City of London Cisco Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts within the City of London region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Cisco over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Altrincham Andover Angus Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Cleethorpes Cobham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Immingham Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	39
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	278	276
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.369 %	0.283 %
As % of the category below	7.409 %	8.236 %
Daily rates quoted	119	109
Average minimum daily rate	£374	£362
Average daily rate	£397	£382
% change on same period last year	+3.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.31	£21.78
Average hourly rate	£29.17	£23.24
% change on same period last year	+25.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.02	£24.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.16	£27.11
% change on same period last year	-7.19 %
Vendors City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	3752	3351
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.982 %	3.438 %
Daily rates quoted	1952	1430
Average minimum daily rate	£423	£438
Average daily rate	£455	£466
% change on same period last year	-2.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£487	£493
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£357
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	165	140
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.84	£20.14
Average hourly rate	£25.62	£21.69
% change on same period last year	+18.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.41	£23.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.18	£25.11
% change on same period last year	-7.68 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors 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 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 across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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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 across the City of London region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cisco 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.

1 184 (38.49 %) Cisco Certification 2 170 (35.56 %) Firewall 3 152 (31.80 %) Finance 4 115 (24.06 %) WAN 5 114 (23.85 %) Windows 6 113 (23.64 %) LAN 7 102 (21.34 %) CCNP 7 102 (21.34 %) Banking 8 87 (18.20 %) CheckPoint 9 81 (16.95 %) VPN 10 79 (16.53 %) BGP 11 74 (15.48 %) OSPF 12 67 (14.02 %) CCIE 12 67 (14.02 %) CCNA 13 60 (12.55 %) Microsoft

13 60 (12.55 %) VoIP 14 59 (12.34 %) UNIX 14 59 (12.34 %) SAN 15 56 (11.72 %) TCP/IP 15 56 (11.72 %) MS Exchange 16 55 (11.51 %) Active Directory 17 53 (11.09 %) Nokia 18 51 (10.67 %) Investment Banking 19 44 (9.205 %) Network Security 20 40 (8.368 %) Cisco PIX 20 40 (8.368 %) Linux 21 39 (8.159 %) Juniper 21 39 (8.159 %) DNS 21 39 (8.159 %) Network Design 22 38 (7.950 %) MPLS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cisco 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (1.046 %) .NET 1 5 (1.046 %) XML 2 4 (0.837 %) HTML 2 4 (0.837 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (0.837 %) Application Packaging 3 2 (0.418 %) WebServices 3 2 (0.418 %) Middleware 4 1 (0.209 %) COM 4 1 (0.209 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 56 (11.72 %) MS Exchange 2 28 (5.858 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 21 (4.393 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 10 (2.092 %) IIS 5 7 (1.464 %) Apache 5 7 (1.464 %) SharePoint 6 6 (1.255 %) Tomcat 7 4 (0.837 %) Lotus Notes 8 2 (0.418 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 2 (0.418 %) Office Communications Server 9 1 (0.209 %) Resin 9 1 (0.209 %) WorkSite 9 1 (0.209 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 20 (4.184 %) MS Office 2 14 (2.929 %) MS Excel 3 8 (1.674 %) MS Visio 4 3 (0.628 %) MS Project 5 1 (0.209 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 2 (0.418 %) RMDS 2 1 (0.209 %) Kondor+ 2 1 (0.209 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 170 (35.56 %) Firewall 2 115 (24.06 %) WAN 3 113 (23.64 %) LAN 4 81 (16.95 %) VPN 5 79 (16.53 %) BGP 6 74 (15.48 %) OSPF 7 60 (12.55 %) VoIP 8 59 (12.34 %) SAN 9 56 (11.72 %) TCP/IP 10 44 (9.205 %) Network Security 11 40 (8.368 %) Cisco PIX 12 39 (8.159 %) DNS 13 38 (7.950 %) MPLS 14 33 (6.904 %) Internet 15 31 (6.485 %) NetScreen 16 26 (5.439 %) EIGRP 17 21 (4.393 %) Cisco IPT 18 20 (4.184 %) IP Telephony 19 16 (3.347 %) Ethernet 20 15 (3.138 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (3.556 %) SQL Server 2 10 (2.092 %) SQL Server 2000 3 9 (1.883 %) SQL Server 2005 4 8 (1.674 %) MySQL 5 3 (0.628 %) Informix 5 3 (0.628 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (0.209 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (0.209 %) Siebel EIM
Development Applications 1 1 (0.209 %) Subversion	General 1 152 (31.80 %) Finance 2 102 (21.34 %) Banking 3 51 (10.67 %) Investment Banking 4 35 (7.322 %) Telecoms 5 22 (4.603 %) Financial Institution 6 14 (2.929 %) Back Office 7 13 (2.720 %) Government 8 12 (2.510 %) Retail 9 9 (1.883 %) Insurance 10 7 (1.464 %) Law 11 6 (1.255 %) Billing 11 6 (1.255 %) Health 11 6 (1.255 %) Education 12 4 (0.837 %) Multimedia 13 3 (0.628 %) Legal 14 2 (0.418 %) Games 15 1 (0.209 %) Marketing 15 1 (0.209 %) Police 15 1 (0.209 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 123 (25.73 %) Network Engineer 2 66 (13.81 %) Analyst 3 43 (8.996 %) Support Engineer 4 39 (8.159 %) Administrator 5 34 (7.113 %) Project Manager 5 34 (7.113 %) Cisco Engineer 6 32 (6.695 %) Network Support 7 29 (6.067 %) Network Analyst 7 29 (6.067 %) Voice Engineer 8 27 (5.649 %) Support Analyst 9 25 (5.230 %) Consultant 10 22 (4.603 %) Cisco Network Engineer 11 20 (4.184 %) Network Specialist 12 17 (3.556 %) Architect 13 16 (3.347 %) Desktop Support 13 16 (3.347 %) Security Engineer 14 14 (2.929 %) Storage Administrator 14 14 (2.929 %) Network Support Engineer 15 13 (2.720 %) Senior Network Engineer 15 13 (2.720 %) Firewall Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 16 (3.347 %) Clustering 2 10 (2.092 %) Video Conferencing 3 9 (1.883 %) Derivative 3 9 (1.883 %) CLARiiON 4 8 (1.674 %) Fixed Income 4 8 (1.674 %) Celerra 5 5 (1.046 %) IVR 5 5 (1.046 %) Asset Management 5 5 (1.046 %) SecurID 6 4 (0.837 %) Symmetrix 7 3 (0.628 %) PKI 8 2 (0.418 %) EMC Centera 8 2 (0.418 %) Firmware 8 2 (0.418 %) Blackberry 8 2 (0.418 %) Spanish Language 8 2 (0.418 %) Fund Management 9 1 (0.209 %) Fat Client 9 1 (0.209 %) Statistics 9 1 (0.209 %) Italian Language 9 1 (0.209 %) Handset
Operating Systems 1 114 (23.85 %) Windows 2 59 (12.34 %) UNIX 3 40 (8.368 %) Linux 4 34 (7.113 %) Windows 2000 5 32 (6.695 %) Solaris 6 27 (5.649 %) Windows Server 2003 7 16 (3.347 %) Windows XP 8 6 (1.255 %) AIX 9 5 (1.046 %) HPUX 10 4 (0.837 %) Fedora 11 3 (0.628 %) Windows NT 12 2 (0.418 %) Debian 13 1 (0.209 %) Windows Mobile 13 1 (0.209 %) VMS 13 1 (0.209 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 39 (8.159 %) Network Design 2 38 (7.950 %) ITIL 3 29 (6.067 %) PRINCE2 3 29 (6.067 %) Migration 4 23 (4.812 %) Project Management 5 11 (2.301 %) Service Delivery 6 10 (2.092 %) Disaster Recovery 7 8 (1.674 %) Change Management 7 8 (1.674 %) Service Management 7 8 (1.674 %) Security Cleared 8 7 (1.464 %) PRINCE 8 7 (1.464 %) Risk Management 8 7 (1.464 %) Incident Management 9 6 (1.255 %) Load Balancing 9 6 (1.255 %) E-Commerce 10 5 (1.046 %) Release Management 10 5 (1.046 %) B2B 10 5 (1.046 %) SC Cleared 11 4 (0.837 %) Penetration Testing 12 3 (0.628 %) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages 1 28 (5.858 %) SQL 2 14 (2.929 %) Perl 3 5 (1.046 %) Shell Script 4 4 (0.837 %) VBScript 4 4 (0.837 %) VB 5 3 (0.628 %) Java 5 3 (0.628 %) C 5 3 (0.628 %) C# 6 2 (0.418 %) JCL 7 1 (0.209 %) C++	Qualifications 1 184 (38.49 %) Cisco Certification 2 102 (21.34 %) CCNP 3 67 (14.02 %) CCNA 3 67 (14.02 %) CCIE 4 31 (6.485 %) Microsoft Certification 5 25 (5.230 %) MCSE 6 21 (4.393 %) Degree 7 17 (3.556 %) CCVP 8 14 (2.929 %) CCSE 9 12 (2.510 %) CCSA 10 11 (2.301 %) MCSA 11 10 (2.092 %) CCIP 12 8 (1.674 %) CCDP 13 7 (1.464 %) CISSP 13 7 (1.464 %) ITIL Certification 14 6 (1.255 %) CCDA 15 5 (1.046 %) MCP 16 4 (0.837 %) Check Point Certification 16 4 (0.837 %) MBA 17 3 (0.628 %) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (1.674 %) SLA 2 4 (0.837 %) QA 3 2 (0.418 %) ISO9001 4 1 (0.209 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 55 (11.51 %) Active Directory 2 9 (1.883 %) NetBackup 3 7 (1.464 %) ISA Server 3 7 (1.464 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 4 (0.837 %) VMware ESX 4 4 (0.837 %) Backup Exec 4 4 (0.837 %) Squid 5 3 (0.628 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 3 (0.628 %) VMware Server 6 1 (0.209 %) NFS 6 1 (0.209 %) Oracle RAC 6 1 (0.209 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 20 (4.184 %) CiscoWorks 2 18 (3.766 %) OpenView 3 9 (1.883 %) MAILsweeper 4 6 (1.255 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 6 (1.255 %) NNM 5 4 (0.837 %) BMC PATROL 6 3 (0.628 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 3 (0.628 %) MOM 6 3 (0.628 %) Tivoli 7 2 (0.418 %) Tivoli NetView 7 2 (0.418 %) Legato 7 2 (0.418 %) Nagios 7 2 (0.418 %) MIMEsweeper 7 2 (0.418 %) EMC NetWorker 8 1 (0.209 %) HP Data Protector 8 1 (0.209 %) WSUS 8 1 (0.209 %) EMC TimeFinder 8 1 (0.209 %) ZENworks 8 1 (0.209 %) Norton AntiVirus 8 1 (0.209 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 87 (18.20 %) CheckPoint 2 60 (12.55 %) Microsoft 3 53 (11.09 %) Nokia 4 39 (8.159 %) Juniper 5 34 (7.113 %) HP 5 34 (7.113 %) Citrix 6 32 (6.695 %) VMware 7 24 (5.021 %) Nortel 8 23 (4.812 %) Oracle 9 19 (3.975 %) Bloomberg 10 18 (3.766 %) Sun 11 16 (3.347 %) EMC 11 16 (3.347 %) Reuters 12 15 (3.138 %) NetApp 12 15 (3.138 %) Brocade 12 15 (3.138 %) Red Hat 12 15 (3.138 %) BT 13 11 (2.301 %) Blue Coat 14 10 (2.092 %) VERITAS 15 9 (1.883 %) Remedy