The first table below looks at the demand for the Cisco Network Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Network Engineer
Rank 368 378 413
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 17 28 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.079% 0.105% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.113% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 13
Average daily rate £400 £325 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% +12.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £299 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £430 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £275 £274
% change year-on-year
+4.54% +0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +15.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £29.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year
- +1.72%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19929 24797 28916
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.30% 92.59% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13475 15993 18573
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 606 683
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Cisco Network Engineer
England

Cisco Network Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Cisco Network Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Cisco Network Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Cisco Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Cisco Network Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Cisco Network Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco Network Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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 +11 5 £350 +4.47%
Docklands, London +4 1 £525 +44.82%
Cisco Network Engineer
England

Cisco Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Cisco Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Cisco Network Engineer in their job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Cisco
2 14 (50.00%) Firewall
2 14 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (39.29%) VPN
3 11 (39.29%) OSPF
3 11 (39.29%) BGP
4 10 (35.71%) LAN
5 9 (32.14%) WAN
5 9 (32.14%) CheckPoint
5 9 (32.14%) MPLS
6 8 (28.57%) CCNP
6 8 (28.57%) IPsec
7 7 (25.00%) Wireless
7 7 (25.00%) Juniper
8 6 (21.43%) CCNA
8 6 (21.43%) Ethernet
8 6 (21.43%) SNMP
8 6 (21.43%) Incident Management
8 6 (21.43%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (17.86%) HP APS
9 5 (17.86%) Gigabit Ethernet
9 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
9 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
9 5 (17.86%) 3Com
9 5 (17.86%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (17.86%) DSL
9 5 (17.86%) RSVP
9 5 (17.86%) OpenView
9 5 (17.86%) HP
9 5 (17.86%) Nokia

Cisco Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Cisco Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Cisco Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (50.00%) Firewall
2 11 (39.29%) VPN
2 11 (39.29%) OSPF
2 11 (39.29%) BGP
3 10 (35.71%) LAN
4 9 (32.14%) WAN
4 9 (32.14%) MPLS
5 8 (28.57%) IPsec
6 7 (25.00%) Wireless
7 6 (21.43%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (21.43%) Ethernet
7 6 (21.43%) SNMP
8 5 (17.86%) DSL
8 5 (17.86%) Gigabit Ethernet
8 5 (17.86%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (17.86%) RSVP
9 4 (14.29%) VoIP
9 4 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
10 3 (10.71%) SSL
General
1 2 (7.143%) Finance
1 2 (7.143%) Banking
1 2 (7.143%) Investment Banking
2 1 (3.571%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.571%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.571%) Clustering
1 1 (3.571%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 1 (3.571%) UNIX
2 1 (3.571%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) Incident Management
2 2 (7.143%) Change Control
3 1 (3.571%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (3.571%) Communications Security
3 1 (3.571%) Network Architecture
3 1 (3.571%) ITIL
3 1 (3.571%) Change Management
3 1 (3.571%) Migration
3 1 (3.571%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.571%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (28.57%) CCNP
3 6 (21.43%) CCNA
4 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) HP APS
5 3 (10.71%) CCIE
6 2 (7.143%) CCSP
7 1 (3.571%) Check Point Certification
7 1 (3.571%) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (3.571%) ProxySG
1 1 (3.571%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) OpenView
2 2 (7.143%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (3.571%) Nagios
3 1 (3.571%) Cacti
3 1 (3.571%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (3.571%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (3.571%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (32.14%) CheckPoint
3 7 (25.00%) Juniper
4 5 (17.86%) Nokia
4 5 (17.86%) HP
4 5 (17.86%) 3Com
5 2 (7.143%) F5
5 2 (7.143%) McAfee
6 1 (3.571%) Remedy
6 1 (3.571%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.571%) VMware
6 1 (3.571%) Mitel
6 1 (3.571%) Blue Coat
6 1 (3.571%) Riverbed
6 1 (3.571%) SolarWinds
City, London
Cisco - CCNP - VoIP - Soft switches - Ethernet - IP. Austin Fraser are working with one of their top clients based in London. This is a really exciting and URGENT opportunity...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £0.00 per day + NEG
Posted: 15 May 2013
East London
You should have recent and extensive Investment Banking/Financial experience coupled with a clear understanding of Cisco (Cisco CCNA, CCNP or CCIE Certifications desirable) and Arista specific experience.
iKas International
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
East London
Cisco Network Deployment Engineer required by large Investment Bank, based in London to work within the Bank's Technology Infrastructure Operations area, specifically within the Low Latency Team...
iKas International
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
Cisco Network Engineer required... Excellent LAN and WAN skills, including; OSPF, HSRP, VPNs, VLANs, GRE/IPSec VPNs, SNMP management, etc... Proficient with VoIP technologies (Cisco CUCM preferable). Any...
Proactive Appointments
Rate: Unspecified Market Rate
Posted: 13 May 2013