North East Cisco Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts within the North East region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Altrincham Andover Angus Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Cleethorpes Cobham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Immingham Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	46
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	46	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	11.47 %	5.354 %
Daily rates quoted	12	7
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£348
Average daily rate	£312	£348
% change on same period last year	-10.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£333
% change on same period last year	-2.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.67	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£16.17	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+7.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.67	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.87	£26.94
% change on same period last year	-7.68 %
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Matching contract IT job ads	401	523
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.535 %	0.529 %
Daily rates quoted	78	92
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£347
Average daily rate	£348	£363
% change on same period last year	-4.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	49
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.26	£25.62
Average hourly rate	£25.41	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-7.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.55	£29.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco across the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco across the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 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
Tyne and Wear	+23	36	£318	-9.22 %
Durham	-4	3	-	-
Teesside	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 26 (29.55 %) Security Cleared 2 25 (28.41 %) Cisco Certification 3 24 (27.27 %) CLARiiON 4 23 (26.14 %) Firewall 4 23 (26.14 %) SC Cleared 5 18 (20.45 %) Government 5 18 (20.45 %) SAN 5 18 (20.45 %) Windows 5 18 (20.45 %) WAN 6 15 (17.05 %) CheckPoint 7 14 (15.91 %) LAN 8 12 (13.64 %) Microsoft 8 12 (13.64 %) CCNA 8 12 (13.64 %) Telecoms 9 11 (12.50 %) VPN

9 11 (12.50 %) CCNP 10 10 (11.36 %) DNS 10 10 (11.36 %) TCP/IP 10 10 (11.36 %) EMC 11 9 (10.23 %) UNIX 12 8 (9.091 %) Shell Script 12 8 (9.091 %) Network Design 13 7 (7.955 %) Ethernet 14 6 (6.818 %) VoIP 14 6 (6.818 %) Active Directory 14 6 (6.818 %) Brocade 14 6 (6.818 %) VLAN 14 6 (6.818 %) Network Security 15 5 (5.682 %) IP Telephony 15 5 (5.682 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 Development 1 1 (1.136 %) WAP 1 1 (1.136 %) X-Windows	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.273 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (2.273 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (1.136 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (1.136 %) GroupWise 2 1 (1.136 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 1 (1.136 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 5 (5.682 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.273 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (2.273 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 23 (26.14 %) Firewall 2 18 (20.45 %) SAN 2 18 (20.45 %) WAN 3 14 (15.91 %) LAN 4 11 (12.50 %) VPN 5 10 (11.36 %) DNS 5 10 (11.36 %) TCP/IP 6 7 (7.955 %) Ethernet 7 6 (6.818 %) VoIP 7 6 (6.818 %) VLAN 7 6 (6.818 %) Network Security 8 5 (5.682 %) IP Telephony 9 4 (4.545 %) Internet 9 4 (4.545 %) ICMP 9 4 (4.545 %) Cisco PIX 10 3 (3.409 %) Intrusion Detection 10 3 (3.409 %) MPLS 10 3 (3.409 %) IPsec 10 3 (3.409 %) DHCP 11 2 (2.273 %) RIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.136 %) SQL Server
General 1 18 (20.45 %) Government 2 12 (13.64 %) Telecoms 3 2 (2.273 %) Finance 3 2 (2.273 %) Banking 3 2 (2.273 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (1.136 %) Billing 4 1 (1.136 %) Education	Job Titles 1 24 (27.27 %) Administrator 2 22 (25.00 %) Storage Administrator 3 17 (19.32 %) Storage Engineer 4 8 (9.091 %) Consultant 4 8 (9.091 %) Network Engineer 5 7 (7.955 %) Architect 5 7 (7.955 %) Cisco Engineer 5 7 (7.955 %) Network Support 5 7 (7.955 %) Implementation Specialist 6 5 (5.682 %) Network Technician 7 4 (4.545 %) Technical Analyst 7 4 (4.545 %) Analyst 7 4 (4.545 %) Support Engineer 7 4 (4.545 %) Technical Consultant 7 4 (4.545 %) SAN Administrator 7 4 (4.545 %) Cisco Network Engineer 7 4 (4.545 %) Cisco Architect 8 3 (3.409 %) Cisco Network Architect 8 3 (3.409 %) Network Support Technician 8 3 (3.409 %) Network Architect
Miscellaneous 1 24 (27.27 %) CLARiiON 2 4 (4.545 %) IVR 3 2 (2.273 %) Celerra 4 1 (1.136 %) Blackberry 4 1 (1.136 %) PKI 4 1 (1.136 %) IPTV 4 1 (1.136 %) Symmetrix	Operating Systems 1 18 (20.45 %) Windows 2 9 (10.23 %) UNIX 3 5 (5.682 %) Solaris 4 3 (3.409 %) Linux 4 3 (3.409 %) HPUX 4 3 (3.409 %) NetWare 5 2 (2.273 %) AIX 6 1 (1.136 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (1.136 %) Windows XP 6 1 (1.136 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (29.55 %) Security Cleared 2 23 (26.14 %) SC Cleared 3 8 (9.091 %) Network Design 4 4 (4.545 %) Validation 4 4 (4.545 %) Data Protection 5 3 (3.409 %) Technical Architecture 5 3 (3.409 %) Load Balancing 5 3 (3.409 %) Change Management 6 2 (2.273 %) CRM 6 2 (2.273 %) Problem Management 7 1 (1.136 %) Communications Security 7 1 (1.136 %) ITIL 7 1 (1.136 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (1.136 %) Disaster Recovery 7 1 (1.136 %) Migration 7 1 (1.136 %) TOGAF 7 1 (1.136 %) Supplier Management	Programming Languages 1 8 (9.091 %) Shell Script 2 1 (1.136 %) C 2 1 (1.136 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 25 (28.41 %) Cisco Certification 2 12 (13.64 %) CCNA 3 11 (12.50 %) CCNP 4 3 (3.409 %) CCIE 4 3 (3.409 %) CCSE 5 2 (2.273 %) JNCIA 5 2 (2.273 %) CCSP 5 2 (2.273 %) CCDA 5 2 (2.273 %) CCDP 5 2 (2.273 %) CISSP 6 1 (1.136 %) CNA 6 1 (1.136 %) CNE 6 1 (1.136 %) Novell Certification 6 1 (1.136 %) GIAC 6 1 (1.136 %) CCSA	System Software 1 6 (6.818 %) Active Directory 2 4 (4.545 %) NFS 3 2 (2.273 %) NetBackup 4 1 (1.136 %) Snort 4 1 (1.136 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (1.136 %) NDS
Systems Management 1 4 (4.545 %) CiscoWorks 2 3 (3.409 %) Legato 2 3 (3.409 %) EMC NetWorker 3 2 (2.273 %) DiskXtender 4 1 (1.136 %) OpenView 4 1 (1.136 %) Tivoli 4 1 (1.136 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 1 (1.136 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 1 (1.136 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 15 (17.05 %) CheckPoint 2 12 (13.64 %) Microsoft 3 10 (11.36 %) EMC 4 6 (6.818 %) Brocade 5 4 (4.545 %) Juniper 5 4 (4.545 %) HP 5 4 (4.545 %) NetApp 5 4 (4.545 %) Nokia 5 4 (4.545 %) Novell 6 3 (3.409 %) Nortel 6 3 (3.409 %) BT 6 3 (3.409 %) VMware 7 2 (2.273 %) OPNET 7 2 (2.273 %) CommVault 8 1 (1.136 %) Hitachi 8 1 (1.136 %) McAfee Security 8 1 (1.136 %) Sophos 8 1 (1.136 %) Peregrine 8 1 (1.136 %) Siemens 8 1 (1.136 %) VERITAS