The first table below looks at the demand for CCNP in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCNP 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 Qualifications for the West Midlands region.

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 Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Rank 81 91 79
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -12
Contract jobs citing CCNP 16 12 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.954% 0.528% 0.984%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.735% 3.670% 6.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 6
Average daily rate £325 £340 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.41% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £150 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £410 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £350 £320
% change year-on-year
-13.42% +9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
Average hourly rate £28.00 £20.00 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -18.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.25 £22.25 £30.72
% change year-on-year
+49.43% -27.57%
All Qualifications
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
279 327 313
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 16.63% 14.40% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 155 124
Average daily rate £325 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £225 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 24 33
Average hourly rate £28.00 £17.50 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -27.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.95 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £65.00 £22.55 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
CCNP
England

CCNP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CCNP across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

West Midlands CCNP Jobs Demand Trend

CCNP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CCNP across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands CCNP Daily Rate Trend

CCNP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNP across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

West Midlands CCNP Daily Rate Histogram

CCNP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CCNP across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands CCNP Hourly Rate Trend

CCNP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +8 4 £400 +33.33%
Shropshire +6 2 £294 -14.85%
Warwickshire - 2 £350 - 1
Coventry +6 1 - -
Solihull - 1 - -
Staffordshire - 1 - - 1
Worcestershire - - - - 3
Sutton Coldfield - - - -
Herefordshire - - - -
CCNP
England

CCNP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing CCNP 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 CCNP.

1 25 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (80.00%) Cisco
3 13 (52.00%) CCNA
4 12 (48.00%) Firewall
5 10 (40.00%) VMware
5 10 (40.00%) Windows
6 9 (36.00%) LAN
6 9 (36.00%) WAN
7 8 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (28.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
8 7 (28.00%) SAN
8 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (28.00%) MPLS
9 6 (24.00%) VLAN
9 6 (24.00%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (20.00%) Network Design
10 5 (20.00%) CheckPoint
11 4 (16.00%) S-PLUS
11 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
11 4 (16.00%) HP
11 4 (16.00%) Dell
11 4 (16.00%) Linux
11 4 (16.00%) CCSE
11 4 (16.00%) SonicWALL
11 4 (16.00%) iSCSI
11 4 (16.00%) Veeam
11 4 (16.00%) EqualLogic
12 3 (12.00%) VCP4

CCNP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing CCNP 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 CCNP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (4.000%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) S-PLUS
2 2 (8.000%) MS Excel
3 1 (4.000%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (48.00%) Firewall
2 9 (36.00%) LAN
2 9 (36.00%) WAN
3 7 (28.00%) SAN
3 7 (28.00%) MPLS
4 6 (24.00%) VLAN
4 6 (24.00%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (16.00%) iSCSI
6 3 (12.00%) Network Security
7 2 (8.000%) BGP
7 2 (8.000%) TACACS
7 2 (8.000%) Cisco PIX
7 2 (8.000%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (8.000%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (4.000%) Junos
8 1 (4.000%) Unified Communications
8 1 (4.000%) BIG-IP
8 1 (4.000%) DHCP
8 1 (4.000%) SNMP
8 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (4.000%) German Language
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Network Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (8.000%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) VMware Technical Consultant
5 2 (8.000%) VMware Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Support Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Network Design Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Design Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Server Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) EqualLogic
2 1 (4.000%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.000%) Clustering
2 1 (4.000%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (16.00%) Linux
5 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (12.00%) UNIX
6 1 (4.000%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.000%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) Network Design
2 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (8.000%) Configuration Management
3 2 (8.000%) Change Management
3 2 (8.000%) Release Management
3 2 (8.000%) Load Balancing
3 2 (8.000%) Problem Management
3 2 (8.000%) Capacity Management
3 2 (8.000%) Network Management
4 1 (4.000%) Network Architecture
4 1 (4.000%) Business Transformation
4 1 (4.000%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (4.000%) Data Protection
4 1 (4.000%) Business Continuity
4 1 (4.000%) Information Security
4 1 (4.000%) ITIL
4 1 (4.000%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.000%) Identity Management
4 1 (4.000%) Project Management
4 1 (4.000%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.000%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (52.00%) CCNA
3 7 (28.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (16.00%) CCSE
5 3 (12.00%) VCP4
6 2 (8.000%) CCIE
6 2 (8.000%) MCTS
6 2 (8.000%) MCITP
7 1 (4.000%) SC Cleared
7 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
7 1 (4.000%) Degree
7 1 (4.000%) CCVP
7 1 (4.000%) CCSP
7 1 (4.000%) CISSP
7 1 (4.000%) CCDP
7 1 (4.000%) GCSC
7 1 (4.000%) CISM
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.000%) XenServer
4 1 (4.000%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (8.000%) ARCserve
1 2 (8.000%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.000%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 20 (80.00%) Cisco
2 10 (40.00%) VMware
3 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 4 (16.00%) HP
5 4 (16.00%) Dell
5 4 (16.00%) SonicWALL
5 4 (16.00%) Veeam
6 3 (12.00%) NetApp
7 2 (8.000%) CA
7 2 (8.000%) Juniper
7 2 (8.000%) Citrix
7 2 (8.000%) WatchGuard
7 2 (8.000%) F5
7 2 (8.000%) SolarWinds
8 1 (4.000%) Fortinet
8 1 (4.000%) Nokia
Walsall, West Midlands (County)
VMware/vSphere/Windows Server/SQL/Active Directory/VLANs. Roc searches client based in Walsall require a VMware Engineer to join their team on a 6 month initial contract.
Roc Search
Posted: 12 June 2013
Walsall, West Midlands
You will be provided with the training where and when required including VMware for VMware enterprise partner status, Cisco and Microsoft.Experience*The candidate will be capable of...
Hudson
Rate: £140 - £148 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
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