The first table below looks at the demand for CCNP in IT contracts advertised for the Colchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCNP over the 3 months to 23 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 Qualifications for the Colchester 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Rank 12 18 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing CCNP 6 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Colchester 11.54% 2.381% -
As % of the Qualifications category 31.58% 25.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Average daily rate £413 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £313
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.25 £23.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+66.30% -36.98%
All Qualifications
Colchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
19 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Colchester 36.54% 9.524% 8.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 2
Average daily rate £413 - £308
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
CCNP
Essex

CCNP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CCNP across the Colchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Colchester CCNP Jobs Demand Trend

CCNP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CCNP across the Colchester region.

Colchester CCNP Daily Rate Trend

CCNP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CCNP across the Colchester region.

Colchester CCNP Hourly Rate Trend

CCNP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester region citing CCNP 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 CCNP.

1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) CCIE
1 6 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 6 (100.00%) Network Security
1 6 (100.00%) F5
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (83.33%) Fat Client
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco UCCX
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (83.33%) DMVPN
2 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (83.33%) Infoblox
2 5 (83.33%) Imperva
2 5 (83.33%) Juniper
2 5 (83.33%) Thin Client
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) Blue Coat
2 5 (83.33%) ProxySG
2 5 (83.33%) CCSE
2 5 (83.33%) OSPF
2 5 (83.33%) Project Management
2 5 (83.33%) NetScreen
2 5 (83.33%) HP
2 5 (83.33%) Citrix
2 5 (83.33%) C

CCNP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester region citing CCNP 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 CCNP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 6 (100.00%) Network Security
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (83.33%) DMVPN
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) OSPF
2 5 (83.33%) NetScreen
2 5 (83.33%) VoIP
2 5 (83.33%) DHCP
2 5 (83.33%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Network Security Specialist
1 5 (83.33%) E-Commerce Specialist
1 5 (83.33%) Security Specialist
1 5 (83.33%) Network Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Fat Client
1 5 (83.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 5 (83.33%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CCIE
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (83.33%) CCSE
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (83.33%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco UCCX
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 6 (100.00%) F5
2 5 (83.33%) Infoblox
2 5 (83.33%) Imperva
2 5 (83.33%) Juniper
2 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) Blue Coat
2 5 (83.33%) HP
2 5 (83.33%) Citrix