The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Croydon 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 Croydon 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 11 22 27
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +5
Contract jobs citing Cisco 4 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 8.163% 0.763% 3.723%
As % of the Vendors category 12.90% 1.961% 7.368%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
Average daily rate £318 £600 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-47.08% +46.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £600 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £600 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £343 £325
% change year-on-year
-10.21% +5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-4.76% -
All Vendors
Croydon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
31 51 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 63.27% 38.93% 50.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 59
Average daily rate £255 £450 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-43.33% +5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £375 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £560 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 £17.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% -17.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Cisco
London

Cisco
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon Cisco Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) AIX
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (28.57%) Windows XP
3 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
3 2 (28.57%) UNIX
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) IPsec
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (28.57%) Citrix
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (28.57%) SCCM

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
1 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
1 2 (28.57%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (14.29%) Lync
2 1 (14.29%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) IPsec
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (14.29%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) VoIP
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support
1 3 (42.86%) Team Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Support Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Support Team Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Wintel Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Network Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Support Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) AIX
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows XP
2 2 (28.57%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Change Control
1 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (14.29%) Operations Management
1 1 (14.29%) Migration
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) HP AIS
1 1 (14.29%) HP ASE
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) XenApp
1 2 (28.57%) vSphere
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) HP