The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Leicestershire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Cisco Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco
Rank 31 20 28
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +8
Contract jobs citing Cisco 2 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.935% 3.896% 1.402%
As % of the Vendors category 1.770% 8.182% 2.632%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £275 £180 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.77% -40.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-8.20% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £18.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.13 £20.00 £21.94
% change year-on-year
+15.62% -8.83%
All Vendors
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
113 110 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 52.80% 47.62% 53.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 33 39
Average daily rate £344 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £276 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £475 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 14
Average hourly rate £19.00 £12.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+58.33% -35.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.83 £8.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £20.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Cisco
East Midlands

Cisco
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire Cisco Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire Cisco Daily Rate Trend

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire Cisco Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco
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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leicester -3 2 £275 - 1
Hinckley - - - -
Cisco
East Midlands

Cisco
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) 3Com
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) DMVPN
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Nortel
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper
1 1 (33.33%) Nokia
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) DMVPN
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) 3Com
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Nortel
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper
1 1 (33.33%) Nokia