Staffordshire Cisco Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts within the Staffordshire 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	30	16
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	4	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	3.774 %	7.937 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£313
Average daily rate	-	£338
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£320
% change on same period last year	+5.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.67	£26.05
% change on same period last year	+6.24 %
Vendors Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	106	63
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.212 %	0.079 %
Daily rates quoted	24	18
Average minimum daily rate	£269	£337
Average daily rate	£304	£357
% change on same period last year	-14.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.23	£23.43
Average hourly rate	£23.06	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-8.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.90	£27.02
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 Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

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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 Staffordshire 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
Burton-upon-Trent	-1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 4 (57.14 %) Windows 1 4 (57.14 %) MS Exchange 1 4 (57.14 %) Active Directory 1 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft Certification 1 4 (57.14 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (42.86 %) Lotus 2 3 (42.86 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (28.57 %) MCSE 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows XP 3 2 (28.57 %) WAN 3 2 (28.57 %) VPN 3 2 (28.57 %) IBM 3 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 3 2 (28.57 %) CCNP 3 2 (28.57 %) CCNA

3 2 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (28.57 %) Citrix 3 2 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (28.57 %) LAN 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows Vista 3 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 2 (28.57 %) 3Com 3 2 (28.57 %) Wireless 3 2 (28.57 %) AS400 3 2 (28.57 %) Altiris 4 1 (14.29 %) ITIL 4 1 (14.29 %) Migration 4 1 (14.29 %) VoIP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 (57.14 %) MS Exchange 1 4 (57.14 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (42.86 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2007	Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) LAN 1 2 (28.57 %) WAN 1 2 (28.57 %) VPN 1 2 (28.57 %) Wireless 2 1 (14.29 %) VoIP
Job Titles 1 2 (28.57 %) Infrastructure Engineer 1 2 (28.57 %) Network Engineer 1 2 (28.57 %) Network Infrastructure Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Specialist 2 1 (14.29 %) Administrator 2 1 (14.29 %) Lotus Notes Administrator 2 1 (14.29 %) Implementation Manager 2 1 (14.29 %) IT Support Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 2 (28.57 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 4 (57.14 %) Windows 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows XP 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows Vista 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) ITIL 1 1 (14.29 %) Migration
Qualifications 1 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (28.57 %) MCSE 2 2 (28.57 %) CCNP 2 2 (28.57 %) CCNA 2 2 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification	System Software 1 4 (57.14 %) Active Directory 2 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Lotus 2 2 (28.57 %) 3Com 2 2 (28.57 %) Altiris 2 2 (28.57 %) IBM 2 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) Citrix