North West Cisco IPT Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cisco IP Telephony (CIPT) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco IPT over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco IP Telephony (CIPT)
Location Aberdeen Berkshire City of London East of England Edinburgh England Feltham Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Liverpool London Merseyside Newcastle North East North West Oxfordshire Scotland South East Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Watford Windsor Wirral	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	126	130
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	1	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	0.237 %	2.351 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£282
Average daily rate	-	£282
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£282
UK excluding London average daily rate	£314	£307
% change on same period last year	+2.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.00	£19.06
% change on same period last year	+10.20 %
Communications & Networking North West
Matching contract IT job ads	422	553
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.678 %	0.594 %
Daily rates quoted	70	116
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£315
Average daily rate	£332	£328
% change on same period last year	+1.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£337
% change on same period last year	+2.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	65	70
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.88	£22.93
Average hourly rate	£25.10	£24.67
% change on same period last year	+1.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.31	£26.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.82	£28.43
% change on same period last year	-2.12 %
Cisco IPT 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 IPT
Demand Trend

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

Cisco IPT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cisco IPT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cisco IPT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco IPT 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
Merseyside	-5	1	-	-

Cisco IPT England

Cisco IPT
Top 17 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 2 (66.67 %) IP Telephony 3 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 3 1 (33.33 %) MD110 3 1 (33.33 %) IPCC 3 1 (33.33 %) CCVP 3 1 (33.33 %) CCNA 3 1 (33.33 %) Nortel 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) Ericsson 3 1 (33.33 %) OSPF 3 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) LAN

3 1 (33.33 %) VoIP 3 1 (33.33 %) WAN

Cisco IPT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) IP Telephony 2 1 (33.33 %) LAN 2 1 (33.33 %) VoIP 2 1 (33.33 %) WAN 2 1 (33.33 %) OSPF 2 1 (33.33 %) MD110 2 1 (33.33 %) IPCC	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Support Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Network Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) VoIP Specialist	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) CCNA 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (33.33 %) CCVP
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) Nortel 2 1 (33.33 %) Ericsson