City of London EIGRP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited EIGRP over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Leek London Middlesex North East North West Portsmouth Reading Scotland South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Stevenage Sunderland Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	208	177
Rank change on same period last year	-31
Matching contract IT job ads	15	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	1.554 %	2.582 %
Daily rates quoted	11	9
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£456
Average daily rate	£392	£494
% change on same period last year	-20.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£409	£533
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£408
% change on same period last year	-25.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.42	£32.06
% change on same period last year	-14.48 %
Communications & Networking City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	965	852
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.281 %	0.874 %
Daily rates quoted	460	349
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£402
Average daily rate	£400	£423
% change on same period last year	-5.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£423	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£343
% change on same period last year	-2.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	67	67
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.54	£20.11
Average hourly rate	£29.09	£21.29
% change on same period last year	+36.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.64	£22.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.96	£28.60
% change on same period last year	-9.22 %
EIGRP London

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.

EIGRP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing EIGRP across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

EIGRP
Daily Rate Trend

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

EIGRP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

EIGRP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

EIGRP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 27 (96.43 %) BGP 2 26 (92.86 %) Cisco 3 24 (85.71 %) OSPF 4 20 (71.43 %) Cisco Certification 5 16 (57.14 %) Firewall 6 14 (50.00 %) TCP/IP 7 12 (42.86 %) CCIE 7 12 (42.86 %) VoIP 8 10 (35.71 %) WAN 8 10 (35.71 %) Finance 9 9 (32.14 %) LAN 9 9 (32.14 %) CCNP 10 7 (25.00 %) VPN 10 7 (25.00 %) Banking 11 6 (21.43 %) Nokia

11 6 (21.43 %) CheckPoint 11 6 (21.43 %) MPLS 12 5 (17.86 %) CiscoWorks 12 5 (17.86 %) Juniper 13 4 (14.29 %) Nortel 13 4 (14.29 %) CCNA 13 4 (14.29 %) RIP 13 4 (14.29 %) PBX 13 4 (14.29 %) Network Design 13 4 (14.29 %) Telecoms 14 3 (10.71 %) IPsec 14 3 (10.71 %) Project Management 14 3 (10.71 %) Network Security 14 3 (10.71 %) Ethernet 14 3 (10.71 %) Reuters

EIGRP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking 1 27 (96.43 %) BGP 2 24 (85.71 %) OSPF 3 16 (57.14 %) Firewall 4 14 (50.00 %) TCP/IP 5 12 (42.86 %) VoIP 6 10 (35.71 %) WAN 7 9 (32.14 %) LAN 8 7 (25.00 %) VPN 9 6 (21.43 %) MPLS 10 4 (14.29 %) PBX 10 4 (14.29 %) RIP 11 3 (10.71 %) Ethernet 11 3 (10.71 %) Network Security 11 3 (10.71 %) IPsec 12 2 (7.143 %) Cisco IOS 12 2 (7.143 %) Cisco PIX 12 2 (7.143 %) Nortel Meridian 12 2 (7.143 %) VLAN 12 2 (7.143 %) IPX 12 2 (7.143 %) SNMP	General 1 10 (35.71 %) Finance 2 7 (25.00 %) Banking 3 4 (14.29 %) Telecoms 4 2 (7.143 %) Financial Institution 4 2 (7.143 %) Games 4 2 (7.143 %) Investment Banking 5 1 (3.571 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 17 (60.71 %) Network Engineer 2 5 (17.86 %) Support Engineer 3 4 (14.29 %) Network Support 4 3 (10.71 %) Voice Engineer 4 3 (10.71 %) Network Security Engineer 4 3 (10.71 %) Network Support Engineer 4 3 (10.71 %) Security Engineer 5 2 (7.143 %) Analyst 5 2 (7.143 %) 3rd Line Support 5 2 (7.143 %) Network Designer 6 1 (3.571 %) Architect 6 1 (3.571 %) Project Manager 6 1 (3.571 %) Network Analyst 6 1 (3.571 %) Design Engineer 6 1 (3.571 %) Cisco Engineer 6 1 (3.571 %) Network Specialist 6 1 (3.571 %) Solutions Analyst 6 1 (3.571 %) Implementation Engineer 6 1 (3.571 %) Technical Designer 6 1 (3.571 %) Data Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.143 %) IVR 2 1 (3.571 %) Firmware
Operating Systems 1 2 (7.143 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (14.29 %) Network Design 2 3 (10.71 %) Project Management 3 2 (7.143 %) Change Management 4 1 (3.571 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 1 (3.571 %) C	Qualifications 1 20 (71.43 %) Cisco Certification 2 12 (42.86 %) CCIE 3 9 (32.14 %) CCNP 4 4 (14.29 %) CCNA 5 2 (7.143 %) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (7.143 %) ISO9001	Systems Management 1 5 (17.86 %) CiscoWorks 2 2 (7.143 %) Tivoli NetView 3 1 (3.571 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 26 (92.86 %) Cisco 2 6 (21.43 %) Nokia 2 6 (21.43 %) CheckPoint 3 5 (17.86 %) Juniper 4 4 (14.29 %) Nortel 5 3 (10.71 %) Reuters 5 3 (10.71 %) Bloomberg 6 2 (7.143 %) NetScout 7 1 (3.571 %) Alcatel 7 1 (3.571 %) Infovista 7 1 (3.571 %) Avaya 7 1 (3.571 %) HP