Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for CCNA in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCNA over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Reading region.

 Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank424644
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Down-2
Matching contract IT job ads10722
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading1.623 %1.077 %2.579 %
As % of the Qualifications category5.051 %3.704 %11.00 %
Daily rates quoted208
Average daily rate£369-£390
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£324-£181
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£414-£465
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£250£300
% change year-on-year
+10.00 %-16.66 %
Hourly rates quoted002
Average hourly rate--£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.50£25.00£22.50
% change year-on-year
-18.00 %+11.11 %
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
198189200
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading32.14 %29.08 %23.45 %
Daily rates quoted634481
Average daily rate£375£400£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.250 %+6.660 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£275£300£190
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£350
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Hourly rates quoted211517
Average hourly rate£23.13£25.00£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.500 %-23.07 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£14.50£12.00£18.90
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£50.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.00£25.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.00 %-
CCNA BerkshireCCNA
Berkshire

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.

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.

Reading CCNA Demand Trend

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.

Reading CCNA Daily Rate Trend

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.

Reading CCNA Hourly Rate Trend

CCNA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

110 (100.00 %)Cisco Certification
27 (70.00 %)Cisco
36 (60.00 %)LAN
36 (60.00 %)WAN
36 (60.00 %)TCP/IP
36 (60.00 %)SLA
45 (50.00 %)PBX
45 (50.00 %)ITIL
45 (50.00 %)IBM
52 (20.00 %)CCNP
52 (20.00 %)Windows
61 (10.00 %)Windows 2000
61 (10.00 %)UNIX
61 (10.00 %)DHCP
61 (10.00 %)CCDA
61 (10.00 %)Active Directory
61 (10.00 %)OpenView
61 (10.00 %)HP
61 (10.00 %)CiscoWorks
61 (10.00 %)Telecoms
61 (10.00 %)Backup Exec
61 (10.00 %)MCITP
61 (10.00 %)NetScout
61 (10.00 %)Windows Vista
61 (10.00 %)Cisco PIX
61 (10.00 %)Cisco ASA
61 (10.00 %)Windows 7
61 (10.00 %)IIS
61 (10.00 %)DNS
61 (10.00 %)Windows Server 2003

CCNA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (10.00 %)IIS
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
16 (60.00 %)LAN
16 (60.00 %)WAN
16 (60.00 %)TCP/IP
25 (50.00 %)PBX
31 (10.00 %)DHCP
31 (10.00 %)Cisco PIX
31 (10.00 %)Cisco ASA
31 (10.00 %)DNS
31 (10.00 %)Internet
31 (10.00 %)OSPF
31 (10.00 %)BGP
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (10.00 %)Telecoms
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
15 (50.00 %)Applications Support
22 (20.00 %)Network Engineer
31 (10.00 %)Support Specialist
31 (10.00 %)Test Engineer
31 (10.00 %)Senior Network Engineer
31 (10.00 %)Network Support
31 (10.00 %)Network Specialist
31 (10.00 %)Network Support Specialist
31 (10.00 %)OSS Engineer
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12 (20.00 %)Windows
21 (10.00 %)Windows 2000
21 (10.00 %)UNIX
21 (10.00 %)Windows Vista
21 (10.00 %)Windows 7
21 (10.00 %)Windows Server 2003
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (50.00 %)ITIL
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
110 (100.00 %)Cisco Certification
22 (20.00 %)CCNP
31 (10.00 %)CCDA
31 (10.00 %)MCITP
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (60.00 %)SLA
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (10.00 %)Active Directory
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (10.00 %)OpenView
11 (10.00 %)CiscoWorks
11 (10.00 %)Backup Exec
11 (10.00 %)Netcool
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
17 (70.00 %)Cisco
25 (50.00 %)IBM
31 (10.00 %)HP
31 (10.00 %)NetScout