The first table below looks at the demand for CiscoWorks 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 CiscoWorks over the 3 months to 24 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 Systems Management 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco CiscoWorks
Rank 202 214 238
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +24
Contract jobs citing CiscoWorks 1 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.051% 0.071%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.279% 0.950% 1.480%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
Average daily rate £400 £388 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -3.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £238 £258
% change year-on-year
+26.31% -7.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- -18.18%
All Systems Management
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
359 421 473
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 5.628% 5.353% 4.829%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 267 301
Average daily rate £400 £380 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -10.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £264 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 33
Average hourly rate £36.00 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.88 £16.60 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.65 £34.20 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
CiscoWorks
London

CiscoWorks
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CiscoWorks across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

City of London CiscoWorks Jobs Demand Trend

CiscoWorks
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London CiscoWorks Daily Rate Trend

CiscoWorks
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London CiscoWorks Hourly Rate Trend

CiscoWorks
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CiscoWorks 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 CiscoWorks.

1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) OpenView
2 4 (66.67%) HP
2 4 (66.67%) VPN
2 4 (66.67%) MPLS
2 4 (66.67%) OSPF
2 4 (66.67%) BGP
2 4 (66.67%) Wireless
3 3 (50.00%) IPsec
3 3 (50.00%) RSVP
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (50.00%) Juniper
3 3 (50.00%) Nokia
3 3 (50.00%) Ethernet
3 3 (50.00%) SNMP
4 2 (33.33%) VoIP
4 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 2 (33.33%) Internet
4 2 (33.33%) Legal
4 2 (33.33%) Riverbed
4 2 (33.33%) Network Management
4 2 (33.33%) F5
5 1 (16.67%) HSRP
5 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) Management Information System

CiscoWorks
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CiscoWorks 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 CiscoWorks. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) VPN
2 4 (66.67%) MPLS
2 4 (66.67%) OSPF
2 4 (66.67%) BGP
2 4 (66.67%) Wireless
3 3 (50.00%) IPsec
3 3 (50.00%) RSVP
3 3 (50.00%) Ethernet
3 3 (50.00%) SNMP
4 2 (33.33%) VoIP
4 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 2 (33.33%) Internet
5 1 (16.67%) HSRP
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (16.67%) VLAN
5 1 (16.67%) Network Security
5 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
5 1 (16.67%) LAN
5 1 (16.67%) SSL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) CCDP
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) OpenView
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) HP
3 3 (50.00%) Juniper
3 3 (50.00%) Nokia
4 2 (33.33%) Riverbed
4 2 (33.33%) F5
5 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
5 1 (16.67%) Mitel
5 1 (16.67%) Blue Coat
5 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
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