The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco IOS skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco IOS over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the South East 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco IOS
Rank 202 208 239
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +31
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 21 34 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.270% 0.334% 0.190%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.408% 1.579% 1.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 15
Average daily rate £288 £308 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.50% +2.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £140 £239
10% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £390 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+30.00% -9.09%
All Communications & Networking
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1491 2153 1944
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.16% 21.17% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 628 675
Average daily rate £315 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £188 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 190 239
Average hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +22.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.60 £13.42
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
Cisco IOS
England

Cisco IOS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco IOS across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

South East Cisco IOS Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco IOS
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Cisco IOS Daily Rate Trend

Cisco IOS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco IOS across the South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South East Cisco IOS Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco IOS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Cisco IOS Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco IOS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco IOS within the South East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Berkshire +12 12 £350 -
Hampshire +4 7 £288 -17.26%
West Sussex +13 2 - -
Oxfordshire +8 1 - -
Cisco IOS
England

Cisco IOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Cisco IOS 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 IOS.

1 45 (100.00%) Cisco
2 35 (77.78%) Cisco Certification
3 26 (57.78%) CCNP
4 18 (40.00%) CCNA
4 18 (40.00%) Network Security
5 16 (35.56%) CCIE
6 15 (33.33%) BGP
6 15 (33.33%) OSPF
6 15 (33.33%) VoIP
7 12 (26.67%) Firewall
8 11 (24.44%) LAN
9 10 (22.22%) WAN
9 10 (22.22%) VLAN
10 9 (20.00%) DHCP
11 8 (17.78%) VPN
11 8 (17.78%) Degree
12 7 (15.56%) DNS
12 7 (15.56%) Avaya
13 6 (13.33%) Juniper
13 6 (13.33%) HP
13 6 (13.33%) MPLS
13 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
13 6 (13.33%) SNMP
14 5 (11.11%) VMware
14 5 (11.11%) Blue Coat
14 5 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
14 5 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (11.11%) Network Management
14 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP

Cisco IOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Cisco IOS 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 IOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (6.667%) CSS
1 3 (6.667%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.444%) MS Exchange
1 2 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) MS Excel
1 5 (11.11%) MS Office
2 3 (6.667%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 18 (40.00%) Network Security
2 15 (33.33%) BGP
2 15 (33.33%) OSPF
2 15 (33.33%) VoIP
3 12 (26.67%) Firewall
4 11 (24.44%) LAN
5 10 (22.22%) WAN
5 10 (22.22%) VLAN
6 9 (20.00%) DHCP
7 8 (17.78%) VPN
8 7 (15.56%) DNS
9 6 (13.33%) MPLS
9 6 (13.33%) SNMP
10 5 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
11 4 (8.889%) Junos
11 4 (8.889%) Wireless
11 4 (8.889%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (6.667%) HSRP
12 3 (6.667%) GLBP
General
1 4 (8.889%) Telecoms
2 3 (6.667%) Finance
3 2 (4.444%) Legal
4 1 (2.222%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 21 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) Trainer
2 10 (22.22%) Cisco Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Network Analyst
3 7 (15.56%) Analyst
3 7 (15.56%) Support Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Cisco Network Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) Cisco Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (8.889%) Administrator
7 3 (6.667%) Network Support Engineer
7 3 (6.667%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (6.667%) Windows Administrator
7 3 (6.667%) Network Support
7 3 (6.667%) Cisco Support Engineer
7 3 (6.667%) Cisco Support
8 2 (4.444%) Architect
8 2 (4.444%) Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (2.222%) Voice Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.667%) SecurID
2 1 (2.222%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (11.11%) Windows
1 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (6.667%) Linux
2 3 (6.667%) UNIX
2 3 (6.667%) VMS
2 3 (6.667%) NetWare
3 2 (4.444%) Windows XP
3 2 (4.444%) Windows 8
4 1 (2.222%) Debian
4 1 (2.222%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (11.11%) Network Management
2 4 (8.889%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (6.667%) Migration
3 3 (6.667%) Load Balancing
4 2 (4.444%) Project Management
4 2 (4.444%) Time Management
4 2 (4.444%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (4.444%) Change Management
4 2 (4.444%) Analytics
5 1 (2.222%) Service Management
5 1 (2.222%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) SQL
2 3 (6.667%) VB
3 2 (4.444%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (77.78%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (57.78%) CCNP
3 18 (40.00%) CCNA
4 16 (35.56%) CCIE
5 8 (17.78%) Degree
6 4 (8.889%) Security Cleared
7 2 (4.444%) MCSE
7 2 (4.444%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.444%) RHCE
7 2 (4.444%) SC Cleared
7 2 (4.444%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.444%) CCSA
7 2 (4.444%) JNCIP
8 1 (2.222%) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.222%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.222%) vSphere
3 1 (2.222%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (6.667%) Tivoli
1 3 (6.667%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (6.667%) Nagios
2 2 (4.444%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (4.444%) SCCM
2 2 (4.444%) SCOM
2 2 (4.444%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (2.222%) HP NNM
3 1 (2.222%) CiscoWorks
3 1 (2.222%) OpenView
Vendors
1 45 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (15.56%) Avaya
3 6 (13.33%) Juniper
3 6 (13.33%) HP
4 5 (11.11%) VMware
4 5 (11.11%) Blue Coat
4 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 5 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 3 (6.667%) Altiris
5 3 (6.667%) F5
5 3 (6.667%) TippingPoint
5 3 (6.667%) NetScout
5 3 (6.667%) Nokia
6 2 (4.444%) McAfee
6 2 (4.444%) Riverbed
6 2 (4.444%) 3PAR
6 2 (4.444%) Brocade
6 2 (4.444%) Lumension
7 1 (2.222%) Redback
7 1 (2.222%) Aruba