The first table below looks at the demand for CCNP in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 69 77 69
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -8
Contract jobs citing CCNP 6 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.643% 0.464% 0.288%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.800% 3.030% 2.381%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
Average daily rate £240 £238 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.05% -13.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £313
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £22.00 £22.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.25 £25.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+53.00% -31.50%
All Qualifications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
125 198 126
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 13.40% 15.33% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 77 52
Average daily rate £299 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.64% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £176 £128
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 9
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +8.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £16.35 £15.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.20 £22.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
CCNP
North West

CCNP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester CCNP Daily Rate Trend

CCNP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester 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
Wigan - 1 - -
CCNP
North West

CCNP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 11 (100.00%) Cisco
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (90.91%) CCNA
3 8 (72.73%) ITIL
4 7 (63.64%) Windows
4 7 (63.64%) Firewall
5 5 (45.45%) VMware
5 5 (45.45%) PRINCE2
5 5 (45.45%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (36.36%) SCCM
6 4 (36.36%) SCOM
6 4 (36.36%) vSphere
6 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (36.36%) Windows XP
6 4 (36.36%) MS Exchange
6 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
6 4 (36.36%) NetApp
7 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
7 3 (27.27%) LAN
8 2 (18.18%) Change Management
8 2 (18.18%) Cisco UCCX
8 2 (18.18%) WAN
8 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
8 2 (18.18%) MPLS
9 1 (9.091%) Project Management
9 1 (9.091%) CLARiiON
9 1 (9.091%) Business Continuity
9 1 (9.091%) PRINCE

CCNP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (9.091%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (36.36%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (27.27%) LAN
4 2 (18.18%) WAN
4 2 (18.18%) MPLS
5 1 (9.091%) SAN
5 1 (9.091%) ADSL
5 1 (9.091%) DHCP
5 1 (9.091%) HTTP
5 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
5 1 (9.091%) VPN
5 1 (9.091%) DNS
5 1 (9.091%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (9.091%) Cisco PIX
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Project Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco Voice Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Voice Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Network Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Project Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Network Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Voice Support Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco Support Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco Support
4 1 (9.091%) Network Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Implementation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (36.36%) Windows XP
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) ITIL
2 5 (45.45%) PRINCE2
3 2 (18.18%) Change Management
4 1 (9.091%) Project Management
4 1 (9.091%) Business Continuity
4 1 (9.091%) PRINCE
4 1 (9.091%) Network Management
4 1 (9.091%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (90.91%) CCNA
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.091%) MCSE
3 1 (9.091%) CCDP
3 1 (9.091%) MCITP
3 1 (9.091%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) vSphere
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.091%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
1 4 (36.36%) SCOM
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (9.091%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 4 (36.36%) NetApp
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 1 (9.091%) EMC
5 1 (9.091%) Juniper
5 1 (9.091%) Twitter
5 1 (9.091%) Infoblox
5 1 (9.091%) Mitel
5 1 (9.091%) Brocade