The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco over the 3 months to 20 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 Vendors for the Coventry 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Cisco Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco
Rank 24 21 20
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -1
Contract jobs citing Cisco 4 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 1.887% 3.475% 3.743%
As % of the Vendors category 3.448% 6.338% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
Average daily rate £104 £120 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.54% -58.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £101 £120 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £107 £120 £297
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.46% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Average hourly rate - £21.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.25 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-5.80% +2.38%
All Vendors
Coventry
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
116 142 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 54.72% 54.83% 48.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 55 42
Average daily rate £325 £344 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.45% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £238 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 1
Average hourly rate £37.80 £13.75 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+174.90% -24.65%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Cisco
West Midlands

Cisco
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco across the Coventry region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Coventry Cisco Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend

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

Coventry Cisco Daily Rate Trend

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Coventry Cisco Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) MPLS
3 3 (60.00%) DHCP
3 3 (60.00%) MCP
3 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (60.00%) vSphere
3 3 (60.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco PIX
4 2 (40.00%) Network Security
4 2 (40.00%) Juniper
4 2 (40.00%) Degree
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (20.00%) IPsec
5 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (20.00%) CCNP
5 1 (20.00%) CCNA
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) MPLS
3 3 (60.00%) DHCP
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco PIX
4 2 (40.00%) Network Security
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (20.00%) IPsec
5 1 (20.00%) TACACS
5 1 (20.00%) VPN
5 1 (20.00%) LAN
5 1 (20.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Support
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Server Support
2 1 (20.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Support
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) MCP
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
Coventry, West Midlands
The rate will be 300-350 p/d based on experience of the following skills: VMware Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, Windows 7 & 8 Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, 2010...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands
Familiarity with strengths and weaknesses of recent technologies, to include most or all of: Virtualisation technologies, Microsoft Forefront UAG / TMG, Sharepoint, Cisco UCS, Cloud, firewalls and IPS/IDS.
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 17 May 2013