The first table below looks at the demand for the Cisco Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Support Engineer
Rank 534 558 595
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Support Engineer 7 12 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.015% 0.021% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.022% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
Average daily rate £294 £310 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.24% +19.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £259 £244 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £411 £282
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £335 £275
% change year-on-year
+0.74% +21.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
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 2099 2560 2964
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 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

Cisco Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cisco Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cisco Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Cisco Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cisco Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco Support 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 Support Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +8 7 £294 -5.24% 1
London +25 3 £250 -19.35%
East of England +20 3 £338 -
Hertfordshire - 3 £338 -
City of London +1 2 £250 -21.87%
Hitchin - 2 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Scotland - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
South East - - - - 1
Aberdeen - - - -
Birmingham - - - -
Nottinghamshire - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - -
Surrey - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
Luton - - - -
Milton Keynes - - - -
Nottingham - - - -
Peterborough - - - -
Reading - - - -
Reigate - - - -
Sheffield - - - -
St Albans - - - -
Stevenage - - - -
Welwyn Garden City - - - -
Bedfordshire - - - -
Berkshire - - - - 1
Buckinghamshire - - - -

Cisco Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Cisco Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 12 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (53.33%) CCNP
4 7 (46.67%) CCNA
5 6 (40.00%) Cisco UCCX
6 4 (26.67%) Cisco CUCM
6 4 (26.67%) Firewall
7 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
7 3 (20.00%) Unified Communications
7 3 (20.00%) XMPP
8 2 (13.33%) Mitel
8 2 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (13.33%) CCIE
8 2 (13.33%) CCSP
8 2 (13.33%) LAN
8 2 (13.33%) Windows
8 2 (13.33%) Ethernet
8 2 (13.33%) Wireless
8 2 (13.33%) CCVP
8 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
8 2 (13.33%) MPLS
8 2 (13.33%) OSPF
9 1 (6.667%) McAfee
9 1 (6.667%) BGP
9 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
9 1 (6.667%) EIGRP
9 1 (6.667%) Juniper
9 1 (6.667%) CheckPoint

Cisco Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Cisco Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (20.00%) XMPP
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.667%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (20.00%) Unified Communications
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (13.33%) LAN
3 2 (13.33%) Ethernet
3 2 (13.33%) Wireless
3 2 (13.33%) MPLS
3 2 (13.33%) OSPF
4 1 (6.667%) BGP
4 1 (6.667%) EIGRP
4 1 (6.667%) RIP
4 1 (6.667%) VoIP
4 1 (6.667%) WLAN
4 1 (6.667%) WAN
4 1 (6.667%) VPN
4 1 (6.667%) VLAN
4 1 (6.667%) Cisco IOS
General
1 1 (6.667%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
1 1 (6.667%) Change Control
1 1 (6.667%) ITIL
1 1 (6.667%) Capacity Management
1 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
1 1 (6.667%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (53.33%) CCNP
3 7 (46.67%) CCNA
4 2 (13.33%) CCIE
4 2 (13.33%) CCSP
4 2 (13.33%) CCVP
5 1 (6.667%) CCIP
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Cisco UCCX
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) Mitel
3 1 (6.667%) McAfee
3 1 (6.667%) Juniper
3 1 (6.667%) CheckPoint
3 1 (6.667%) VMware
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.667%) F5