Reading CCNA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) in IT contracts within the Reading region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited CCNA over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Cheshire Chippenham City of London Cobham Crawley Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Glasgow Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Immingham Kent Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	34
Rank change on same period last year	-37
Matching contract IT job ads	3	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	3.000 %	26.56 %
Daily rates quoted	1	14
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£284
Average daily rate	£300	£293
% change on same period last year	+2.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£302
UK excluding London average daily rate	£271	£310
% change on same period last year	-12.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£25.83
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£27.58
% change on same period last year	+17.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£29.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.07	£25.53
% change on same period last year	+2.12 %
Qualifications Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	100	128
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.132 %	0.136 %
Daily rates quoted	34	41
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£285
Average daily rate	£367	£299
% change on same period last year	+22.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£22.67
Average hourly rate	£16.71	£24.39
% change on same period last year	-31.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.42	£26.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.13	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
CCNA Berkshire

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.

CCNA
Demand Trend

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

CCNA
Daily Rate Trend

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

CCNA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CCNA
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNA across the Reading region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

CCNA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing CCNA 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 CCNA.

1 27 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 18 (66.67 %) Cisco 3 9 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 9 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 9 (33.33 %) MCSE 4 8 (29.63 %) WAN 4 8 (29.63 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 7 (25.93 %) LAN 5 7 (25.93 %) TCP/IP 5 7 (25.93 %) Project Management 6 6 (22.22 %) Firewall 6 6 (22.22 %) CheckPoint 7 5 (18.52 %) CCNP 7 5 (18.52 %) SMS 7 5 (18.52 %) Linux

8 4 (14.81 %) Wi-Fi 8 4 (14.81 %) Government 8 4 (14.81 %) Unix 8 4 (14.81 %) DHCP 8 4 (14.81 %) Ethernet 8 4 (14.81 %) CCIP 8 4 (14.81 %) CCDP 8 4 (14.81 %) VPN 8 4 (14.81 %) DNS 8 4 (14.81 %) CiscoWorks 8 4 (14.81 %) IP Telephony 8 4 (14.81 %) VLAN 8 4 (14.81 %) Network Security 9 3 (11.11 %) Security Cleared 9 3 (11.11 %) RIP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing CCNA 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 CCNA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 8 (29.63 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (11.11 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (3.704 %) Exchange Server 2007	Communications & Networking 1 8 (29.63 %) WAN 2 7 (25.93 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (25.93 %) LAN 3 6 (22.22 %) Firewall 4 5 (18.52 %) SMS 5 4 (14.81 %) Wi-Fi 5 4 (14.81 %) VPN 5 4 (14.81 %) DNS 5 4 (14.81 %) DHCP 5 4 (14.81 %) Ethernet 5 4 (14.81 %) IP Telephony 5 4 (14.81 %) VLAN 5 4 (14.81 %) Network Security 6 3 (11.11 %) RIP 6 3 (11.11 %) Wireless 6 3 (11.11 %) OSPF 6 3 (11.11 %) LDAP 7 2 (7.407 %) MPLS 7 2 (7.407 %) Wireshark 7 2 (7.407 %) BIG-IP
General 1 4 (14.81 %) Government	Job Titles 1 10 (37.04 %) Network Engineer 2 7 (25.93 %) Analyst 3 6 (22.22 %) Systems Administrator 3 6 (22.22 %) Administrator 4 5 (18.52 %) Network Analyst 5 4 (14.81 %) 2nd Line Support 6 3 (11.11 %) 3rd Line Support 6 3 (11.11 %) Consultant 6 3 (11.11 %) Junior 6 3 (11.11 %) Operations Analyst 6 3 (11.11 %) Junior Network Engineer 7 2 (7.407 %) Cisco Network Engineer 7 2 (7.407 %) Cisco Engineer 7 2 (7.407 %) Network Specialist 7 2 (7.407 %) Support Engineer 7 2 (7.407 %) Support Consultant 8 1 (3.704 %) Technical Engineer 8 1 (3.704 %) Security Consultant 8 1 (3.704 %) Infrastructure Analyst 8 1 (3.704 %) Architect
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.704 %) Management Information System 1 1 (3.704 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 5 (18.52 %) Linux 2 4 (14.81 %) Unix 3 3 (11.11 %) Solaris 4 2 (7.407 %) Windows 5 1 (3.704 %) AIX 5 1 (3.704 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (3.704 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (25.93 %) Project Management 2 3 (11.11 %) Migration 2 3 (11.11 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (7.407 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (7.407 %) Network Design 3 2 (7.407 %) Load Balancing 4 1 (3.704 %) Security Testing 4 1 (3.704 %) Information Security 4 1 (3.704 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 1 (3.704 %) Perl 1 1 (3.704 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 27 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 9 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (33.33 %) MCSE 3 5 (18.52 %) CCNP 4 4 (14.81 %) CCIP 4 4 (14.81 %) CCDP 5 1 (3.704 %) Citrix Certification 5 1 (3.704 %) CCIE 5 1 (3.704 %) MCP	System Software 1 9 (33.33 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 4 (14.81 %) CiscoWorks 2 3 (11.11 %) Tivoli 3 2 (7.407 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 1 (3.704 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 1 (3.704 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 18 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 6 (22.22 %) CheckPoint 3 2 (7.407 %) Remedy 3 2 (7.407 %) Microsoft 3 2 (7.407 %) Sun 3 2 (7.407 %) Juniper 4 1 (3.704 %) VERITAS 4 1 (3.704 %) Red Hat 4 1 (3.704 %) VMware 4 1 (3.704 %) Altiris 4 1 (3.704 %) Symantec