The first table below looks at the demand for CCNP in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCNP over the 3 months to 20 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 Qualifications currently tracked.

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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Rank 248 220 293
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +73
Contract jobs citing CCNP 335 484 345
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.720% 0.830% 0.573%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.978% 4.796% 3.625%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 256 153
Average daily rate £325 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £238 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £469
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £338 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.77% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 34
Average hourly rate £30.00 £23.00 £35.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.43% -35.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £19.11 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £37.15 £47.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £23.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
+52.17% -37.83%
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
8421 10091 9517
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.10% 17.30% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4511 5263 4536
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 547 656
Average hourly rate £23.20 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.45% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%

CCNP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CCNP within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

CCNP Jobs Demand Trend

CCNP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CCNP within the UK.

CCNP Daily Rate Trend

CCNP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNP within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

CCNP Daily Rate Histogram

CCNP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CCNP within the UK.

CCNP Hourly Rate Trend

CCNP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNP within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

CCNP Hourly Rate Histogram

CCNP
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
England -27 307 £315 -10.00%
London -45 99 £350 -6.66%
South East +8 97 £288 -11.53%
Berkshire +11 40 £315 -3.81%
City of London -13 33 £365 -8.75%
Hampshire +5 27 £265 -24.28%
South West +7 21 £280 -30.00%
Yorkshire +1 20 £325 +2.60%
North West +16 19 £240 -28.88%
East of England +12 18 £413 +65.00%
Scotland -12 16 £348 -7.33%
West Yorkshire -1 14 £313 -7.40%
Aberdeen - 14 £330 -
Kent +6 12 £240 -25.00%
Slough -4 12 £315 +5.00%
Cheshire +12 11 £289 -6.85%
Leeds +3 11 £313 -7.40%
West Midlands -2 10 £344 +96.42%
Essex +8 9 £413 -
East Midlands -6 9 £316 -9.64%
Basingstoke - 8 £288 -
Macclesfield - 7 £289 -
Manchester +9 6 £240 +1.05%
Bristol +6 6 £300 -29.41%
Bracknell -8 6 £160 -
Gloucestershire +30 5 - -
Hertfordshire +11 5 £339 +17.82%
Buckinghamshire +8 5 £275 -8.33%
Wiltshire -2 5 £328 +5.04%
Reading -6 5 £345 +6.15%

CCNP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing CCNP 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 CCNP.

1 643 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 546 (84.91%) Cisco
3 307 (47.74%) CCNA
4 259 (40.28%) Firewall
5 214 (33.28%) LAN
6 203 (31.57%) WAN
7 166 (25.82%) CCIE
8 156 (24.26%) MPLS
9 144 (22.40%) BGP
10 143 (22.24%) Cisco ASA
11 135 (21.00%) CheckPoint
12 125 (19.44%) Wireless
13 119 (18.51%) VPN
14 117 (18.20%) OSPF
15 116 (18.04%) Juniper
16 102 (15.86%) Telecoms
17 100 (15.55%) VoIP
18 96 (14.93%) Network Security
18 96 (14.93%) Cisco Nexus
19 93 (14.46%) ITIL
20 90 (14.00%) Windows
20 90 (14.00%) VMware
21 79 (12.29%) TCP/IP
22 72 (11.20%) EIGRP
23 70 (10.89%) Finance
23 70 (10.89%) F5
24 67 (10.42%) DNS
25 63 (9.798%) Cisco IOS
25 63 (9.798%) Security Cleared
26 61 (9.487%) Internet

CCNP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing CCNP 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 CCNP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (1.555%) CSS
2 6 (0.933%) Web Services
2 6 (0.933%) WebSphere
3 4 (0.622%) XML
3 4 (0.622%) JSP
4 3 (0.467%) COM
4 3 (0.467%) Middleware
4 3 (0.467%) XMPP
5 2 (0.311%) HTML
6 1 (0.156%) WAP
Application Platforms
1 21 (3.266%) MS Exchange
2 16 (2.488%) Exchange Server 2007
3 15 (2.333%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (0.933%) Amazon AWS
5 5 (0.778%) Windows Azure
6 4 (0.622%) Lync
6 4 (0.622%) Exchange Server 2000
6 4 (0.622%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (0.622%) Apache
7 3 (0.467%) IIS
8 2 (0.311%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (2.333%) MS Excel
2 13 (2.022%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.711%) MS Office
4 2 (0.311%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.156%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.156%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.778%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 5 (0.778%) SAP CCM
1 5 (0.778%) SAP GTS
Communications & Networking
1 259 (40.28%) Firewall
2 214 (33.28%) LAN
3 203 (31.57%) WAN
4 156 (24.26%) MPLS
5 144 (22.40%) BGP
6 143 (22.24%) Cisco ASA
7 125 (19.44%) Wireless
8 119 (18.51%) VPN
9 117 (18.20%) OSPF
10 100 (15.55%) VoIP
11 96 (14.93%) Network Security
11 96 (14.93%) Cisco Nexus
12 79 (12.29%) TCP/IP
13 72 (11.20%) EIGRP
14 67 (10.42%) DNS
15 63 (9.798%) Cisco IOS
16 61 (9.487%) Internet
17 55 (8.554%) DHCP
17 55 (8.554%) Cisco PIX
18 50 (7.776%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.778%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.311%) MS Access
3 1 (0.156%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (0.156%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 8 (1.244%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (0.311%) ClearQuest
General
1 102 (15.86%) Telecoms
2 70 (10.89%) Finance
3 26 (4.044%) Banking
4 12 (1.866%) Legal
5 11 (1.711%) Investment Banking
6 8 (1.244%) Retail
7 7 (1.089%) Military
7 7 (1.089%) French Language
8 5 (0.778%) Law
8 5 (0.778%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.467%) German Language
10 2 (0.311%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.311%) Billing
10 2 (0.311%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.156%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.156%) Marketing
11 1 (0.156%) Arabic Language
11 1 (0.156%) Danish Language
11 1 (0.156%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.156%) Games
Job Titles
1 296 (46.03%) Network Engineer
2 103 (16.02%) Cisco Engineer
3 54 (8.398%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 49 (7.621%) Analyst
5 48 (7.465%) Support Engineer
6 38 (5.910%) Network Analyst
7 31 (4.821%) Senior Network Engineer
7 31 (4.821%) Security Engineer
8 30 (4.666%) Consultant
9 29 (4.510%) Network Support
10 27 (4.199%) Architect
11 21 (3.266%) 3rd Line Support
12 20 (3.110%) Network Security Engineer
13 19 (2.955%) Network Specialist
14 18 (2.799%) Designer
15 17 (2.644%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 17 (2.644%) Network Architect
16 16 (2.488%) Voice Engineer
16 16 (2.488%) Network Support Engineer
17 13 (2.022%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (1.244%) Blackberry
1 8 (1.244%) Clustering
2 7 (1.089%) SecurID
2 7 (1.089%) Open Source
3 6 (0.933%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (0.933%) Thin Client
3 6 (0.933%) IVR
3 6 (0.933%) Fat Client
4 5 (0.778%) Statistics
4 5 (0.778%) SaaS
5 4 (0.622%) Hedge funds
5 4 (0.622%) Computer Science
5 4 (0.622%) NHS
5 4 (0.622%) Management Information System
6 3 (0.467%) Device Driver
6 3 (0.467%) EqualLogic
6 3 (0.467%) FMCG
7 2 (0.311%) Digital Media
7 2 (0.311%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.311%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 90 (14.00%) Windows
2 49 (7.621%) Linux
3 35 (5.443%) Windows Server 2003
3 35 (5.443%) Windows Server 2008
4 26 (4.044%) UNIX
5 11 (1.711%) Mac OS X
6 8 (1.244%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.622%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.622%) Debian
7 4 (0.622%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.622%) Windows 2000
7 4 (0.622%) Windows XP
7 4 (0.622%) VMS
7 4 (0.622%) Windows 2000 Server
8 3 (0.467%) Solaris
9 2 (0.311%) NetWare
9 2 (0.311%) Windows NT
9 2 (0.311%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.311%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.156%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (14.46%) ITIL
2 54 (8.398%) Migration
3 52 (8.087%) Network Design
4 50 (7.776%) Project Management
5 42 (6.532%) Network Management
6 37 (5.754%) Load Balancing
7 31 (4.821%) Network Architecture
7 31 (4.821%) Change Management
8 26 (4.044%) PRINCE2
9 17 (2.644%) Incident Management
10 16 (2.488%) E-Commerce
10 16 (2.488%) PRINCE
10 16 (2.488%) Service Management
11 14 (2.177%) Service Delivery
11 14 (2.177%) Capacity Planning
12 12 (1.866%) Time Management
13 10 (1.555%) Disaster Recovery
14 9 (1.400%) Change Control
15 5 (0.778%) Root Cause Analysis
15 5 (0.778%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 22 (3.421%) SQL
2 7 (1.089%) C
3 5 (0.778%) Perl
4 1 (0.156%) Tcl
4 1 (0.156%) Lisp
4 1 (0.156%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 643 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 307 (47.74%) CCNA
3 166 (25.82%) CCIE
4 63 (9.798%) Security Cleared
5 54 (8.398%) Microsoft Certification
6 51 (7.932%) CCDP
7 50 (7.776%) MCSE
8 46 (7.154%) SC Cleared
9 38 (5.910%) Degree
10 35 (5.443%) CCSE
11 33 (5.132%) CCSP
12 32 (4.977%) CCIP
13 25 (3.888%) CCVP
14 22 (3.421%) CCSA
14 22 (3.421%) MCITP
15 18 (2.799%) JNCIP
15 18 (2.799%) CCA
15 18 (2.799%) Citrix Certification
16 16 (2.488%) CCEA
17 15 (2.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.955%) SLA
2 11 (1.711%) PCI DSS
3 5 (0.778%) JSP 440
4 4 (0.622%) QA
5 2 (0.311%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.156%) GAMP
6 1 (0.156%) GxP
System Software
1 45 (6.998%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (5.288%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.177%) XenApp
4 12 (1.866%) ProxySG
5 11 (1.711%) XenDesktop
6 7 (1.089%) vSphere
6 7 (1.089%) XenServer
7 6 (0.933%) UAG
8 4 (0.622%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.467%) Forefront TMG
10 2 (0.311%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.311%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.156%) Snort
11 1 (0.156%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.156%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.156%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (4.510%) Cisco UCCX
1 29 (4.510%) Cisco CUCM
2 16 (2.488%) Cisco UCCE
3 9 (1.400%) SolarWinds Orion
4 8 (1.244%) FortiGate
5 7 (1.089%) Backup Exec
5 7 (1.089%) WSUS
5 7 (1.089%) SCCM
6 6 (0.933%) WhatsUp Gold
7 5 (0.778%) SCOM
7 5 (0.778%) CiscoWorks
8 4 (0.622%) HP SIM
9 3 (0.467%) OpenView
10 2 (0.311%) Cisco IPCC
11 1 (0.156%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.156%) Tivoli NetView
11 1 (0.156%) Nagios
11 1 (0.156%) Cacti
11 1 (0.156%) HP NNM
11 1 (0.156%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 546 (84.91%) Cisco
2 135 (21.00%) CheckPoint
3 116 (18.04%) Juniper
4 90 (14.00%) VMware
5 70 (10.89%) F5
6 57 (8.865%) Microsoft
7 51 (7.932%) HP
8 46 (7.154%) Citrix
9 38 (5.910%) Blue Coat
10 22 (3.421%) Aruba
10 22 (3.421%) Riverbed
10 22 (3.421%) NetApp
11 20 (3.110%) Nokia
12 18 (2.799%) SolarWinds
13 17 (2.644%) Avaya
14 15 (2.333%) BT
15 14 (2.177%) Nortel
16 11 (1.711%) Infoblox
16 11 (1.711%) Oracle
17 10 (1.555%) Brocade
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