North East Cisco Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts within the North East 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certification
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Greenford Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	22
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	15	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	22.39 %	35.45 %
Daily rates quoted	2	16
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£251
Average daily rate	£281	£254
% change on same period last year	+10.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£256
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£310
% change on same period last year	+9.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.50	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£17.50	£21.22
% change on same period last year	-17.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.50	£22.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.19	£30.30
% change on same period last year	-3.66 %
Qualifications North East
Matching contract IT job ads	67	110
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.106 %	0.118 %
Daily rates quoted	15	44
Average minimum daily rate	£242	£296
Average daily rate	£258	£301
% change on same period last year	-14.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£275	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£325
% change on same period last year	+2.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.32	£18.54
Average hourly rate	£16.30	£20.04
% change on same period last year	-18.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.29	£21.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.56	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
Cisco Certification England

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 North East 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 North East 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 North East region.

Cisco Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the North East region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Durham	+2	10	-	-
Tyne and Wear	-6	5	£281	+51.82 %

Cisco Certification England

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 18 (64.29 %) CCNA 2 17 (60.71 %) Cisco 3 11 (39.29 %) Ethernet 3 11 (39.29 %) Network+ Certification 4 10 (35.71 %) Windows 4 10 (35.71 %) Linux 5 9 (32.14 %) CCNP 6 8 (28.57 %) Telecoms 7 7 (25.00 %) LAN 8 6 (21.43 %) WAN 9 5 (17.86 %) VPN 9 5 (17.86 %) Firewall 10 3 (10.71 %) Wireless 10 3 (10.71 %) TCP/IP 10 3 (10.71 %) Government

10 3 (10.71 %) Microsoft 10 3 (10.71 %) VoIP 10 3 (10.71 %) Cisco PIX 10 3 (10.71 %) Network Security 10 3 (10.71 %) Technical Architecture 11 2 (7.143 %) Investment Banking 11 2 (7.143 %) Fast Ethernet 11 2 (7.143 %) Load Balancing 11 2 (7.143 %) Problem Management 11 2 (7.143 %) Banking 11 2 (7.143 %) IP Telephony 11 2 (7.143 %) Intrusion Detection 11 2 (7.143 %) ISDN 11 2 (7.143 %) DNS 11 2 (7.143 %) SSL

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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.

Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 11 (39.29 %) Ethernet 2 7 (25.00 %) LAN 3 6 (21.43 %) WAN 4 5 (17.86 %) VPN 4 5 (17.86 %) Firewall 5 3 (10.71 %) Wireless 5 3 (10.71 %) VoIP 5 3 (10.71 %) Cisco PIX 5 3 (10.71 %) Network Security 5 3 (10.71 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (7.143 %) RIP 6 2 (7.143 %) ISDN 6 2 (7.143 %) Frame Relay 6 2 (7.143 %) IPsec 6 2 (7.143 %) IP Telephony 6 2 (7.143 %) Fast Ethernet 6 2 (7.143 %) Intrusion Detection 6 2 (7.143 %) DNS 6 2 (7.143 %) SSL 6 2 (7.143 %) DWDM
Development Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) TestDirector	General 1 8 (28.57 %) Telecoms 2 3 (10.71 %) Government 3 2 (7.143 %) Banking 3 2 (7.143 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (3.571 %) Finance 4 1 (3.571 %) Education
Job Titles 1 10 (35.71 %) Systems Engineer 2 5 (17.86 %) Network Support 3 4 (14.29 %) Network Engineer 4 3 (10.71 %) Architect 4 3 (10.71 %) Solutions Architect 4 3 (10.71 %) Support Technician 4 3 (10.71 %) Support Engineer 4 3 (10.71 %) Network Technician 4 3 (10.71 %) Cisco Engineer 4 3 (10.71 %) Network Support Technician 5 2 (7.143 %) Cisco Support 5 2 (7.143 %) Senior Cisco Engineer 5 2 (7.143 %) Security Architect 5 2 (7.143 %) Analyst 5 2 (7.143 %) Technical Analyst 5 2 (7.143 %) Senior Technical Analyst 5 2 (7.143 %) Senior Analyst 6 1 (3.571 %) Project Manager 6 1 (3.571 %) Tester 6 1 (3.571 %) Technical Project Manager	Operating Systems 1 10 (35.71 %) Windows 1 10 (35.71 %) Linux 2 1 (3.571 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (10.71 %) Technical Architecture 2 2 (7.143 %) Load Balancing 2 2 (7.143 %) Problem Management 2 2 (7.143 %) Change Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Project Planning 3 1 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (3.571 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Project Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Risk Analysis 3 1 (3.571 %) Test Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Communications Security 3 1 (3.571 %) Security Cleared	Qualifications 1 18 (64.29 %) CCNA 2 11 (39.29 %) Network+ Certification 3 9 (32.14 %) CCNP 4 1 (3.571 %) CCIE 4 1 (3.571 %) CCSP 4 1 (3.571 %) GIAC 4 1 (3.571 %) CCSA 4 1 (3.571 %) CCVP 4 1 (3.571 %) CCSE 4 1 (3.571 %) CISSP 4 1 (3.571 %) PMP 4 1 (3.571 %) PMI Certification
System Software 1 1 (3.571 %) Snort	Vendors 1 17 (60.71 %) Cisco 2 3 (10.71 %) Microsoft 3 1 (3.571 %) HP 3 1 (3.571 %) Juniper 3 1 (3.571 %) Nokia 3 1 (3.571 %) CheckPoint