The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco IOS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco IOS over the 3 months to 22 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 Oxford 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco IOS
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.429% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.222% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £299 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.78% -7.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+30.00% -9.09%
All Communications & Networking
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
45 39 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 19.31% 11.50% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 4
Average daily rate £320 £338 £336
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.18% +0.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £255 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £350 £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 8
Average hourly rate £13.75 £12.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.43 £11.30 £11.21
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.85 £14.70 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
Cisco IOS
Oxfordshire

Cisco IOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford Cisco IOS Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco IOS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxford Cisco IOS Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco IOS
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Cisco IOS 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 IOS.

1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Altiris
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) Tivoli
2 3 (75.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (75.00%) Nagios
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) VB
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) NetWare
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) WSH
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Debian

Cisco IOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Cisco IOS 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 IOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) WSH
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Administrator
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) NetWare
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (75.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Altiris
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat