The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services 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 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Cisco Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco
Rank 46 49 50
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +1
Contract jobs citing Cisco 10 16 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.235% 1.447% 1.419%
As % of the Vendors category 3.460% 4.533% 4.308%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 7
Average daily rate £343 £390 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.17% +11.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £242 £325 £186
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £405 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £328 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.58% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £21.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +2.38%
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
289 353 441
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 35.68% 31.92% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 154 176
Average daily rate £375 £356 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £518 £445 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 18
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +4.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.29 £14.75 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £23.75 £21.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Cisco
Scotland

Cisco
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Edinburgh Cisco Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Cisco Daily Rate Trend

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Edinburgh Cisco Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Cisco Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Cisco 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.

1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Firewall
3 8 (40.00%) SAN
3 8 (40.00%) VMware
4 7 (35.00%) Nokia
4 7 (35.00%) CheckPoint
4 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
6 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (15.00%) Blue Coat
7 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (15.00%) EMC
7 3 (15.00%) WAN
7 3 (15.00%) MCSE
7 3 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (15.00%) Project Management
7 3 (15.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 3 (15.00%) Supplier Management
8 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
8 2 (10.00%) Brocade
8 2 (10.00%) Finance
8 2 (10.00%) LINQ
8 2 (10.00%) IronPort
8 2 (10.00%) Network Security
8 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (10.00%) VPN
8 2 (10.00%) Solaris

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Cisco 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (10.00%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.000%) IIS
1 1 (5.000%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (5.000%) Apache
1 1 (5.000%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Office
1 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) Firewall
2 8 (40.00%) SAN
3 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (15.00%) WAN
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (10.00%) Network Security
5 2 (10.00%) VoIP
5 2 (10.00%) VPN
6 1 (5.000%) Internet
6 1 (5.000%) VRRP
6 1 (5.000%) NetScreen
6 1 (5.000%) iSCSI
6 1 (5.000%) NAS
6 1 (5.000%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (5.000%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Subversion
1 1 (5.000%) Trac
General
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Virtualisation Architect
4 1 (5.000%) Systems Support
4 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.000%) Network Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Systems Manager
4 1 (5.000%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.000%) Installations Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Citrix Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Mainframe
1 1 (5.000%) CLARiiON
1 1 (5.000%) Symmetrix
1 1 (5.000%) CCTV
1 1 (5.000%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (10.00%) UNIX
4 2 (10.00%) Solaris
4 2 (10.00%) Linux
5 1 (5.000%) Windows 2000
5 1 (5.000%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.00%) Project Management
1 3 (15.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (5.000%) Incident Management
2 1 (5.000%) Performance Management
2 1 (5.000%) Software Deployment
2 1 (5.000%) Migration
2 1 (5.000%) Scrum
2 1 (5.000%) Network Design
2 1 (5.000%) PRINCE2
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (15.00%) MCSE
3 1 (5.000%) CCIE
3 1 (5.000%) CCNA
3 1 (5.000%) CCSE
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.00%) ProxySG
3 1 (5.000%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) VMware
2 7 (35.00%) CheckPoint
2 7 (35.00%) Nokia
3 3 (15.00%) EMC
3 3 (15.00%) Blue Coat
4 2 (10.00%) Brocade
4 2 (10.00%) IronPort
4 2 (10.00%) HP
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.000%) Juniper
5 1 (5.000%) NetApp
5 1 (5.000%) Lotus
5 1 (5.000%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.000%) Sun
5 1 (5.000%) Fortinet