The first table below looks at the demand for CCNP in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCNP 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 London 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 Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Rank 282 240 297
Rank change year-on-year
-42 +57
Contract jobs citing CCNP 96 187 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.443% 0.694% 0.479%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.029% 4.897% 3.622%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 111 68
Average daily rate £356 £375 £394
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £241 £275 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £313
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 12
Average hourly rate £25.00 £22.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -37.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £20.21 £18.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £34.20 £36.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.25 £25.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+53.00% -31.50%
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3169 3819 4114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.63% 14.18% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1876 2288 2374
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 119 141
Average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -3.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £12.30 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £79.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
CCNP
England

CCNP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London CCNP Jobs Demand Trend

CCNP
Daily Rate Trend

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

London CCNP Daily Rate Trend

CCNP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNP across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London CCNP Daily Rate Histogram

CCNP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London CCNP Hourly Rate Trend

CCNP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the London 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
City of London -17 33 £383 -1.92%
Hammersmith - 3 - -
Docklands, London 0 1 £520 +56.98%
Uxbridge - 1 - -
CCNP
England

CCNP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing CCNP 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 CCNP.

1 189 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 167 (88.36%) Cisco
3 85 (44.97%) CCNA
4 79 (41.80%) Firewall
5 75 (39.68%) LAN
6 74 (39.15%) WAN
7 61 (32.28%) CCIE
8 58 (30.69%) MPLS
9 49 (25.93%) Cisco ASA
10 48 (25.40%) BGP
11 43 (22.75%) OSPF
12 41 (21.69%) Finance
13 37 (19.58%) Wireless
14 36 (19.05%) CheckPoint
15 34 (17.99%) Cisco Nexus
16 33 (17.46%) Juniper
17 32 (16.93%) VPN
18 31 (16.40%) Windows
18 31 (16.40%) Network Security
19 29 (15.34%) Citrix
19 29 (15.34%) Internet
20 27 (14.29%) VoIP
20 27 (14.29%) VMware
21 26 (13.76%) Microsoft
22 25 (13.23%) Cisco IOS
23 24 (12.70%) Cisco PIX
24 23 (12.17%) Network Management
25 22 (11.64%) DNS
25 22 (11.64%) Microsoft Certification
25 22 (11.64%) EIGRP

CCNP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing CCNP 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 CCNP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (2.646%) Web Services
2 3 (1.587%) Middleware
3 2 (1.058%) CSS
4 1 (0.529%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 15 (7.937%) Exchange Server 2007
1 15 (7.937%) MS Exchange
2 11 (5.820%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (2.646%) Windows Azure
3 5 (2.646%) Amazon AWS
4 4 (2.116%) Exchange Server 2000
4 4 (2.116%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (0.529%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (4.233%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.646%) MS Excel
3 4 (2.116%) MS Office
4 1 (0.529%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 79 (41.80%) Firewall
2 75 (39.68%) LAN
3 74 (39.15%) WAN
4 58 (30.69%) MPLS
5 49 (25.93%) Cisco ASA
6 48 (25.40%) BGP
7 43 (22.75%) OSPF
8 37 (19.58%) Wireless
9 34 (17.99%) Cisco Nexus
10 32 (16.93%) VPN
11 31 (16.40%) Network Security
12 29 (15.34%) Internet
13 27 (14.29%) VoIP
14 25 (13.23%) Cisco IOS
15 24 (12.70%) Cisco PIX
16 22 (11.64%) DNS
16 22 (11.64%) EIGRP
17 19 (10.05%) DHCP
17 19 (10.05%) SNMP
18 15 (7.937%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.529%) SQL Server
General
1 41 (21.69%) Finance
2 17 (8.995%) Telecoms
3 16 (8.466%) Banking
4 9 (4.762%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.175%) French Language
6 5 (2.646%) Retail
7 4 (2.116%) Law
8 2 (1.058%) Games
8 2 (1.058%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.529%) Marketing
9 1 (0.529%) Back Office
9 1 (0.529%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 83 (43.92%) Network Engineer
2 20 (10.58%) Cisco Engineer
2 20 (10.58%) Support Engineer
3 16 (8.466%) 3rd Line Support
4 15 (7.937%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 11 (5.820%) Consultant
6 10 (5.291%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (5.291%) IT Support Engineer
6 10 (5.291%) IT Support
7 9 (4.762%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 7 (3.704%) Security Engineer
8 7 (3.704%) Architect
9 6 (3.175%) Network Security Engineer
9 6 (3.175%) Voice Engineer
10 5 (2.646%) Design Engineer
10 5 (2.646%) Network Manager
10 5 (2.646%) Network Design Engineer
10 5 (2.646%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 4 (2.116%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (2.116%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.646%) SaaS
2 3 (1.587%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (1.587%) Statistics
3 2 (1.058%) Blackberry
3 2 (1.058%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.058%) e-Health
3 2 (1.058%) SecurID
3 2 (1.058%) Online Games
4 1 (0.529%) Open Source
4 1 (0.529%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.529%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.529%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.529%) CCTV
4 1 (0.529%) PKI
4 1 (0.529%) Device Driver
4 1 (0.529%) IVR
4 1 (0.529%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.40%) Windows
2 19 (10.05%) Linux
3 17 (8.995%) Windows Server 2003
4 16 (8.466%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (5.820%) Mac OS X
6 5 (2.646%) UNIX
7 4 (2.116%) Windows 2000
7 4 (2.116%) Windows 2000 Server
8 2 (1.058%) Solaris
8 2 (1.058%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (12.17%) Network Management
2 21 (11.11%) Migration
3 19 (10.05%) ITIL
4 16 (8.466%) Project Management
5 14 (7.407%) Network Architecture
6 13 (6.878%) Network Design
7 12 (6.349%) Load Balancing
8 9 (4.762%) E-Commerce
9 7 (3.704%) Service Management
10 6 (3.175%) PRINCE
10 6 (3.175%) Capacity Planning
11 5 (2.646%) High Availability
11 5 (2.646%) Change Control
11 5 (2.646%) SOA
12 4 (2.116%) Service Delivery
12 4 (2.116%) Scrum
12 4 (2.116%) Project Planning
12 4 (2.116%) Kanban
13 3 (1.587%) Data Protection
13 3 (1.587%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.878%) SQL
2 1 (0.529%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 189 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 85 (44.97%) CCNA
3 61 (32.28%) CCIE
4 22 (11.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (11.11%) CCDP
5 21 (11.11%) MCSE
6 18 (9.524%) MCITP
7 16 (8.466%) CCA
7 16 (8.466%) Citrix Certification
7 16 (8.466%) CCEA
8 12 (6.349%) Security Cleared
8 12 (6.349%) CCSP
9 10 (5.291%) CCSE
10 9 (4.762%) CCIP
11 8 (4.233%) SC Cleared
11 8 (4.233%) Degree
11 8 (4.233%) CCSA
12 6 (3.175%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (3.175%) CCVP
13 5 (2.646%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.820%) SLA
2 3 (1.587%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.529%) QA
System Software
1 18 (9.524%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.466%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.820%) XenApp
3 11 (5.820%) XenDesktop
4 5 (2.646%) XenServer
5 3 (1.587%) UAG
6 2 (1.058%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.529%) vSphere
7 1 (0.529%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.529%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.529%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.529%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 14 (7.407%) Cisco UCCX
2 12 (6.349%) Cisco CUCM
3 9 (4.762%) Cisco UCCE
4 3 (1.587%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.587%) OpenView
5 2 (1.058%) CiscoWorks
5 2 (1.058%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.529%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.529%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.529%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 167 (88.36%) Cisco
2 36 (19.05%) CheckPoint
3 33 (17.46%) Juniper
4 29 (15.34%) Citrix
5 27 (14.29%) VMware
6 26 (13.76%) Microsoft
7 16 (8.466%) F5
8 12 (6.349%) Blue Coat
9 9 (4.762%) HP
10 8 (4.233%) Fortinet
10 8 (4.233%) SolarWinds
11 6 (3.175%) BT
11 6 (3.175%) Aruba
12 5 (2.646%) Infoblox
13 4 (2.116%) NetApp
13 4 (2.116%) Avaya
13 4 (2.116%) Riverbed
14 3 (1.587%) Sourcefire
14 3 (1.587%) Radianz
14 3 (1.587%) Websense
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