Kent Cisco Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts within the Kent 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 2 December 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 Colchester Cornwall 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 Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames 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 Rugby Runcorn Sale Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton 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 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	41
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	13	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	7.104 %	4.151 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£357	-
Average daily rate	£358	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£360	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£317
% change on same period last year	+9.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£22.67
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£26.33
% change on same period last year	-24.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.35	£26.26
% change on same period last year	+4.15 %
Vendors Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	183	265
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.294 %	0.285 %
Daily rates quoted	68	61
Average minimum daily rate	£271	£343
Average daily rate	£282	£368
% change on same period last year	-23.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£294	£392
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£349
% change on same period last year	+2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.01	£19.46
Average hourly rate	£17.83	£20.88
% change on same period last year	-14.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.65	£22.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.78	£24.08
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
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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 Kent 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 Kent 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 Kent region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Sandwich	-	5	-	-
Maidstone	-1	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 20 (48.78 %) SAN 2 16 (39.02 %) WAN 3 15 (36.59 %) LAN 3 15 (36.59 %) Cisco Certification 4 14 (34.15 %) VPN 5 11 (26.83 %) Firewall 6 10 (24.39 %) Government 6 10 (24.39 %) Security Cleared 6 10 (24.39 %) CCNA 7 9 (21.95 %) NetBackup 8 8 (19.51 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 8 (19.51 %) Active Directory 8 8 (19.51 %) CCNP 8 8 (19.51 %) MS Exchange 9 7 (17.07 %) Windows

9 7 (17.07 %) VoIP 9 7 (17.07 %) EMC 9 7 (17.07 %) CheckPoint 9 7 (17.07 %) Local Government 10 6 (14.63 %) VMware Infrastructure 10 6 (14.63 %) Cisco PIX 10 6 (14.63 %) VMware 11 5 (12.20 %) CLARiiON 11 5 (12.20 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 5 (12.20 %) IBM 11 5 (12.20 %) Microsoft 11 5 (12.20 %) NFS 11 5 (12.20 %) UNIX 12 4 (9.756 %) ITIL 12 4 (9.756 %) Linux

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Platforms 1 8 (19.51 %) MS Exchange 1 8 (19.51 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 5 (12.20 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (2.439 %) GroupWise	Applications 1 1 (2.439 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 1 (2.439 %) Summit	Communications & Networking 1 20 (48.78 %) SAN 2 16 (39.02 %) WAN 3 15 (36.59 %) LAN 4 14 (34.15 %) VPN 5 11 (26.83 %) Firewall 6 7 (17.07 %) VoIP 7 6 (14.63 %) Cisco PIX 8 3 (7.317 %) Cisco ASA 8 3 (7.317 %) TCP/IP 8 3 (7.317 %) MPLS 8 3 (7.317 %) BGP 9 2 (4.878 %) EIGRP 9 2 (4.878 %) OSPF 9 2 (4.878 %) DNS 9 2 (4.878 %) VLAN 9 2 (4.878 %) Wireless 10 1 (2.439 %) SMDS 10 1 (2.439 %) Frame Relay 10 1 (2.439 %) IP Telephony 10 1 (2.439 %) Cisco IPT
General 1 10 (24.39 %) Government 2 7 (17.07 %) Local Government 3 2 (4.878 %) Finance 4 1 (2.439 %) Telecoms 4 1 (2.439 %) Health	Job Titles 1 9 (21.95 %) Network Engineer 2 6 (14.63 %) Storage Specialist 3 5 (12.20 %) Network Support 3 5 (12.20 %) SAN Specialist 3 5 (12.20 %) SAN Engineer 4 4 (9.756 %) Network Analyst 4 4 (9.756 %) Analyst 5 3 (7.317 %) Consultant 5 3 (7.317 %) Cisco Support 6 2 (4.878 %) Network Specialist 6 2 (4.878 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (4.878 %) Solutions Designer 6 2 (4.878 %) Administrator 6 2 (4.878 %) Senior Analyst 6 2 (4.878 %) Systems Engineer 6 2 (4.878 %) Architect 6 2 (4.878 %) Project Manager 6 2 (4.878 %) Tester 6 2 (4.878 %) Network Technician 6 2 (4.878 %) Systems Tester
Miscellaneous 1 5 (12.20 %) CLARiiON 2 3 (7.317 %) Management Information System 3 1 (2.439 %) Firmware	Operating Systems 1 7 (17.07 %) Windows 2 5 (12.20 %) UNIX 3 4 (9.756 %) Linux 4 3 (7.317 %) AIX 5 2 (4.878 %) Solaris 5 2 (4.878 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (2.439 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (24.39 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (9.756 %) SC Cleared 2 4 (9.756 %) ITIL 2 4 (9.756 %) PRINCE 3 2 (4.878 %) Project Management 3 2 (4.878 %) Disaster Recovery 3 2 (4.878 %) Migration 3 2 (4.878 %) Network Design 4 1 (2.439 %) Load Balancing 4 1 (2.439 %) Time Management 4 1 (2.439 %) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (4.878 %) Shell Script 1 2 (4.878 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 15 (36.59 %) Cisco Certification 2 10 (24.39 %) CCNA 3 8 (19.51 %) CCNP 4 4 (9.756 %) CCDP 5 2 (4.878 %) CCSP 5 2 (4.878 %) CCSA 5 2 (4.878 %) CCSE 6 1 (2.439 %) Check Point Certification 6 1 (2.439 %) CCIE 6 1 (2.439 %) CCIP 6 1 (2.439 %) CISSP 6 1 (2.439 %) CCDA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (7.317 %) SLA
System Software 1 9 (21.95 %) NetBackup 2 8 (19.51 %) Active Directory 3 6 (14.63 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 5 (12.20 %) NFS 5 1 (2.439 %) NDS	Systems Management 1 4 (9.756 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 2 (4.878 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 7 (17.07 %) EMC 1 7 (17.07 %) CheckPoint 2 6 (14.63 %) VMware 3 5 (12.20 %) IBM 3 5 (12.20 %) Microsoft 4 3 (7.317 %) NetApp 4 3 (7.317 %) Brocade 4 3 (7.317 %) VERITAS 5 2 (4.878 %) Capita 5 2 (4.878 %) Novell 6 1 (2.439 %) Symantec 6 1 (2.439 %) Citrix 6 1 (2.439 %) Barracuda Networks