The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco 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 Vendors for the Crawley 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco
Rank 16 27 3
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -24
Contract jobs citing Cisco 9 8 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 6.040% 2.888% 21.31%
As % of the Vendors category 10.00% 8.511% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
Average daily rate £305 £140 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+117.85% -53.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £289 £140 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £140 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £343 £325
% change year-on-year
-10.21% +5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £31.25 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-4.76% -
All Vendors
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
90 94 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 60.40% 33.94% 50.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 53 22
Average daily rate £390 £380 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.63% +5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £287 £215 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 5
Average hourly rate £26.00 £26.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +23.80%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Cisco
West Sussex

Cisco
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley Cisco Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (50.00%) VPN
2 8 (50.00%) Juniper
2 8 (50.00%) Firewall
2 8 (50.00%) VMware
3 7 (43.75%) Network Security
3 7 (43.75%) Windows
3 7 (43.75%) Linux
4 6 (37.50%) DHCP
4 6 (37.50%) DNS
4 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
4 6 (37.50%) Wireless
4 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (31.25%) Junos
5 5 (31.25%) Citrix
6 4 (25.00%) CISSP
6 4 (25.00%) Avaya
6 4 (25.00%) CheckPoint
6 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (25.00%) BGP
6 4 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (25.00%) IPsec
6 4 (25.00%) OSPF
6 4 (25.00%) SSL
6 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
6 4 (25.00%) WAN
6 4 (25.00%) LAN
6 4 (25.00%) VoIP
6 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
6 4 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 Development
1 2 (12.50%) Web Services
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (6.250%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (12.50%) IIS
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (12.50%) Zimbra
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (6.250%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Office
1 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) VPN
1 8 (50.00%) Firewall
2 7 (43.75%) Network Security
3 6 (37.50%) DHCP
3 6 (37.50%) DNS
3 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 6 (37.50%) Wireless
4 5 (31.25%) Junos
5 4 (25.00%) BGP
5 4 (25.00%) IPsec
5 4 (25.00%) OSPF
5 4 (25.00%) SSL
5 4 (25.00%) WAN
5 4 (25.00%) LAN
5 4 (25.00%) VoIP
6 3 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (18.75%) SAN
7 2 (12.50%) EIGRP
7 2 (12.50%) MPLS
7 2 (12.50%) H.323
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (6.250%) DB2
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (12.50%) Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Team Leader
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Support Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Support Team Leader
3 2 (12.50%) Network Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 1 (6.250%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) IT Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) Windows Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) IVR
1 2 (12.50%) SecurID
2 1 (6.250%) CESG
2 1 (6.250%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (18.75%) AIX
5 2 (12.50%) UNIX
5 2 (12.50%) Windows XP
6 1 (6.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 4 (25.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (18.75%) Analytics
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Management
4 1 (6.250%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (6.250%) Matrix Management
4 1 (6.250%) Information Security
4 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2
4 1 (6.250%) Service Management
4 1 (6.250%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) CISSP
1 4 (25.00%) ISSAP
1 4 (25.00%) CISM
2 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (6.250%) JNCIS
2 1 (6.250%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) CCNP
2 1 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (25.00%) XenApp
1 4 (25.00%) vSphere
2 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (12.50%) Postfix
2 2 (12.50%) VMware ESX
2 2 (12.50%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco IPCC
1 2 (12.50%) FortiGate
1 2 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (6.250%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (50.00%) Juniper
2 8 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) Citrix
4 4 (25.00%) Avaya
4 4 (25.00%) CheckPoint
5 3 (18.75%) F5
6 2 (12.50%) CA
6 2 (12.50%) CommVault
6 2 (12.50%) Nortel
6 2 (12.50%) Sophos
6 2 (12.50%) HP
6 2 (12.50%) Oracle
6 2 (12.50%) Verint
6 2 (12.50%) Riverbed
7 1 (6.250%) EMC
7 1 (6.250%) Red Hat