The first 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 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 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Network Engineer
Rank 470 502 533
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 64 84 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.136% 0.142% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.147% 0.153% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 52 24
Average daily rate £308 £313 £284
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.44% +10.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £238 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £471
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £275 £274
% change year-on-year
+4.54% +0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 8
Average hourly rate - £26.50 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.91%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £29.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year
- +1.72%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2155 2623 2895
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Cisco Network Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This 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 Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This 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

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cisco Network Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This 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 22 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 +34 56 £320 +2.40%
London +19 19 £400 +17.64%
South East +18 17 £288 -8.00%
Hampshire +7 9 £261 -
Wales +16 7 £225 -5.26%
East of England +16 6 £265 +6.00%
City of London +10 6 £350 +4.47%
South Wales +8 6 £225 -5.26%
Yorkshire +3 5 £306 +28.84%
East Midlands +2 5 £263 +27.27%
Basingstoke - 5 - -
Cambridgeshire +16 4 £263 -
Berkshire +13 4 £340 +43.15%
Cardiff +7 4 £231 -2.63%
South West +21 3 - -
Lincolnshire - 3 £263 -
South Yorkshire - 3 £355 -
Lincoln - 3 £263 -
Doncaster - 3 £355 -
Cambridge +13 2 £263 -
Leeds +3 2 £300 +26.31%
West Yorkshire -1 2 £300 +26.31%
Eastleigh - 2 £261 -
Gloucestershire - 2 - -
Newport - 2 £219 -
Oxfordshire - 2 - -
Derbyshire - 2 £315 -
Hertfordshire +11 1 - -
Reading +7 1 £340 +43.15%
Middlesex +2 1 - -

Cisco Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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.

1 111 (100.00%) Cisco
2 82 (73.87%) Cisco Certification
3 55 (49.55%) CCNP
4 49 (44.14%) CCNA
5 41 (36.94%) Firewall
6 36 (32.43%) LAN
7 32 (28.83%) WAN
8 28 (25.23%) VoIP
9 27 (24.32%) VPN
9 27 (24.32%) CheckPoint
10 24 (21.62%) MPLS
10 24 (21.62%) Cisco ASA
11 22 (19.82%) OSPF
11 22 (19.82%) TCP/IP
12 18 (16.22%) BGP
12 18 (16.22%) Juniper
13 15 (13.51%) VLAN
13 15 (13.51%) Security Cleared
14 14 (12.61%) SC Cleared
14 14 (12.61%) Wireless
14 14 (12.61%) CCIE
15 13 (11.71%) Telecoms
15 13 (11.71%) Cisco Nexus
16 12 (10.81%) F5
16 12 (10.81%) IPsec
17 11 (9.910%) Windows
17 11 (9.910%) Nokia
17 11 (9.910%) Internet
17 11 (9.910%) Cisco CUCM
18 10 (9.009%) Cisco PIX

Cisco Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 4 (3.604%) CSS
Applications
1 2 (1.802%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.802%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.901%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 41 (36.94%) Firewall
2 36 (32.43%) LAN
3 32 (28.83%) WAN
4 28 (25.23%) VoIP
5 27 (24.32%) VPN
6 24 (21.62%) MPLS
6 24 (21.62%) Cisco ASA
7 22 (19.82%) OSPF
7 22 (19.82%) TCP/IP
8 18 (16.22%) BGP
9 15 (13.51%) VLAN
10 14 (12.61%) Wireless
11 13 (11.71%) Cisco Nexus
12 12 (10.81%) IPsec
13 11 (9.910%) Internet
14 10 (9.009%) Cisco PIX
15 9 (8.108%) Network Security
15 9 (8.108%) HSRP
16 8 (7.207%) SNMP
16 8 (7.207%) Ethernet
General
1 13 (11.71%) Telecoms
2 4 (3.604%) Finance
3 3 (2.703%) Banking
4 2 (1.802%) Investment Banking
4 2 (1.802%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.901%) Retail
5 1 (0.901%) Dutch Language
5 1 (0.901%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.703%) IVR
2 2 (1.802%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.901%) CLARiiON
3 1 (0.901%) Clustering
3 1 (0.901%) PKI
3 1 (0.901%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.910%) Windows
2 5 (4.505%) Linux
3 4 (3.604%) UNIX
4 2 (1.802%) NetWare
5 1 (0.901%) HPUX
5 1 (0.901%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (9.009%) ITIL
1 10 (9.009%) Network Design
2 9 (8.108%) Load Balancing
3 6 (5.405%) Incident Management
4 4 (3.604%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (2.703%) PRINCE2
5 3 (2.703%) Change Management
5 3 (2.703%) ITSM
6 2 (1.802%) Change Control
6 2 (1.802%) PRINCE
7 1 (0.901%) Migration
7 1 (0.901%) Service Delivery
7 1 (0.901%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (0.901%) WAN Optimisation
7 1 (0.901%) Network Load Balancing
7 1 (0.901%) Communications Security
7 1 (0.901%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.901%) SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (73.87%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (49.55%) CCNP
3 49 (44.14%) CCNA
4 15 (13.51%) Security Cleared
5 14 (12.61%) SC Cleared
5 14 (12.61%) CCIE
6 7 (6.306%) CCIP
7 6 (5.405%) CCVP
7 6 (5.405%) CCSP
8 5 (4.505%) HP APS
9 4 (3.604%) CCDP
10 2 (1.802%) Degree
10 2 (1.802%) CWNA
11 1 (0.901%) Check Point Certification
11 1 (0.901%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.405%) SLA
2 4 (3.604%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (3.604%) ProxySG
2 2 (1.802%) vSphere
3 1 (0.901%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (9.910%) Cisco CUCM
2 8 (7.207%) Cisco UCCX
3 5 (4.505%) Nagios
3 5 (4.505%) OpenView
4 4 (3.604%) Cisco UCCE
5 3 (2.703%) Cacti
5 3 (2.703%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 111 (100.00%) Cisco
2 27 (24.32%) CheckPoint
3 18 (16.22%) Juniper
4 12 (10.81%) F5
5 11 (9.910%) Nokia
6 9 (8.108%) 3Com
7 8 (7.207%) Microsoft
7 8 (7.207%) HP
8 7 (6.306%) Blue Coat
9 6 (5.405%) VMware
10 5 (4.505%) Avaya
11 3 (2.703%) Crossbeam
11 3 (2.703%) SolarWinds
12 2 (1.802%) AirMagnet
12 2 (1.802%) Brocade
12 2 (1.802%) EMC
12 2 (1.802%) McAfee
12 2 (1.802%) Autodesk
13 1 (0.901%) Remedy
13 1 (0.901%) Apple
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