Scotland CCNA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) in IT contracts within the Scotland region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CCNA over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cobham Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Grays Grimsby Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Immingham Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	99	91
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	4	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	1.613 %	8.163 %
Daily rates quoted	0	10
Average minimum daily rate	-	£371
Average daily rate	-	£374
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£294
% change on same period last year	-2.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.50	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£22.25	£16.50
% change on same period last year	+34.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.00	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.13	£25.29
% change on same period last year	-4.57 %
Qualifications Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	248	392
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.331 %	0.391 %
Daily rates quoted	69	78
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£334
Average daily rate	£307	£348
% change on same period last year	-11.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£330
% change on same period last year	+0.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.56	£15.82
Average hourly rate	£18.90	£16.33
% change on same period last year	+15.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.25	£16.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.62	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-4.74 %
CCNA UK

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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Scotland region.

CCNA
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Edinburgh	+4	2	-	-
North Lanarkshire	-	1	-	-
Falkirk	-	1	-	-
Glasgow	+6	1	-	-

CCNA UK

CCNA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 24 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 19 (79.17 %) Cisco 3 14 (58.33 %) CCNP 4 9 (37.50 %) VoIP 5 7 (29.17 %) Telecoms 6 6 (25.00 %) MPLS 6 6 (25.00 %) WAN 6 6 (25.00 %) Windows 6 6 (25.00 %) LAN 7 5 (20.83 %) CCVP 7 5 (20.83 %) TCP/IP 8 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 8 4 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 8 4 (16.67 %) MCSE 8 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel

8 4 (16.67 %) Siemens 8 4 (16.67 %) Government 9 3 (12.50 %) Firewall 9 3 (12.50 %) IPCC 9 3 (12.50 %) CheckPoint 9 3 (12.50 %) MGCP 9 3 (12.50 %) H.323 9 3 (12.50 %) MS Office 9 3 (12.50 %) MCP 9 3 (12.50 %) Broadband 9 3 (12.50 %) Client/Server 9 3 (12.50 %) Windows XP 9 3 (12.50 %) CCDA 10 2 (8.333 %) CiscoWorks 10 2 (8.333 %) DNS

CCNA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

Applications 1 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel 2 3 (12.50 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 9 (37.50 %) VoIP 2 6 (25.00 %) WAN 2 6 (25.00 %) LAN 2 6 (25.00 %) MPLS 3 5 (20.83 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (12.50 %) Broadband 4 3 (12.50 %) MGCP 4 3 (12.50 %) H.323 4 3 (12.50 %) Firewall 4 3 (12.50 %) IPCC 5 2 (8.333 %) Cisco PIX 5 2 (8.333 %) DNS 5 2 (8.333 %) BGP 6 1 (4.167 %) EIGRP 6 1 (4.167 %) ICMP 6 1 (4.167 %) OSPF 6 1 (4.167 %) ATM 6 1 (4.167 %) VPN 6 1 (4.167 %) ISDN 6 1 (4.167 %) PSTN
General 1 7 (29.17 %) Telecoms 2 4 (16.67 %) Government 3 2 (8.333 %) Banking 3 2 (8.333 %) Retail 3 2 (8.333 %) Retail Banking	Job Titles 1 9 (37.50 %) Analyst 2 6 (25.00 %) Network Analyst 3 4 (16.67 %) Cisco Engineer 4 3 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support 4 3 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 5 2 (8.333 %) Network Engineer 5 2 (8.333 %) Senior Data Analyst 5 2 (8.333 %) Senior Network Analyst 5 2 (8.333 %) Data Analyst 5 2 (8.333 %) Project Manager 5 2 (8.333 %) Senior Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Service Desk Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Security Engineer 6 1 (4.167 %) Technical Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Technical Project Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Network Designer 6 1 (4.167 %) Server Support 6 1 (4.167 %) Field Engineer 6 1 (4.167 %) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (12.50 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 6 (25.00 %) Windows 2 4 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 3 3 (12.50 %) Windows XP 4 2 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (4.167 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (4.167 %) Red Hat Linux 5 1 (4.167 %) Windows NT 5 1 (4.167 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 1 2 (8.333 %) Change Management 1 2 (8.333 %) Migration 1 2 (8.333 %) Supplier Management 2 1 (4.167 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (4.167 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (4.167 %) Network Design 2 1 (4.167 %) Validation 2 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE 2 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 2 1 (4.167 %) ITIL	Qualifications 1 24 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 14 (58.33 %) CCNP 3 5 (20.83 %) CCVP 4 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 4 4 (16.67 %) MCSE 5 3 (12.50 %) MCP 5 3 (12.50 %) CCDA 6 1 (4.167 %) MCDST 6 1 (4.167 %) HNC 6 1 (4.167 %) CCSP 6 1 (4.167 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (4.167 %) PMP 6 1 (4.167 %) PMI Certification 6 1 (4.167 %) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (8.333 %) SLA	Systems Management 1 2 (8.333 %) CiscoWorks
Vendors 1 19 (79.17 %) Cisco 2 4 (16.67 %) Siemens 3 3 (12.50 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (4.167 %) Red Hat 4 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft 4 1 (4.167 %) Nortel 4 1 (4.167 %) Juniper