The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Scotland region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certification
Rank 96 83 70
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -13
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 25 22 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.009% 0.822% 1.460%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.024% 6.587% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 17
Average daily rate £333 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £285 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £375 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £31.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -22.41%
All Qualifications
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
415 334 348
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 16.75% 12.48% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 161 136
Average daily rate £345 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.54% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £212 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £428 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 28 20
Average hourly rate £15.00 £27.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.45% +44.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £13.04 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.25 £37.50 £175.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Cisco Certification
UK

Cisco Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Scotland Cisco Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Cisco Certification Daily Rate Trend

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland Cisco Certification Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Cisco Certification Hourly Rate Trend

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Aberdeen +15 17 £365 +26.95%
Edinburgh +2 5 £265 -18.46%
Aberdeenshire 0 1 £380 -
Renfrewshire - 1 - -
Dundee - 1 £150 -
Cisco Certification
UK

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 42 (93.33%) Cisco
2 23 (51.11%) CCNP
3 22 (48.89%) WAN
4 19 (42.22%) LAN
5 17 (37.78%) CCNA
6 16 (35.56%) Telecoms
7 15 (33.33%) VPN
8 14 (31.11%) Juniper
8 14 (31.11%) Riverbed
9 13 (28.89%) Firewall
9 13 (28.89%) Wireless
9 13 (28.89%) VoIP
9 13 (28.89%) CCIE
10 12 (26.67%) ITIL
10 12 (26.67%) Degree
11 11 (24.44%) IP Telephony
12 10 (22.22%) Time Management
13 9 (20.00%) BGP
13 9 (20.00%) EIGRP
13 9 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (17.78%) MGCP
14 8 (17.78%) H.323
14 8 (17.78%) CheckPoint
14 8 (17.78%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (13.33%) SAP GTS
15 6 (13.33%) SAP CCM
15 6 (13.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
15 6 (13.33%) Finance
15 6 (13.33%) VMware
15 6 (13.33%) Data Management

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 2 (4.444%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 4 (8.889%) MS Exchange
2 2 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.222%) IIS
3 1 (2.222%) Apache
Business Applications
1 6 (13.33%) SAP GTS
1 6 (13.33%) SAP CCM
1 6 (13.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 22 (48.89%) WAN
2 19 (42.22%) LAN
3 15 (33.33%) VPN
4 13 (28.89%) Firewall
4 13 (28.89%) Wireless
4 13 (28.89%) VoIP
5 11 (24.44%) IP Telephony
6 9 (20.00%) BGP
6 9 (20.00%) EIGRP
6 9 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 8 (17.78%) MGCP
7 8 (17.78%) H.323
7 8 (17.78%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
9 4 (8.889%) NetScreen
10 3 (6.667%) SAN
10 3 (6.667%) Network Security
11 2 (4.444%) HTTP
12 1 (2.222%) DNS
12 1 (2.222%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.444%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (4.444%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.222%) Subversion
1 1 (2.222%) Trac
General
1 16 (35.56%) Telecoms
2 6 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (2.222%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.222%) Banking
3 1 (2.222%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (57.78%) Network Engineer
2 9 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Network Support
3 6 (13.33%) Security Engineer
4 2 (4.444%) Microsoft Specialist
4 2 (4.444%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (4.444%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (4.444%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (4.444%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (4.444%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (4.444%) Support Engineer
4 2 (4.444%) Architect
4 2 (4.444%) Technical Architect
5 1 (2.222%) Consultant
5 1 (2.222%) Security Consultant
5 1 (2.222%) Systems Support
5 1 (2.222%) Support Technician
5 1 (2.222%) Field Engineer
5 1 (2.222%) Systems Manager
5 1 (2.222%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.667%) CMDB
2 1 (2.222%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (4.444%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (4.444%) UNIX
3 1 (2.222%) Windows XP
3 1 (2.222%) Solaris
3 1 (2.222%) Linux
3 1 (2.222%) Windows Vista
3 1 (2.222%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.222%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.67%) ITIL
2 10 (22.22%) Time Management
3 6 (13.33%) Data Management
4 4 (8.889%) Release Management
4 4 (8.889%) Problem Management
4 4 (8.889%) Service Management
5 3 (6.667%) Configuration Management
5 3 (6.667%) Network Design
5 3 (6.667%) Migration
5 3 (6.667%) Network Management
6 2 (4.444%) Risk Management
6 2 (4.444%) PRINCE2
7 1 (2.222%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (2.222%) Scrum
7 1 (2.222%) Software Engineering
7 1 (2.222%) Performance Management
7 1 (2.222%) WAN Optimisation
7 1 (2.222%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.667%) C
2 1 (2.222%) Perl
2 1 (2.222%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 23 (51.11%) CCNP
2 17 (37.78%) CCNA
3 13 (28.89%) CCIE
4 12 (26.67%) Degree
5 5 (11.11%) CCSP
5 5 (11.11%) CISSP
5 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (6.667%) MCSE
7 2 (4.444%) Security Cleared
7 2 (4.444%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.222%) MCP
8 1 (2.222%) MCSA
8 1 (2.222%) CCVP
8 1 (2.222%) JNCIA
8 1 (2.222%) JNCIS
8 1 (2.222%) JNCIE
8 1 (2.222%) MCITP
8 1 (2.222%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.222%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.889%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.222%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 42 (93.33%) Cisco
2 14 (31.11%) Juniper
2 14 (31.11%) Riverbed
3 8 (17.78%) CheckPoint
4 6 (13.33%) VMware
4 6 (13.33%) Remedy
4 6 (13.33%) Citrix
4 6 (13.33%) SAP
5 5 (11.11%) Nortel
5 5 (11.11%) Aruba
6 4 (8.889%) Mitel
6 4 (8.889%) Blue Coat
6 4 (8.889%) Avaya
7 3 (6.667%) HP
7 3 (6.667%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.444%) NetApp
8 2 (4.444%) EMC
9 1 (2.222%) Websense
9 1 (2.222%) BMC
9 1 (2.222%) Nokia
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