Home Counties Cisco Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts within the Home Counties 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 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire 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 Rugby Runcorn Sale Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	26
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	1	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	3.333 %	4.808 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£311
% change on same period last year	+11.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.60	£26.29
% change on same period last year	+4.99 %
Vendors Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	30	104
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.113 %
Daily rates quoted	4	10
Average minimum daily rate	£440	£217
Average daily rate	£440	£217
% change on same period last year	+102.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£440	£217
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£348
% change on same period last year	+3.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£47.50	£14.07
Average hourly rate	£47.50	£15.86
% change on same period last year	+199.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£47.50	£17.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.26	£24.41
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
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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 Home Counties 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 Home Counties region.

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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 Home Counties region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 4 (50.00 %) Firewall 2 3 (37.50 %) WAN 2 3 (37.50 %) ISDN 2 3 (37.50 %) LAN 2 3 (37.50 %) CCNA 2 3 (37.50 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (25.00 %) Siemens 3 2 (25.00 %) 3G 3 2 (25.00 %) MPLS 3 2 (25.00 %) Nortel 3 2 (25.00 %) VoIP 3 2 (25.00 %) SQL 3 2 (25.00 %) Billing 3 2 (25.00 %) Telecoms 4 1 (12.50 %) Government

4 1 (12.50 %) ITSM 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (12.50 %) Network Security 4 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 4 1 (12.50 %) OLAP 4 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 4 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 4 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 4 1 (12.50 %) AIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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.

Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 4 (50.00 %) Firewall 2 3 (37.50 %) ISDN 2 3 (37.50 %) LAN 2 3 (37.50 %) WAN 3 2 (25.00 %) VoIP 3 2 (25.00 %) 3G 3 2 (25.00 %) MPLS 4 1 (12.50 %) DSL 4 1 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (12.50 %) Network Security 4 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (12.50 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 1 (12.50 %) OLAP 1 1 (12.50 %) DTS 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	General 1 2 (25.00 %) Telecoms 1 2 (25.00 %) Billing 2 1 (12.50 %) Government
Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Administrator 1 4 (50.00 %) Network Support 2 3 (37.50 %) Cisco Administrator 2 3 (37.50 %) Cisco Support 2 3 (37.50 %) Network Administrator 3 2 (25.00 %) Team Leader 3 2 (25.00 %) Network Team Leader 4 1 (12.50 %) IT Administrator 4 1 (12.50 %) Systems Administrator 4 1 (12.50 %) Server Support 4 1 (12.50 %) Database Specialist	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 1 1 (12.50 %) AIX 1 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 1 1 (12.50 %) Linux 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) ITSM 1 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL 2 1 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) CCNA 1 3 (37.50 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (12.50 %) CNE 2 1 (12.50 %) Novell Certification 2 1 (12.50 %) MCSE	Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Nortel 1 2 (25.00 %) Siemens 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle