The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco Certification 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 Hertfordshire 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 Certification
Rank 54 64 62
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -2
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 9 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.413% 0.614% 0.228%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.826% 3.429% 1.527%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
Average daily rate £338 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £323 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £12.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -44.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -18.18%
All Qualifications
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
115 175 131
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 18.05% 17.91% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 71 36
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £179 £105
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 27
Average hourly rate £25.25 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £14.50 £22.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £42.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Cisco Certification
East of England

Cisco Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Cisco Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco Certification
Contract Locations

The table below 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 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
Hitchin - 2 - -
Rickmansworth -3 1 £200 -20.00%
Cisco Certification
East of England

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 16 (72.73%) Cisco
2 11 (50.00%) CCIE
3 10 (45.45%) CCNP
4 7 (31.82%) CCSP
4 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
5 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
5 6 (27.27%) Windows
5 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (22.73%) VPN
6 5 (22.73%) Network Security
7 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (18.18%) Load Balancing
7 4 (18.18%) Cisco UCCX
7 4 (18.18%) CCNA
7 4 (18.18%) Citrix
7 4 (18.18%) CCSE
7 4 (18.18%) CCSA
7 4 (18.18%) Firewall
7 4 (18.18%) Wireless
7 4 (18.18%) CheckPoint
8 3 (13.64%) CCA
8 3 (13.64%) Citrix Certification
8 3 (13.64%) CCEA
8 3 (13.64%) HP
8 3 (13.64%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (13.64%) XenServer
8 3 (13.64%) XenDesktop
8 3 (13.64%) XMPP
8 3 (13.64%) Fortinet
8 3 (13.64%) CCEE

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 (13.64%) XMPP
2 1 (4.545%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) AutoCAD
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.545%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) VPN
1 5 (22.73%) Network Security
2 4 (18.18%) Firewall
2 4 (18.18%) Wireless
3 3 (13.64%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (9.091%) Wireless Security
4 2 (9.091%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (9.091%) Unified Communications
4 2 (9.091%) MPLS
5 1 (4.545%) IPsec
5 1 (4.545%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (4.545%) VoIP
5 1 (4.545%) WAN
5 1 (4.545%) FWSM
5 1 (4.545%) WAAS
General
1 1 (4.545%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Consultant
1 6 (27.27%) Network Engineer
1 6 (27.27%) Cisco Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Support Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Citrix Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Cisco Support Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Cisco Support
3 3 (13.64%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) UNIX Administrator
4 2 (9.091%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 2 (9.091%) Administrator
4 2 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.545%) Network Specialist
5 1 (4.545%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Voice Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Cisco Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.545%) Thin Client
1 1 (4.545%) iPhone
1 1 (4.545%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
1 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (9.091%) Windows 2000 Server
3 2 (9.091%) Solaris
3 2 (9.091%) Linux
3 2 (9.091%) UNIX
4 1 (4.545%) Windows XP
4 1 (4.545%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (18.18%) Load Balancing
2 2 (9.091%) ITIL
2 2 (9.091%) Network Design
3 1 (4.545%) Service Management
3 1 (4.545%) Service Delivery
3 1 (4.545%) Programme Office Management
3 1 (4.545%) Change Control
3 1 (4.545%) Build Automation
3 1 (4.545%) Security Architecture
3 1 (4.545%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (4.545%) Release Management
3 1 (4.545%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.091%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.545%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) CCIE
2 10 (45.45%) CCNP
3 7 (31.82%) CCSP
3 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
4 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
5 4 (18.18%) CCNA
5 4 (18.18%) CCSE
5 4 (18.18%) CCSA
6 3 (13.64%) CCA
6 3 (13.64%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (13.64%) CCEA
6 3 (13.64%) CCEE
6 3 (13.64%) CCIA
7 2 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (4.545%) CCVP
8 1 (4.545%) MCSE
8 1 (4.545%) MCP
8 1 (4.545%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) XenServer
1 3 (13.64%) XenDesktop
2 2 (9.091%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.545%) Snort
3 1 (4.545%) ProxySG
3 1 (4.545%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Cisco UCCX
2 3 (13.64%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (4.545%) Tivoli
3 1 (4.545%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Cisco
2 4 (18.18%) Citrix
2 4 (18.18%) CheckPoint
3 3 (13.64%) HP
3 3 (13.64%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.091%) Opsware
4 2 (9.091%) Twitter
4 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.091%) VMware
5 1 (4.545%) 3Com
5 1 (4.545%) Sourcefire
5 1 (4.545%) Blue Coat
5 1 (4.545%) Oracle
5 1 (4.545%) SAP
5 1 (4.545%) Avaya
5 1 (4.545%) Juniper
5 1 (4.545%) Apple
5 1 (4.545%) Nortel
5 1 (4.545%) F5
5 1 (4.545%) Aruba