The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the North East 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 North East 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 17 13 29
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +16
Contract jobs citing Cisco 19 39 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 6.230% 7.143% 3.571%
As % of the Vendors category 14.62% 15.12% 6.478%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 6
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £333 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.51% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Average hourly rate - £23.75 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -9.09%
All Vendors
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
130 258 247
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 42.62% 47.25% 55.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 122 106
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £242 £250 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £529
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 18
Average hourly rate £10.50 £21.50 £14.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.16% +52.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.84 £9.51
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.65 £27.50 £25.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.04 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+0.21% -5.00%
Cisco
England

Cisco
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East 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
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Job
Vacancies
Tyne and Wear +1 16 £350 - 7
Durham - - - - 1
Cisco
England

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 16 (37.21%) Linux
2 13 (30.23%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (27.91%) MS Visio
3 12 (27.91%) Citrix
3 12 (27.91%) Red Hat
4 11 (25.58%) HP
4 11 (25.58%) XenServer
5 10 (23.26%) Windows
5 10 (23.26%) Validation
6 9 (20.93%) ITIL
7 7 (16.28%) CentOS
7 7 (16.28%) SAN
7 7 (16.28%) Service Management
8 6 (13.95%) Firewall
8 6 (13.95%) VMware
8 6 (13.95%) OSPF
8 6 (13.95%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (13.95%) SLA
8 6 (13.95%) Apache
8 6 (13.95%) Asset Management
8 6 (13.95%) Problem Management
8 6 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
9 5 (11.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (11.63%) Data Protection
9 5 (11.63%) vSphere
9 5 (11.63%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (11.63%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (11.63%) Capacity Management
9 5 (11.63%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (11.63%) LDAP

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 6 (13.95%) Apache
2 4 (9.302%) IIS
3 1 (2.326%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.326%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 12 (27.91%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) SAN
2 6 (13.95%) Firewall
2 6 (13.95%) OSPF
3 5 (11.63%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (11.63%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (11.63%) LDAP
3 5 (11.63%) DNS
3 5 (11.63%) IPsec
4 4 (9.302%) VPN
4 4 (9.302%) LAN
4 4 (9.302%) VoIP
4 4 (9.302%) HSRP
4 4 (9.302%) VLAN
4 4 (9.302%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (6.977%) Cisco IPT
5 3 (6.977%) WAN
5 3 (6.977%) DHCP
6 2 (4.651%) BGP
6 2 (4.651%) IP Telephony
7 1 (2.326%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) MySQL
2 4 (9.302%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (9.302%) Manufacturing
2 3 (6.977%) Finance
3 2 (4.651%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.326%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 22 (51.16%) Administrator
2 15 (34.88%) Systems Administrator
3 9 (20.93%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 9 (20.93%) Linux Administrator
4 8 (18.60%) Network Administrator
5 6 (13.95%) Analyst
5 6 (13.95%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 6 (13.95%) Senior Network Administrator
6 5 (11.63%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 5 (11.63%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (9.302%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (9.302%) Support Analyst
8 3 (6.977%) Technical Administrator
8 3 (6.977%) Technical Support Analyst
8 3 (6.977%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (6.977%) Cisco IPT Engineer
8 3 (6.977%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (6.977%) Technical Support
8 3 (6.977%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.302%) Clustering
2 1 (2.326%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (2.326%) Blackberry
2 1 (2.326%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 16 (37.21%) Linux
2 10 (23.26%) Windows
3 7 (16.28%) CentOS
4 4 (9.302%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (9.302%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.651%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.326%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.326%) UNIX
6 1 (2.326%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.23%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (23.26%) Validation
3 9 (20.93%) ITIL
4 7 (16.28%) Service Management
5 6 (13.95%) Asset Management
5 6 (13.95%) Problem Management
6 5 (11.63%) Data Protection
6 5 (11.63%) Capacity Management
6 5 (11.63%) Configuration Management
6 5 (11.63%) Identity Management
6 5 (11.63%) Service Delivery
7 2 (4.651%) Project Management
8 1 (2.326%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.326%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (11.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (9.302%) CCNP
4 2 (4.651%) RHCE
4 2 (4.651%) CCNA
4 2 (4.651%) CCIE
5 1 (2.326%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.326%) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (25.58%) XenServer
2 6 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.63%) vSphere
3 5 (11.63%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (11.63%) VMware ESX
4 4 (9.302%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Nagios
2 4 (9.302%) WSUS
2 4 (9.302%) SCOM
3 1 (2.326%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Citrix
1 12 (27.91%) Red Hat
2 11 (25.58%) HP
3 6 (13.95%) VMware
4 1 (2.326%) Tandberg
4 1 (2.326%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.326%) Avaya
4 1 (2.326%) JBoss
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Job Title: QOS Networking Engineer - CiscoLocation: Gosforth, Newcastle, North EastContract: £300 per day - (40 days) - 6-8 weeks contractRole: Engineer to undertake a detailed QOS design for a...
Muse Resourcing
Rate: £300 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
A CCNP / CISCO Network Administrator/ Cisco Engineer is required on a 6-Month contract by a client of mine in Newcastle- As CCNP / CISCO Network Administrator your focus...
OPUS
Rate: GBP350 per day
Posted: 6 June 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Our client is about to undertake a VOIP project that will run for approx... They require an IT contractor with the following experience: - Strong project management/co-ordination...
Solutions Recruitment
Rate: From £15 to £25 per hour
Posted: 18 June 2013
County Durham, North East
They are looking for someone with the following experience: - Linux system administration - Experience in CentOS - Experience with DNS, Wifi products, load balancing - Cisco - Clustering and high availability network...
Computer Futures
Posted: 28 May 2013
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