The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 18 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 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.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco
Rank 74 51 91
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +40
Contract jobs citing Cisco 577 894 672
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 2.502% 3.357% 2.135%
As % of the Vendors category 5.555% 7.468% 4.664%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 535 375
Average daily rate £388 £375 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -5.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £192 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £488 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.46% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 38 39
Average hourly rate £24.38 £19.50 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -27.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £16.05 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.75 £27.15 £47.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £20.06 £21.88
% change year-on-year
+12.16% -8.29%
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
10387 11971 14407
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.04% 44.95% 45.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6537 7224 8747
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £250 £280
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 295 307 400
Average hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.82% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.50 £40.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Cisco
England

Cisco
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Cisco Daily Rate Trend

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London Cisco Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Cisco Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London Cisco Hourly Rate Histogram

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 London region over the 3 months to 18 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
City of London -17 197 £400 - 84
Docklands, London +2 6 £438 +17.05%
Croydon +5 5 £380 - 1
Hammersmith - 5 - -
Uxbridge 0 4 £229 +28.87% 1
Canary Wharf +5 2 £500 +112.76%
Brentford -10 1 £425 -
Harrow - 1 £363 - 1
Hackney - 1 - -
Ealing - 1 £225 -
Wembley - - - -
West Drayton - - - -
Clapham - - - -
Wimbledon - - - - 1
Chiswick - - - -
Hayes - - - -
Hounslow - - - -
Kingston Upon Thames - - - - 1
Orpington - - - - 2
Sidcup - - - -
Southall - - - -
Surbiton - - - -
Twickenham - - - - 1
Bromley - - - -
Barnet - - - -
Beckenham - - - -
Belvedere - - - -
Dagenham - - - - 1
Edgware - - - -
Enfield - - - -
Feltham - - - -
Cisco
England

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 383 (35.36%) Cisco Certification
2 374 (34.53%) Windows
3 344 (31.76%) Firewall
4 263 (24.28%) VMware
5 262 (24.19%) LAN
6 247 (22.81%) WAN
7 228 (21.05%) Microsoft
8 204 (18.84%) SAN
9 194 (17.91%) Finance
10 193 (17.82%) Linux
11 188 (17.36%) Active Directory
12 187 (17.27%) VPN
13 186 (17.17%) Citrix
14 177 (16.34%) CCNA
15 173 (15.97%) CCNP
15 173 (15.97%) VMware Infrastructure
16 165 (15.24%) Windows Server 2008
17 162 (14.96%) Juniper
18 161 (14.87%) Cisco ASA
19 158 (14.59%) MS Exchange
20 148 (13.67%) HP
21 144 (13.30%) ITIL
22 138 (12.74%) BGP
23 137 (12.65%) CheckPoint
24 135 (12.47%) MPLS
25 131 (12.10%) Wireless
26 128 (11.82%) DNS
27 121 (11.17%) OSPF
27 121 (11.17%) Windows Server 2003
28 117 (10.80%) EMC

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 Development
1 32 (2.955%) HTML
2 26 (2.401%) Middleware
3 20 (1.847%) WebSphere
4 17 (1.570%) XML
5 16 (1.477%) XSLT
6 11 (1.016%) Application Packaging
7 8 (0.739%) Regular Expression
8 6 (0.554%) XMPP
8 6 (0.554%) .NET
9 4 (0.369%) ASP
9 4 (0.369%) LAMP
10 3 (0.277%) Rendezvous
11 2 (0.185%) COM
11 2 (0.185%) CSS
11 2 (0.185%) Flash
11 2 (0.185%) VXML
11 2 (0.185%) Web Services
11 2 (0.185%) CGI
12 1 (0.092%) jQuery
12 1 (0.092%) Google Maps API
Application Platforms
1 158 (14.59%) MS Exchange
2 88 (8.126%) Exchange Server 2010
3 58 (5.355%) Exchange Server 2007
4 48 (4.432%) SharePoint
5 45 (4.155%) Apache
6 37 (3.416%) Exchange Server 2003
7 33 (3.047%) Lync
8 32 (2.955%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 29 (2.678%) IIS
10 17 (1.570%) WebLogic
11 12 (1.108%) SharePoint 2010
12 11 (1.016%) IBM Notes
13 9 (0.831%) CMS
14 8 (0.739%) Office Communications Server
15 7 (0.646%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.646%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.462%) Exchange Server 2000
16 5 (0.462%) BizTalk Server
16 5 (0.462%) CloudStack
17 3 (0.277%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 67 (6.187%) MS Excel
2 56 (5.171%) MS Office
3 21 (1.939%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.923%) MS Project
5 9 (0.831%) Office 365
6 5 (0.462%) MS PowerPoint
7 1 (0.092%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.092%) Vectorworks
Business Applications
1 17 (1.570%) RMDS
2 1 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.092%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.092%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 344 (31.76%) Firewall
2 262 (24.19%) LAN
3 247 (22.81%) WAN
4 204 (18.84%) SAN
5 187 (17.27%) VPN
6 161 (14.87%) Cisco ASA
7 138 (12.74%) BGP
8 135 (12.47%) MPLS
9 131 (12.10%) Wireless
10 128 (11.82%) DNS
11 121 (11.17%) OSPF
12 116 (10.71%) VoIP
13 109 (10.06%) Cisco Nexus
14 106 (9.788%) TCP/IP
15 102 (9.418%) DHCP
16 82 (7.572%) Internet
17 81 (7.479%) Network Security
18 69 (6.371%) NAS
19 62 (5.725%) Cisco IOS
20 57 (5.263%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (8.033%) SQL Server
2 29 (2.678%) MySQL
2 29 (2.678%) SQL Server 2008
3 23 (2.124%) SQL Server 2005
4 10 (0.923%) EDRMS
5 9 (0.831%) SQL Server 2012
6 6 (0.554%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.554%) Oracle 8/8i
7 4 (0.369%) Informix
7 4 (0.369%) SQL Server 2000
8 2 (0.185%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.185%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.185%) HBase
9 1 (0.092%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.092%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.092%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.092%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.092%) DataStage
9 1 (0.092%) SAP BI
9 1 (0.092%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (0.369%) InstallShield
1 4 (0.369%) JIRA
2 3 (0.277%) MSI
3 2 (0.185%) Subversion
4 1 (0.092%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (0.092%) Rational Rose
4 1 (0.092%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.092%) Git (software)
4 1 (0.092%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.092%) Hudson
General
1 194 (17.91%) Finance
2 96 (8.864%) Telecoms
3 92 (8.495%) Banking
4 30 (2.770%) Investment Banking
5 25 (2.308%) Retail
6 22 (2.031%) Financial Institution
7 19 (1.754%) Back Office
8 13 (1.200%) Law
8 13 (1.200%) Legal
9 10 (0.923%) Advertising
10 9 (0.831%) Marketing
11 8 (0.739%) French Language
12 7 (0.646%) Spanish Language
12 7 (0.646%) Games
13 6 (0.554%) Publishing
14 4 (0.369%) Local Government
14 4 (0.369%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.277%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.277%) German Language
16 2 (0.185%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 242 (22.35%) Network Engineer
2 111 (10.25%) Architect
3 80 (7.387%) Consultant
4 70 (6.464%) Cisco Engineer
5 69 (6.371%) Analyst
5 69 (6.371%) Support Engineer
6 68 (6.279%) Administrator
7 47 (4.340%) Project Manager
8 46 (4.247%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 45 (4.155%) 3rd Line Support
10 39 (3.601%) Systems Administrator
11 36 (3.324%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 35 (3.232%) Infrastructure Architect
13 33 (3.047%) Infrastructure Manager
14 32 (2.955%) Voice Engineer
15 27 (2.493%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 27 (2.493%) Senior Network Engineer
15 27 (2.493%) Solutions Architect
16 26 (2.401%) Technical Architect
17 24 (2.216%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 56 (5.171%) Blackberry
2 46 (4.247%) Clustering
3 42 (3.878%) Video Conferencing
4 40 (3.693%) CLARiiON
5 28 (2.585%) Open Source
6 22 (2.031%) Symmetrix DMX
7 20 (1.847%) Symmetrix
7 20 (1.847%) Replication
8 19 (1.754%) PKI
9 17 (1.570%) Management Information System
10 16 (1.477%) EMC Centera
11 14 (1.293%) iPad
12 12 (1.108%) Handset
13 11 (1.016%) Computer Science
14 10 (0.923%) Firmware
15 9 (0.831%) Client/Server
15 9 (0.831%) Hedge funds
16 8 (0.739%) iPhone
16 8 (0.739%) Celerra
16 8 (0.739%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 374 (34.53%) Windows
2 193 (17.82%) Linux
3 165 (15.24%) Windows Server 2008
4 121 (11.17%) Windows Server 2003
5 69 (6.371%) Solaris
6 68 (6.279%) UNIX
7 64 (5.910%) Windows 7
8 57 (5.263%) Windows XP
9 44 (4.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 25 (2.308%) Mac OS X
11 24 (2.216%) HPUX
12 16 (1.477%) CentOS
13 12 (1.108%) Windows Server 2012
14 10 (0.923%) VMS
15 9 (0.831%) Windows 2000
15 9 (0.831%) AIX
15 9 (0.831%) Android
16 8 (0.739%) Mac OS
17 7 (0.646%) Windows 2000 Server
18 6 (0.554%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (13.30%) ITIL
2 93 (8.587%) Migration
3 92 (8.495%) Project Management
4 73 (6.741%) Load Balancing
5 60 (5.540%) Network Design
6 58 (5.355%) PRINCE2
7 54 (4.986%) Change Management
8 46 (4.247%) Network Management
9 42 (3.878%) Service Management
10 35 (3.232%) Service Delivery
11 33 (3.047%) Disaster Recovery
12 29 (2.678%) Change Control
13 27 (2.493%) Business Continuity
14 26 (2.401%) Configuration Management
15 22 (2.031%) E-Commerce
15 22 (2.031%) Information Security
16 21 (1.939%) Business Analysis
16 21 (1.939%) Incident Management
16 21 (1.939%) Capacity Management
17 20 (1.847%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (9.049%) SQL
2 24 (2.216%) Perl
2 24 (2.216%) Java
3 19 (1.754%) Shell Script
4 14 (1.293%) JavaScript
4 14 (1.293%) C
5 13 (1.200%) PHP
5 13 (1.200%) PowerShell
6 8 (0.739%) Bash shell
7 6 (0.554%) VB
8 5 (0.462%) VBScript
9 3 (0.277%) C++
9 3 (0.277%) Python
10 2 (0.185%) Ruby
10 2 (0.185%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.185%) C#
11 1 (0.092%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.092%) Korn
11 1 (0.092%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.092%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 383 (35.36%) Cisco Certification
2 177 (16.34%) CCNA
3 173 (15.97%) CCNP
4 106 (9.788%) CCIE
5 90 (8.310%) Microsoft Certification
6 86 (7.941%) Security Cleared
7 79 (7.295%) MCSE
8 57 (5.263%) Degree
9 52 (4.801%) SC Cleared
10 42 (3.878%) MCITP
11 35 (3.232%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 29 (2.678%) CISSP
13 28 (2.585%) CCDP
14 24 (2.216%) DV Cleared
15 22 (2.031%) Citrix Certification
16 20 (1.847%) CCA
16 20 (1.847%) MCSA
17 17 (1.570%) CCSE
17 17 (1.570%) JNCIE
18 16 (1.477%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (4.986%) SLA
2 21 (1.939%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.108%) PCI DSS
4 10 (0.923%) QA
5 3 (0.277%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.277%) COBIT
6 1 (0.092%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.092%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.092%) GxP
System Software
1 188 (17.36%) Active Directory
2 173 (15.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (6.002%) vSphere
4 46 (4.247%) XenApp
5 36 (3.324%) VMware ESX
6 33 (3.047%) VMware ESXi
7 22 (2.031%) Hyper-V
8 20 (1.847%) XenDesktop
9 19 (1.754%) SRDF
10 18 (1.662%) XenServer
11 12 (1.108%) UAG
12 11 (1.016%) vCloud
13 10 (0.923%) NFS
14 9 (0.831%) ProxySG
14 9 (0.831%) Citrix Presentation Server
15 7 (0.646%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.646%) VMware Workstation
15 7 (0.646%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 6 (0.554%) Terminal Server
17 5 (0.462%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 54 (4.986%) Cisco CUCM
2 39 (3.601%) Cisco UCCX
3 38 (3.509%) SCCM
4 37 (3.416%) SCOM
5 28 (2.585%) Cisco UCCE
6 25 (2.308%) Backup Exec
7 21 (1.939%) OpenView
8 20 (1.847%) Nagios
9 16 (1.477%) NetBackup
10 12 (1.108%) EMC TimeFinder
10 12 (1.108%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 11 (1.016%) CiscoWorks
11 11 (1.016%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 11 (1.016%) Tivoli
12 10 (0.923%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.739%) Zenoss
14 7 (0.646%) Cacti
14 7 (0.646%) Legato
14 7 (0.646%) Puppet
14 7 (0.646%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 263 (24.28%) VMware
2 228 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 186 (17.17%) Citrix
4 162 (14.96%) Juniper
5 148 (13.67%) HP
6 137 (12.65%) CheckPoint
7 117 (10.80%) EMC
8 112 (10.34%) NetApp
9 101 (9.326%) F5
10 61 (5.633%) Red Hat
11 55 (5.078%) Oracle
12 45 (4.155%) Avaya
13 36 (3.324%) Brocade
14 29 (2.678%) IBM
15 28 (2.585%) Symantec
16 25 (2.308%) Nokia
17 24 (2.216%) Veritas
17 24 (2.216%) Blue Coat
17 24 (2.216%) Polycom
18 23 (2.124%) Dell
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City of London
Orgtel
Rate: £320 - £321 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
London
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £325.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 4 June 2013
Imperial Wharf, London, United Kingdom
Matsco Solutions
Rate: Highly competitive rates
Posted: 10 June 2013
City, London
Roc Search
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Posted: 17 June 2013
London
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Rate: GBP420 - 460 per day
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London
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Rate: GBP300 - GBP340 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
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Rate: GBP33 to GBP35 per hour
Posted: 7 June 2013
City, London
MINT Recruitment
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £14 - £18 p/h
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
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City of London
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Rate: £400 per day
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West London
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Chessington, Surrey
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South West London
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City of London
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City of London
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City, London
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