The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco PIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco PIX over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the North West 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco PIX
Rank - 128 110
Contract jobs citing Cisco PIX 0 4 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - 0.129% 0.525%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.710% 3.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 14
Average daily rate - £254 £398
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -36.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £275 £375
% change year-on-year
+4.54% -26.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £23.75 £46.25
% change year-on-year
- -48.64%
All Communications & Networking
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
298 563 473
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 12.78% 18.10% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 222 238
Average daily rate £313 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £175 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £462 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 36 45
Average hourly rate £22.25 £22.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.13% -38.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.65 £14.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £30.00 £40.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Cisco PIX
England

Cisco PIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Cisco PIX Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco PIX
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Cisco PIX Daily Rate Trend

Cisco PIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Cisco PIX Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco PIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Cisco PIX 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 PIX.

1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) Network Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Handset
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) CLARiiON
3 1 (33.33%) Brocade
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE
3 1 (33.33%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Avaya
3 1 (33.33%) SAN

Cisco PIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Cisco PIX 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 PIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Network Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Handset
1 1 (33.33%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Avaya
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint