The first 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 17 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 Qualifications for the Edinburgh 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certification
Rank 51 58 60
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +2
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 5 7 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.617% 0.633% 0.672%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.667% 7.292% 6.522%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
Average daily rate £265 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.46% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £325 £184
10% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £365 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -25.00%
All Qualifications
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
75 96 138
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 9.259% 8.680% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 44 49
Average daily rate £305 £328 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.87% -6.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £275 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +73.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
Cisco Certification
Scotland

Cisco Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend

This 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
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Edinburgh Cisco Certification Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

This 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 17 May 2013, 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.

1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) MCSE
3 3 (42.86%) CCNA
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (28.57%) NetApp
4 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
4 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) UNIX
4 2 (28.57%) LAN
4 2 (28.57%) VoIP
4 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (28.57%) LINQ
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (28.57%) EMC
5 1 (14.29%) NAS
5 1 (14.29%) Trac
5 1 (14.29%) Network Security
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
5 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (14.29%) Subversion
5 1 (14.29%) Network Design
5 1 (14.29%) DNS
5 1 (14.29%) CCIE
5 1 (14.29%) CCNP

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 2 (28.57%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) VoIP
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) NAS
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
3 1 (14.29%) VRRP
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
1 1 (14.29%) Trac
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (28.57%) Network Support
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Support
2 1 (14.29%) Support Team Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Network Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Support
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Network Team Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Specialist
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) UNIX
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
1 1 (14.29%) Migration
1 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (14.29%) Scrum
1 1 (14.29%) Network Design
1 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) MCSE
1 3 (42.86%) CCNA
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) EMC
2 2 (28.57%) NetApp
2 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Nokia