South West CCNP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) in IT contracts within the South West 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 21 November 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 Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead 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 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	100	121
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	35	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	7.692 %	6.785 %
Daily rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum daily rate	£600	£347
Average daily rate	£601	£360
% change on same period last year	+66.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£601	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£323
% change on same period last year	+11.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.50	£36.33
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£37.00
% change on same period last year	-25.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.50	£37.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.49	£30.95
% change on same period last year	+4.98 %
Qualifications South West
Matching contract IT job ads	455	619
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.717 %	0.663 %
Daily rates quoted	135	169
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£332
Average daily rate	£368	£351
% change on same period last year	+4.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£325
% change on same period last year	+2.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	72	107
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	£25.14
Average hourly rate	£22.45	£26.42
% change on same period last year	-15.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.90	£27.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.56	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
CCNP England

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.

CCNP
Demand Trend

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

CCNP
Daily Rate Trend

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

CCNP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CCNP
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 South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Gloucestershire	+1	11	-	-
Wiltshire	-1	8	£601	+93.70 %
Somerset	-	5	-	-
Bristol	-	3	-	-
Dorset	+12	1	-	-

CCNP England

CCNP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 72 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 65 (90.28 %) Cisco 3 31 (43.06 %) Firewall 4 30 (41.67 %) CCNA 5 29 (40.28 %) Security Cleared 6 21 (29.17 %) CheckPoint 7 20 (27.78 %) WAN 7 20 (27.78 %) SC Cleared 8 19 (26.39 %) VPN 9 18 (25.00 %) CCIE 10 16 (22.22 %) MPLS 11 14 (19.44 %) Government 12 13 (18.06 %) Load Balancing 12 13 (18.06 %) DV Cleared 13 12 (16.67 %) Cisco PIX

13 12 (16.67 %) OSPF 13 12 (16.67 %) BGP 14 11 (15.28 %) Windows 14 11 (15.28 %) Network Design 15 10 (13.89 %) VLAN 16 9 (12.50 %) LAN 16 9 (12.50 %) Telecoms 17 8 (11.11 %) Cisco ASA 17 8 (11.11 %) MCSE 17 8 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 18 7 (9.722 %) Juniper 18 7 (9.722 %) CCDP 18 7 (9.722 %) ITIL 19 6 (8.333 %) TCP/IP 19 6 (8.333 %) IPsec

CCNP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

Application Development 1 1 (1.389 %) CSS 1 1 (1.389 %) XML 1 1 (1.389 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 3 (4.167 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 3 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (1.389 %) Office Communications Server
Applications 1 2 (2.778 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.389 %) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking 1 31 (43.06 %) Firewall 2 20 (27.78 %) WAN 3 19 (26.39 %) VPN 4 16 (22.22 %) MPLS 5 12 (16.67 %) OSPF 5 12 (16.67 %) BGP 5 12 (16.67 %) Cisco PIX 6 10 (13.89 %) VLAN 7 9 (12.50 %) LAN 8 8 (11.11 %) Cisco ASA 9 6 (8.333 %) IPsec 9 6 (8.333 %) TCP/IP 10 5 (6.944 %) VoIP 10 5 (6.944 %) DNS 10 5 (6.944 %) HTTPS 11 4 (5.556 %) PBX 11 4 (5.556 %) EIGRP 11 4 (5.556 %) Network Security 12 3 (4.167 %) IGRP 12 3 (4.167 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.389 %) SAP BW
Development Applications 1 1 (1.389 %) StarTeam	General 1 14 (19.44 %) Government 2 9 (12.50 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.389 %) Banking 3 1 (1.389 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 34 (47.22 %) Network Engineer 2 15 (20.83 %) Cisco Engineer 3 11 (15.28 %) Cisco Network Engineer 4 8 (11.11 %) Network Specialist 5 7 (9.722 %) Network Support 5 7 (9.722 %) Architect 6 6 (8.333 %) Network Architect 7 5 (6.944 %) Support Engineer 7 5 (6.944 %) Design Engineer 8 4 (5.556 %) Analyst 8 4 (5.556 %) Network Support Engineer 8 4 (5.556 %) Network Design Engineer 9 3 (4.167 %) Consultant 9 3 (4.167 %) Senior Network Engineer 10 2 (2.778 %) Team Leader 10 2 (2.778 %) Security Engineer 10 2 (2.778 %) Cisco Support 10 2 (2.778 %) Network Consultant 10 2 (2.778 %) Support Technician 10 2 (2.778 %) Network Security Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.389 %) NHS 1 1 (1.389 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 11 (15.28 %) Windows 2 4 (5.556 %) Linux 3 3 (4.167 %) Windows 2000 3 3 (4.167 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (40.28 %) Security Cleared 2 20 (27.78 %) SC Cleared 3 13 (18.06 %) DV Cleared 3 13 (18.06 %) Load Balancing 4 11 (15.28 %) Network Design 5 7 (9.722 %) ITIL 6 4 (5.556 %) Configuration Management 7 3 (4.167 %) Service Management 7 3 (4.167 %) Penetration Testing 8 2 (2.778 %) BC Cleared 8 2 (2.778 %) Disaster Recovery 8 2 (2.778 %) Migration 8 2 (2.778 %) Project Management 9 1 (1.389 %) CRM 9 1 (1.389 %) Service Delivery 9 1 (1.389 %) Data Migration
Qualifications 1 72 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 30 (41.67 %) CCNA 3 18 (25.00 %) CCIE 4 8 (11.11 %) MCSE 4 8 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 5 7 (9.722 %) CCDP 6 5 (6.944 %) MCSA 7 4 (5.556 %) CCIP 8 3 (4.167 %) CCSP 9 2 (2.778 %) CCDA 10 1 (1.389 %) CCSA 10 1 (1.389 %) CCVP 10 1 (1.389 %) CCSE 10 1 (1.389 %) JNCIA 10 1 (1.389 %) JNCIS	System Software 1 4 (5.556 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (1.389 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 1 (1.389 %) OpenView 1 1 (1.389 %) CiscoWorks 1 1 (1.389 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 65 (90.28 %) Cisco 2 21 (29.17 %) CheckPoint 3 7 (9.722 %) Juniper 4 5 (6.944 %) Avaya 4 5 (6.944 %) IBM 5 4 (5.556 %) VMware 6 2 (2.778 %) Alcatel 6 2 (2.778 %) Microsoft 6 2 (2.778 %) HP 6 2 (2.778 %) Nortel 7 1 (1.389 %) Citrix 7 1 (1.389 %) SAP 7 1 (1.389 %) Lucent 7 1 (1.389 %) Ericsson 7 1 (1.389 %) Nokia 7 1 (1.389 %) 3Com