The first 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 21 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 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certification
Rank 86 85 102
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +17
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 31 58 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.488% 1.776% 0.654%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.016% 5.593% 2.632%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 38 8
Average daily rate £280 £398 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.55% +17.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £193 £232 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £433 £453
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -25.00%
All Qualifications
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
618 1037 684
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 29.65% 31.76% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 557 311
Average daily rate £380 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £220 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £525 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 72 52
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -21.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.55 £13.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £50.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

This 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.

South West Cisco Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Cisco Certification Daily Rate Trend

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This 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 21 May 2013.

South West Cisco Certification Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Cisco Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco Certification
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 21 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
Bristol +3 9 £344 -19.11%
Wiltshire -10 9 £225 -35.71%
Gloucestershire +31 6 - -
Dorset 0 2 £350 -6.66%
Devon -1 1 £263 +36.36%
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 50 (92.59%) Cisco
2 35 (64.81%) CCNP
2 35 (64.81%) CCNA
3 24 (44.44%) Firewall
4 22 (40.74%) Security Cleared
5 15 (27.78%) SC Cleared
6 13 (24.07%) DV Cleared
7 11 (20.37%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (20.37%) VMware
7 11 (20.37%) Juniper
8 10 (18.52%) CheckPoint
8 10 (18.52%) VoIP
9 9 (16.67%) WAN
9 9 (16.67%) LAN
10 8 (14.81%) SNMP
10 8 (14.81%) Service Delivery
10 8 (14.81%) IPsec
10 8 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
11 7 (12.96%) Open Source
11 7 (12.96%) Cisco IPT
11 7 (12.96%) Military
11 7 (12.96%) CCVP
11 7 (12.96%) BGP
11 7 (12.96%) VPN
11 7 (12.96%) Windows
12 6 (11.11%) ITIL
12 6 (11.11%) OSPF
12 6 (11.11%) Cisco PIX
13 5 (9.259%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (9.259%) Linux

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 1 (1.852%) JSP
1 1 (1.852%) Web Services
1 1 (1.852%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.852%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (1.852%) IIS
1 1 (1.852%) MS Exchange
1 1 (1.852%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 24 (44.44%) Firewall
2 11 (20.37%) Cisco ASA
3 10 (18.52%) VoIP
4 9 (16.67%) WAN
4 9 (16.67%) LAN
5 8 (14.81%) SNMP
5 8 (14.81%) IPsec
6 7 (12.96%) Cisco IPT
6 7 (12.96%) BGP
6 7 (12.96%) VPN
7 6 (11.11%) OSPF
7 6 (11.11%) Cisco PIX
8 5 (9.259%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (7.407%) ATM
9 4 (7.407%) MPLS
10 3 (5.556%) Network Security
10 3 (5.556%) Wireless
10 3 (5.556%) SAN
10 3 (5.556%) TCP/IP
10 3 (5.556%) FWSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.852%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (12.96%) Military
2 2 (3.704%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.852%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 14 (25.93%) Cisco Engineer
3 5 (9.259%) Cisco IPT Engineer
3 5 (9.259%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (7.407%) Network Designer
4 4 (7.407%) Designer
5 3 (5.556%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.556%) Support Engineer
6 2 (3.704%) Administrator
6 2 (3.704%) Architect
6 2 (3.704%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (3.704%) IP Engineer
7 1 (1.852%) Lead Network Engineer
7 1 (1.852%) Voice Engineer
7 1 (1.852%) Information Security Engineer
7 1 (1.852%) Network Analyst
7 1 (1.852%) Network Technician
7 1 (1.852%) Help Desk Support
7 1 (1.852%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (1.852%) Network Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Open Source
2 2 (3.704%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.852%) RMADS
3 1 (1.852%) Statistics
3 1 (1.852%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Windows
2 5 (9.259%) Linux
3 4 (7.407%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (5.556%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.704%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (3.704%) UNIX
5 2 (3.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.852%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.852%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (14.81%) Service Delivery
2 6 (11.11%) ITIL
3 4 (7.407%) Network Design
3 4 (7.407%) Incident Management
4 3 (5.556%) Project Management
4 3 (5.556%) PRINCE
5 2 (3.704%) ERP
5 2 (3.704%) Data Analysis
5 2 (3.704%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (1.852%) Network Management
6 1 (1.852%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (1.852%) Load Balancing
6 1 (1.852%) Resource Management
6 1 (1.852%) Information Security
6 1 (1.852%) Service Management
6 1 (1.852%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.704%) SQL
2 1 (1.852%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.852%) C
2 1 (1.852%) Perl
2 1 (1.852%) Python
Qualifications
1 35 (64.81%) CCNP
1 35 (64.81%) CCNA
2 22 (40.74%) Security Cleared
3 15 (27.78%) SC Cleared
4 13 (24.07%) DV Cleared
5 7 (12.96%) CCVP
6 5 (9.259%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (9.259%) MCSE
7 2 (3.704%) CCSP
7 2 (3.704%) CCIP
7 2 (3.704%) CCDP
7 2 (3.704%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.852%) Degree
8 1 (1.852%) MCSA
8 1 (1.852%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.407%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.704%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.852%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.704%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.704%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.852%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.852%) Xen
3 1 (1.852%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 4 (7.407%) WhatsUp Gold
2 2 (3.704%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (1.852%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 50 (92.59%) Cisco
2 11 (20.37%) VMware
2 11 (20.37%) Juniper
3 10 (18.52%) CheckPoint
4 4 (7.407%) Nokia
4 4 (7.407%) HP
5 3 (5.556%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.704%) Oracle
6 2 (3.704%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.704%) Blue Coat
7 1 (1.852%) F5
7 1 (1.852%) 3Com
7 1 (1.852%) Sourcefire
7 1 (1.852%) Dell
7 1 (1.852%) Citrix
7 1 (1.852%) NetApp
South West
The network engineer needs to be CCNA or ideally CCNP qualified and the key skills for the network engineer are Cisco Firewalls experience ASA / PIX Routers and Switches...
CPS Group UK
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Swindon, Wiltshire
Essential skills: *CCNP/CCDP or JNCIS qualification *Full UK driving license *Experience in IP networking routing, including: OSPF, ISIS and BGP *Experience in WAN/ATM technologies *Experience configuring...
Roc Search
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bristol, Avon, South West
Customer facing Cisco certified IPT/UC Level 2 Engineer required to be on-site in Bristol for 9 months- Your role will focus on the following:- Maintenance operations,...
GSA Techsource
Rate: Please quote your best daily rate
Posted: 4 May 2013