North West CCNA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CCNA over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester 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 Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	105	91
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	22	54
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.058 %
As % of the category below	7.143 %	11.54 %
Daily rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum daily rate	£225	£244
Average daily rate	£249	£247
% change on same period last year	+1.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£274	£249
UK excluding London average daily rate	£284	£277
% change on same period last year	+2.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.72	£50.00
Average hourly rate	£25.86	£51.88
% change on same period last year	-50.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.01	£53.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.73	£30.18
% change on same period last year	-11.42 %
Qualifications North West
Matching contract IT job ads	308	468
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.495 %	0.503 %
Daily rates quoted	70	112
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£326
Average daily rate	£334	£336
% change on same period last year	-0.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£328
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	52	63
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.84	£25.85
Average hourly rate	£25.24	£27.81
% change on same period last year	-9.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.63	£29.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.56	£25.13
% change on same period last year	+1.72 %
CCNA 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.

CCNA
Demand Trend

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

CCNA
Daily Rate Trend

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

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNA across the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

CCNA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CCNA
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNA across the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

CCNA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Cheshire	-7	8	£276	-7.91 %
Merseyside	-3	6	-	-
Cumbria	-2	2	-	-
Manchester	-4	2	£270	+103.77 %

CCNA England

CCNA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing CCNA 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 CCNA.

1 62 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 51 (82.26 %) Cisco 3 31 (50.00 %) LAN 3 31 (50.00 %) WAN 4 23 (37.10 %) CCNP 5 17 (27.42 %) Firewall 6 14 (22.58 %) VPN 7 12 (19.35 %) TCP/IP 8 10 (16.13 %) Microsoft 9 8 (12.90 %) VLAN 9 8 (12.90 %) Network Security 9 8 (12.90 %) Microsoft Certification 10 7 (11.29 %) EIGRP 10 7 (11.29 %) Ethernet 10 7 (11.29 %) Nortel

10 7 (11.29 %) MCSE 11 6 (9.677 %) ATM 11 6 (9.677 %) ISDN 11 6 (9.677 %) ITIL 11 6 (9.677 %) Windows 11 6 (9.677 %) CiscoWorks 11 6 (9.677 %) Cisco PIX 12 5 (8.065 %) Active Directory 12 5 (8.065 %) VoIP 12 5 (8.065 %) Frame Relay 12 5 (8.065 %) Telecoms 12 5 (8.065 %) BGP 12 5 (8.065 %) SAN 13 4 (6.452 %) MPLS 13 4 (6.452 %) C

CCNA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing CCNA 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 CCNA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (3.226 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.613 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (1.613 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 2 (3.226 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 1 (1.613 %) assyst	Communications & Networking 1 31 (50.00 %) LAN 1 31 (50.00 %) WAN 2 17 (27.42 %) Firewall 3 14 (22.58 %) VPN 4 12 (19.35 %) TCP/IP 5 8 (12.90 %) VLAN 5 8 (12.90 %) Network Security 6 7 (11.29 %) Ethernet 6 7 (11.29 %) EIGRP 7 6 (9.677 %) ATM 7 6 (9.677 %) ISDN 7 6 (9.677 %) Cisco PIX 8 5 (8.065 %) Frame Relay 8 5 (8.065 %) VoIP 8 5 (8.065 %) BGP 8 5 (8.065 %) SAN 9 4 (6.452 %) MPLS 9 4 (6.452 %) Cisco ASA 10 3 (4.839 %) IP Telephony 10 3 (4.839 %) SSH
General 1 5 (8.065 %) Telecoms 2 1 (1.613 %) Automotive 2 1 (1.613 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 27 (43.55 %) Network Engineer 2 18 (29.03 %) Network Support 3 13 (20.97 %) Cisco Engineer 4 9 (14.52 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 7 (11.29 %) Support Engineer 6 5 (8.065 %) Network Support Engineer 6 5 (8.065 %) Technical Engineer 7 3 (4.839 %) Technical Support 7 3 (4.839 %) Cisco Specialist 7 3 (4.839 %) Communications Engineer 7 3 (4.839 %) Network Specialist 8 2 (3.226 %) Network Administrator 8 2 (3.226 %) Analyst 8 2 (3.226 %) Technical Support Engineer 8 2 (3.226 %) 3rd Line Support 8 2 (3.226 %) Administrator 9 1 (1.613 %) Project Leader 9 1 (1.613 %) Network Analyst 9 1 (1.613 %) Infrastructure Engineer 9 1 (1.613 %) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.839 %) NHS 2 2 (3.226 %) e-Health 3 1 (1.613 %) EPoS 3 1 (1.613 %) Replication 3 1 (1.613 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 6 (9.677 %) Windows 2 3 (4.839 %) Linux 3 2 (3.226 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (1.613 %) AIX 4 1 (1.613 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (9.677 %) ITIL 2 4 (6.452 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (4.839 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (4.839 %) Migration 3 3 (4.839 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (3.226 %) Validation 5 1 (1.613 %) Network Planning 5 1 (1.613 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (1.613 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (6.452 %) C 2 1 (1.613 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 62 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 23 (37.10 %) CCNP 3 8 (12.90 %) Microsoft Certification 4 7 (11.29 %) MCSE 5 2 (3.226 %) MCP 6 1 (1.613 %) CCIE 6 1 (1.613 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.613 %) SLA
System Software 1 5 (8.065 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.613 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 6 (9.677 %) CiscoWorks 2 2 (3.226 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 51 (82.26 %) Cisco 2 10 (16.13 %) Microsoft 3 7 (11.29 %) Nortel 4 3 (4.839 %) HP 5 2 (3.226 %) EMC 5 2 (3.226 %) Citrix 5 2 (3.226 %) Avaya 5 2 (3.226 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (1.613 %) Websense 6 1 (1.613 %) 3Com 6 1 (1.613 %) VMware 6 1 (1.613 %) Ericsson 6 1 (1.613 %) Novell 6 1 (1.613 %) Intel