 Nexus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.125%) SOAP
1 1 (3.125%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.375%) SharePoint
1 3 (9.375%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (3.125%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.125%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (40.63%) BGP
2 12 (37.50%) Firewall
3 10 (31.25%) OSPF
4 9 (28.13%) Cisco ASA
4 9 (28.13%) MPLS
4 9 (28.13%) LAN
5 8 (25.00%) DNS
6 7 (21.88%) DHCP
6 7 (21.88%) Ethernet
6 7 (21.88%) Wireless
7 6 (18.75%) Junos
7 6 (18.75%) FCoE
7 6 (18.75%) IP Telephony
7 6 (18.75%) VLAN
7 6 (18.75%) WAN
7 6 (18.75%) SNMP
8 5 (15.63%) SAN
8 5 (15.63%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (9.375%) EIGRP
10 2 (6.250%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.125%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (3.125%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (21.88%) Finance
2 2 (6.250%) Banking
2 2 (6.250%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.250%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.125%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Firewall Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (9.375%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (9.375%) Architect
5 2 (6.250%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.250%) Technical Leader
5 2 (6.250%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (6.250%) SAN Engineer
5 2 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (6.250%) SAN Storage Engineer
6 1 (3.125%) 3rd Line Support Technician
6 1 (3.125%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.125%) Support Technician
6 1 (3.125%) Windows Server Engineer
6 1 (3.125%) Cisco Expert
6 1 (3.125%) Data Centre Engineer
6 1 (3.125%) Network Architect
6 1 (3.125%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.125%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.125%) Firmware
2 1 (3.125%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.125%) SecurID
2 1 (3.125%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.125%) Open Source
2 1 (3.125%) PaaS
2 1 (3.125%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Windows
3 3 (9.375%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Migration
2 6 (18.75%) Network Architecture
2 6 (18.75%) Network Management
3 4 (12.50%) Project Planning
4 3 (9.375%) Project Management
4 3 (9.375%) Load Balancing
5 2 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (6.250%) ITIL
5 2 (6.250%) Change Control
6 1 (3.125%) E-Commerce
6 1 (3.125%) Configuration Management
6 1 (3.125%) Service Management
6 1 (3.125%) Change Management
6 1 (3.125%) Business Continuity
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (25.00%) CCNP
3 7 (21.88%) CCIE
4 4 (12.50%) Degree
4 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) JNCIE
4 4 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (6.250%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.250%) CCDP
6 1 (3.125%) VCP5
6 1 (3.125%) VCAP
6 1 (3.125%) VTSP
6 1 (3.125%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.125%) CCDA
6 1 (3.125%) MCSE
6 1 (3.125%) MCITP
6 1 (3.125%) CCVP
6 1 (3.125%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.125%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (40.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (15.63%) vSphere
3 4 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (9.375%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (6.250%) VMware ESX
6 1 (3.125%) vCloud
6 1 (3.125%) Xen
6 1 (3.125%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (3.125%) XenServer
6 1 (3.125%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) FortiGate
2 4 (12.50%) SCOM
3 3 (9.375%) SCCM
4 1 (3.125%) Nagios
4 1 (3.125%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) Cisco
2 16 (50.00%) VMware
3 9 (28.13%) Juniper
4 8 (25.00%) HP
5 7 (21.88%) F5
6 6 (18.75%) Sourcefire
6 6 (18.75%) Fortinet
7 4 (12.50%) Aruba
7 4 (12.50%) Polycom
7 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
7 4 (12.50%) EMC
8 3 (9.375%) Red Hat
8 3 (9.375%) Sophos
9 2 (6.250%) Riverbed
9 2 (6.250%) 3PAR
9 2 (6.250%) NetApp
9 2 (6.250%) CheckPoint
9 2 (6.250%) Citrix
10 1 (3.125%) Oracle
10 1 (3.125%) SAP
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