The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco IOS skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco IOS over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the East of England 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.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco IOS
Rank 102 127 -
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 13 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.602% 0.306% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.377% 1.714% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
Average daily rate £413 £238 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+73.68% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £298 £324
% change year-on-year
+5.04% -8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+30.00% -9.09%
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
385 525 434
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.83% 17.87% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 171 130
Average daily rate £325 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £197
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £479
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 51 83
Average hourly rate £19.00 £32.50 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.53% +10.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £52.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Cisco IOS
England

Cisco IOS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco IOS across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

East of England Cisco IOS Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco IOS
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Cisco IOS Daily Rate Trend

Cisco IOS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cisco IOS across the East of England region.

East of England Cisco IOS Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco IOS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco IOS within the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Essex +6 8 £413 -
Cambridgeshire +13 4 £325 +36.84%
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Cisco IOS
England

Cisco IOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Cisco IOS 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 IOS.

1 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (66.67%) CheckPoint
3 9 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (60.00%) E-Commerce
4 8 (53.33%) CCNP
4 8 (53.33%) Firewall
4 8 (53.33%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (53.33%) F5
5 7 (46.67%) CCSE
5 7 (46.67%) BIG-IP
5 7 (46.67%) Network Security
5 7 (46.67%) OSPF
5 7 (46.67%) Project Management
5 7 (46.67%) NetScreen
6 6 (40.00%) Blue Coat
6 6 (40.00%) ProxySG
6 6 (40.00%) Linux
6 6 (40.00%) Cisco CUCM
7 5 (33.33%) DMVPN
7 5 (33.33%) VLAN
7 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (33.33%) Infoblox
7 5 (33.33%) VoIP
7 5 (33.33%) DHCP
7 5 (33.33%) DNS
7 5 (33.33%) Juniper
7 5 (33.33%) Citrix
7 5 (33.33%) VMware
8 4 (26.67%) IPsec
8 4 (26.67%) Thin Client

Cisco IOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Cisco IOS 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 IOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (20.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
1 1 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (6.667%) Lync
1 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco ASA
2 7 (46.67%) Network Security
2 7 (46.67%) BIG-IP
2 7 (46.67%) NetScreen
2 7 (46.67%) OSPF
3 5 (33.33%) DNS
3 5 (33.33%) VoIP
3 5 (33.33%) DHCP
3 5 (33.33%) VLAN
3 5 (33.33%) DMVPN
4 4 (26.67%) IPsec
5 3 (20.00%) HSRP
5 3 (20.00%) SNMP
6 2 (13.33%) VPN
6 2 (13.33%) RIP
6 2 (13.33%) LDAP
6 2 (13.33%) Internet
6 2 (13.33%) BGP
6 2 (13.33%) VRRP
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Subversion
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 4 (26.67%) Security Specialist
2 4 (26.67%) Network Specialist
2 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Network Security Specialist
2 4 (26.67%) E-Commerce Specialist
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
4 2 (13.33%) Support Specialist
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Field Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Thin Client
1 4 (26.67%) Fat Client
2 2 (13.33%) Device Driver
3 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.667%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 7 (46.67%) Project Management
3 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (13.33%) Network Management
5 1 (6.667%) IC Design
5 1 (6.667%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) C
2 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (53.33%) CCNP
3 7 (46.67%) CCSE
4 4 (26.67%) CCIE
5 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (20.00%) CCNA
6 1 (6.667%) CISSP
6 1 (6.667%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) ProxySG
2 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (6.667%) Terminal Services
4 1 (6.667%) Samba
4 1 (6.667%) VMware ESX
4 1 (6.667%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (6.667%) XenApp
4 1 (6.667%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (6.667%) Nagios
3 1 (6.667%) AppManager
3 1 (6.667%) Cacti
3 1 (6.667%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (66.67%) CheckPoint
3 8 (53.33%) F5
4 6 (40.00%) Blue Coat
5 5 (33.33%) Infoblox
5 5 (33.33%) VMware
5 5 (33.33%) Citrix
5 5 (33.33%) Juniper
6 4 (26.67%) Imperva
6 4 (26.67%) HP
7 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
7 2 (13.33%) Nokia
8 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
8 1 (6.667%) Cadence
8 1 (6.667%) Sun
8 1 (6.667%) CommVault