North West Cisco Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Cisco Engineer role in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley Cumbria Devon Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Enfield England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Lancashire Leeds London Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Preston Reading Scotland South East South Wales South West Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	117	128
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	10	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	0.330 %	0.370 %
Daily rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£217
Average daily rate	£475	£242
% change on same period last year	+96.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£267
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£263
% change on same period last year	+31.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£29.00	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-3.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.67	£23.28
% change on same period last year	+23.13 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3033	4058
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.873 %	4.358 %
Daily rates quoted	676	805
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£326
Average daily rate	£339	£342
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	437	479
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.06	£19.41
Average hourly rate	£21.74	£21.18
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.43	£22.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Cisco Engineer 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Engineer across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Engineer across the North West region.

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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 Engineer across the North West region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Engineer 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	-2	2	-	-
Lancashire	+9	1	-	-
Merseyside	-7	1	-	-
Cumbria	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Cisco Engineer in their job title 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 with Cisco Engineer in their job title.

1 31 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 25 (80.65 %) Cisco Certification 3 18 (58.06 %) CCNP 4 17 (54.84 %) WAN 4 17 (54.84 %) Firewall 5 16 (51.61 %) LAN 6 15 (48.39 %) Cisco PIX 7 13 (41.94 %) CCNA 8 9 (29.03 %) VPN 8 9 (29.03 %) Cisco ASA 9 8 (25.81 %) VLAN 10 6 (19.35 %) VoIP 11 5 (16.13 %) Windows 11 5 (16.13 %) TCP/IP 12 4 (12.90 %) Network Security

13 3 (9.677 %) Active Directory 13 3 (9.677 %) CiscoWorks 13 3 (9.677 %) CheckPoint 13 3 (9.677 %) Windows Server 2003 13 3 (9.677 %) Frame Relay 14 2 (6.452 %) Migration 14 2 (6.452 %) MPLS 14 2 (6.452 %) BGP 14 2 (6.452 %) EIGRP 14 2 (6.452 %) Avaya 14 2 (6.452 %) SAN 14 2 (6.452 %) Microsoft 14 2 (6.452 %) OpenView 14 2 (6.452 %) HP 14 2 (6.452 %) Ethernet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Cisco Engineer in their job title 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 with Cisco Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (6.452 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 17 (54.84 %) WAN 1 17 (54.84 %) Firewall 2 16 (51.61 %) LAN 3 15 (48.39 %) Cisco PIX 4 9 (29.03 %) Cisco ASA 4 9 (29.03 %) VPN 5 8 (25.81 %) VLAN 6 6 (19.35 %) VoIP 7 5 (16.13 %) TCP/IP 8 4 (12.90 %) Network Security 9 3 (9.677 %) Frame Relay 10 2 (6.452 %) IP Telephony 10 2 (6.452 %) Ethernet 10 2 (6.452 %) ATM 10 2 (6.452 %) ISDN 10 2 (6.452 %) SAN 10 2 (6.452 %) MPLS 10 2 (6.452 %) Wireless 10 2 (6.452 %) BGP 10 2 (6.452 %) EIGRP
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.226 %) Handset	Operating Systems 1 5 (16.13 %) Windows 2 3 (9.677 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (6.452 %) Linux 4 1 (3.226 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (6.452 %) Migration 2 1 (3.226 %) Communications Security 2 1 (3.226 %) ITIL 2 1 (3.226 %) Project Management	Qualifications 1 25 (80.65 %) Cisco Certification 2 18 (58.06 %) CCNP 3 13 (41.94 %) CCNA 4 1 (3.226 %) CCVP
System Software 1 3 (9.677 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (9.677 %) CiscoWorks 2 2 (6.452 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 31 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 3 (9.677 %) CheckPoint 3 2 (6.452 %) Microsoft 3 2 (6.452 %) HP 3 2 (6.452 %) Avaya 4 1 (3.226 %) 3Com 4 1 (3.226 %) VMware