Yorkshire CCNA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) in IT contracts within the Yorkshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CCNA over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	86	115
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	21	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	7.581 %	7.572 %
Daily rates quoted	2	7
Average minimum daily rate	£213	£294
Average daily rate	£250	£304
% change on same period last year	-17.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£288	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£283	£275
% change on same period last year	+3.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.25	£21.56
Average hourly rate	£23.50	£21.94
% change on same period last year	+7.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.75	£22.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.63	£30.34
% change on same period last year	-12.22 %
Qualifications Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	277	383
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.439 %	0.408 %
Daily rates quoted	68	107
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£321
Average daily rate	£342	£337
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£328
% change on same period last year	+0.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.16	£20.82
Average hourly rate	£23.45	£21.79
% change on same period last year	+7.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.73	£22.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.18	£25.30
% change on same period last year	-0.46 %
CCNA 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.

CCNA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CCNA across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

CCNA
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CCNA across the Yorkshire region.

CCNA
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CCNA across the Yorkshire region.

CCNA
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCNA across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008.

CCNA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 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
West Yorkshire	+1	12	£175	-36.93 %
South Yorkshire	+22	4	-	-
North Yorkshire	-	2	-	-
East Yorkshire	-	1	£325	-

CCNA England

CCNA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing CCNA 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 CCNA.

1 49 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 42 (85.71 %) Cisco 3 25 (51.02 %) Firewall 4 17 (34.69 %) CCNP 5 14 (28.57 %) Cisco PIX 6 12 (24.49 %) CheckPoint 7 9 (18.37 %) Network Security 7 9 (18.37 %) UNIX 7 9 (18.37 %) Windows 7 9 (18.37 %) LAN 8 8 (16.33 %) Microsoft Certification 9 6 (12.24 %) Cisco ASA 9 6 (12.24 %) MPLS 9 6 (12.24 %) Nokia 9 6 (12.24 %) VPN

10 5 (10.20 %) DNS 10 5 (10.20 %) WAN 10 5 (10.20 %) MCSE 11 4 (8.163 %) Frame Relay 11 4 (8.163 %) VMware 11 4 (8.163 %) VMware Infrastructure 11 4 (8.163 %) Load Balancing 11 4 (8.163 %) Linux 11 4 (8.163 %) ATM 11 4 (8.163 %) ISDN 11 4 (8.163 %) ITIL 11 4 (8.163 %) Oracle 11 4 (8.163 %) Active Directory 11 4 (8.163 %) Microsoft 11 4 (8.163 %) Novell

CCNA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing CCNA 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 CCNA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (4.082 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (4.082 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (2.041 %) Exchange Server 2000	Communications & Networking 1 25 (51.02 %) Firewall 2 14 (28.57 %) Cisco PIX 3 9 (18.37 %) Network Security 3 9 (18.37 %) LAN 4 6 (12.24 %) VPN 4 6 (12.24 %) MPLS 4 6 (12.24 %) Cisco ASA 5 5 (10.20 %) WAN 5 5 (10.20 %) DNS 6 4 (8.163 %) SAN 6 4 (8.163 %) ATM 6 4 (8.163 %) ISDN 6 4 (8.163 %) BGP 6 4 (8.163 %) Frame Relay 7 3 (6.122 %) VLAN 7 3 (6.122 %) Internet 8 2 (4.082 %) DHCP 8 2 (4.082 %) FTP 8 2 (4.082 %) HTTP 8 2 (4.082 %) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.082 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (2.041 %) TestDirector
General 1 3 (6.122 %) Government 2 1 (2.041 %) Health 2 1 (2.041 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 14 (28.57 %) Network Engineer 2 11 (22.45 %) Cisco Engineer 3 8 (16.33 %) Analyst 4 7 (14.29 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 5 (10.20 %) Cisco Support 5 5 (10.20 %) Network Support 6 4 (8.163 %) Network Analyst 6 4 (8.163 %) Support Analyst 6 4 (8.163 %) Support Engineer 7 3 (6.122 %) Technical Support 7 3 (6.122 %) Security Analyst 7 3 (6.122 %) Technical Support Analyst 7 3 (6.122 %) Technical Analyst 7 3 (6.122 %) Network Security Analyst 8 2 (4.082 %) Senior Cisco Engineer 8 2 (4.082 %) Cisco Consultant 8 2 (4.082 %) Senior Cisco Network Engineer 8 2 (4.082 %) NOC Engineer 8 2 (4.082 %) Network Support Engineer 8 2 (4.082 %) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.082 %) NHS 1 2 (4.082 %) Smartcard 1 2 (4.082 %) NPfIT 2 1 (2.041 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.041 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 9 (18.37 %) UNIX 1 9 (18.37 %) Windows 2 4 (8.163 %) Linux 2 4 (8.163 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (2.041 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (2.041 %) Windows XP 3 1 (2.041 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (8.163 %) ITIL 1 4 (8.163 %) Load Balancing 2 3 (6.122 %) Service Management 3 2 (4.082 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (4.082 %) Network Design 4 1 (2.041 %) Incident Management 4 1 (2.041 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (2.041 %) Change Management 4 1 (2.041 %) Problem Management 4 1 (2.041 %) Test Management 4 1 (2.041 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 2 (4.082 %) Java 2 1 (2.041 %) Perl 2 1 (2.041 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 49 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 17 (34.69 %) CCNP 3 8 (16.33 %) Microsoft Certification 4 5 (10.20 %) MCSE 5 3 (6.122 %) MCSA 5 3 (6.122 %) CCSA 5 3 (6.122 %) CCSE 5 3 (6.122 %) OCA 5 3 (6.122 %) Oracle Certification 6 2 (4.082 %) CCVP 6 2 (4.082 %) CCDP 7 1 (2.041 %) MCP 7 1 (2.041 %) CNA 7 1 (2.041 %) CNE 7 1 (2.041 %) Novell Certification 7 1 (2.041 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.082 %) SLA 2 1 (2.041 %) BS7799
System Software 1 4 (8.163 %) Active Directory 1 4 (8.163 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 3 (6.122 %) BorderManager	Vendors 1 42 (85.71 %) Cisco 2 12 (24.49 %) CheckPoint 3 6 (12.24 %) Nokia 4 4 (8.163 %) Novell 4 4 (8.163 %) Microsoft 4 4 (8.163 %) VMware 4 4 (8.163 %) Oracle 5 2 (4.082 %) Sun 5 2 (4.082 %) IBM 6 1 (2.041 %) HP 6 1 (2.041 %) Nortel 6 1 (2.041 %) Juniper 6 1 (2.041 %) Alcatel 6 1 (2.041 %) ProCurve 6 1 (2.041 %) MetaSolv 6 1 (2.041 %) 3Com