Hertfordshire Cisco Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certification
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Andover Angus Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cobham County Antrim Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Goole Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Immingham Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Romford Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	60
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	20	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	13.07 %	14.77 %
Daily rates quoted	4	10
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£316
Average daily rate	£261	£348
% change on same period last year	-24.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£265	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£336
% change on same period last year	-7.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.67	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£18.33	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-21.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.38	£26.52
% change on same period last year	-0.49 %
Qualifications Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	153	237
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.204 %	0.240 %
Daily rates quoted	73	75
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£349
Average daily rate	£369	£381
% change on same period last year	-3.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	38	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.00	£21.96
Average hourly rate	£27.47	£23.07
% change on same period last year	+19.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.94	£24.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
Cisco Certification East of England

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.

Cisco Certification
Demand Trend

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

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 Hertfordshire region.

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 Hertfordshire region.

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Cisco Certification
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Watford	-5	7	£305	-7.34 %
St Albans	-1	1	-	-
Hitchin	-	1	£85	-
Stevenage	-6	1	-	-

Cisco Certification East of England

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 40 (74.07 %) Cisco 2 29 (53.70 %) CCNA 3 22 (40.74 %) LAN 3 22 (40.74 %) Firewall 4 14 (25.93 %) CCNP 5 13 (24.07 %) CCIE 5 13 (24.07 %) WAN 5 13 (24.07 %) VPN 5 13 (24.07 %) Windows 6 12 (22.22 %) MCSE 6 12 (22.22 %) Microsoft Certification 6 12 (22.22 %) Telecoms 7 11 (20.37 %) TCP/IP 8 9 (16.67 %) Network Design 8 9 (16.67 %) CheckPoint

8 9 (16.67 %) Linux 8 9 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 8 9 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 9 8 (14.81 %) DNS 9 8 (14.81 %) MPLS 9 8 (14.81 %) Government 10 7 (12.96 %) Nokia 10 7 (12.96 %) Active Directory 10 7 (12.96 %) Cisco PIX 11 6 (11.11 %) Nortel 11 6 (11.11 %) CCIP 11 6 (11.11 %) CCDP 11 6 (11.11 %) OSPF 11 6 (11.11 %) BGP 11 6 (11.11 %) ATM

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (5.556 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.852 %) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking 1 22 (40.74 %) LAN 1 22 (40.74 %) Firewall 2 13 (24.07 %) WAN 2 13 (24.07 %) VPN 3 11 (20.37 %) TCP/IP 4 8 (14.81 %) MPLS 4 8 (14.81 %) DNS 5 7 (12.96 %) Cisco PIX 6 6 (11.11 %) OSPF 6 6 (11.11 %) BGP 6 6 (11.11 %) ATM 7 5 (9.259 %) DHCP 8 4 (7.407 %) Ethernet 8 4 (7.407 %) ADSL 8 4 (7.407 %) Wi-Fi 8 4 (7.407 %) Network Security 8 4 (7.407 %) IPsec 9 3 (5.556 %) GPRS 9 3 (5.556 %) GSM 9 3 (5.556 %) UMTS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (5.556 %) MySQL 2 1 (1.852 %) SQL Server
General 1 12 (22.22 %) Telecoms 2 8 (14.81 %) Government 3 5 (9.259 %) Retail 4 3 (5.556 %) Education 5 2 (3.704 %) Health 5 2 (3.704 %) Finance 6 1 (1.852 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (1.852 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (1.852 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 10 (18.52 %) Network Engineer 2 5 (9.259 %) 2nd Line Support 2 5 (9.259 %) Network Support 3 4 (7.407 %) Support Engineer 3 4 (7.407 %) Helpdesk Support 3 4 (7.407 %) Analyst 4 3 (5.556 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (5.556 %) Systems Administrator 4 3 (5.556 %) Administrator 4 3 (5.556 %) Project Leader 5 2 (3.704 %) Network Analyst 5 2 (3.704 %) Design Engineer 5 2 (3.704 %) Senior Network Engineer 5 2 (3.704 %) Project Engineer 5 2 (3.704 %) Security Engineer 5 2 (3.704 %) Cisco Specialist 5 2 (3.704 %) Network Support Analyst 5 2 (3.704 %) Server Support 5 2 (3.704 %) Project Manager 5 2 (3.704 %) Network Planner
Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.852 %) Firmware 1 1 (1.852 %) Thin Client 1 1 (1.852 %) Handset 1 1 (1.852 %) German Language 1 1 (1.852 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 13 (24.07 %) Windows 2 9 (16.67 %) Linux 3 6 (11.11 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (11.11 %) UNIX 4 4 (7.407 %) Windows NT 5 3 (5.556 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (3.704 %) Solaris 7 1 (1.852 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (16.67 %) Network Design 1 9 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 1 9 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (9.259 %) Load Balancing 2 5 (9.259 %) Data Migration 2 5 (9.259 %) Project Management 2 5 (9.259 %) Migration 3 3 (5.556 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 4 2 (3.704 %) Network Planning 4 2 (3.704 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (1.852 %) ITIL 5 1 (1.852 %) Project Planning 5 1 (1.852 %) Matrix Management 5 1 (1.852 %) Fault Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (1.852 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 29 (53.70 %) CCNA 2 14 (25.93 %) CCNP 3 13 (24.07 %) CCIE 4 12 (22.22 %) MCSE 4 12 (22.22 %) Microsoft Certification 5 6 (11.11 %) CCIP 5 6 (11.11 %) CCDP 6 3 (5.556 %) CCSP 7 2 (3.704 %) CCSA 7 2 (3.704 %) CCSE 8 1 (1.852 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.704 %) SLA
System Software 1 7 (12.96 %) Active Directory 2 2 (3.704 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (1.852 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 40 (74.07 %) Cisco 2 9 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 3 7 (12.96 %) Nokia 4 6 (11.11 %) Nortel 5 5 (9.259 %) HP 6 4 (7.407 %) VERITAS 6 4 (7.407 %) Sophos 7 3 (5.556 %) Oracle 7 3 (5.556 %) Red Hat 7 3 (5.556 %) Citrix 7 3 (5.556 %) EMC 7 3 (5.556 %) Microsoft 8 2 (3.704 %) Sun 8 2 (3.704 %) Crossbeam 8 2 (3.704 %) VMware 9 1 (1.852 %) Speakerbus 9 1 (1.852 %) BT 9 1 (1.852 %) 3Com 9 1 (1.852 %) Avaya