Scotland CCNP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) 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 CCNP over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	96
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	25	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	10.46 %	9.825 %
Daily rates quoted	8	7
Average minimum daily rate	£274	£261
Average daily rate	£296	£269
% change on same period last year	+10.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£276
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£323
% change on same period last year	+11.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£35.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.34	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Qualifications Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	239	285
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.384 %	0.306 %
Daily rates quoted	43	65
Average minimum daily rate	£261	£286
Average daily rate	£277	£296
% change on same period last year	-6.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£293	£307
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£328
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	44
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.28	£17.25
Average hourly rate	£29.95	£18.63
% change on same period last year	+60.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.62	£20.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.56	£25.13
% change on same period last year	+1.72 %
CCNP 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNP across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Aberdeen	-2	10	£275	-8.33 %
Glasgow	+19	8	£295	+3.50 %
Edinburgh	+24	7	£301	+22.85 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing CCNP 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 CCNP.

1 48 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 40 (83.33 %) Cisco 3 24 (50.00 %) LAN 4 19 (39.58 %) WAN 5 15 (31.25 %) BGP 6 14 (29.17 %) VoIP 7 12 (25.00 %) MPLS 7 12 (25.00 %) Firewall 8 10 (20.83 %) CiscoWorks 9 9 (18.75 %) CCDP 10 8 (16.67 %) CCVP 10 8 (16.67 %) EIGRP 11 7 (14.58 %) OSPF 11 7 (14.58 %) CCIE 11 7 (14.58 %) TCP/IP

11 7 (14.58 %) Cisco PIX 12 6 (12.50 %) CCSP 12 6 (12.50 %) CCNA 12 6 (12.50 %) Telecoms 12 6 (12.50 %) IPCC 13 5 (10.42 %) Internet 13 5 (10.42 %) Ethernet 13 5 (10.42 %) VLAN 14 4 (8.333 %) Cisco ASA 14 4 (8.333 %) Cisco IOS 14 4 (8.333 %) Banking 14 4 (8.333 %) SNMP 14 4 (8.333 %) CCDA 14 4 (8.333 %) OpenView 14 4 (8.333 %) HP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing CCNP 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 CCNP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 24 (50.00 %) LAN 2 19 (39.58 %) WAN 3 15 (31.25 %) BGP 4 14 (29.17 %) VoIP 5 12 (25.00 %) MPLS 5 12 (25.00 %) Firewall 6 8 (16.67 %) EIGRP 7 7 (14.58 %) TCP/IP 7 7 (14.58 %) OSPF 7 7 (14.58 %) Cisco PIX 8 6 (12.50 %) IPCC 9 5 (10.42 %) Internet 9 5 (10.42 %) VLAN 9 5 (10.42 %) Ethernet 10 4 (8.333 %) SNMP 10 4 (8.333 %) Cisco IOS 10 4 (8.333 %) Cisco ASA 11 3 (6.250 %) Cisco IPT 11 3 (6.250 %) Q.931 11 3 (6.250 %) RIP	General 1 6 (12.50 %) Telecoms 2 4 (8.333 %) Finance 2 4 (8.333 %) Banking 3 2 (4.167 %) Retail 3 2 (4.167 %) Billing 3 2 (4.167 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (2.083 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 20 (41.67 %) Network Engineer 2 13 (27.08 %) Cisco Engineer 3 9 (18.75 %) Cisco Network Engineer 4 8 (16.67 %) Analyst 5 6 (12.50 %) Consultant 5 6 (12.50 %) Network Analyst 6 4 (8.333 %) Network Consultant 7 3 (6.250 %) Support Analyst 7 3 (6.250 %) Cisco Consultant 7 3 (6.250 %) Network Support 8 2 (4.167 %) Data Network Engineer 8 2 (4.167 %) Network Specialist 8 2 (4.167 %) Cisco Support 8 2 (4.167 %) Network Support Analyst 8 2 (4.167 %) Data Analyst 9 1 (2.083 %) Senior Network Engineer 9 1 (2.083 %) Technical Engineer 9 1 (2.083 %) Server Engineer 9 1 (2.083 %) Technical Manager 9 1 (2.083 %) Technical Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.083 %) e-Health 1 1 (2.083 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 1 (2.083 %) Windows 1 1 (2.083 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (2.083 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (6.250 %) Change Management 2 2 (4.167 %) ITIL 3 1 (2.083 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (2.083 %) Project Management 3 1 (2.083 %) Migration 3 1 (2.083 %) Incident Management 3 1 (2.083 %) Load Balancing 3 1 (2.083 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (2.083 %) C	Qualifications 1 48 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 9 (18.75 %) CCDP 3 8 (16.67 %) CCVP 4 7 (14.58 %) CCIE 5 6 (12.50 %) CCSP 5 6 (12.50 %) CCNA 6 4 (8.333 %) CCDA 7 2 (4.167 %) Avaya Certification 8 1 (2.083 %) PMP 8 1 (2.083 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.083 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (6.250 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 10 (20.83 %) CiscoWorks 2 4 (8.333 %) OpenView 3 3 (6.250 %) Tivoli 3 3 (6.250 %) Netcool 4 2 (4.167 %) OVSD 5 1 (2.083 %) Tivoli NetView	Vendors 1 40 (83.33 %) Cisco 2 4 (8.333 %) HP 3 2 (4.167 %) Citrix 3 2 (4.167 %) Avaya 3 2 (4.167 %) VMware 4 1 (2.083 %) Microsoft 4 1 (2.083 %) CA