West Midlands Cisco Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT contracts within the West Midlands region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Altrincham Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cobham Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Grangemouth Grays Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hull Immingham Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	61
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	57	84
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.077 %	0.083 %
As % of the category below	16.81 %	21.43 %
Daily rates quoted	17	20
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£240
Average daily rate	£303	£253
% change on same period last year	+19.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£267
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.56	£31.90
Average hourly rate	£36.11	£36.31
% change on same period last year	-0.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.67	£40.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.79	£25.45
% change on same period last year	+1.35 %
Qualifications West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	339	392
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.458 %	0.387 %
Daily rates quoted	110	113
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£260
Average daily rate	£324	£277
% change on same period last year	+16.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£293
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£331
% change on same period last year	+0.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	32	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.86	£29.44
Average hourly rate	£28.52	£32.30
% change on same period last year	-11.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.18	£35.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.62	£25.79
% change on same period last year	-4.55 %
Cisco Certification England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Cisco Certification
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 5 September 2008.

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 5 September 2008.

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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 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warwickshire	-7	13	£271	-
Shropshire	-	10	£425	-
Birmingham	+3	7	£282	+39.25 %
Worcestershire	0	6	-	-
Staffordshire	-	5	£275	-
Herefordshire	-2	3	£413	+17.85 %

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Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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.

1 74 (89.16 %) Cisco 2 57 (68.67 %) CCNA 3 42 (50.60 %) LAN 4 35 (42.17 %) WAN 5 32 (38.55 %) Firewall 6 30 (36.14 %) CCNP 7 25 (30.12 %) Network Design 8 22 (26.51 %) CheckPoint 8 22 (26.51 %) BGP 9 17 (20.48 %) OSPF 10 15 (18.07 %) EIGRP 10 15 (18.07 %) Nokia 10 15 (18.07 %) CCDP 10 15 (18.07 %) TCP/IP 10 15 (18.07 %) Cisco PIX

11 14 (16.87 %) VPN 12 13 (15.66 %) CiscoWorks 13 11 (13.25 %) MPLS 14 9 (10.84 %) Telecoms 14 9 (10.84 %) Tivoli 14 9 (10.84 %) Tivoli NetView 14 9 (10.84 %) DNS 14 9 (10.84 %) CCIE 15 8 (9.639 %) CCDA 16 7 (8.434 %) Blue Coat 16 7 (8.434 %) Ethernet 17 6 (7.229 %) Compuware 17 6 (7.229 %) SNMP 17 6 (7.229 %) Citrix 17 6 (7.229 %) VLAN

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 2 (2.410 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.614 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (2.410 %) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking 1 42 (50.60 %) LAN 2 35 (42.17 %) WAN 3 32 (38.55 %) Firewall 4 22 (26.51 %) BGP 5 17 (20.48 %) OSPF 6 15 (18.07 %) EIGRP 6 15 (18.07 %) Cisco PIX 6 15 (18.07 %) TCP/IP 7 14 (16.87 %) VPN 8 11 (13.25 %) MPLS 9 9 (10.84 %) DNS 10 7 (8.434 %) Ethernet 11 6 (7.229 %) SNMP 11 6 (7.229 %) VLAN 11 6 (7.229 %) Cisco ASA 12 5 (6.024 %) ISDN 12 5 (6.024 %) SAN 13 4 (4.819 %) SSL 13 4 (4.819 %) RIP 13 4 (4.819 %) TELNET	General 1 9 (10.84 %) Telecoms 2 3 (3.614 %) Government 3 1 (1.205 %) Legal 3 1 (1.205 %) Games 3 1 (1.205 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 44 (53.01 %) Network Engineer 2 13 (15.66 %) Cisco Engineer 3 12 (14.46 %) Design Engineer 4 11 (13.25 %) Network Design Engineer 5 10 (12.05 %) Analyst 5 10 (12.05 %) Cisco Network Engineer 6 9 (10.84 %) Network Analyst 6 9 (10.84 %) Architect 7 8 (9.639 %) Network Support 8 7 (8.434 %) Senior Network Engineer 8 7 (8.434 %) Support Engineer 9 5 (6.024 %) Network Support Engineer 10 4 (4.819 %) Consultant 10 4 (4.819 %) Network Technician 10 4 (4.819 %) Network Architect 10 4 (4.819 %) Communications Engineer 11 3 (3.614 %) Test Engineer 11 3 (3.614 %) Integration Engineer 12 2 (2.410 %) Network Designer 12 2 (2.410 %) Support Analyst	Operating Systems 1 5 (6.024 %) Windows 2 3 (3.614 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (2.410 %) VMS 3 2 (2.410 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (2.410 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 2 (2.410 %) UNIX 4 1 (1.205 %) Red Hat Linux 4 1 (1.205 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 1 (1.205 %) Linux 4 1 (1.205 %) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (30.12 %) Network Design 2 5 (6.024 %) Load Balancing 3 4 (4.819 %) E-Commerce 4 3 (3.614 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (1.205 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (1.205 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (1.205 %) ITIL 5 1 (1.205 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (1.205 %) Migration 5 1 (1.205 %) Problem Management 5 1 (1.205 %) Supplier Management 5 1 (1.205 %) Incident Management 5 1 (1.205 %) Technical Architecture	Programming Languages 1 1 (1.205 %) C 1 1 (1.205 %) Perl 1 1 (1.205 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 57 (68.67 %) CCNA 2 30 (36.14 %) CCNP 3 15 (18.07 %) CCDP 4 9 (10.84 %) CCIE 5 8 (9.639 %) CCDA 6 4 (4.819 %) MCSE 6 4 (4.819 %) Microsoft Certification 7 3 (3.614 %) ISEB 8 2 (2.410 %) CCSA 8 2 (2.410 %) Degree 9 1 (1.205 %) CCVP 9 1 (1.205 %) CCSE 9 1 (1.205 %) ITIL Certification 9 1 (1.205 %) CCIP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.205 %) SLA
System Software 1 5 (6.024 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.205 %) Samba	Systems Management 1 13 (15.66 %) CiscoWorks 2 9 (10.84 %) Tivoli 2 9 (10.84 %) Tivoli NetView 3 5 (6.024 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 74 (89.16 %) Cisco 2 22 (26.51 %) CheckPoint 3 15 (18.07 %) Nokia 4 7 (8.434 %) Blue Coat 5 6 (7.229 %) Compuware 5 6 (7.229 %) Citrix 6 5 (6.024 %) HP 6 5 (6.024 %) Nortel 6 5 (6.024 %) Microsoft 7 3 (3.614 %) 3Com 8 1 (1.205 %) Mitel 8 1 (1.205 %) Concord 8 1 (1.205 %) Siemens 8 1 (1.205 %) Red Hat 8 1 (1.205 %) Remedy 8 1 (1.205 %) BT 8 1 (1.205 %) Oracle 8 1 (1.205 %) IBM 8 1 (1.205 %) Juniper