East Midlands CCNA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) in IT contracts within the East Midlands region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CCNA over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Cobham Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Immingham Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Romford Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	68
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	32	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.043 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	15.76 %	11.72 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£217	£300
Average daily rate	£240	£337
% change on same period last year	-28.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£262	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£277	£309
% change on same period last year	-10.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.50	£18.50
Average hourly rate	£14.00	£20.58
% change on same period last year	-31.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.50	£22.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.28	£25.67
% change on same period last year	-1.50 %
Qualifications East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	203	239
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.271 %	0.242 %
Daily rates quoted	62	52
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£308
Average daily rate	£295	£324
% change on same period last year	-9.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£315	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.46	£23.87
Average hourly rate	£19.86	£24.67
% change on same period last year	-19.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.27	£25.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
CCNA England

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.

CCNA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CCNA across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

CCNA
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CCNA across the East Midlands region.

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNA across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 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 CCNA across the East Midlands region.

CCNA
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNA across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Nottinghamshire	+6	21	£282	-
Leicestershire	+11	5	£175	-
Lincolnshire	-	1	-	-
Derbyshire	+15	1	-	-

CCNA England

CCNA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing CCNA 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 CCNA.

1 42 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 30 (71.43 %) Cisco 3 23 (54.76 %) Microsoft Certification 4 21 (50.00 %) MCSE 5 15 (35.71 %) CCNP 6 7 (16.67 %) Microsoft 7 6 (14.29 %) Windows 7 6 (14.29 %) WAN 7 6 (14.29 %) Citrix 8 5 (11.90 %) HP 8 5 (11.90 %) LAN 8 5 (11.90 %) CCDA 9 4 (9.524 %) SLA 9 4 (9.524 %) MFGPRO 10 3 (7.143 %) Change Management

10 3 (7.143 %) Citrix Certification 10 3 (7.143 %) CCEA 10 3 (7.143 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 10 3 (7.143 %) CNE 10 3 (7.143 %) Novell Certification 10 3 (7.143 %) TCP/IP 10 3 (7.143 %) MCSA 10 3 (7.143 %) MS Office 10 3 (7.143 %) MCP 10 3 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 10 3 (7.143 %) Nortel 10 3 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 2 (4.762 %) WatchGuard 11 2 (4.762 %) PACS 11 2 (4.762 %) Network Design

CCNA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing CCNA 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 CCNA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (4.762 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 3 (7.143 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.381 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 4 (9.524 %) MFGPRO	Communications & Networking 1 6 (14.29 %) WAN 2 5 (11.90 %) LAN 3 3 (7.143 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (4.762 %) VPN 4 2 (4.762 %) DNS 4 2 (4.762 %) DHCP 5 1 (2.381 %) VoIP 5 1 (2.381 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server	General 1 2 (4.762 %) Finance 1 2 (4.762 %) Health 2 1 (2.381 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 10 (23.81 %) Network Engineer 2 5 (11.90 %) Support Engineer 2 5 (11.90 %) Helpdesk Engineer 3 4 (9.524 %) Cisco Engineer 3 4 (9.524 %) Technical Support 3 4 (9.524 %) Administrator 3 4 (9.524 %) Network Administrator 4 3 (7.143 %) 3rd Line Support 4 3 (7.143 %) Infrastructure Manager 5 2 (4.762 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 2 (4.762 %) Network Design Engineer 5 2 (4.762 %) 2nd Line Support 5 2 (4.762 %) Support Specialist 5 2 (4.762 %) Systems Engineer 5 2 (4.762 %) Design Engineer 6 1 (2.381 %) Network Technician 6 1 (2.381 %) Technical Support Engineer 6 1 (2.381 %) Senior Network Engineer 6 1 (2.381 %) Technical Specialist 6 1 (2.381 %) Project Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.762 %) PACS 2 1 (2.381 %) Fat Client 2 1 (2.381 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 6 (14.29 %) Windows 2 1 (2.381 %) Windows NT 2 1 (2.381 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 1 3 (7.143 %) Change Management 2 2 (4.762 %) Network Design 2 2 (4.762 %) ITIL 3 1 (2.381 %) Load Balancing 3 1 (2.381 %) Migration
Qualifications 1 42 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 23 (54.76 %) Microsoft Certification 3 21 (50.00 %) MCSE 4 15 (35.71 %) CCNP 5 5 (11.90 %) CCDA 6 3 (7.143 %) MCSA 6 3 (7.143 %) Citrix Certification 6 3 (7.143 %) CCEA 6 3 (7.143 %) CNE 6 3 (7.143 %) Novell Certification 6 3 (7.143 %) MCP 7 2 (4.762 %) ITIL Certification 7 2 (4.762 %) CCDP 8 1 (2.381 %) CCA 8 1 (2.381 %) CCIE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (9.524 %) SLA 2 3 (7.143 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 2 (4.762 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 30 (71.43 %) Cisco 2 7 (16.67 %) Microsoft 3 6 (14.29 %) Citrix 4 5 (11.90 %) HP 5 3 (7.143 %) Nortel 6 2 (4.762 %) VMware 6 2 (4.762 %) WatchGuard 7 1 (2.381 %) Novell 7 1 (2.381 %) 3Com 7 1 (2.381 %) Dell