Oxfordshire Cisco Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts within the Oxfordshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certification
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coatbridge Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Horsham Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	42	25
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	6	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	5.217 %	23.08 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£170
Average daily rate	-	£193
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£215
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£323
% change on same period last year	-5.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£24.92
% change on same period last year	+60.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£27.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.82	£29.92
% change on same period last year	+3.02 %
Qualifications Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	115	78
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.231 %	0.098 %
Daily rates quoted	35	13
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£297
Average daily rate	£339	£310
% change on same period last year	+9.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£364
% change on same period last year	-3.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.84	£20.33
Average hourly rate	£28.25	£22.33
% change on same period last year	+26.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.66	£24.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.27	£27.12
% change on same period last year	+4.26 %
Cisco Certification South East

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 Certification
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	+1	2	-	-

Cisco Certification South East

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Cisco Certification 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 Certification.

1 19 (70.37 %) Cisco 2 17 (62.96 %) CCNA 3 13 (48.15 %) CCNP 4 11 (40.74 %) LAN 4 11 (40.74 %) Microsoft Certification 4 11 (40.74 %) OSPF 5 10 (37.04 %) Windows 5 10 (37.04 %) Active Directory 6 9 (33.33 %) Microsoft 6 9 (33.33 %) MCP 6 9 (33.33 %) WAN 7 8 (29.63 %) Firewall 8 7 (25.93 %) EIGRP 8 7 (25.93 %) VoIP 8 7 (25.93 %) MCSE

8 7 (25.93 %) ITIL 8 7 (25.93 %) RIP 8 7 (25.93 %) Cisco IOS 9 6 (22.22 %) Network Design 9 6 (22.22 %) Service Management 10 5 (18.52 %) BGP 10 5 (18.52 %) PPP 10 5 (18.52 %) H.323 10 5 (18.52 %) Windows Server 2003 10 5 (18.52 %) IPv4 10 5 (18.52 %) VLAN 11 4 (14.81 %) Cisco PIX 11 4 (14.81 %) IP Telephony 11 4 (14.81 %) Security Cleared 11 4 (14.81 %) CiscoWorks

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Cisco Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.704 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.704 %) Office Communications Server
Applications 1 4 (14.81 %) MS Excel 2 1 (3.704 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 11 (40.74 %) LAN 1 11 (40.74 %) OSPF 2 9 (33.33 %) WAN 3 8 (29.63 %) Firewall 4 7 (25.93 %) EIGRP 4 7 (25.93 %) RIP 4 7 (25.93 %) VoIP 4 7 (25.93 %) Cisco IOS 5 5 (18.52 %) PPP 5 5 (18.52 %) VLAN 5 5 (18.52 %) IPv4 5 5 (18.52 %) BGP 5 5 (18.52 %) H.323 6 4 (14.81 %) IP Telephony 6 4 (14.81 %) SAN 6 4 (14.81 %) Cisco PIX 7 2 (7.407 %) VPN 8 1 (3.704 %) Internet 8 1 (3.704 %) MPLS 8 1 (3.704 %) DHCP
General 1 2 (7.407 %) Finance 1 2 (7.407 %) Government 1 2 (7.407 %) Local Government 2 1 (3.704 %) Telecoms 2 1 (3.704 %) Health	Job Titles 1 7 (25.93 %) Network Engineer 2 6 (22.22 %) Cisco Engineer 2 6 (22.22 %) Cisco Network Engineer 3 5 (18.52 %) Network Specialist 4 4 (14.81 %) Systems Engineer 5 3 (11.11 %) Infrastructure Specialist 6 2 (7.407 %) Support Team Leader 6 2 (7.407 %) Cisco Specialist 6 2 (7.407 %) Team Leader 6 2 (7.407 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (7.407 %) 2nd Line Support 6 2 (7.407 %) Design Engineer 6 2 (7.407 %) Network Infrastructure Specialist 7 1 (3.704 %) Network Design Engineer 7 1 (3.704 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 7 1 (3.704 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 7 1 (3.704 %) Technical Support Engineer 7 1 (3.704 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (3.704 %) Technical Support 7 1 (3.704 %) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.704 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 10 (37.04 %) Windows 2 5 (18.52 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (14.81 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (3.704 %) Windows NT 4 1 (3.704 %) Windows XP 4 1 (3.704 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (25.93 %) ITIL 2 6 (22.22 %) Service Management 2 6 (22.22 %) Network Design 3 2 (7.407 %) Logistics 3 2 (7.407 %) Incident Management 4 1 (3.704 %) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (11.11 %) C 2 1 (3.704 %) Java
Qualifications 1 17 (62.96 %) CCNA 2 13 (48.15 %) CCNP 3 11 (40.74 %) Microsoft Certification 4 9 (33.33 %) MCP 5 7 (25.93 %) MCSE 6 4 (14.81 %) Security Cleared 7 3 (11.11 %) CCSA 8 2 (7.407 %) SC Cleared 9 1 (3.704 %) CCIE 9 1 (3.704 %) CCIP 9 1 (3.704 %) ITIL Certification 9 1 (3.704 %) CCDP	System Software 1 10 (37.04 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 4 (14.81 %) CiscoWorks 2 1 (3.704 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 19 (70.37 %) Cisco 2 9 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 4 (14.81 %) Nokia 3 4 (14.81 %) Red Hat 3 4 (14.81 %) CheckPoint 3 4 (14.81 %) Oracle 4 3 (11.11 %) Blue Coat 4 3 (11.11 %) TippingPoint 5 1 (3.704 %) HP 5 1 (3.704 %) Intel 5 1 (3.704 %) Nortel