The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco Nexus skills 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 Nexus over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Communications & Networking category 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Nexus
Rank 338 362 404
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +42
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 51 43 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.232% 0.159% 0.085%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.770% 1.165% 0.780%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 20 12
Average daily rate £450 £400 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £311 £341
10% offered a daily rate of more than £532 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £325
% change year-on-year
- +11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £21.88
% change year-on-year
+32.69% +18.85%
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2881 3690 3332
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.08% 13.68% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1759 2243 1927
Average daily rate £400 £400 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £238 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 149 212
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Cisco Nexus
England

Cisco Nexus
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Nexus across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

London Cisco Nexus Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Cisco Nexus Daily Rate Trend

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Nexus across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London Cisco Nexus Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco Nexus
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Cisco Nexus Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco Nexus
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Nexus within the London region over the 3 months to 21 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 +24 20 £450 +12.50%
Hammersmith - 3 - -
Docklands, London +1 1 £520 +56.98%
Cisco Nexus
England

Cisco Nexus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Cisco Nexus 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 Nexus.

1 99 (99.00%) Cisco
2 50 (50.00%) Firewall
3 44 (44.00%) Cisco Certification
4 42 (42.00%) BGP
5 32 (32.00%) VMware
5 32 (32.00%) CCNP
5 32 (32.00%) Cisco ASA
6 31 (31.00%) LAN
7 29 (29.00%) Citrix
8 26 (26.00%) WAN
9 25 (25.00%) Juniper
9 25 (25.00%) Wireless
10 24 (24.00%) MPLS
10 24 (24.00%) OSPF
10 24 (24.00%) VPN
11 23 (23.00%) VMware Infrastructure
12 22 (22.00%) Load Balancing
12 22 (22.00%) Ethernet
12 22 (22.00%) CCIE
13 21 (21.00%) CheckPoint
13 21 (21.00%) VLAN
14 20 (20.00%) Linux
14 20 (20.00%) E-Commerce
15 19 (19.00%) Finance
15 19 (19.00%) NetScaler
16 17 (17.00%) Migration
16 17 (17.00%) Internet
17 16 (16.00%) HP
18 15 (15.00%) SNMP
18 15 (15.00%) Network Security

Cisco Nexus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Cisco Nexus 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 Nexus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (10.00%) Regular Expression
2 2 (2.000%) Middleware
2 2 (2.000%) Application Packaging
3 1 (1.000%) CSS
3 1 (1.000%) SOAP
3 1 (1.000%) XML
Application Platforms
1 8 (8.000%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.000%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (3.000%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (2.000%) MS Exchange
4 2 (2.000%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (2.000%) Lync
4 2 (2.000%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.000%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 50 (50.00%) Firewall
2 42 (42.00%) BGP
3 32 (32.00%) Cisco ASA
4 31 (31.00%) LAN
5 26 (26.00%) WAN
6 25 (25.00%) Wireless
7 24 (24.00%) MPLS
7 24 (24.00%) OSPF
7 24 (24.00%) VPN
8 22 (22.00%) Ethernet
9 21 (21.00%) VLAN
10 19 (19.00%) NetScaler
11 17 (17.00%) Internet
12 15 (15.00%) SNMP
12 15 (15.00%) Network Security
13 14 (14.00%) DNS
14 13 (13.00%) HTTP
14 13 (13.00%) DHCP
15 12 (12.00%) TCP/IP
15 12 (12.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.000%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.000%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (2.000%) SQL Server 2012
2 2 (2.000%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (2.000%) InstallShield
2 1 (1.000%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 19 (19.00%) Finance
2 9 (9.000%) Banking
3 3 (3.000%) Investment Banking
3 3 (3.000%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.000%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.000%) German Language
5 1 (1.000%) Retail
5 1 (1.000%) Marketing
5 1 (1.000%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.000%) Games
Job Titles
1 58 (58.00%) Network Engineer
2 11 (11.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 10 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (9.000%) Firewall Engineer
5 5 (5.000%) Deployment Engineer
6 4 (4.000%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (4.000%) Analyst
6 4 (4.000%) Architect
6 4 (4.000%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (4.000%) Consultant
6 4 (4.000%) Core Network Engineer
6 4 (4.000%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (3.000%) Data Centre Engineer
7 3 (3.000%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (3.000%) Network Support
8 2 (2.000%) Network Analyst
8 2 (2.000%) Network Consultant
8 2 (2.000%) Senior Consultant
8 2 (2.000%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.000%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Open Source
2 7 (7.000%) Firmware
3 5 (5.000%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.000%) Clustering
4 2 (2.000%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.000%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.000%) PKI
4 2 (2.000%) e-Health
5 1 (1.000%) Online Games
5 1 (1.000%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.000%) SecurID
5 1 (1.000%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.000%) PaaS
5 1 (1.000%) Replication
5 1 (1.000%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.000%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.00%) Linux
2 10 (10.00%) Windows
3 5 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.000%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (3.000%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (2.000%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.000%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.00%) Load Balancing
2 20 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 17 (17.00%) Migration
4 14 (14.00%) Change Management
5 12 (12.00%) Network Architecture
6 10 (10.00%) Network Management
7 8 (8.000%) ITIL
8 7 (7.000%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (7.000%) Project Planning
9 6 (6.000%) Network Design
10 5 (5.000%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (5.000%) Service Management
10 5 (5.000%) Project Management
11 4 (4.000%) Scrum
11 4 (4.000%) Business Continuity
11 4 (4.000%) Configuration Management
11 4 (4.000%) Kanban
12 3 (3.000%) Change Control
13 2 (2.000%) Stakeholder Management
13 2 (2.000%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.000%) SQL
2 2 (2.000%) VBScript
2 2 (2.000%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (44.00%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (32.00%) CCNP
3 22 (22.00%) CCIE
4 11 (11.00%) Security Cleared
5 10 (10.00%) CCNA
6 7 (7.000%) CCDP
6 7 (7.000%) JNCIE
6 7 (7.000%) Degree
7 4 (4.000%) CCIP
7 4 (4.000%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.000%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (4.000%) JNCIA
8 3 (3.000%) JNCIP
9 2 (2.000%) CCVP
9 2 (2.000%) HP APS
10 1 (1.000%) MCITP
10 1 (1.000%) VCP5
10 1 (1.000%) VCAP
10 1 (1.000%) VTSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.000%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.000%) SLA
3 1 (1.000%) Solvency II
System Software
1 23 (23.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (14.00%) XenServer
3 11 (11.00%) vSphere
4 5 (5.000%) VMware Workstation
4 5 (5.000%) Active Directory
5 4 (4.000%) VMware ESX
5 4 (4.000%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.000%) XenApp
7 1 (1.000%) Xen
7 1 (1.000%) vCloud
7 1 (1.000%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.000%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.000%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 10 (10.00%) Nagios
2 9 (9.000%) FortiGate
2 9 (9.000%) Cacti
3 7 (7.000%) SCCM
4 6 (6.000%) SCOM
5 2 (2.000%) OpenView
5 2 (2.000%) WMI
6 1 (1.000%) BladeLogic
6 1 (1.000%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (1.000%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.000%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 99 (99.00%) Cisco
2 32 (32.00%) VMware
3 29 (29.00%) Citrix
4 25 (25.00%) Juniper
5 21 (21.00%) CheckPoint
6 16 (16.00%) HP
7 14 (14.00%) F5
8 13 (13.00%) Fortinet
9 12 (12.00%) Microsoft
10 10 (10.00%) EMC
11 9 (9.000%) Sourcefire
12 5 (5.000%) Brocade
12 5 (5.000%) NetApp
12 5 (5.000%) Red Hat
12 5 (5.000%) Sophos
13 4 (4.000%) BT
13 4 (4.000%) Aruba
13 4 (4.000%) Polycom
14 3 (3.000%) Websense
14 3 (3.000%) Radianz
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