The first table below looks at the demand for CCDP in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCDP over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
Rank 476 506 548
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +42
Contract jobs citing CCDP 37 53 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.089% 0.099% 0.041%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.497% 0.572% 0.258%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 11
Average daily rate £373 £444 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.05% +10.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £308 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £461 £560 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £393 £375
% change year-on-year
-17.19% +4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 £23.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+70.21% -6.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £23.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+70.21% -14.54%
All Qualifications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
7438 9270 8898
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.89% 17.38% 15.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3939 4900 4350
Average daily rate £375 £390 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £224 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 511 609
Average hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.54% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
CCDP
UK

CCDP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CCDP across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

England CCDP Jobs Demand Trend

CCDP
Daily Rate Trend

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

England CCDP Daily Rate Trend

CCDP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCDP across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England CCDP Daily Rate Histogram

CCDP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England CCDP Hourly Rate Trend

CCDP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCDP across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England CCDP Hourly Rate Histogram

CCDP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCDP within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London +36 15 £435 -8.42%
North West +25 12 £345 -
South East +1 4 £300 -20.00%
South West +20 2 £325 -25.71%
Yorkshire +1 2 - -
West Midlands +6 1 - -
East of England - 1 - -
CCDP
UK

CCDP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing CCDP 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 CCDP.

1 59 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 58 (98.31%) Cisco
3 49 (83.05%) CCNP
4 27 (45.76%) WAN
4 27 (45.76%) Firewall
5 24 (40.68%) LAN
6 20 (33.90%) Wireless
6 20 (33.90%) Network Design
6 20 (33.90%) Cisco Nexus
7 19 (32.20%) CCIE
8 18 (30.51%) CCNA
8 18 (30.51%) MPLS
9 17 (28.81%) BGP
9 17 (28.81%) ITIL
10 16 (27.12%) VPN
10 16 (27.12%) OSPF
10 16 (27.12%) Network Security
11 15 (25.42%) CheckPoint
12 14 (23.73%) CCIP
12 14 (23.73%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (20.34%) F5
13 12 (20.34%) Juniper
14 11 (18.64%) VoIP
14 11 (18.64%) Telecoms
15 10 (16.95%) Finance
15 10 (16.95%) FWSM
16 8 (13.56%) Cisco PIX
17 7 (11.86%) EIGRP
17 7 (11.86%) PRINCE
17 7 (11.86%) TCP/IP

CCDP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing CCDP 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 CCDP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.695%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.390%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (1.695%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.695%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 27 (45.76%) WAN
1 27 (45.76%) Firewall
2 24 (40.68%) LAN
3 20 (33.90%) Wireless
3 20 (33.90%) Cisco Nexus
4 18 (30.51%) MPLS
5 17 (28.81%) BGP
6 16 (27.12%) VPN
6 16 (27.12%) OSPF
6 16 (27.12%) Network Security
7 14 (23.73%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (18.64%) VoIP
9 10 (16.95%) FWSM
10 8 (13.56%) Cisco PIX
11 7 (11.86%) EIGRP
11 7 (11.86%) TCP/IP
12 5 (8.475%) NAS
12 5 (8.475%) SAN
12 5 (8.475%) DNS
13 4 (6.780%) DHCP
General
1 11 (18.64%) Telecoms
2 10 (16.95%) Finance
3 6 (10.17%) French Language
3 6 (10.17%) Banking
4 1 (1.695%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (40.68%) Network Engineer
2 12 (20.34%) Architect
3 9 (15.25%) Design Engineer
3 9 (15.25%) Network Architect
3 9 (15.25%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (13.56%) Network Design Engineer
5 5 (8.475%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (6.780%) Consultant
6 4 (6.780%) Network Manager
6 4 (6.780%) Network Specialist
6 4 (6.780%) Core Network Engineer
7 3 (5.085%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.085%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (5.085%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.390%) Analyst
8 2 (3.390%) Network Designer
8 2 (3.390%) Network Security Engineer
8 2 (3.390%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 2 (3.390%) Security Engineer
8 2 (3.390%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.085%) Statistics
2 1 (1.695%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.695%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.695%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.780%) Windows
2 3 (5.085%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.90%) Network Design
2 17 (28.81%) ITIL
3 7 (11.86%) PRINCE
4 6 (10.17%) Project Management
4 6 (10.17%) Network Management
4 6 (10.17%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (8.475%) PRINCE2
6 4 (6.780%) Load Balancing
6 4 (6.780%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (5.085%) Data Protection
7 3 (5.085%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (5.085%) Validation
8 2 (3.390%) Migration
8 2 (3.390%) Network Architecture
9 1 (1.695%) Security Architecture
9 1 (1.695%) Project Planning
9 1 (1.695%) Data Analysis
9 1 (1.695%) TOGAF
9 1 (1.695%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.695%) C
Qualifications
1 59 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 49 (83.05%) CCNP
3 19 (32.20%) CCIE
4 18 (30.51%) CCNA
5 14 (23.73%) CCIP
6 5 (8.475%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (8.475%) CCSP
6 5 (8.475%) CCDA
7 4 (6.780%) JNCIA
7 4 (6.780%) CCSE
8 3 (5.085%) Security Cleared
8 3 (5.085%) Degree
8 3 (5.085%) CCSA
9 2 (3.390%) CISSP
9 2 (3.390%) CCVP
9 2 (3.390%) SC Cleared
9 2 (3.390%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.695%) CCDE
10 1 (1.695%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.695%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.390%) QA
2 1 (1.695%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.695%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.695%) vSphere
1 1 (1.695%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (5.085%) CiscoWorks
2 1 (1.695%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (1.695%) OpenView
Vendors
1 58 (98.31%) Cisco
2 15 (25.42%) CheckPoint
3 12 (20.34%) F5
3 12 (20.34%) Juniper
4 5 (8.475%) SolarWinds
5 4 (6.780%) Brocade
5 4 (6.780%) Aruba
6 3 (5.085%) Infoblox
6 3 (5.085%) VMware
7 2 (3.390%) HP
7 2 (3.390%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.390%) NetApp
7 2 (3.390%) Siemens
7 2 (3.390%) BT
7 2 (3.390%) Blue Coat
8 1 (1.695%) Twitter
8 1 (1.695%) Riverbed
8 1 (1.695%) Redback
8 1 (1.695%) McAfee
8 1 (1.695%) Nokia
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Templeton and Partners
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