The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Somerset 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Cisco Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco
Rank 21 29 35
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +6
Contract jobs citing Cisco 13 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 6.806% 1.124% 0.490%
As % of the Vendors category 13.27% 2.273% 0.909%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £290 £150 £100
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+93.33% +50.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.46% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £10.00 £22.69 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-55.92% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £20.06 £21.88
% change year-on-year
+12.16% -8.29%
All Vendors
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
98 88 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 51.31% 49.44% 53.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 48 45
Average daily rate £300 £375 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +15.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £177 £230 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £418
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 17
Average hourly rate £10.00 £18.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.44% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Cisco
South West

Cisco
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset Cisco Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset Cisco Daily Rate Trend

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset Cisco Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Taunton - 6 - -
Yeovil - 4 £290 -
Shepton Mallet - 1 - -
Templecombe - - - -
Wells - - - -
Bath - - - - 1
Bridgwater - - - -
Cisco
South West

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Cisco 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.

1 22 (84.62%) Windows
2 19 (73.08%) Microsoft
3 18 (69.23%) Active Directory
3 18 (69.23%) Windows 7
4 17 (65.38%) Windows XP
4 17 (65.38%) MS Office
5 16 (61.54%) VMware
6 14 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
7 12 (46.15%) Blackberry
7 12 (46.15%) MS Excel
7 12 (46.15%) Apple
7 12 (46.15%) Kaspersky
7 12 (46.15%) SCCM
7 12 (46.15%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (26.92%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (26.92%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (26.92%) VPN
9 4 (15.38%) Citrix
9 4 (15.38%) MS Exchange
9 4 (15.38%) VoIP
9 4 (15.38%) Oracle
10 3 (11.54%) Windows Vista
10 3 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (11.54%) Cisco UCCE
10 3 (11.54%) SQL
11 2 (7.692%) Cisco UCCX
11 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (7.692%) Telecoms
11 2 (7.692%) SQL Server
11 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Cisco 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.846%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) MS Exchange
2 3 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 17 (65.38%) MS Office
2 12 (46.15%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) VPN
2 4 (15.38%) VoIP
3 1 (3.846%) SAN
3 1 (3.846%) 3G
3 1 (3.846%) Firewall
3 1 (3.846%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (7.692%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 11 (42.31%) Help Desk Support
3 9 (34.62%) Helpdesk Technician
3 9 (34.62%) Support Technician
3 9 (34.62%) 2nd Line Support Technician
3 9 (34.62%) Service Desk Technician
3 9 (34.62%) Help Desk Support Technician
4 5 (19.23%) Support Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Desktop Support
5 4 (15.38%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Desktop Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Cisco Voice Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) IT Support
6 3 (11.54%) Voice Engineer
7 2 (7.692%) Design Engineer
8 1 (3.846%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Blackberry
1 12 (46.15%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.846%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (84.62%) Windows
2 18 (69.23%) Windows 7
3 17 (65.38%) Windows XP
4 7 (26.92%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (26.92%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Vista
6 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (3.846%) UNIX
7 1 (3.846%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (3.846%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (3.846%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) SQL
2 1 (3.846%) LINC
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 18 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 14 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.846%) XenApp
3 1 (3.846%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (46.15%) SCCM
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco UCCE
3 2 (7.692%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (3.846%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 19 (73.08%) Microsoft
2 16 (61.54%) VMware
3 12 (46.15%) Kaspersky
3 12 (46.15%) Apple
4 4 (15.38%) Oracle
4 4 (15.38%) Citrix
5 1 (3.846%) HP
5 1 (3.846%) Panasonic
5 1 (3.846%) Veeam
5 1 (3.846%) AppSense
5 1 (3.846%) ProCurve