The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco IPT skills 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 IPT over the 3 months to 18 June 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco IP Telephony (CIPT)
Rank 99 136 125
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -11
Contract jobs citing Cisco IPT 11 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.535% 0.032% 0.066%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.679% 0.214% 0.536%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £300 - £100
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £380 £320
% change year-on-year
+6.90% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £7.90 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £13.25 £14.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.35%
All Communications & Networking
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
299 467 373
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.55% 14.90% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 222 155
Average daily rate £375 £386 £368
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.72% +4.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £275 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 41 53
Average hourly rate £21.50 £24.38 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.79% -15.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £20.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.10 £45.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
Cisco IPT
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Cisco IPT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Cisco IPT Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco IPT
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Cisco IPT Daily Rate Trend

Cisco IPT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Cisco IPT Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco IPT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Cisco IPT 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 IPT.

1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (53.85%) VMware
3 6 (46.15%) IP Telephony
3 6 (46.15%) Unified Communications
4 5 (38.46%) FWSM
4 5 (38.46%) IronPort
4 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (38.46%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (38.46%) Wireless
4 5 (38.46%) CCVP
4 5 (38.46%) Service Delivery
4 5 (38.46%) Firewall
4 5 (38.46%) Nokia
4 5 (38.46%) CheckPoint
4 5 (38.46%) MPLS
4 5 (38.46%) VPN
4 5 (38.46%) CCNP
4 5 (38.46%) HP
5 4 (30.77%) CiscoWorks
5 4 (30.77%) IBM
5 4 (30.77%) OSPF
5 4 (30.77%) BGP
5 4 (30.77%) CA
5 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
5 4 (30.77%) Network Management
5 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
5 4 (30.77%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (23.08%) Network Load Balancing
6 3 (23.08%) CCNA

Cisco IPT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Cisco IPT 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 IPT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) IP Telephony
1 6 (46.15%) Unified Communications
2 5 (38.46%) FWSM
2 5 (38.46%) Wireless
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 5 (38.46%) VPN
2 5 (38.46%) MPLS
3 4 (30.77%) OSPF
3 4 (30.77%) BGP
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (7.692%) SAN
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Network Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Network Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco IPT Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Voice Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Communications Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Service Delivery
2 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
2 4 (30.77%) Network Management
3 3 (23.08%) Network Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (38.46%) CCVP
2 5 (38.46%) CCNP
3 3 (23.08%) CCNA
4 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.692%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (53.85%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) Nokia
3 5 (38.46%) CheckPoint
3 5 (38.46%) HP
3 5 (38.46%) IronPort
4 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
4 4 (30.77%) CA
4 4 (30.77%) IBM
5 3 (23.08%) Blue Coat
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