The first table below looks at the demand for CCSP in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCSP over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
Rank 500 462 538
Rank change year-on-year
-38 +76
Contract jobs citing CCSP 29 122 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.063% 0.209% 0.075%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.345% 1.212% 0.476%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 39 30
Average daily rate £345 £365 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.47% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £269 £304 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £439
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £365 £365
% change year-on-year
-6.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
8414 10063 9673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.14% 17.25% 15.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4503 5233 4635
Average daily rate £375 £380 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 552 658
Average hourly rate £22.00 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -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 £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%

CCSP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

CCSP Jobs Demand Trend

CCSP
Daily Rate Trend

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

CCSP Daily Rate Trend

CCSP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCSP within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

CCSP Daily Rate Histogram

CCSP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CCSP Hourly Rate Trend

CCSP
Top 26 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCSP within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 -44 28 £340 -4.89%
South East -47 13 £320 -10.48%
London +27 8 £425 +18.46%
Berkshire -42 6 £345 -1.42%
Milton Keynes +10 4 £425 -
Buckinghamshire +10 4 £425 -
City of London +11 3 - -
Reading -11 3 £345 -1.42%
South West +22 2 - -
North West +13 2 £291 -20.74%
West Midlands +9 2 £338 -3.57%
Gloucestershire - 2 - -
West Yorkshire +1 1 £400 +14.28%
Yorkshire 0 1 £400 +14.28%
Cheshire -2 1 £233 -36.73%
Leeds -9 1 £400 +14.28%
Scotland -9 1 £413 +10.00%
Hammersmith - 1 £425 -
Shropshire - 1 £338 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £300 -
Kent - 1 £300 -
Hampshire - 1 £288 -
Telford - 1 £338 -
Macclesfield - 1 £233 -
Gloucester - 1 - -
Aberdeen - 1 £413 -

CCSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing CCSP 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 CCSP.

1 68 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 49 (72.06%) Cisco
3 47 (69.12%) Firewall
4 33 (48.53%) CCNP
5 24 (35.29%) Cisco ASA
6 23 (33.82%) CCIE
7 20 (29.41%) CCNA
7 20 (29.41%) CheckPoint
8 19 (27.94%) CISSP
8 19 (27.94%) Network Security
9 17 (25.00%) Security Cleared
10 16 (23.53%) SC Cleared
10 16 (23.53%) Juniper
10 16 (23.53%) VPN
11 15 (22.06%) Windows
12 13 (19.12%) MPLS
13 12 (17.65%) Cisco PIX
14 11 (16.18%) CCSE
14 11 (16.18%) WAN
14 11 (16.18%) LAN
15 10 (14.71%) CCIP
15 10 (14.71%) Citrix
15 10 (14.71%) CCSA
15 10 (14.71%) Windows Server 2008
16 9 (13.24%) Load Balancing
16 9 (13.24%) Cryptography
16 9 (13.24%) Telecoms
17 8 (11.76%) VMware
17 8 (11.76%) CESG
17 8 (11.76%) Microsoft

CCSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing CCSP 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 CCSP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (4.412%) SOAP
1 3 (4.412%) JMS
2 2 (2.941%) CSS
3 1 (1.471%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.353%) MS Exchange
2 3 (4.412%) Lync
3 1 (1.471%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.471%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.941%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.471%) MS Project
2 1 (1.471%) MS Office
2 1 (1.471%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 47 (69.12%) Firewall
2 24 (35.29%) Cisco ASA
3 19 (27.94%) Network Security
4 16 (23.53%) VPN
5 13 (19.12%) MPLS
6 12 (17.65%) Cisco PIX
7 11 (16.18%) WAN
7 11 (16.18%) LAN
8 8 (11.76%) Unified Communications
9 6 (8.824%) Internet
9 6 (8.824%) OSPF
9 6 (8.824%) Wireless
10 5 (7.353%) FWSM
10 5 (7.353%) BGP
10 5 (7.353%) NetScreen
11 4 (5.882%) IPsec
11 4 (5.882%) TCP/IP
11 4 (5.882%) SMTP
11 4 (5.882%) SAN
11 4 (5.882%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.353%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.941%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.471%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.471%) MySQL
General
1 9 (13.24%) Telecoms
2 6 (8.824%) Finance
3 1 (1.471%) Avionics
3 1 (1.471%) Marketing
3 1 (1.471%) Back Office
3 1 (1.471%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.471%) Military
3 1 (1.471%) Banking
3 1 (1.471%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (26.47%) Security Engineer
2 17 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 12 (17.65%) Consultant
4 10 (14.71%) Cisco Engineer
5 9 (13.24%) Network Security Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Architect
7 6 (8.824%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 5 (7.353%) Firewall Engineer
8 5 (7.353%) Citrix Consultant
8 5 (7.353%) Analyst
9 4 (5.882%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.882%) Design Engineer
9 4 (5.882%) IP Engineer
10 3 (4.412%) Security Architect
10 3 (4.412%) Security Analyst
10 3 (4.412%) Network Consultant
10 3 (4.412%) Technical Architect
10 3 (4.412%) Security Consultant
11 2 (2.941%) 2nd Line Support
11 2 (2.941%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Cryptography
2 8 (11.76%) CESG
3 4 (5.882%) PKI
4 3 (4.412%) Fat Client
4 3 (4.412%) CMDB
4 3 (4.412%) Thin Client
4 3 (4.412%) Clustering
5 2 (2.941%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.471%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.471%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.471%) SecurID
6 1 (1.471%) Statistics
6 1 (1.471%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.06%) Windows
2 10 (14.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (10.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (5.882%) UNIX
4 4 (5.882%) Linux
5 1 (1.471%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.471%) Windows Vista
5 1 (1.471%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (13.24%) Load Balancing
2 8 (11.76%) Network Design
3 7 (10.29%) ITIL
4 6 (8.824%) Information Assurance
4 6 (8.824%) Security Architecture
5 5 (7.353%) Release Management
6 4 (5.882%) Configuration Management
6 4 (5.882%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (5.882%) Network Management
7 3 (4.412%) Problem Management
7 3 (4.412%) TOGAF
7 3 (4.412%) Project Management
8 2 (2.941%) Service Delivery
8 2 (2.941%) Information Security
8 2 (2.941%) Risk Management
8 2 (2.941%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (2.941%) ERP
8 2 (2.941%) Time Management
9 1 (1.471%) Network Architecture
9 1 (1.471%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.412%) C
2 1 (1.471%) Bash shell
2 1 (1.471%) Perl
2 1 (1.471%) SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (48.53%) CCNP
3 23 (33.82%) CCIE
4 20 (29.41%) CCNA
5 19 (27.94%) CISSP
6 17 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 16 (23.53%) SC Cleared
8 11 (16.18%) CCSE
9 10 (14.71%) CCIP
9 10 (14.71%) CCSA
10 6 (8.824%) CCA
10 6 (8.824%) Citrix Certification
10 6 (8.824%) CCEA
10 6 (8.824%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (8.824%) CCEE
10 6 (8.824%) CCIA
11 5 (7.353%) DV Cleared
11 5 (7.353%) CCDP
11 5 (7.353%) MCSE
12 4 (5.882%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.941%) SLA
2 1 (1.471%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.471%) QA
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.824%) XenServer
3 5 (7.353%) XenApp
4 4 (5.882%) XenDesktop
5 3 (4.412%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.412%) ProxySG
6 2 (2.941%) VMware ESX
6 2 (2.941%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.471%) UAG
7 1 (1.471%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (1.471%) Snort
7 1 (1.471%) NFS
7 1 (1.471%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (4.412%) SCCM
1 3 (4.412%) OpenView
1 3 (4.412%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (2.941%) SCOM
3 1 (1.471%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (1.471%) SCVMM
3 1 (1.471%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 49 (72.06%) Cisco
2 20 (29.41%) CheckPoint
3 16 (23.53%) Juniper
4 10 (14.71%) Citrix
5 8 (11.76%) VMware
5 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
5 8 (11.76%) Blue Coat
6 7 (10.29%) F5
7 6 (8.824%) Oracle
7 6 (8.824%) HP
8 5 (7.353%) Fortinet
8 5 (7.353%) Nokia
9 3 (4.412%) Twitter
9 3 (4.412%) Crossbeam
9 3 (4.412%) StorageTek
9 3 (4.412%) Sun
10 2 (2.941%) McAfee
10 2 (2.941%) Clearswift
10 2 (2.941%) Proofpoint
11 1 (1.471%) SolarWinds
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