The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Cisco Network Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles 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.

Cisco Network Engineer
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank499528465
Rank change year-on-year
Up+29Down-63
Matching contract IT job ads805371
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.135 %0.086 %0.129 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.146 %0.093 %0.140 %
Number of daily rates quoted492527
Average daily rate£300£278£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.10 %-20.71 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£220£167£170
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£470£425
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£274£350
% change year-on-year
+0.45 %-21.78 %
Number of hourly rates quoted4921
Average hourly rate£26.50£29.00£20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.62 %+41.46 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£23.90£18.00£14.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£32.50£43.60£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.50£29.00£17.00
% change year-on-year
+1.72 %+70.58 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
547785688250613
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK92.55 %92.70 %91.92 %
Number of daily rates quoted302013092924313
Average daily rate£400£425£410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88 %+3.65 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£240£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted259529252766
Average hourly rate£18.75£20.00£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25 %+2.56 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£40.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£18.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %+11.11 %

Cisco Network Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Cisco Network Engineer Demand Trend

Cisco Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer within the UK.

Cisco Network Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Cisco Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Cisco Network Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer within the UK.

Cisco Network Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco Network Engineer
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 Cisco Network Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+3774£304+9.45 %
LondonUp+3127£333+14.65 %
South EastUp+617£313+12.61 %
South WestDown-1610£375-25.00 %
City of LondonUp+336£335+15.02 %
Milton KeynesNo change05£313-
BuckinghamshireDown-15£313-
BerkshireDown-125£238-34.02 %
BristolNew entry-5£500-
East of EnglandNew entry-5£250-
ReadingUp+44£238-25.78 %
North EastUp+34--
East MidlandsNo change04£175-22.22 %
West MidlandsDown-124£175-46.15 %
MiddlesexNew entry-4£375-
WiltshireDown-53£275-
SwindonDown-83£275-
Tyne and WearNew entry-3--
South WalesUp+92£238-52.50 %
CardiffUp+62£238-
WalesUp+42£238-52.50 %
North WestDown-22£238+75.92 %
YorkshireDown-112--
NottinghamshireNew entry-2£238-
StaffordshireNew entry-2£175-
GatesheadNew entry-2--
NottinghamNew entry-2£238-
Stoke-on-TrentNew entry-2£175-
PortsmouthNew entry-2£250-
HampshireNew entry-2£250-

Cisco Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Cisco Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Cisco Network Engineer in their job title.

1150 (100.00 %)Cisco
2130 (86.67 %)Cisco Certification
390 (60.00 %)CCNP
464 (42.67 %)CCNA
562 (41.33 %)Firewall
660 (40.00 %)LAN
745 (30.00 %)WAN
838 (25.33 %)Cisco ASA
935 (23.33 %)CCIE
1034 (22.67 %)Network Security
1133 (22.00 %)CheckPoint
1229 (19.33 %)Wireless
1328 (18.67 %)Juniper
1328 (18.67 %)VoIP
1426 (17.33 %)TCP/IP
1426 (17.33 %)VPN
1525 (16.67 %)OSPF
1624 (16.00 %)Network Design
1723 (15.33 %)MPLS
1723 (15.33 %)BGP
1819 (12.67 %)VLAN
1819 (12.67 %)Telecoms
1918 (12.00 %)Security Cleared
2016 (10.67 %)EIGRP
2016 (10.67 %)Microsoft
2115 (10.00 %)Cisco PIX
2214 (9.333 %)CCSP
2312 (8.000 %)CCDP
2312 (8.000 %)WLAN
2312 (8.000 %)ITIL

Cisco Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Cisco Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Cisco Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12 (1.333 %)CSS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
15 (3.333 %)MS Visio
23 (2.000 %)AutoCAD
32 (1.333 %)MS Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (0.667 %)Summit
11 (0.667 %)Oracle EBS
11 (0.667 %)assyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
162 (41.33 %)Firewall
260 (40.00 %)LAN
345 (30.00 %)WAN
438 (25.33 %)Cisco ASA
534 (22.67 %)Network Security
629 (19.33 %)Wireless
728 (18.67 %)VoIP
826 (17.33 %)TCP/IP
826 (17.33 %)VPN
925 (16.67 %)OSPF
1023 (15.33 %)MPLS
1023 (15.33 %)BGP
1119 (12.67 %)VLAN
1216 (10.67 %)EIGRP
1315 (10.00 %)Cisco PIX
1412 (8.000 %)WLAN
1511 (7.333 %)Cisco Nexus
1610 (6.667 %)DNS
178 (5.333 %)IPsec
178 (5.333 %)Internet
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (0.667 %)Oracle Reports
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
119 (12.67 %)Telecoms
210 (6.667 %)Finance
38 (5.333 %)Banking
44 (2.667 %)Retail
52 (1.333 %)Investment Banking
52 (1.333 %)Electronics
61 (0.667 %)Pharmaceutical
61 (0.667 %)Manufacturing
61 (0.667 %)Marketing
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
18 (5.333 %)NHS
22 (1.333 %)Video Conferencing
22 (1.333 %)CCTV
22 (1.333 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
31 (0.667 %)Firmware
31 (0.667 %)E-Learning
31 (0.667 %)Clustering
31 (0.667 %)PKI
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (4.000 %)Windows
25 (3.333 %)UNIX
33 (2.000 %)Linux
42 (1.333 %)Windows 7
42 (1.333 %)Windows Server 2008
51 (0.667 %)Windows Server 2003
51 (0.667 %)Windows XP
51 (0.667 %)Windows Vista
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
124 (16.00 %)Network Design
212 (8.000 %)ITIL
212 (8.000 %)Load Balancing
310 (6.667 %)Network Management
46 (4.000 %)Configuration Management
55 (3.333 %)Project Management
55 (3.333 %)Change Management
55 (3.333 %)Disaster Recovery
63 (2.000 %)E-Commerce
63 (2.000 %)Migration
63 (2.000 %)Project Planning
72 (1.333 %)Root Cause Analysis
72 (1.333 %)Change Control
72 (1.333 %)ITIL V3
72 (1.333 %)Incident Management
72 (1.333 %)Network Load Balancing
72 (1.333 %)Service Delivery
81 (0.667 %)PRINCE2
81 (0.667 %)B2B
81 (0.667 %)Workflow
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14 (2.667 %)C
21 (0.667 %)SQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1130 (86.67 %)Cisco Certification
290 (60.00 %)CCNP
364 (42.67 %)CCNA
435 (23.33 %)CCIE
518 (12.00 %)Security Cleared
614 (9.333 %)CCSP
712 (8.000 %)CCDP
810 (6.667 %)DV Cleared
810 (6.667 %)CCSA
98 (5.333 %)CCSE
107 (4.667 %)SC Cleared
115 (3.333 %)CCIP
115 (3.333 %)CWNA
124 (2.667 %)CCVP
133 (2.000 %)CWSP
133 (2.000 %)Degree
142 (1.333 %)JNCIA
142 (1.333 %)Check Point Certification
142 (1.333 %)Microsoft Certification
151 (0.667 %)PRINCE2 Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (4.667 %)SLA
25 (3.333 %)ISO/IEC 27001
31 (0.667 %)GAMP
31 (0.667 %)QA
31 (0.667 %)PCI DSS
31 (0.667 %)JSP 440
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (2.667 %)VMware Infrastructure
22 (1.333 %)Active Directory
31 (0.667 %)vSphere
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
17 (4.667 %)Cisco IPCC
25 (3.333 %)CiscoWorks
34 (2.667 %)Cisco CUCM
41 (0.667 %)SCCM
41 (0.667 %)SolarWinds Orion
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1150 (100.00 %)Cisco
233 (22.00 %)CheckPoint
328 (18.67 %)Juniper
416 (10.67 %)Microsoft
59 (6.000 %)VMware
67 (4.667 %)F5
67 (4.667 %)SolarWinds
76 (4.000 %)Nokia
85 (3.333 %)HP
85 (3.333 %)BT
94 (2.667 %)AirMagnet
94 (2.667 %)Citrix
103 (2.000 %)Autodesk
103 (2.000 %)ProCurve
112 (1.333 %)McAfee
112 (1.333 %)CA
112 (1.333 %)Siemens
112 (1.333 %)IBM
121 (0.667 %)Calypso
121 (0.667 %)Nortel