The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Worcestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cisco over the 3 months to 20 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 Vendors for the Worcestershire 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.

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

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco
Rank 2 12 16
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +4
Contract jobs citing Cisco 21 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcestershire 26.58% 1.724% 2.857%
As % of the Vendors category 44.68% 4.762% 6.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
Average daily rate £250 £225 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% +50.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £333 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.51% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -9.09%
All Vendors
Worcestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
47 21 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcestershire 59.49% 36.21% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 19
Average daily rate £301 £260 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.86% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £386 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £14.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.93% -17.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £13.00 £10.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.20 £20.80 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.04 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+0.21% -5.00%
Cisco
West Midlands

Cisco
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cisco across the Worcestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Worcestershire Cisco Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend

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

Worcestershire Cisco Daily Rate Trend

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Worcestershire Cisco Hourly Rate Trend

Cisco
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cisco across the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Worcestershire Cisco Hourly Rate Histogram

Cisco
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 Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Kidderminster - 1 £168 -
Worcester - - - -
Bromsgrove - - - -
Cisco
West Midlands

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire region 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.

1 28 (73.68%) Windows
2 20 (52.63%) TCP/IP
3 14 (36.84%) SNMP
3 14 (36.84%) Firewall
4 13 (34.21%) Sun
4 13 (34.21%) Solaris
5 12 (31.58%) Linux
5 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
5 12 (31.58%) DNS
5 12 (31.58%) Compaq
5 12 (31.58%) Dell
6 10 (26.32%) ITIL
6 10 (26.32%) SMTP
6 10 (26.32%) Telecoms
7 9 (23.68%) Project Management
8 8 (21.05%) MS Office
8 8 (21.05%) UNIX
8 8 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (21.05%) Red Hat
8 8 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (18.42%) WAN
10 6 (15.79%) MPLS
10 6 (15.79%) Management Information System
10 6 (15.79%) Retail
10 6 (15.79%) LAN
10 6 (15.79%) SAN
10 6 (15.79%) CCNA
10 6 (15.79%) Degree
10 6 (15.79%) Computer Science
10 6 (15.79%) Network Management

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire region 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.

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (2.632%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 8 (21.05%) MS Office
2 4 (10.53%) MS Project
2 4 (10.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (5.263%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (52.63%) TCP/IP
2 14 (36.84%) SNMP
2 14 (36.84%) Firewall
3 12 (31.58%) DNS
4 10 (26.32%) SMTP
5 7 (18.42%) WAN
6 6 (15.79%) MPLS
6 6 (15.79%) LAN
6 6 (15.79%) SAN
7 5 (13.16%) NAS
7 5 (13.16%) Internet
8 3 (7.895%) TACACS
9 2 (5.263%) WLAN
10 1 (2.632%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) MySQL
General
1 10 (26.32%) Telecoms
2 6 (15.79%) Retail
3 4 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 4 (10.53%) German Language
4 2 (5.263%) Italian Language
4 2 (5.263%) French Language
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) Network Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Data Centre Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Data Centre Technician
3 5 (13.16%) Administrator
3 5 (13.16%) Coordinator
3 5 (13.16%) Systems Support
3 5 (13.16%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Implementation Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Consultant
5 3 (7.895%) Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) Network Consultant
6 2 (5.263%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.263%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) Project Coordinator
6 2 (5.263%) Network Manager
6 2 (5.263%) Network Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Management Information System
1 6 (15.79%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (73.68%) Windows
2 13 (34.21%) Solaris
3 12 (31.58%) Linux
4 8 (21.05%) UNIX
4 8 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.632%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.632%) Windows XP
5 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) ITIL
2 9 (23.68%) Project Management
3 6 (15.79%) Network Management
4 5 (13.16%) Service Management
4 5 (13.16%) Six Sigma
5 2 (5.263%) Incident Management
5 2 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (15.79%) CCNA
2 6 (15.79%) Degree
3 3 (7.895%) GCSC
4 1 (2.632%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (5.263%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.632%) Netcool
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) Sun
2 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 12 (31.58%) Compaq
2 12 (31.58%) Dell
3 8 (21.05%) Red Hat
4 5 (13.16%) Oracle
4 5 (13.16%) VMware
5 4 (10.53%) Juniper
5 4 (10.53%) F5
6 1 (2.632%) HP
6 1 (2.632%) IBM