The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Cisco Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco
Rank 26 29 21
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -8
Contract jobs citing Cisco 10 10 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 4.525% 2.890% 1.899%
As % of the Vendors category 9.524% 4.854% 4.110%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
Average daily rate £305 £288 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.08% -17.26%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £328 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.58% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
Average hourly rate £17.71 £20.06 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.70% -19.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +2.38%
All Vendors
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
105 206 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 47.51% 59.54% 46.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 101 31
Average daily rate £340 £431 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.15% +40.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £300 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £550 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 32 14
Average hourly rate £14.81 £16.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.42% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.40 £10.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £20.06 £29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Cisco
Oxfordshire

Cisco
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford Cisco Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxford Cisco Daily Rate Trend

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxford Cisco Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Oxford Cisco Hourly Rate Histogram

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Cisco 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.

1 13 (76.47%) TCP/IP
1 13 (76.47%) Firewall
2 12 (70.59%) DHCP
3 10 (58.82%) DNS
4 9 (52.94%) Windows
4 9 (52.94%) Altiris
5 7 (41.18%) VMware
6 6 (35.29%) CCNA
6 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
6 6 (35.29%) NetWare
6 6 (35.29%) VPN
6 6 (35.29%) UNIX
6 6 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (29.41%) Degree
7 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (29.41%) Windows 7
8 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (23.53%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (17.65%) Wireshark
9 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (17.65%) Tivoli
9 3 (17.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 3 (17.65%) Nagios
9 3 (17.65%) WSH
9 3 (17.65%) SQL
9 3 (17.65%) VB
9 3 (17.65%) ITIL
10 2 (11.76%) Windows XP
10 2 (11.76%) Broadband

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Cisco 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (17.65%) WSH
Communications & Networking
1 13 (76.47%) TCP/IP
1 13 (76.47%) Firewall
2 12 (70.59%) DHCP
3 10 (58.82%) DNS
4 6 (35.29%) VPN
5 4 (23.53%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (17.65%) Wireshark
7 2 (11.76%) MPLS
7 2 (11.76%) IP Telephony
7 2 (11.76%) VLAN
7 2 (11.76%) Broadband
7 2 (11.76%) LAN
7 2 (11.76%) PBX
7 2 (11.76%) VoIP
7 2 (11.76%) WAN
8 1 (5.882%) SAN
8 1 (5.882%) Cisco Nexus
General
1 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Administrator
2 6 (35.29%) Network Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Network Administrator
4 3 (17.65%) Windows Administrator
5 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (5.882%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Handset
2 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) UNIX
2 6 (35.29%) NetWare
3 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (29.41%) Windows 7
4 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (11.76%) Windows XP
6 1 (5.882%) Linux
6 1 (5.882%) Debian
6 1 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) ITIL
1 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (11.76%) Test Scripting
2 2 (11.76%) Benchmarking
3 1 (5.882%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
1 3 (17.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) CCNA
1 6 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (29.41%) Degree
3 1 (5.882%) CCIE
3 1 (5.882%) CCNP
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.882%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Tivoli
1 3 (17.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (17.65%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Altiris
2 7 (41.18%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Blue Coat
3 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
3 2 (11.76%) Riverbed
3 2 (11.76%) F5
3 2 (11.76%) Juniper
3 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.882%) Dell
4 1 (5.882%) Red Hat
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Posted: 16 May 2013