The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank436765
Rank change year-on-year
Up+24Down-2
Matching contract IT job ads214316431308
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK3.621 %2.677 %2.376 %
As % of the Vendors category7.813 %5.763 %5.397 %
Number of daily rates quoted1050769560
Average daily rate£350£325£343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69 %-5.10 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£183£200£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£476£475£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£325£325
% change year-on-year
+1.53 %-
Number of hourly rates quoted166190164
Average hourly rate£21.50£22.44£20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.17 %+8.13 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.50£13.50£14.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.50£37.50£34.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.50£21.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
+2.38 %-4.54 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
274282850924236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK46.34 %46.46 %44.02 %
Number of daily rates quoted140221424810950
Average daily rate£400£405£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.23 %+1.25 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£233£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted129815981456
Average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+2.56 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.50£11.38£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.50£40.00£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£20.00£19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00 %+2.56 %

Cisco
Demand Trend

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

Cisco Demand Trend

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cisco Daily Rate Trend

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Cisco Daily Rate Histogram

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cisco Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Cisco Hourly Rate Histogram

Cisco
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 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+272024£350+7.69 %
LondonUp+51877£380+8.57 %
South EastUp+9542£350+7.69 %
City of LondonUp+32259£400-
BerkshireUp+13234£350+12.90 %
South WestUp+10140£375+5.63 %
North WestUp+12126£300-14.28 %
East of EnglandUp+13110£325+9.24 %
ReadingUp+1891£350+6.46 %
HampshireUp+885£361+20.41 %
West MidlandsDown-480£274-5.60 %
YorkshireDown-370£263+16.66 %
BuckinghamshireUp+2468£306-18.33 %
ManchesterUp+1965£300-20.00 %
Milton KeynesUp+1963£313-16.66 %
WiltshireUp+1357£350-11.11 %
West YorkshireUp+1856£264+5.50 %
SurreyDown-1150£363-10.49 %
ScotlandDown-1548£375+25.00 %
LeedsUp+642£270+9.09 %
East MidlandsUp+240£180-20.00 %
North EastUp+1939£350+8.02 %
SwindonUp+432£388-
GloucestershireDown-532£400-3.61 %
Tyne and WearUp+1730£350+8.02 %
CheshireUp+229£350-3.44 %
WalesDown-1128£300-7.69 %
CambridgeshireUp+727£263+10.52 %
EssexUp+2626£400+122.22 %
MiddlesexUp+1725£375+25.00 %

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Cisco 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 Cisco.

11580 (39.23 %)Cisco Certification
11580 (39.23 %)Firewall
21146 (28.45 %)Windows
31057 (26.24 %)LAN
41008 (25.02 %)WAN
5867 (21.52 %)CCNP
6822 (20.41 %)CheckPoint
7776 (19.27 %)VMware
8746 (18.52 %)CCNA
9685 (17.01 %)VPN
10676 (16.78 %)VoIP
11662 (16.43 %)Juniper
12652 (16.19 %)TCP/IP
13638 (15.84 %)Cisco ASA
14621 (15.42 %)Microsoft
15605 (15.02 %)Telecoms
16551 (13.68 %)Active Directory
17520 (12.91 %)OSPF
18511 (12.69 %)Security Cleared
19506 (12.56 %)Finance
20486 (12.07 %)MPLS
21477 (11.84 %)HP
22474 (11.77 %)Linux
23463 (11.49 %)SAN
24458 (11.37 %)BGP
25449 (11.15 %)Citrix
26446 (11.07 %)CCIE
27439 (10.90 %)ITIL
28410 (10.18 %)Network Security
29403 (10.00 %)Windows Server 2008

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Cisco 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 Cisco. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
172 (1.787 %)CSS
255 (1.365 %)Middleware
340 (0.993 %)WebSphere
436 (0.894 %)XML
522 (0.546 %)Web Services
620 (0.497 %).NET
620 (0.497 %)HTML
716 (0.397 %)DCOM
815 (0.372 %)ASP
815 (0.372 %)J2EE
911 (0.273 %)Forefront TMG
911 (0.273 %)SOAP
1010 (0.248 %)XSLT
119 (0.223 %)COM
128 (0.199 %)LAMP
128 (0.199 %)JSON
137 (0.174 %)COM+
137 (0.174 %)SAX
146 (0.149 %)XMPP
146 (0.149 %)Application Packaging
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1339 (8.416 %)MS Exchange
2159 (3.947 %)Exchange Server 2010
3135 (3.352 %)Exchange Server 2003
4125 (3.103 %)Exchange Server 2007
5105 (2.607 %)SharePoint
6103 (2.557 %)IIS
7100 (2.483 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
861 (1.514 %)Apache
955 (1.365 %)Lync
1041 (1.018 %)Lotus Notes
1130 (0.745 %)WebLogic
1227 (0.670 %)WebSphere Application Server
1326 (0.645 %)IBM HTTP Server
1326 (0.645 %)WebSphere MQ
1419 (0.472 %)SharePoint 2010
1516 (0.397 %)CMS
1516 (0.397 %)Office Communications Server
1615 (0.372 %)Tomcat
1712 (0.298 %)Exchange Server 2000
187 (0.174 %)Amazon AWS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1213 (5.288 %)MS Excel
2193 (4.791 %)MS Office
398 (2.433 %)MS Visio
424 (0.596 %)MS PowerPoint
518 (0.447 %)MS Project
613 (0.323 %)Office 365
77 (0.174 %)Google Apps
84 (0.099 %)Spreadsheet
93 (0.074 %)AutoCAD
101 (0.025 %)Open Workbench
101 (0.025 %)Photoshop
101 (0.025 %)SPSS
101 (0.025 %)LightWave 3D
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
18 (0.199 %)Summit
27 (0.174 %)Dynamics NAV
27 (0.174 %)Oracle EBS
35 (0.124 %)assyst
44 (0.099 %)RMDS
44 (0.099 %)Dynamics CRM
44 (0.099 %)Sage 200
53 (0.074 %)Sage 1000
53 (0.074 %)Oracle Financials
62 (0.050 %)Oracle Applications
71 (0.025 %)SAP CCM
71 (0.025 %)Remedy AR System
71 (0.025 %)SAP HR
71 (0.025 %)WebTrends
71 (0.025 %)SoftGrid
71 (0.025 %)BASE24
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11580 (39.23 %)Firewall
21057 (26.24 %)LAN
31008 (25.02 %)WAN
4685 (17.01 %)VPN
5676 (16.78 %)VoIP
6652 (16.19 %)TCP/IP
7638 (15.84 %)Cisco ASA
8520 (12.91 %)OSPF
9486 (12.07 %)MPLS
10463 (11.49 %)SAN
11458 (11.37 %)BGP
12410 (10.18 %)Network Security
13395 (9.806 %)DNS
14385 (9.558 %)Wireless
15325 (8.069 %)Cisco PIX
16271 (6.728 %)Internet
17245 (6.082 %)DHCP
18229 (5.685 %)VLAN
19221 (5.487 %)SNMP
20213 (5.288 %)Cisco IOS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1143 (3.550 %)SQL Server
254 (1.341 %)MySQL
330 (0.745 %)SQL Server 2008
429 (0.720 %)DB2
523 (0.571 %)SQL Server 2005
613 (0.323 %)Oracle 11g
712 (0.298 %)Oracle 8/8i
810 (0.248 %)Oracle 10g
99 (0.223 %)PostgreSQL
108 (0.199 %)RDBMS
114 (0.099 %)Oracle Reports
114 (0.099 %)Data Mining
123 (0.074 %)Crystal Reports
123 (0.074 %)Data Warehouse
123 (0.074 %)SQLPlus
123 (0.074 %)SQL Server 2000
132 (0.050 %)SQL Server 7
132 (0.050 %)Informix
141 (0.025 %)Oracle Exadata
141 (0.025 %)DB2 UDB
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
122 (0.546 %)VSS/SourceSafe
213 (0.323 %)Subversion
37 (0.174 %)Rational DOORS
46 (0.149 %)Team Foundation Server
55 (0.124 %)StarTeam
63 (0.074 %)Hudson
63 (0.074 %)Jtest
63 (0.074 %)JIRA
63 (0.074 %)Firebug
63 (0.074 %)Selenium
63 (0.074 %)Maven
63 (0.074 %)Eclipse
72 (0.050 %)K2 blackpoint
81 (0.025 %)Mercurial
81 (0.025 %)Git (software)
81 (0.025 %)ClearCase
81 (0.025 %)LoadRunner
81 (0.025 %)RequisitePro
81 (0.025 %)MSI
81 (0.025 %)Log4j
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1605 (15.02 %)Telecoms
2506 (12.56 %)Finance
3225 (5.586 %)Banking
478 (1.936 %)Retail
574 (1.837 %)Investment Banking
662 (1.539 %)Financial Institution
731 (0.770 %)French Language
824 (0.596 %)Billing
922 (0.546 %)Local Government
1020 (0.497 %)Back Office
1020 (0.497 %)Manufacturing
1119 (0.472 %)Electronics
1218 (0.447 %)Pharmaceutical
1218 (0.447 %)German Language
1314 (0.348 %)Marketing
1413 (0.323 %)Multimedia
1512 (0.298 %)Military
1512 (0.298 %)Publishing
1611 (0.273 %)Legal
1710 (0.248 %)Games
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11038 (25.77 %)Network Engineer
2369 (9.161 %)Analyst
3334 (8.292 %)Consultant
4295 (7.324 %)Cisco Engineer
5293 (7.274 %)Security Engineer
6278 (6.902 %)Architect
7235 (5.834 %)Support Engineer
8215 (5.338 %)IP Engineer
9184 (4.568 %)Design Engineer
10156 (3.873 %)Network Support
11150 (3.724 %)Cisco Network Engineer
12147 (3.649 %)Project Manager
13141 (3.500 %)Network Consultant
14131 (3.252 %)Support Analyst
15127 (3.153 %)Network Analyst
16125 (3.103 %)Network Security Engineer
17122 (3.029 %)Infrastructure Engineer
18116 (2.880 %)3rd Line Support
19114 (2.830 %)Implementation Engineer
20109 (2.706 %)Senior Network Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1132 (3.277 %)Blackberry
2102 (2.532 %)Video Conferencing
381 (2.011 %)CLARiiON
472 (1.787 %)Clustering
554 (1.341 %)IVR
653 (1.316 %)Symmetrix DMX
750 (1.241 %)Replication
845 (1.117 %)Hedge funds
939 (0.968 %)PKI
939 (0.968 %)Mainframe
1037 (0.919 %)NHS
1132 (0.794 %)Management Information System
1230 (0.745 %)EMC Centera
1230 (0.745 %)Handset
1230 (0.745 %)Thin Client
1230 (0.745 %)Computer Science
1230 (0.745 %)Fat Client
1327 (0.670 %)Tandem
1327 (0.670 %)Symmetrix
1425 (0.621 %)Open Source
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11146 (28.45 %)Windows
2474 (11.77 %)Linux
3403 (10.00 %)Windows Server 2008
4355 (8.813 %)Windows Server 2003
5291 (7.224 %)UNIX
6210 (5.214 %)Windows 7
7207 (5.139 %)Windows XP
8182 (4.518 %)Solaris
962 (1.539 %)HPUX
1061 (1.514 %)Windows 2000
1157 (1.415 %)Windows Vista
1250 (1.241 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1349 (1.216 %)AIX
1445 (1.117 %)Windows 2000 Server
1522 (0.546 %)Mac OS X
1621 (0.521 %)Ubuntu
1720 (0.497 %)Windows NT
1816 (0.397 %)CentOS
1913 (0.323 %)SUSE
2010 (0.248 %)Debian
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1439 (10.90 %)ITIL
2319 (7.920 %)Load Balancing
3286 (7.100 %)Migration
4270 (6.703 %)Network Design
5268 (6.653 %)Project Management
6204 (5.065 %)Network Management
7137 (3.401 %)PRINCE2
8116 (2.880 %)Service Delivery
9103 (2.557 %)Disaster Recovery
1091 (2.259 %)Change Management
1186 (2.135 %)Service Management
1274 (1.837 %)Change Control
1358 (1.440 %)Incident Management
1358 (1.440 %)E-Commerce
1457 (1.415 %)Network Architecture
1556 (1.390 %)Risk Assessment
1556 (1.390 %)Configuration Management
1651 (1.266 %)Information Security
1749 (1.216 %)Root Cause Analysis
1845 (1.117 %)ITSM
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1205 (5.089 %)SQL
2108 (2.681 %)C
388 (2.185 %)Perl
465 (1.614 %)Shell Script
556 (1.390 %)Java
627 (0.670 %)Python
719 (0.472 %)Erlang
818 (0.447 %)PHP
818 (0.447 %)PowerShell
915 (0.372 %)C++
1014 (0.348 %)JavaScript
1113 (0.323 %)VBScript
129 (0.223 %)Bash shell
138 (0.199 %)C#
146 (0.149 %)PL/SQL
155 (0.124 %)VB
155 (0.124 %)VB.NET
155 (0.124 %)Tcl
162 (0.050 %)VBA
162 (0.050 %)R
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11580 (39.23 %)Cisco Certification
2867 (21.52 %)CCNP
3746 (18.52 %)CCNA
4511 (12.69 %)Security Cleared
5446 (11.07 %)CCIE
6343 (8.515 %)SC Cleared
7249 (6.182 %)Microsoft Certification
8182 (4.518 %)CCSP
9169 (4.196 %)MCSE
10139 (3.451 %)Degree
11136 (3.376 %)CCSA
11136 (3.376 %)DV Cleared
12126 (3.128 %)CCDP
12126 (3.128 %)CCSE
13109 (2.706 %)CISSP
14100 (2.483 %)CCVP
1590 (2.234 %)MCITP
1688 (2.185 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1784 (2.085 %)CCIP
1881 (2.011 %)MCP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1140 (3.476 %)SLA
249 (1.216 %)PCI DSS
344 (1.092 %)ISO/IEC 27001
429 (0.720 %)QA
512 (0.298 %)ISO 9001
69 (0.223 %)JSP 440
69 (0.223 %)GMP
77 (0.174 %)COBIT
77 (0.174 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
85 (0.124 %)BS7799
94 (0.099 %)COSO
103 (0.074 %)ISO 9000
111 (0.025 %)ISO/IEC 20000
111 (0.025 %)GAMP
111 (0.025 %)BS15000
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1551 (13.68 %)Active Directory
2400 (9.930 %)VMware Infrastructure
3176 (4.369 %)vSphere
4163 (4.047 %)VMware ESX
596 (2.383 %)XenApp
678 (1.936 %)Hyper-V
751 (1.266 %)VMware ESXi
830 (0.745 %)SRDF
928 (0.695 %)Terminal Services
928 (0.695 %)XenDesktop
1023 (0.571 %)EMC RecoverPoint
1023 (0.571 %)ISA Server
1120 (0.497 %)Samba
1120 (0.497 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1120 (0.497 %)UAG
1218 (0.447 %)XenServer
1315 (0.372 %)NFS
1414 (0.348 %)Xen
1511 (0.273 %)Oracle RAC
1511 (0.273 %)VMware Workstation
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
196 (2.383 %)Cisco CUCM
292 (2.284 %)SCCM
374 (1.837 %)NetBackup
473 (1.812 %)CiscoWorks
559 (1.465 %)Tivoli
657 (1.415 %)Backup Exec
737 (0.919 %)SCOM
737 (0.919 %)OpenView
737 (0.919 %)Cacti
836 (0.894 %)vCenter
836 (0.894 %)Cisco UCCX
932 (0.794 %)Cisco IPCC
932 (0.794 %)WSUS
1027 (0.670 %)Netcool
1126 (0.645 %)CA Wily
1224 (0.596 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1224 (0.596 %)Nagios
1224 (0.596 %)OMEGAMON
1323 (0.571 %)Norton AntiVirus
1422 (0.546 %)EMC TimeFinder
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1822 (20.41 %)CheckPoint
2776 (19.27 %)VMware
3662 (16.43 %)Juniper
4621 (15.42 %)Microsoft
5477 (11.84 %)HP
6449 (11.15 %)Citrix
7312 (7.746 %)F5
8269 (6.678 %)Nokia
9257 (6.380 %)EMC
10205 (5.089 %)NetApp
11194 (4.816 %)Avaya
12173 (4.295 %)Blue Coat
13155 (3.848 %)IBM
14136 (3.376 %)Brocade
15125 (3.103 %)Oracle
16112 (2.781 %)Nortel
17111 (2.756 %)Redback
18110 (2.731 %)Remedy
19104 (2.582 %)Symantec
2094 (2.334 %)Sun