South Yorkshire Cisco Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rugby Sale Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	18	23
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	16	36
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	12.31 %	12.08 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£274	£269
Average daily rate	£274	£279
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£274	£290
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£320
% change on same period last year	+5.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.08	£32.24
Average hourly rate	£31.25	£33.09
% change on same period last year	-5.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.42	£33.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.67	£26.05
% change on same period last year	+6.24 %
Vendors South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	130	298
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.260 %	0.373 %
Daily rates quoted	31	36
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£294
Average daily rate	£340	£305
% change on same period last year	+11.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	93
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.61	£28.63
Average hourly rate	£29.04	£29.66
% change on same period last year	-2.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.47	£30.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.83	£23.31
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Demand Trend

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

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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 across the South Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009.

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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 within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009. 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
Sheffield	+10	16	£274	-24.93 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Cisco 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.

1 26 (61.90 %) EMC 1 26 (61.90 %) Brocade 2 25 (59.52 %) SAN 3 23 (54.76 %) Sun 4 21 (50.00 %) HPUX 5 20 (47.62 %) Linux 6 16 (38.10 %) Solaris 6 16 (38.10 %) AIX 7 13 (30.95 %) Windows 8 12 (28.57 %) UNIX 8 12 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification 8 12 (28.57 %) Firewall 9 11 (26.19 %) HP 10 10 (23.81 %) OpenView 10 10 (23.81 %) VERITAS

10 10 (23.81 %) CLARiiON 10 10 (23.81 %) NetBackup 10 10 (23.81 %) HP Data Protector 11 8 (19.05 %) Configuration Management 11 8 (19.05 %) CCNP 11 8 (19.05 %) CCNA 11 8 (19.05 %) Finance 11 8 (19.05 %) Symmetrix 11 8 (19.05 %) EMC Navisphere 11 8 (19.05 %) Celerra 12 7 (16.67 %) Change Management 12 7 (16.67 %) Health 13 5 (11.90 %) Network Security 13 5 (11.90 %) VLAN 13 5 (11.90 %) WAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Cisco 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 4 (9.524 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (7.143 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (7.143 %) Lotus Domino 3 1 (2.381 %) IIS	Applications 1 1 (2.381 %) MS Office 1 1 (2.381 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 25 (59.52 %) SAN 2 12 (28.57 %) Firewall 3 5 (11.90 %) WAN 3 5 (11.90 %) VLAN 3 5 (11.90 %) Network Security 4 4 (9.524 %) VPN 4 4 (9.524 %) BGP 5 3 (7.143 %) DNS 5 3 (7.143 %) ATM 5 3 (7.143 %) FTP 5 3 (7.143 %) HTTP 5 3 (7.143 %) IPX 5 3 (7.143 %) Cisco PIX 5 3 (7.143 %) TCP/IP 5 3 (7.143 %) SMDS 6 2 (4.762 %) SNMP 6 2 (4.762 %) EIGRP 6 2 (4.762 %) MPLS 6 2 (4.762 %) OSPF 7 1 (2.381 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (7.143 %) SQL Server 1 3 (7.143 %) Informix
General 1 8 (19.05 %) Finance 2 7 (16.67 %) Health 3 3 (7.143 %) Legal 3 3 (7.143 %) Telecoms 4 1 (2.381 %) Billing 4 1 (2.381 %) Education 4 1 (2.381 %) Electric	Job Titles 1 14 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 9 (21.43 %) Support Analyst 2 9 (21.43 %) Support Engineer 2 9 (21.43 %) Storage Analyst 2 9 (21.43 %) Storage Engineer 3 5 (11.90 %) Network Analyst 4 4 (9.524 %) Senior Analyst 4 4 (9.524 %) 3rd Line Support 4 4 (9.524 %) EMC Engineer 4 4 (9.524 %) Senior Network Analyst 5 3 (7.143 %) Solutions Designer 6 2 (4.762 %) Support Consultant 6 2 (4.762 %) Support Specialist 6 2 (4.762 %) Consultant 6 2 (4.762 %) Network Engineer 6 2 (4.762 %) Network Designer 6 2 (4.762 %) NOC Engineer 6 2 (4.762 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 7 1 (2.381 %) Desktop Support Specialist 7 1 (2.381 %) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 10 (23.81 %) CLARiiON 2 8 (19.05 %) Symmetrix 2 8 (19.05 %) Celerra 3 4 (9.524 %) Replication 4 1 (2.381 %) Management Information System 4 1 (2.381 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 21 (50.00 %) HPUX 2 20 (47.62 %) Linux 3 16 (38.10 %) Solaris 3 16 (38.10 %) AIX 4 13 (30.95 %) Windows 5 12 (28.57 %) UNIX 6 1 (2.381 %) Windows XP 6 1 (2.381 %) Tru64 6 1 (2.381 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (19.05 %) Configuration Management 2 7 (16.67 %) Change Management 3 4 (9.524 %) Load Balancing 4 2 (4.762 %) Service Management 4 2 (4.762 %) ITSM 4 2 (4.762 %) ITIL 5 1 (2.381 %) Migration 5 1 (2.381 %) Network Design 5 1 (2.381 %) Incident Management 5 1 (2.381 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (2.381 %) Problem Management 5 1 (2.381 %) Time Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (9.524 %) C
Qualifications 1 12 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification 2 8 (19.05 %) CCNP 2 8 (19.05 %) CCNA 3 4 (9.524 %) CCIE 4 2 (4.762 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (4.762 %) SNIA Certification 5 1 (2.381 %) Degree 5 1 (2.381 %) CCDP 5 1 (2.381 %) MCP 5 1 (2.381 %) HNC 5 1 (2.381 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (2.381 %) CNA 5 1 (2.381 %) Novell Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (9.524 %) SLA
System Software 1 10 (23.81 %) NetBackup 2 3 (7.143 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (2.381 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 10 (23.81 %) OpenView 1 10 (23.81 %) HP Data Protector 2 8 (19.05 %) EMC Navisphere 3 3 (7.143 %) OVPA 3 3 (7.143 %) Legato
Vendors 1 26 (61.90 %) EMC 1 26 (61.90 %) Brocade 2 23 (54.76 %) Sun 3 11 (26.19 %) HP 4 10 (23.81 %) VERITAS 5 3 (7.143 %) Lotus 5 3 (7.143 %) VMware 5 3 (7.143 %) Oracle 6 2 (4.762 %) Microsoft 6 2 (4.762 %) Nortel 6 2 (4.762 %) Siemens 6 2 (4.762 %) CheckPoint 7 1 (2.381 %) 3Com 7 1 (2.381 %) NetApp 7 1 (2.381 %) Nokia