Middlesex Cisco Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts within the Middlesex region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certification
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Andover Angus Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cobham County Antrim Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Grays Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Immingham Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Romford Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	27
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	9	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	16.36 %	32.94 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£207
Average daily rate	£350	£227
% change on same period last year	+54.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£247
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£329
% change on same period last year	-2.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.25	£21.73
Average hourly rate	£21.25	£22.05
% change on same period last year	-3.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.25	£22.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.47	£26.16
% change on same period last year	-2.63 %
Qualifications Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	55	85
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.085 %
Daily rates quoted	11	16
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£301
Average daily rate	£331	£315
% change on same period last year	+5.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£329
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.26	£22.52
Average hourly rate	£22.68	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.10	£23.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.48	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-4.69 %
Cisco Certification South East

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.

Cisco Certification
Demand Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region citing Cisco Certification 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 Certification.

1 15 (88.24 %) Cisco 2 12 (70.59 %) CCNA 3 6 (35.29 %) CCNP 4 5 (29.41 %) VoIP 5 4 (23.53 %) WAN 5 4 (23.53 %) Windows 5 4 (23.53 %) LAN 5 4 (23.53 %) Juniper 5 4 (23.53 %) OSPF 5 4 (23.53 %) BGP 5 4 (23.53 %) Firewall 6 3 (17.65 %) Wireless 6 3 (17.65 %) Internet 6 3 (17.65 %) VPN 6 3 (17.65 %) Load Balancing

6 3 (17.65 %) Cisco PIX 6 3 (17.65 %) Cisco ASA 7 2 (11.76 %) Problem Management 7 2 (11.76 %) VLAN 7 2 (11.76 %) EIGRP 7 2 (11.76 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2 (11.76 %) Intranet 7 2 (11.76 %) UNIX 7 2 (11.76 %) MCSE 7 2 (11.76 %) Microsoft 7 2 (11.76 %) Sun 7 2 (11.76 %) MPLS 7 2 (11.76 %) Service Delivery 7 2 (11.76 %) Microsoft Certification 7 2 (11.76 %) Clustering

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region citing Cisco Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (5.882 %) IIS	Communications & Networking 1 5 (29.41 %) VoIP 2 4 (23.53 %) WAN 2 4 (23.53 %) LAN 2 4 (23.53 %) OSPF 2 4 (23.53 %) BGP 2 4 (23.53 %) Firewall 3 3 (17.65 %) Wireless 3 3 (17.65 %) Internet 3 3 (17.65 %) VPN 3 3 (17.65 %) Cisco PIX 3 3 (17.65 %) Cisco ASA 4 2 (11.76 %) VLAN 4 2 (11.76 %) EIGRP 4 2 (11.76 %) Intranet 4 2 (11.76 %) MPLS 5 1 (5.882 %) Frame Relay 5 1 (5.882 %) Ethernet 5 1 (5.882 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (5.882 %) ATM 5 1 (5.882 %) H.323
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (5.882 %) Telecoms 1 1 (5.882 %) Government
Job Titles 1 4 (23.53 %) Network Engineer 1 4 (23.53 %) Network Specialist 2 3 (17.65 %) Network Support 3 2 (11.76 %) Consultant 3 2 (11.76 %) Systems Administrator 3 2 (11.76 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (11.76 %) Administrator 3 2 (11.76 %) Cisco Network Engineer 3 2 (11.76 %) Cisco Engineer 3 2 (11.76 %) Network Support Engineer 3 2 (11.76 %) Cisco Support 3 2 (11.76 %) VoIP Engineer 4 1 (5.882 %) Senior Network Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) Network Support Specialist 4 1 (5.882 %) Data Centre Engineer 4 1 (5.882 %) Cisco Network Analyst 4 1 (5.882 %) Cisco Analyst 4 1 (5.882 %) Senior Network Engineer 4 1 (5.882 %) Network Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) Network Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (11.76 %) Clustering 2 1 (5.882 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 4 (23.53 %) Windows 2 2 (11.76 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (11.76 %) UNIX 3 1 (5.882 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (5.882 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (17.65 %) Load Balancing 2 2 (11.76 %) Problem Management 2 2 (11.76 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (5.882 %) Network Design 3 1 (5.882 %) Business Continuity 3 1 (5.882 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (5.882 %) Service Management 3 1 (5.882 %) DV Cleared 3 1 (5.882 %) Security Cleared
Qualifications 1 12 (70.59 %) CCNA 2 6 (35.29 %) CCNP 3 2 (11.76 %) MCSE 3 2 (11.76 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (5.882 %) CCIE 4 1 (5.882 %) CCSP 4 1 (5.882 %) CCIP 4 1 (5.882 %) CCDP 4 1 (5.882 %) HP ASE	Vendors 1 15 (88.24 %) Cisco 2 4 (23.53 %) Juniper 3 2 (11.76 %) Microsoft 3 2 (11.76 %) Sun 4 1 (5.882 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (5.882 %) HP 4 1 (5.882 %) Compaq