The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco Nexus skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco Nexus over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the Swindon 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Nexus
Rank 39 - 32
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 1 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 0.342% - 1.582%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.222% - 8.929%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £500 - £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £325
% change year-on-year
- +11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £21.88
% change year-on-year
+32.69% +18.85%
All Communications & Networking
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
45 68 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 15.41% 18.63% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 39 15
Average daily rate £440 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £271 £294
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
Average hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.46% +12.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.70 £32.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.30 £32.50 £35.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
Cisco Nexus
Wiltshire

Cisco Nexus
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon Cisco Nexus Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Trend

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

Swindon Cisco Nexus Daily Rate Trend

Cisco Nexus
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing Cisco Nexus 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 Nexus.

1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee
2 1 (50.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification

Cisco Nexus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing Cisco Nexus 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 Nexus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee