East of England Cisco Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Cisco Engineer role in IT contracts within the East of England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Cobham Coventry Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stockton-on-Tees Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	128	138
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	11	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	0.319 %	0.326 %
Daily rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum daily rate	£386	£250
Average daily rate	£390	£288
% change on same period last year	+35.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£331
% change on same period last year	+8.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£12.50
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£14.56
% change on same period last year	+71.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£16.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.33	£27.60
% change on same period last year	+9.90 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3451	4596
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.600 %	4.585 %
Daily rates quoted	1085	1406
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£324
Average daily rate	£354	£343
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	454	636
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.18	£25.47
Average hourly rate	£23.66	£26.68
% change on same period last year	-11.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.15	£27.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Cisco Engineer 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 Cisco Engineer across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Cisco Engineer 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 Cisco Engineer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Cisco Engineer 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 jobs citing Cisco Engineer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Hertfordshire	+17	7	£388	+10.71 %
Essex	+2	2	£393	+57.00 %
Cambridgeshire	-	1	-	-
Norfolk	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Cisco Engineer in their job title 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 with Cisco Engineer in their job title.

1 16 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 12 (75.00 %) Cisco Certification 3 6 (37.50 %) CCNA 4 4 (25.00 %) CCIE 4 4 (25.00 %) CCNP 4 4 (25.00 %) Finance 4 4 (25.00 %) OSPF 4 4 (25.00 %) Network Security 5 3 (18.75 %) VLAN 5 3 (18.75 %) Firewall 5 3 (18.75 %) Wireless 6 2 (12.50 %) BGP 6 2 (12.50 %) MPLS 6 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 6 2 (12.50 %) VPN

6 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 6 2 (12.50 %) LAN 6 2 (12.50 %) WAN 6 2 (12.50 %) Network Design 6 2 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX 7 1 (6.250 %) Penetration Testing 7 1 (6.250 %) Wireless Security 7 1 (6.250 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (6.250 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (6.250 %) Auditing 7 1 (6.250 %) TCP/IP 7 1 (6.250 %) VoIP 7 1 (6.250 %) Windows 7 1 (6.250 %) Linux 7 1 (6.250 %) ATM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Cisco Engineer in their job title 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 with Cisco Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 4 (25.00 %) OSPF 1 4 (25.00 %) Network Security 2 3 (18.75 %) VLAN 2 3 (18.75 %) Firewall 2 3 (18.75 %) Wireless 3 2 (12.50 %) BGP 3 2 (12.50 %) MPLS 3 2 (12.50 %) VPN 3 2 (12.50 %) LAN 3 2 (12.50 %) WAN 3 2 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (6.250 %) Wireless Security 4 1 (6.250 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (6.250 %) VoIP 4 1 (6.250 %) ATM 4 1 (6.250 %) SSL 4 1 (6.250 %) IPsec 4 1 (6.250 %) IPCC	General 1 4 (25.00 %) Finance 2 1 (6.250 %) Auditing 2 1 (6.250 %) Telecoms 2 1 (6.250 %) Government
Operating Systems 1 1 (6.250 %) Windows 1 1 (6.250 %) Linux 1 1 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 1 2 (12.50 %) Network Design 2 1 (6.250 %) Penetration Testing 2 1 (6.250 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (6.250 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (6.250 %) C	Qualifications 1 12 (75.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 6 (37.50 %) CCNA 3 4 (25.00 %) CCIE 3 4 (25.00 %) CCNP 4 1 (6.250 %) CCVP
System Software 1 1 (6.250 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 16 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 3 1 (6.250 %) Juniper 3 1 (6.250 %) Siemens 3 1 (6.250 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (6.250 %) 3Com