Edinburgh Cisco Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rugby Runcorn Sale Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	60
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	6	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	1.671 %	4.390 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£300
Average daily rate	£300	£350
% change on same period last year	-14.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£366	£328
% change on same period last year	+11.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£19.00
Average hourly rate	-	£22.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.76	£25.04
% change on same period last year	+2.87 %
Vendors Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	359	410
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.512 %	0.424 %
Daily rates quoted	100	55
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£343
Average daily rate	£357	£363
% change on same period last year	-1.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.89	£17.19
Average hourly rate	£21.32	£18.07
% change on same period last year	+17.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.74	£18.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.37	£24.17
% change on same period last year	+0.83 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 15 October 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 across the Edinburgh region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, 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 12 (50.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 8 (33.33 %) CCNP 2 8 (33.33 %) WAN 3 7 (29.17 %) LAN 3 7 (29.17 %) CheckPoint 4 6 (25.00 %) Firewall 4 6 (25.00 %) VPN 5 5 (20.83 %) SSL 5 5 (20.83 %) CCIE 6 4 (16.67 %) HP 6 4 (16.67 %) CiscoWorks 6 4 (16.67 %) Sun 6 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft 6 4 (16.67 %) Windows 6 4 (16.67 %) Blue Coat

6 4 (16.67 %) Network Security 6 4 (16.67 %) Cisco ASA 7 3 (12.50 %) Java 7 3 (12.50 %) SQL 7 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 7 3 (12.50 %) IBM 7 3 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 7 3 (12.50 %) CCNA 7 3 (12.50 %) Nokia 7 3 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 7 3 (12.50 %) OSPF 7 3 (12.50 %) BGP 7 3 (12.50 %) IPsec 7 3 (12.50 %) Finance 8 2 (8.333 %) Telecoms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, 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 (8.333 %) .NET 1 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere 2 1 (4.167 %) J2EE 2 1 (4.167 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) CMS 2 1 (4.167 %) IBM HTTP Server 2 1 (4.167 %) IIS 2 1 (4.167 %) Apache 2 1 (4.167 %) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 8 (33.33 %) WAN 2 7 (29.17 %) LAN 3 6 (25.00 %) Firewall 3 6 (25.00 %) VPN 4 5 (20.83 %) SSL 5 4 (16.67 %) Network Security 5 4 (16.67 %) Cisco ASA 6 3 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 6 3 (12.50 %) IPsec 6 3 (12.50 %) OSPF 6 3 (12.50 %) BGP 7 2 (8.333 %) LDAP 7 2 (8.333 %) Cisco PIX 7 2 (8.333 %) Cisco IPT 8 1 (4.167 %) Cisco IOS 8 1 (4.167 %) EIGRP 8 1 (4.167 %) IPCC 8 1 (4.167 %) Nortel Meridian 8 1 (4.167 %) Internet 8 1 (4.167 %) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.167 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) ClearCase 1 1 (4.167 %) CruiseControl
General 1 3 (12.50 %) Finance 2 2 (8.333 %) Telecoms 3 1 (4.167 %) Banking 3 1 (4.167 %) Retail 3 1 (4.167 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 5 (20.83 %) Analyst 2 3 (12.50 %) Network Consultant 2 3 (12.50 %) Consultant 3 2 (8.333 %) Network Engineer 3 2 (8.333 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (8.333 %) Network Support Analyst 3 2 (8.333 %) Senior Analyst 3 2 (8.333 %) Network Analyst 3 2 (8.333 %) Network Technician 3 2 (8.333 %) Architect 3 2 (8.333 %) Project Manager 3 2 (8.333 %) Server Engineer 3 2 (8.333 %) Network Support 4 1 (4.167 %) Senior Technical Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Network Specialist 4 1 (4.167 %) Network Security Consultant 4 1 (4.167 %) Firewall Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Technical Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Data Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 4 (16.67 %) Windows 2 3 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (4.167 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (4.167 %) Solaris 3 1 (4.167 %) Linux 3 1 (4.167 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (8.333 %) Change Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (4.167 %) Validation 3 1 (4.167 %) Network Design 3 1 (4.167 %) Load Balancing 3 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE 3 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (12.50 %) Java 1 3 (12.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 12 (50.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 8 (33.33 %) CCNP 3 5 (20.83 %) CCIE 4 3 (12.50 %) CCNA 5 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (8.333 %) Avaya Certification 6 1 (4.167 %) PMP 6 1 (4.167 %) PMI Certification 6 1 (4.167 %) CCVP 6 1 (4.167 %) CCDP	System Software 1 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.167 %) Terminal Services 2 1 (4.167 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 4 (16.67 %) CiscoWorks 2 2 (8.333 %) OVSD 2 2 (8.333 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 7 (29.17 %) CheckPoint 2 4 (16.67 %) Blue Coat 2 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft 2 4 (16.67 %) Sun 2 4 (16.67 %) HP 3 3 (12.50 %) IBM 3 3 (12.50 %) Nokia 4 2 (8.333 %) VMware 4 2 (8.333 %) Citrix 4 2 (8.333 %) Avaya 5 1 (4.167 %) Juniper 5 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 5 1 (4.167 %) Nortel 5 1 (4.167 %) Siemens