Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Edinburgh region.

 Cisco Certification
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank573651
Rank change year-on-year
Down-21Up+15
Matching contract IT job ads394
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh0.336 %1.718 %0.496 %
As % of the Qualifications category5.882 %13.04 %8.696 %
Daily rates quoted130
Average daily rate£265£308-
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.82 %-
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.00£29.75£26.00
% change year-on-year
-19.32 %+14.42 %
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
516946
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh5.717 %13.17 %5.700 %
Daily rates quoted11105
Average daily rate£325£308£313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.690 %-1.600 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£265£180£286
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£359£394
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£350
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Hourly rates quoted652
Average hourly rate£42.50£18.00£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+136.11 %-18.18 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£39.60£11.40£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£61.75£19.00£24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.00£25.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.00 %-
Cisco Certification ScotlandCisco Certification
Scotland

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.

Cisco Certification
Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Cisco Certification Demand Trend

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Cisco Certification Daily Rate Trend

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Cisco Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Cisco Certification 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 Certification.

19 (100.00 %)Cisco
26 (66.67 %)WAN
35 (55.56 %)CCNP
35 (55.56 %)LAN
44 (44.44 %)CCNA
44 (44.44 %)Wireless
44 (44.44 %)Wireless Security
53 (33.33 %)Firewall
53 (33.33 %)VPN
53 (33.33 %)CheckPoint
62 (22.22 %)Internet
62 (22.22 %)Nokia
62 (22.22 %)CCIE
62 (22.22 %)CCDA
62 (22.22 %)CCDP
62 (22.22 %)C
62 (22.22 %)Cisco ASA
62 (22.22 %)CCVP
71 (11.11 %)Insurance
71 (11.11 %)Business Continuity
71 (11.11 %)Finance
71 (11.11 %)Education
71 (11.11 %)Health
71 (11.11 %)Operations Management
71 (11.11 %)QA
71 (11.11 %)Network Security
71 (11.11 %)VSS/SourceSafe
71 (11.11 %)UNIX
71 (11.11 %)Windows
71 (11.11 %)DHCP

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Cisco Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
16 (66.67 %)WAN
25 (55.56 %)LAN
34 (44.44 %)Wireless
34 (44.44 %)Wireless Security
43 (33.33 %)Firewall
43 (33.33 %)VPN
52 (22.22 %)Internet
52 (22.22 %)Cisco ASA
61 (11.11 %)Network Security
61 (11.11 %)DHCP
61 (11.11 %)SNMP
61 (11.11 %)TCP/IP
61 (11.11 %)DNS
61 (11.11 %)OSPF
61 (11.11 %)BGP
61 (11.11 %)EIGRP
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (11.11 %)VSS/SourceSafe
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (11.11 %)Insurance
11 (11.11 %)Finance
11 (11.11 %)Education
11 (11.11 %)Health
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12 (22.22 %)Consultant
12 (22.22 %)Network Engineer
12 (22.22 %)Sales Consultant
12 (22.22 %)Network Designer
12 (22.22 %)Designer
12 (22.22 %)Cisco Consultant
12 (22.22 %)Pre Sales Consultant
21 (11.11 %)Cisco Support
21 (11.11 %)Cisco Engineer
21 (11.11 %)Network Analyst
21 (11.11 %)Implementation Engineer
21 (11.11 %)3rd Line Support Engineer
21 (11.11 %)Support Engineer
21 (11.11 %)3rd Line Support
21 (11.11 %)Analyst
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (11.11 %)UNIX
11 (11.11 %)Windows
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11 (11.11 %)Business Continuity
11 (11.11 %)Operations Management
11 (11.11 %)Service Delivery
11 (11.11 %)Configuration Management
11 (11.11 %)Project Management
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12 (22.22 %)C
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
15 (55.56 %)CCNP
24 (44.44 %)CCNA
32 (22.22 %)CCIE
32 (22.22 %)CCDA
32 (22.22 %)CCDP
32 (22.22 %)CCVP
41 (11.11 %)CCIP
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (11.11 %)QA
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
19 (100.00 %)Cisco
23 (33.33 %)CheckPoint
32 (22.22 %)Nokia
41 (11.11 %)Nortel
41 (11.11 %)Juniper