South West Cisco Certification Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the South West 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.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Altrincham Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Esher Essex Exeter Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire Horsham Ilford Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Larne Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Melton Mowbray Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Teddington Teesside Telford Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2012	Same period 2011	Same period 2010
Rank	78	100	78
Rank change year-on-year	+22 -22
Matching contract IT job ads	64	18	41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West	1.897 %	0.647 %	1.488 %
As % of the Qualifications category	6.004 %	2.683 %	5.632 %
Number of daily rates quoted	38	8	11
Average daily rate	£398	£338	£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+17.77 % +12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£232	£210	£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£448	£453	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£314	£300	£300
% change year-on-year	+4.58 % -
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	2	11
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£30.00	£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-25.00 % +9.09 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	£30.00	£20.00
% change year-on-year	-25.00 % +50.00 %
All Qualifications South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Qualifications category	1066	671	728
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West	31.60 %	24.10 %	26.42 %
Number of daily rates quoted	570	303	301
Average daily rate	£413	£375	£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+10.00 % +15.38 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£220	£220	£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£520	£500	£435
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£350	£325
% change year-on-year	- +7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted	79	52	69
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£30.00	£25.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-16.66 % +17.64 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.80	£13.00	£12.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£40.50	£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.00	£24.00	£18.00
% change year-on-year	-4.16 % +33.33 %
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Cisco Certification
Demand Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Certification across the South West region over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Certification across the South West region over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

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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 Cisco Certification within the South West region over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. 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	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
Wiltshire	+15	26	£338	-6.57 %
Bristol	-6	18	£425	+88.88 %
Gloucestershire	-16	7	£400	-3.61 %
Dorset	-	5	£375	-
Devon	+3	4	£193	+10.00 %

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Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 Platforms 1 5 (5.051 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 4 (4.040 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (4.040 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (2.020 %) Exchange Server 2010	Applications 1 1 (1.010 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 56 (56.57 %) Firewall 2 23 (23.23 %) LAN 3 21 (21.21 %) WAN 4 14 (14.14 %) Internet 4 14 (14.14 %) Cisco ASA 5 13 (13.13 %) Cisco PIX 5 13 (13.13 %) FWSM 5 13 (13.13 %) Cisco Nexus 5 13 (13.13 %) VoIP 6 11 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 7 10 (10.10 %) MPLS 7 10 (10.10 %) VPN 8 8 (8.081 %) Network Security 9 7 (7.071 %) DNS 9 7 (7.071 %) HTTP 9 7 (7.071 %) SNMP 9 7 (7.071 %) Wireless 9 7 (7.071 %) NetScreen 10 6 (6.061 %) IPsec 10 6 (6.061 %) IPv6	Development Applications 1 1 (1.010 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 19 (19.19 %) Telecoms 2 4 (4.040 %) Finance 3 3 (3.030 %) Banking 4 1 (1.010 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (1.010 %) Military 4 1 (1.010 %) Advertising	Job Titles 1 62 (62.63 %) Network Engineer 2 13 (13.13 %) Cisco Engineer 3 12 (12.12 %) Security Engineer 4 11 (11.11 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 10 (10.10 %) Designer 6 8 (8.081 %) Senior Network Engineer 6 8 (8.081 %) Network Designer 7 6 (6.061 %) Consultant 7 6 (6.061 %) Network Security Engineer 8 5 (5.051 %) Network Design Engineer 8 5 (5.051 %) Design Engineer 8 5 (5.051 %) Field Engineer 9 4 (4.040 %) Architect 9 4 (4.040 %) Analyst 9 4 (4.040 %) Security Consultant 9 4 (4.040 %) Technical Analyst 10 3 (3.030 %) Senior Security Engineer 10 3 (3.030 %) Cisco Consultant 10 3 (3.030 %) Test Consultant 10 3 (3.030 %) Network Architect
Miscellaneous 1 10 (10.10 %) Blackberry 2 3 (3.030 %) PKI 3 2 (2.020 %) Video Conferencing 4 1 (1.010 %) NHS 4 1 (1.010 %) Client/Server 4 1 (1.010 %) Handset 4 1 (1.010 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 10 (10.10 %) Windows 2 5 (5.051 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (3.030 %) UNIX 3 3 (3.030 %) Linux 3 3 (3.030 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (2.020 %) Windows Server 2008 4 2 (2.020 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 2 (2.020 %) Windows NT 5 1 (1.010 %) Windows XP 5 1 (1.010 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (19.19 %) Load Balancing 2 15 (15.15 %) Network Design 3 10 (10.10 %) Change Management 3 10 (10.10 %) Workflow 4 5 (5.051 %) Service Delivery 4 5 (5.051 %) Network Management 5 3 (3.030 %) Test Strategy 6 2 (2.020 %) Time Management 6 2 (2.020 %) Automated Testing 6 2 (2.020 %) Integration Testing 6 2 (2.020 %) Incident Management 6 2 (2.020 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (1.010 %) ITIL 7 1 (1.010 %) Data Analysis 7 1 (1.010 %) Business Continuity 7 1 (1.010 %) Stakeholder Management 7 1 (1.010 %) Project Management 7 1 (1.010 %) Performance Testing	Programming Languages 1 5 (5.051 %) C 2 1 (1.010 %) Tcl 2 1 (1.010 %) C++ 2 1 (1.010 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 65 (65.66 %) CCNP 2 60 (60.61 %) Security Cleared 3 36 (36.36 %) CCNA 4 34 (34.34 %) SC Cleared 5 24 (24.24 %) DV Cleared 6 19 (19.19 %) Microsoft Certification 7 12 (12.12 %) CCIE 8 11 (11.11 %) CCDP 8 11 (11.11 %) MCSE 9 10 (10.10 %) CCSP 10 9 (9.091 %) CCSA 10 9 (9.091 %) CCSE 11 8 (8.081 %) CISSP 11 8 (8.081 %) MCP 12 6 (6.061 %) JNCIA 12 6 (6.061 %) JNCIS 13 4 (4.040 %) MCITP 13 4 (4.040 %) CCDA 14 2 (2.020 %) HP APS 14 2 (2.020 %) CCENT	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (8.081 %) JSP 440 2 4 (4.040 %) SLA 3 3 (3.030 %) ISO 9001 3 3 (3.030 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (2.020 %) VMware Infrastructure 1 2 (2.020 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (1.010 %) CiscoWorks 1 1 (1.010 %) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors 1 93 (93.94 %) Cisco 2 48 (48.48 %) Juniper 3 10 (10.10 %) Remedy 3 10 (10.10 %) Microsoft 3 10 (10.10 %) CheckPoint 4 8 (8.081 %) HP 5 5 (5.051 %) Avaya 5 5 (5.051 %) Tufin 6 4 (4.040 %) McAfee 7 3 (3.030 %) Compaq 7 3 (3.030 %) IBM 7 3 (3.030 %) Nortel 7 3 (3.030 %) ProCurve 8 2 (2.020 %) SonicWALL 8 2 (2.020 %) Huawei 8 2 (2.020 %) VMware 8 2 (2.020 %) Sun 8 2 (2.020 %) Dell 9 1 (1.010 %) Intel 9 1 (1.010 %) CA