Merseyside Cisco Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rugby Runcorn Sale Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	17
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	12	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	7.317 %	11.19 %
Daily rates quoted	2	10
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£241
Average daily rate	£425	£249
% change on same period last year	+71.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£256
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£330
% change on same period last year	+10.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£17.70
Average hourly rate	£24.63	£20.00
% change on same period last year	+23.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.25	£22.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.88	£25.09
% change on same period last year	+3.12 %
Vendors Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	164	268
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.232 %	0.271 %
Daily rates quoted	44	71
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£258
Average daily rate	£364	£274
% change on same period last year	+32.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£291
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.82	£17.69
Average hourly rate	£19.01	£19.75
% change on same period last year	-3.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.21	£21.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.41	£24.34
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	-16	9	£425	+71.02 %
Wirral	-1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 12 (52.17 %) LAN 1 12 (52.17 %) WAN 1 12 (52.17 %) Firewall 2 10 (43.48 %) Active Directory 3 9 (39.13 %) Novell 4 8 (34.78 %) Windows 5 7 (30.43 %) Novell eDirectory 6 4 (17.39 %) Migration 6 4 (17.39 %) Cisco Certification 6 4 (17.39 %) CCNA 7 3 (13.04 %) CCNP 7 3 (13.04 %) Microsoft 7 3 (13.04 %) TCP/IP 7 3 (13.04 %) VPN 7 3 (13.04 %) DNS

7 3 (13.04 %) ITIL 7 3 (13.04 %) Internet 7 3 (13.04 %) Network Security 8 2 (8.696 %) Load Balancing 8 2 (8.696 %) ISA Server 8 2 (8.696 %) Juniper 8 2 (8.696 %) Windows Server 2003 8 2 (8.696 %) DHCP 8 2 (8.696 %) VoIP 8 2 (8.696 %) Windows XP 8 2 (8.696 %) NHS 9 1 (4.348 %) Terminal Services 9 1 (4.348 %) CheckPoint 9 1 (4.348 %) Microsoft Certification 9 1 (4.348 %) EMC

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 Platforms 1 1 (4.348 %) IIS 1 1 (4.348 %) SharePoint	Communications & Networking 1 12 (52.17 %) LAN 1 12 (52.17 %) WAN 1 12 (52.17 %) Firewall 2 3 (13.04 %) Internet 2 3 (13.04 %) Network Security 2 3 (13.04 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (13.04 %) VPN 2 3 (13.04 %) DNS 3 2 (8.696 %) DHCP 3 2 (8.696 %) VoIP 4 1 (4.348 %) FTP 4 1 (4.348 %) SAN 4 1 (4.348 %) ADSL 4 1 (4.348 %) IPCC 4 1 (4.348 %) IP Telephony 4 1 (4.348 %) VLAN 4 1 (4.348 %) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server 1 1 (4.348 %) RDBMS	General 1 1 (4.348 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 8 (34.78 %) Analyst 2 7 (30.43 %) Network Analyst 3 3 (13.04 %) Network Support 3 3 (13.04 %) Cisco Specialist 3 3 (13.04 %) Network Specialist 3 3 (13.04 %) Cisco Analyst 4 2 (8.696 %) Cisco Network Analyst 4 2 (8.696 %) Architect 4 2 (8.696 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 2 (8.696 %) Consultant 4 2 (8.696 %) Support Analyst 4 2 (8.696 %) Network Support Analyst 5 1 (4.348 %) Support Specialist 5 1 (4.348 %) Administrator 5 1 (4.348 %) Data Architect 5 1 (4.348 %) Network Engineer 5 1 (4.348 %) Systems Engineer 5 1 (4.348 %) Security Specialist 5 1 (4.348 %) Senior Consultant 5 1 (4.348 %) Infrastructure Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.696 %) NHS 2 1 (4.348 %) Handset 2 1 (4.348 %) Replication 2 1 (4.348 %) Symmetrix 2 1 (4.348 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 8 (34.78 %) Windows 2 2 (8.696 %) Windows XP 2 2 (8.696 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (4.348 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (4.348 %) NetWare 3 1 (4.348 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (17.39 %) Migration 2 3 (13.04 %) ITIL 3 2 (8.696 %) Load Balancing 4 1 (4.348 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (4.348 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (4.348 %) Project Management 4 1 (4.348 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.348 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (17.39 %) CCNA 1 4 (17.39 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (13.04 %) CCNP 3 1 (4.348 %) MCP 3 1 (4.348 %) MCSE 3 1 (4.348 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (4.348 %) CCVP
System Software 1 10 (43.48 %) Active Directory 2 7 (30.43 %) Novell eDirectory 3 2 (8.696 %) ISA Server 4 1 (4.348 %) MailMarshal 4 1 (4.348 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 9 (39.13 %) Novell 2 3 (13.04 %) Microsoft 3 2 (8.696 %) Juniper 4 1 (4.348 %) Nokia 4 1 (4.348 %) Oracle 4 1 (4.348 %) Sun 4 1 (4.348 %) EMC 4 1 (4.348 %) Citrix 4 1 (4.348 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (4.348 %) BT 4 1 (4.348 %) Blue Coat