City of London RIP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Routing Information Protocol (RIP) 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 RIP over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Location Aberdeen Bedfordshire Bradford Buckinghamshire City of London Dunstable East of England England Harrogate Hertfordshire Leeds London Luton Milton Keynes North East North Yorkshire Scotland South East Sunderland Tyne and Wear UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	209	181
Rank change on same period last year	-28
Matching contract IT job ads	14	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	1.451 %	2.113 %
Daily rates quoted	6	10
Average minimum daily rate	£467	£435
Average daily rate	£491	£490
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£516	£545
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£367
% change on same period last year	-6.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£41.50	£32.10
% change on same period last year	+29.26 %
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 %
RIP 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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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 RIP 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 RIP.

1 16 (94.12 %) OSPF 2 15 (88.24 %) BGP 2 15 (88.24 %) Cisco 3 8 (47.06 %) Finance 4 7 (41.18 %) Firewall 4 7 (41.18 %) Cisco Certification 4 7 (41.18 %) Nokia 4 7 (41.18 %) CheckPoint 4 7 (41.18 %) WAN 4 7 (41.18 %) TCP/IP 5 5 (29.41 %) CCIE 5 5 (29.41 %) MPLS 5 5 (29.41 %) Banking 6 4 (23.53 %) CCNP 6 4 (23.53 %) B2B

6 4 (23.53 %) CiscoWorks 6 4 (23.53 %) EIGRP 6 4 (23.53 %) LAN 7 3 (17.65 %) E-Commerce 7 3 (17.65 %) SNMP 7 3 (17.65 %) Internet 7 3 (17.65 %) Network Design 7 3 (17.65 %) Education 7 3 (17.65 %) MBA 7 3 (17.65 %) QA 8 2 (11.76 %) Cisco PIX 8 2 (11.76 %) Network Security 8 2 (11.76 %) Investment Banking 8 2 (11.76 %) VLAN 8 2 (11.76 %) Tivoli NetView

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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 RIP 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 RIP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (5.882 %) HTML	Communications & Networking 1 16 (94.12 %) OSPF 2 15 (88.24 %) BGP 3 7 (41.18 %) Firewall 3 7 (41.18 %) WAN 3 7 (41.18 %) TCP/IP 4 5 (29.41 %) MPLS 5 4 (23.53 %) EIGRP 5 4 (23.53 %) LAN 6 3 (17.65 %) Internet 6 3 (17.65 %) SNMP 7 2 (11.76 %) IPX 7 2 (11.76 %) DNS 7 2 (11.76 %) DHCP 7 2 (11.76 %) VLAN 7 2 (11.76 %) Cisco PIX 7 2 (11.76 %) Network Security 8 1 (5.882 %) CHAP 8 1 (5.882 %) DSL 8 1 (5.882 %) Ethernet 8 1 (5.882 %) FTP
General 1 8 (47.06 %) Finance 2 5 (29.41 %) Banking 3 3 (17.65 %) Education 4 2 (11.76 %) Investment Banking	Job Titles 1 13 (76.47 %) Network Engineer 2 3 (17.65 %) Architect 2 3 (17.65 %) Cisco Architect 3 2 (11.76 %) Network Support 3 2 (11.76 %) Security Engineer 3 2 (11.76 %) Network Security Engineer 3 2 (11.76 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (11.76 %) Network Support Engineer 3 2 (11.76 %) Project Engineer 4 1 (5.882 %) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (11.76 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 2 (11.76 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (23.53 %) B2B 2 3 (17.65 %) E-Commerce 2 3 (17.65 %) Network Design 3 2 (11.76 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (5.882 %) Business Continuity	Qualifications 1 7 (41.18 %) Cisco Certification 2 5 (29.41 %) CCIE 3 4 (23.53 %) CCNP 4 3 (17.65 %) MBA 5 1 (5.882 %) CCIP 5 1 (5.882 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (17.65 %) QA 2 2 (11.76 %) ISO9001	Systems Management 1 4 (23.53 %) CiscoWorks 2 2 (11.76 %) Tivoli NetView
Vendors 1 15 (88.24 %) Cisco 2 7 (41.18 %) Nokia 2 7 (41.18 %) CheckPoint