East of England CCNP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) in IT contracts within the East of England region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited CCNP over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Location Aberdeen Angus Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Blackburn Bootle Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Cheshire City of London Cobham County Antrim Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Docklands, London Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Goole Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tayside Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	133	128
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	18	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	3.896 %	3.306 %
Daily rates quoted	7	5
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£367
Average daily rate	£283	£390
% change on same period last year	-27.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£290	£412
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£330
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£37.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.39	£31.33
% change on same period last year	-9.37 %
Qualifications East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	462	484
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.609 %	0.513 %
Daily rates quoted	173	142
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£279
Average daily rate	£311	£298
% change on same period last year	+4.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£316
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	78	75
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.04	£25.15
Average hourly rate	£27.15	£26.70
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.27	£28.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.13	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
CCNP 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNP across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 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 CCNP across the East of England region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing CCNP within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 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
Bedfordshire	-	7	-	-
Essex	0	5	£137	-60.50 %
Hertfordshire	-9	5	£392	-12.91 %
Cambridgeshire	-11	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 40 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 38 (95.00 %) Cisco 3 24 (60.00 %) Firewall 4 20 (50.00 %) CCNA 5 15 (37.50 %) LAN 5 15 (37.50 %) Windows 6 14 (35.00 %) OSPF 7 13 (32.50 %) TCP/IP 8 12 (30.00 %) WAN 9 11 (27.50 %) MPLS 10 9 (22.50 %) Finance 10 9 (22.50 %) CheckPoint 10 9 (22.50 %) BGP 10 9 (22.50 %) VPN 10 9 (22.50 %) DNS

11 8 (20.00 %) Windows NT 11 8 (20.00 %) Microsoft Certification 12 6 (15.00 %) Cisco IOS 12 6 (15.00 %) CCIE 12 6 (15.00 %) ATM 12 6 (15.00 %) Linux 12 6 (15.00 %) MCP 13 5 (12.50 %) DHCP 13 5 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX 13 5 (12.50 %) Load Balancing 13 5 (12.50 %) Network Design 13 5 (12.50 %) Wireless 14 4 (10.00 %) Financial Institution 14 4 (10.00 %) Telecoms 14 4 (10.00 %) WINS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

Application Platforms 1 1 (2.500 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 4 (10.00 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.500 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 24 (60.00 %) Firewall 2 15 (37.50 %) LAN 3 14 (35.00 %) OSPF 4 13 (32.50 %) TCP/IP 5 12 (30.00 %) WAN 6 11 (27.50 %) MPLS 7 9 (22.50 %) VPN 7 9 (22.50 %) BGP 7 9 (22.50 %) DNS 8 6 (15.00 %) ATM 8 6 (15.00 %) Cisco IOS 9 5 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX 9 5 (12.50 %) DHCP 9 5 (12.50 %) Wireless 10 4 (10.00 %) Internet 10 4 (10.00 %) WINS 10 4 (10.00 %) ISDN 11 3 (7.500 %) RIP 11 3 (7.500 %) NetScreen 12 2 (5.000 %) VLAN	General 1 9 (22.50 %) Finance 2 4 (10.00 %) Financial Institution 2 4 (10.00 %) Telecoms 3 2 (5.000 %) Retail 4 1 (2.500 %) Education
Job Titles 1 11 (27.50 %) Network Engineer 2 8 (20.00 %) Analyst 2 8 (20.00 %) Network Analyst 3 7 (17.50 %) Network Support 4 6 (15.00 %) Network Support Engineer 4 6 (15.00 %) Senior Network Engineer 4 6 (15.00 %) Support Engineer 5 4 (10.00 %) Senior Support Engineer 5 4 (10.00 %) Senior Network Support 5 4 (10.00 %) Senior Network Support Engineer 6 3 (7.500 %) Network Manager 7 2 (5.000 %) Cisco Specialist 7 2 (5.000 %) Network Specialist 7 2 (5.000 %) Network Planner 7 2 (5.000 %) Administrator 7 2 (5.000 %) Network Administrator 7 2 (5.000 %) Network Consultant 7 2 (5.000 %) Consultant 8 1 (2.500 %) Architect 8 1 (2.500 %) IT Manager	Operating Systems 1 15 (37.50 %) Windows 2 8 (20.00 %) Windows NT 3 6 (15.00 %) Linux 4 4 (10.00 %) Unix 5 2 (5.000 %) Solaris 5 2 (5.000 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (12.50 %) Network Design 1 5 (12.50 %) Load Balancing 2 3 (7.500 %) ITIL 3 2 (5.000 %) Change Management 3 2 (5.000 %) Migration 3 2 (5.000 %) Time Management 3 2 (5.000 %) Project Planning 3 2 (5.000 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (2.500 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (2.500 %) Project Management	Qualifications 1 40 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 20 (50.00 %) CCNA 3 8 (20.00 %) Microsoft Certification 4 6 (15.00 %) MCP 4 6 (15.00 %) CCIE 5 3 (7.500 %) CCDP 5 3 (7.500 %) MCSE 5 3 (7.500 %) CCIP 6 2 (5.000 %) Degree 7 1 (2.500 %) CCSA 7 1 (2.500 %) CCVP 7 1 (2.500 %) CCSP 7 1 (2.500 %) HNC
System Software 1 1 (2.500 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (2.500 %) OpenView 1 1 (2.500 %) CiscoWorks
Vendors 1 38 (95.00 %) Cisco 2 9 (22.50 %) CheckPoint 3 4 (10.00 %) HP 3 4 (10.00 %) Microsoft 4 3 (7.500 %) Juniper 4 3 (7.500 %) Citrix 5 2 (5.000 %) VMware 5 2 (5.000 %) Crossbeam 5 2 (5.000 %) Alcatel 5 2 (5.000 %) Sun 6 1 (2.500 %) IBM 6 1 (2.500 %) Nokia 6 1 (2.500 %) Novell 6 1 (2.500 %) WatchGuard 6 1 (2.500 %) Avaya 6 1 (2.500 %) BT 6 1 (2.500 %) 3Com