Surrey Cisco Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts within the Surrey region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certification
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	78	70
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	16	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	7.692 %	19.58 %
Daily rates quoted	2	10
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£287
Average daily rate	£350	£297
% change on same period last year	+18.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£307
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£321
% change on same period last year	+6.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.50	£18.15
Average hourly rate	£31.75	£19.54
% change on same period last year	+62.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£20.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.47	£25.96
% change on same period last year	+5.81 %
Qualifications Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	208	240
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.291 %	0.241 %
Daily rates quoted	38	81
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£330
Average daily rate	£341	£345
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£323
% change on same period last year	+4.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.85	£15.54
Average hourly rate	£27.73	£16.07
% change on same period last year	+72.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.60	£16.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.40	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-1.74 %
Cisco Certification South East

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.

Cisco Certification
Demand Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Dorking	-	1	-	-
Sunbury-on-Thames	-	1	-	-
Guildford	+7	1	-	-

Cisco Certification South East

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 36 (87.80 %) CCNA 2 25 (60.98 %) Cisco 3 19 (46.34 %) Firewall 4 14 (34.15 %) WAN 4 14 (34.15 %) VoIP 5 11 (26.83 %) Network Security 6 10 (24.39 %) E-Commerce 7 9 (21.95 %) Microsoft 7 9 (21.95 %) CheckPoint 7 9 (21.95 %) VLAN 7 9 (21.95 %) Cisco PIX 8 7 (17.07 %) Active Directory 8 7 (17.07 %) CCIP 8 7 (17.07 %) Microsoft Certification 8 7 (17.07 %) Windows

8 7 (17.07 %) MCSE 9 6 (14.63 %) VPN 9 6 (14.63 %) CCNP 10 5 (12.20 %) TCP/IP 10 5 (12.20 %) Juniper 10 5 (12.20 %) SQL 10 5 (12.20 %) SQL Server 10 5 (12.20 %) Wireless 11 4 (9.756 %) Cisco ASA 11 4 (9.756 %) MS Excel 11 4 (9.756 %) MS Exchange 11 4 (9.756 %) Citrix 11 4 (9.756 %) Internet 12 3 (7.317 %) Windows Server 2003 12 3 (7.317 %) Symantec

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 Platforms 1 4 (9.756 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (4.878 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (4.878 %) IIS 3 1 (2.439 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (2.439 %) Lotus Domino 3 1 (2.439 %) Apache 3 1 (2.439 %) WebLogic 3 1 (2.439 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 4 (9.756 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 19 (46.34 %) Firewall 2 14 (34.15 %) VoIP 2 14 (34.15 %) WAN 3 11 (26.83 %) Network Security 4 9 (21.95 %) VLAN 4 9 (21.95 %) Cisco PIX 5 6 (14.63 %) VPN 6 5 (12.20 %) Wireless 6 5 (12.20 %) TCP/IP 7 4 (9.756 %) Cisco ASA 7 4 (9.756 %) Internet 8 3 (7.317 %) DNS 8 3 (7.317 %) PBX 9 2 (4.878 %) LAN 9 2 (4.878 %) IPsec 9 2 (4.878 %) OSPF 9 2 (4.878 %) BGP 9 2 (4.878 %) DSL 10 1 (2.439 %) EIGRP 10 1 (2.439 %) L2TP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (12.20 %) SQL Server 2 2 (4.878 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (2.439 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (2.439 %) Informix
General 1 1 (2.439 %) Back Office 1 1 (2.439 %) Finance 1 1 (2.439 %) Electric	Job Titles 1 11 (26.83 %) Network Engineer 1 11 (26.83 %) Administrator 1 11 (26.83 %) Network Administrator 2 8 (19.51 %) Cisco Engineer 3 5 (12.20 %) Support Engineer 4 4 (9.756 %) Cisco Support 5 3 (7.317 %) Network Support 5 3 (7.317 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 3 (7.317 %) Analyst 6 2 (4.878 %) Systems Administrator 6 2 (4.878 %) 3rd Line Support 6 2 (4.878 %) Field Engineer 6 2 (4.878 %) Network Support Engineer 6 2 (4.878 %) Security Engineer 6 2 (4.878 %) Field Support Engineer 6 2 (4.878 %) Cisco Analyst 6 2 (4.878 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (2.439 %) VoIP Engineer 7 1 (2.439 %) Senior Network Administrator 7 1 (2.439 %) Senior Windows Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.439 %) N-Tier 1 1 (2.439 %) Clustering 1 1 (2.439 %) CCTV	Operating Systems 1 7 (17.07 %) Windows 2 3 (7.317 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (4.878 %) UNIX 3 2 (4.878 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (4.878 %) NetWare 4 1 (2.439 %) Solaris 4 1 (2.439 %) Linux 4 1 (2.439 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (24.39 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (4.878 %) Project Management 2 2 (4.878 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (2.439 %) Fault Management 3 1 (2.439 %) Time Management 3 1 (2.439 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (2.439 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 5 (12.20 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 36 (87.80 %) CCNA 2 7 (17.07 %) MCSE 2 7 (17.07 %) CCIP 2 7 (17.07 %) Microsoft Certification 3 6 (14.63 %) CCNP 4 3 (7.317 %) CCDP 5 2 (4.878 %) CCIE 5 2 (4.878 %) MCP 5 2 (4.878 %) CCSA 6 1 (2.439 %) MCSD 6 1 (2.439 %) CCA 6 1 (2.439 %) Citrix Certification	System Software 1 7 (17.07 %) Active Directory 2 2 (4.878 %) Terminal Server 2 2 (4.878 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (2.439 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 1 (2.439 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (2.439 %) ISA Server 3 1 (2.439 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 2 (4.878 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (4.878 %) Norton AntiVirus 1 2 (4.878 %) Windows Storage Server	Vendors 1 25 (60.98 %) Cisco 2 9 (21.95 %) Microsoft 2 9 (21.95 %) CheckPoint 3 5 (12.20 %) Juniper 4 4 (9.756 %) Citrix 5 3 (7.317 %) Symantec 5 3 (7.317 %) VMware 6 2 (4.878 %) Novell 6 2 (4.878 %) Intel 6 2 (4.878 %) HP 6 2 (4.878 %) SonicWALL 7 1 (2.439 %) Dell 7 1 (2.439 %) Sun 7 1 (2.439 %) Oracle 7 1 (2.439 %) SAP 7 1 (2.439 %) VERITAS 7 1 (2.439 %) Lotus 7 1 (2.439 %) LANDesk