The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco over the 3 months to 20 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 Merseyside 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco
Rank 20 26 23
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -3
Contract jobs citing Cisco 5 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 2.618% 3.704% 3.650%
As % of the Vendors category 6.173% 7.563% 8.130%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
Average daily rate £488 £263 £258
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+85.71% +1.94%
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £333 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.51% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £21.50 £16.50 £22.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.30% -27.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -9.09%
All Vendors
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
81 119 123
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 42.41% 48.97% 44.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 48 60
Average daily rate £363 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.83% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £218 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £350 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 20 20
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% -19.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.85 £10.82
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £30.00 £22.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.04 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+0.21% -5.00%
Cisco
North West

Cisco
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Cisco Daily Rate Trend

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Merseyside Cisco Hourly Rate Trend

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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 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
Liverpool +4 3 - - 4
St Helens - - - -
Cisco
North West

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, 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 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) LAN
4 2 (33.33%) VoIP
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) HP
4 2 (33.33%) Citrix
4 2 (33.33%) SAN
4 2 (33.33%) MPLS
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (33.33%) IP Telephony
4 2 (33.33%) Firewall
4 2 (33.33%) VLAN
4 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (16.67%) CentOS
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (16.67%) Windows Vista
5 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco PIX
5 1 (16.67%) iSCSI

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, 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 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) VoIP
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) IP Telephony
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
3 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
3 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) ADSL
3 1 (16.67%) ISDN
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco IPT Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Implementation Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Voice Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Voice Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
1 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
1 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
1 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (16.67%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Vista
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
1 1 (16.67%) Security Management
1 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Management
1 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCVP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CCIE
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) MCP
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (16.67%) XenApp
4 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
4 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Wyse
3 1 (16.67%) Brocade
3 1 (16.67%) Symantec
3 1 (16.67%) NETGEAR
3 1 (16.67%) Sophos
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
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The successful candidates will have experience working with the following technologies: - VMware, V-Sphere - Storage experience, EMC, SAN - Cisco UCS Blade solutions - Active Directory - Citrix (Xen App desirable) -...
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Posted: 13 June 2013