West Midlands Cisco Certification Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification 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 Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 21 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 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.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Altrincham Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Esher Essex Exeter Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Horsham Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Larne Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Melton Mowbray Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Teddington Teesside Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 21 May 2012	Same period 2011	Same period 2010
Rank	76	43	68
Rank change year-on-year	-33 +25
Matching contract IT job ads	34	53	21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands	1.514 %	2.848 %	1.283 %
As % of the Qualifications category	10.56 %	18.15 %	7.749 %
Number of daily rates quoted	20	20	12
Average daily rate	£175	£290	£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-39.65 % -3.33 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£149	£234	£124
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£359	£359	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£300	£308
% change year-on-year	+6.66 % -2.43 %
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	4	5
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£35.50	£16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-36.61 % +115.15 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.20	£27.30	£9.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£28.50	£38.10	£27.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	£30.00	£20.50
% change year-on-year	-25.00 % +46.34 %
All Qualifications West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Qualifications category	322	292	271
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands	14.34 %	15.69 %	16.55 %
Number of daily rates quoted	149	131	114
Average daily rate	£300	£315	£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-4.76 % -3.07 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£175	£175	£175
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£438	£425	£409
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£350	£325
% change year-on-year	- +7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted	32	24	30
Average hourly rate	£17.50	£19.00	£16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-7.89 % +15.15 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.20	£12.50	£9.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£31.50	£37.50	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	£25.00	£18.00
% change year-on-year	-10.00 % +38.88 %
Cisco Certification England

Cisco Certification
Demand Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Certification across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco Certification across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 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.

Location	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
Birmingham	-23	10	£263	-7.89 %
Staffordshire	+12	8	£175	-
Coventry	-5	4	£120	-58.62 %
Shropshire	-5	2	£438	+16.66 %
Wolverhampton	-	2	£150	-
Worcestershire	0	1	£225	-
Solihull	-2	1	£165	-
Warwickshire	-6	1	-	-
Dudley	-	1	-	-

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Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Cisco Certification 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 Certification.

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Cisco Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.083 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.083 %) Lync 1 1 (2.083 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (2.083 %) Office 365 1 1 (2.083 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (4.167 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 21 (43.75 %) Firewall 2 18 (37.50 %) LAN 3 16 (33.33 %) WAN 4 6 (12.50 %) OSPF 4 6 (12.50 %) BGP 4 6 (12.50 %) EIGRP 4 6 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX 4 6 (12.50 %) Cisco ASA 5 5 (10.42 %) Network Security 6 4 (8.333 %) Wireless 6 4 (8.333 %) TCP/IP 6 4 (8.333 %) VoIP 6 4 (8.333 %) MPLS 6 4 (8.333 %) Cisco Nexus 7 3 (6.250 %) NetScreen 7 3 (6.250 %) SNMP 8 2 (4.167 %) VLAN 8 2 (4.167 %) Ethereal 8 2 (4.167 %) BIG-IP 8 2 (4.167 %) Wi-Fi	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.083 %) SQL Server
General 1 2 (4.167 %) Telecoms 1 2 (4.167 %) Finance 2 1 (2.083 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 21 (43.75 %) Network Engineer 2 14 (29.17 %) Cisco Engineer 3 6 (12.50 %) Consultant 3 6 (12.50 %) Cisco Network Engineer 4 4 (8.333 %) Network Support 4 4 (8.333 %) Analyst 5 3 (6.250 %) Technical Consultant 5 3 (6.250 %) Network Analyst 5 3 (6.250 %) Security Engineer 6 2 (4.167 %) Network Design Engineer 6 2 (4.167 %) Network Support Engineer 6 2 (4.167 %) Network Administrator 6 2 (4.167 %) Design Engineer 6 2 (4.167 %) Administrator 6 2 (4.167 %) Field Engineer 6 2 (4.167 %) Network Security Engineer 6 2 (4.167 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (4.167 %) Network Support Analyst 6 2 (4.167 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (4.167 %) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.083 %) Clustering 1 1 (2.083 %) e-Health 1 1 (2.083 %) Cloud Computing 1 1 (2.083 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 4 (8.333 %) Windows 2 2 (4.167 %) Windows Server 2008 2 2 (4.167 %) UNIX 2 2 (4.167 %) Solaris 2 2 (4.167 %) Linux 2 2 (4.167 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (2.083 %) Windows 7 3 1 (2.083 %) Windows XP 3 1 (2.083 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 1 (2.083 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (10.42 %) Network Design 2 3 (6.250 %) Network Management 2 3 (6.250 %) SIEM 2 3 (6.250 %) ITIL 2 3 (6.250 %) Migration 3 2 (4.167 %) Penetration Testing 4 1 (2.083 %) WAN Optimisation 4 1 (2.083 %) Service Management 4 1 (2.083 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (2.083 %) Risk Management 4 1 (2.083 %) Ethical Hacking 4 1 (2.083 %) System Testing 4 1 (2.083 %) Supplier Management 4 1 (2.083 %) Knowledge Management 4 1 (2.083 %) Load Balancing 4 1 (2.083 %) Security Testing	Qualifications 1 32 (66.67 %) CCNA 2 30 (62.50 %) CCNP 3 8 (16.67 %) CCDP 3 8 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (12.50 %) CCIE 5 5 (10.42 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 4 (8.333 %) SC Cleared 6 4 (8.333 %) CCA 6 4 (8.333 %) Citrix Certification 7 3 (6.250 %) Microsoft Certification 7 3 (6.250 %) MCSE 7 3 (6.250 %) MCITP 8 2 (4.167 %) CCSE 8 2 (4.167 %) CCSP 8 2 (4.167 %) CCDA 9 1 (2.083 %) VCAP 9 1 (2.083 %) VTSP 9 1 (2.083 %) CCEE 9 1 (2.083 %) CCAA 9 1 (2.083 %) CCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.083 %) ISO 9000	System Software 1 4 (8.333 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 3 (6.250 %) Hyper-V 3 1 (2.083 %) XenApp 3 1 (2.083 %) vSphere 3 1 (2.083 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 7 (14.58 %) CiscoWorks 2 2 (4.167 %) SCCM 2 2 (4.167 %) SCOM 3 1 (2.083 %) Cisco CUCM 3 1 (2.083 %) OpenView 3 1 (2.083 %) Cisco IPCC 3 1 (2.083 %) SCVMM 3 1 (2.083 %) HP NNM	Vendors 1 41 (85.42 %) Cisco 2 8 (16.67 %) VMware 3 7 (14.58 %) CheckPoint 4 6 (12.50 %) Juniper 5 4 (8.333 %) Microsoft 5 4 (8.333 %) Citrix 6 3 (6.250 %) HP 6 3 (6.250 %) Blue Coat 7 2 (4.167 %) BT 7 2 (4.167 %) NetApp 7 2 (4.167 %) Nokia 8 1 (2.083 %) F5 8 1 (2.083 %) Riverbed 8 1 (2.083 %) CA 8 1 (2.083 %) Red Hat 8 1 (2.083 %) Oracle 8 1 (2.083 %) Dell 8 1 (2.083 %) EMC 8 1 (2.083 %) Intel 8 1 (2.083 %) IBM