South West Cisco Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Cisco Certification 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 job ads that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Altrincham Andover Angus Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cobham County Antrim Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Goole Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Immingham Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tayside Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	87	87
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	46	73
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.077 %
As % of the category below	9.978 %	13.25 %
Daily rates quoted	19	13
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£262
Average daily rate	£297	£280
% change on same period last year	+6.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£331
% change on same period last year	-10.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.33	£22.81
Average hourly rate	£21.50	£24.38
% change on same period last year	-11.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.67	£25.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.82	£26.54
% change on same period last year	+1.05 %
Qualifications South West
Matching contract IT job ads	461	551
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.608 %	0.584 %
Daily rates quoted	157	165
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£305
Average daily rate	£350	£322
% change on same period last year	+8.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	64	92
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.96	£22.38
Average hourly rate	£24.62	£23.76
% change on same period last year	+3.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.29	£25.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.13	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Cisco Certification 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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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 4 July 2008.

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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 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Cisco Certification within the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Wiltshire	+12	21	£323	-
Devon	+8	6	£332	-
Bristol	0	5	£220	-
Gloucestershire	+2	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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.

1 116 (84.06 %) Cisco 2 88 (63.77 %) CCNA 3 64 (46.38 %) CCNP 4 49 (35.51 %) Security Cleared 5 46 (33.33 %) Firewall 6 30 (21.74 %) VLAN 7 28 (20.29 %) SC Cleared 8 27 (19.57 %) CCIE 9 26 (18.84 %) Network Design 10 22 (15.94 %) MPLS 11 21 (15.22 %) SAN 11 21 (15.22 %) WAN 11 21 (15.22 %) Government 12 20 (14.49 %) VoIP 13 19 (13.77 %) LAN

14 17 (12.32 %) Microsoft Certification 15 16 (11.59 %) HP 15 16 (11.59 %) VPN 15 16 (11.59 %) MCSE 16 14 (10.14 %) Windows 16 14 (10.14 %) Microsoft 17 13 (9.420 %) CCDP 18 12 (8.696 %) Sun 19 11 (7.971 %) CESG 19 11 (7.971 %) CESG CLAS 19 11 (7.971 %) Requirements Analysis 20 10 (7.246 %) Intrusion Detection 20 10 (7.246 %) CCDA 21 9 (6.522 %) Thin Client 21 9 (6.522 %) CheckPoint

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 Development 1 8 (5.797 %) WebServices 2 4 (2.899 %) .NET 2 4 (2.899 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 6 (4.348 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (3.623 %) SharePoint 3 4 (2.899 %) BizTalk Server 3 4 (2.899 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 2 (1.449 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (0.725 %) IIS
Applications 1 3 (2.174 %) MS Visio 2 2 (1.449 %) MS Office 2 2 (1.449 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.725 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 46 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 30 (21.74 %) VLAN 3 22 (15.94 %) MPLS 4 21 (15.22 %) WAN 4 21 (15.22 %) SAN 5 20 (14.49 %) VoIP 6 19 (13.77 %) LAN 7 16 (11.59 %) VPN 8 10 (7.246 %) Intrusion Detection 9 9 (6.522 %) IPCC 10 8 (5.797 %) DNS 11 7 (5.072 %) TCP/IP 12 6 (4.348 %) BGP 13 4 (2.899 %) OSPF 13 4 (2.899 %) Extranet 13 4 (2.899 %) Intranet 14 2 (1.449 %) SNMP 14 2 (1.449 %) UMTS 14 2 (1.449 %) ADSL 14 2 (1.449 %) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (3.623 %) SQL Server	General 1 21 (15.22 %) Government 2 9 (6.522 %) Telecoms 2 9 (6.522 %) Military 3 2 (1.449 %) Finance 3 2 (1.449 %) Health 4 1 (0.725 %) Law 4 1 (0.725 %) Education 4 1 (0.725 %) Banking 4 1 (0.725 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 60 (43.48 %) Network Engineer 2 25 (18.12 %) Cisco Engineer 3 20 (14.49 %) Consultant 4 14 (10.14 %) Architect 5 12 (8.696 %) Technical Architect 5 12 (8.696 %) Support Engineer 5 12 (8.696 %) Cisco Network Engineer 6 11 (7.971 %) Network Consultant 7 10 (7.246 %) Network Specialist 7 10 (7.246 %) Lead Technical Architect 7 10 (7.246 %) Lead Architect 8 8 (5.797 %) Network Support 9 7 (5.072 %) Design Engineer 10 6 (4.348 %) Network Technician 11 5 (3.623 %) Cisco Specialist 12 4 (2.899 %) Network Support Engineer 12 4 (2.899 %) Analyst 12 4 (2.899 %) Network Design Engineer 12 4 (2.899 %) Cisco Support 12 4 (2.899 %) Cisco Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 11 (7.971 %) CESG 1 11 (7.971 %) CESG CLAS 2 9 (6.522 %) Fat Client 2 9 (6.522 %) Thin Client 3 3 (2.174 %) Clustering 4 1 (0.725 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 14 (10.14 %) Windows 2 4 (2.899 %) Unix 3 2 (1.449 %) Windows XP 4 1 (0.725 %) Solaris 4 1 (0.725 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 49 (35.51 %) Security Cleared 2 28 (20.29 %) SC Cleared 3 26 (18.84 %) Network Design 4 11 (7.971 %) Requirements Analysis 5 8 (5.797 %) Load Balancing 5 8 (5.797 %) DV Cleared 6 7 (5.072 %) Project Management 7 6 (4.348 %) BC Cleared 8 5 (3.623 %) Network Load Balancing 9 4 (2.899 %) ITSM 10 3 (2.174 %) Migration 10 3 (2.174 %) Content Management 11 2 (1.449 %) Disaster Recovery 12 1 (0.725 %) Requirements Management 12 1 (0.725 %) Service Management 12 1 (0.725 %) ITIL 12 1 (0.725 %) PRINCE2 12 1 (0.725 %) EAM
Programming Languages 1 5 (3.623 %) C 1 5 (3.623 %) Java 2 4 (2.899 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 88 (63.77 %) CCNA 2 64 (46.38 %) CCNP 3 27 (19.57 %) CCIE 4 17 (12.32 %) Microsoft Certification 5 16 (11.59 %) MCSE 6 13 (9.420 %) CCDP 7 10 (7.246 %) CCDA 8 4 (2.899 %) CCIP 9 3 (2.174 %) CCVP 9 3 (2.174 %) Degree 10 2 (1.449 %) Chartered Engineer 10 2 (1.449 %) MCSA 11 1 (0.725 %) CCSP 11 1 (0.725 %) CISSP 11 1 (0.725 %) CCSA
System Software 1 3 (2.174 %) VMware Server 2 2 (1.449 %) Active Directory 3 1 (0.725 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 6 (4.348 %) CiscoWorks 2 4 (2.899 %) OVPI 3 3 (2.174 %) OpenView 4 1 (0.725 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 116 (84.06 %) Cisco 2 16 (11.59 %) HP 3 14 (10.14 %) Microsoft 4 12 (8.696 %) Sun 5 9 (6.522 %) CheckPoint 6 5 (3.623 %) Citrix 6 5 (3.623 %) VMware 7 4 (2.899 %) Juniper 8 2 (1.449 %) Dell 8 2 (1.449 %) Oracle 9 1 (0.725 %) ProCurve 9 1 (0.725 %) 3Com