Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Middlesex 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.

Cisco Certification
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank223043
Rank change year-on-year
Up+8Up+13
Matching contract IT job ads1161
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex3.364 %1.690 %0.221 %
As % of the Qualifications category14.47 %11.11 %1.587 %
Number of daily rates quoted631
Average daily rate£350£300£120
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66 %+150.00 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£314£300£300
% change year-on-year
+4.58 %-
Number of hourly rates quoted200
Average hourly rate£27.25--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.50£30.00£20.00
% change year-on-year
-25.00 %+50.00 %
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
765463
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex23.24 %15.21 %13.91 %
Number of daily rates quoted472637
Average daily rate£375£375£405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
--7.40 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£320£285£210
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£450£532
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted282
Average hourly rate£27.00£29.25£25.28
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.69 %+15.70 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.00£24.00£18.00
% change year-on-year
-4.16 %+33.33 %
Cisco Certification South EastCisco Certification
South East

Cisco Certification
Demand Trend

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

Middlesex Cisco Certification Demand Trend

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.

Middlesex Cisco Certification Daily Rate Trend

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.

Middlesex Cisco Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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.

115 (100.00 %)Cisco
213 (86.67 %)CCNP
310 (66.67 %)Firewall
49 (60.00 %)CCNA
57 (46.67 %)VPN
57 (46.67 %)Disaster Recovery
66 (40.00 %)Juniper
66 (40.00 %)MPLS
75 (33.33 %)OSPF
75 (33.33 %)BGP
75 (33.33 %)Nokia
75 (33.33 %)CheckPoint
75 (33.33 %)DNS
75 (33.33 %)VoIP
75 (33.33 %)IPsec
75 (33.33 %)Telecoms
84 (26.67 %)MS Visio
84 (26.67 %)WAN
84 (26.67 %)TCP/IP
93 (20.00 %)LAN
93 (20.00 %)CCIE
93 (20.00 %)VRRP
93 (20.00 %)Cisco IPCC
93 (20.00 %)JNCIP
93 (20.00 %)Cisco PIX
102 (13.33 %)Aruba
102 (13.33 %)Junos
102 (13.33 %)F5
102 (13.33 %)Cisco Nexus
102 (13.33 %)Cisco ASA

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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.

Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12 (13.33 %)CSS
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (26.67 %)MS Visio
22 (13.33 %)MS Excel
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
110 (66.67 %)Firewall
27 (46.67 %)VPN
36 (40.00 %)MPLS
45 (33.33 %)OSPF
45 (33.33 %)BGP
45 (33.33 %)DNS
45 (33.33 %)VoIP
45 (33.33 %)IPsec
54 (26.67 %)WAN
54 (26.67 %)TCP/IP
63 (20.00 %)LAN
63 (20.00 %)VRRP
63 (20.00 %)Cisco PIX
72 (13.33 %)Junos
72 (13.33 %)Cisco Nexus
72 (13.33 %)Cisco ASA
72 (13.33 %)VLAN
72 (13.33 %)Ethereal
72 (13.33 %)Wireshark
72 (13.33 %)WLAN
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
15 (33.33 %)Telecoms
22 (13.33 %)Finance
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
111 (73.33 %)Network Engineer
23 (20.00 %)Network Designer
23 (20.00 %)Administrator
23 (20.00 %)Network Administrator
23 (20.00 %)Network Manager
23 (20.00 %)Cisco Engineer
23 (20.00 %)Cisco Network Engineer
23 (20.00 %)Cisco Administrator
23 (20.00 %)Designer
32 (13.33 %)Network Analyst
32 (13.33 %)Analyst
41 (6.667 %)Support Analyst
41 (6.667 %)Network Support Analyst
41 (6.667 %)Support Engineer
41 (6.667 %)Technical Analyst
41 (6.667 %)Network Support Engineer
41 (6.667 %)Network Support
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (13.33 %)iSeries
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
17 (46.67 %)Disaster Recovery
22 (13.33 %)Business Continuity
31 (6.667 %)Network Design
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12 (13.33 %)Perl
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
113 (86.67 %)CCNP
29 (60.00 %)CCNA
33 (20.00 %)CCIE
33 (20.00 %)JNCIP
42 (13.33 %)Degree
42 (13.33 %)CWNA
42 (13.33 %)CCSP
42 (13.33 %)CCIP
42 (13.33 %)HNC
42 (13.33 %)HND
51 (6.667 %)JNCIE
51 (6.667 %)SC Cleared
51 (6.667 %)Security Cleared
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (13.33 %)SLA
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (20.00 %)Cisco IPCC
22 (13.33 %)Cacti
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
115 (100.00 %)Cisco
26 (40.00 %)Juniper
35 (33.33 %)Nokia
35 (33.33 %)CheckPoint
42 (13.33 %)Aruba
42 (13.33 %)F5
42 (13.33 %)Riverbed
42 (13.33 %)Brocade
42 (13.33 %)Fortinet
42 (13.33 %)Microsoft