North West Cisco PIX Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cisco PIX 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 PIX over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham City of London Coventry Crawley Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Preston Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	119	125
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	8	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	1.896 %	3.255 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£294
Average daily rate	£300	£302
% change on same period last year	-0.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£309
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£300
% change on same period last year	+14.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.50	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£28.25	£19.50
% change on same period last year	+44.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.52	£36.43
% change on same period last year	-7.99 %
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 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco PIX across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking 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 PIX 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 PIX 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 PIX 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	-7	2	-	-
Cumbria	-	1	-	-
Lancashire	+9	1	-	-
Manchester	-5	1	£300	+20.00 %

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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 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 22 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 21 (95.45 %) Cisco Certification 3 19 (86.36 %) Firewall 4 17 (77.27 %) CCNP 5 16 (72.73 %) WAN 6 15 (68.18 %) LAN 7 11 (50.00 %) Cisco ASA 8 10 (45.45 %) VLAN 9 6 (27.27 %) VPN 9 6 (27.27 %) VoIP 9 6 (27.27 %) CCNA 10 4 (18.18 %) Windows 11 3 (13.64 %) CheckPoint 11 3 (13.64 %) Migration 11 3 (13.64 %) Network Security

12 2 (9.091 %) Communications Security 12 2 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 2 (9.091 %) VMware 12 2 (9.091 %) Nokia 12 2 (9.091 %) Wireless 12 2 (9.091 %) Avaya 12 2 (9.091 %) Linux 13 1 (4.545 %) TCP/IP 13 1 (4.545 %) CCSP 13 1 (4.545 %) Juniper 13 1 (4.545 %) CiscoWorks 13 1 (4.545 %) Internet 13 1 (4.545 %) MPLS 13 1 (4.545 %) Project Management 13 1 (4.545 %) BT

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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 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 19 (86.36 %) Firewall 2 16 (72.73 %) WAN 3 15 (68.18 %) LAN 4 11 (50.00 %) Cisco ASA 5 10 (45.45 %) VLAN 6 6 (27.27 %) VoIP 6 6 (27.27 %) VPN 7 3 (13.64 %) Network Security 8 2 (9.091 %) Wireless 9 1 (4.545 %) Frame Relay 9 1 (4.545 %) Internet 9 1 (4.545 %) MPLS 9 1 (4.545 %) TCP/IP	Job Titles 1 15 (68.18 %) Cisco Engineer 2 13 (59.09 %) Network Engineer 3 11 (50.00 %) Cisco Network Engineer 4 2 (9.091 %) Security Engineer 5 1 (4.545 %) Cisco Administrator 5 1 (4.545 %) Cisco Support 5 1 (4.545 %) Cisco Consultant 5 1 (4.545 %) Support Engineer 5 1 (4.545 %) Administrator 5 1 (4.545 %) Senior Network Engineer 5 1 (4.545 %) Consultant
Operating Systems 1 4 (18.18 %) Windows 2 2 (9.091 %) Linux 2 2 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (13.64 %) Migration 2 2 (9.091 %) Communications Security 3 1 (4.545 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (4.545 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (4.545 %) Project Management
Qualifications 1 21 (95.45 %) Cisco Certification 2 17 (77.27 %) CCNP 3 6 (27.27 %) CCNA 4 1 (4.545 %) CCSP	Systems Management 1 1 (4.545 %) CiscoWorks
Vendors 1 22 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 3 (13.64 %) CheckPoint 3 2 (9.091 %) Avaya 3 2 (9.091 %) VMware 3 2 (9.091 %) Nokia 4 1 (4.545 %) Blue Coat 4 1 (4.545 %) Juniper 4 1 (4.545 %) BT 4 1 (4.545 %) 3Com