The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certification
Rank 39 74 40
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -34
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 88 26 52
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 5.176% 1.754% 3.869%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.67% 6.616% 11.06%
Number of salaries quoted 65 25 45
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £22,200
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £56,500 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -
All Qualifications
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
528 393 470
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 31.06% 26.52% 34.97%
Number of salaries quoted 419 340 389
Average salary £43,250 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.76% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £31,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £59,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Cisco Certification
West Midlands

Cisco Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Birmingham Cisco Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco Certification
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Cisco Certification Salary Trend

Cisco Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Cisco Certification across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Birmingham Cisco Certification Salary Histogram

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Cisco Certification.

1 105 (55.26%) CCNA
2 104 (54.74%) Cisco
3 90 (47.37%) Firewall
4 73 (38.42%) CCNP
5 69 (36.32%) CISSP
6 50 (26.32%) Network Security
7 47 (24.74%) Juniper
7 47 (24.74%) CheckPoint
7 47 (24.74%) SIEM
8 45 (23.68%) ACSA
9 38 (20.00%) CCIE
9 38 (20.00%) Java
9 38 (20.00%) JavaScript
10 37 (19.47%) Sentinel
11 36 (18.95%) F5
12 35 (18.42%) WAN
13 33 (17.37%) Telecoms
14 31 (16.32%) Cisco ASA
15 30 (15.79%) CCSE
15 30 (15.79%) Finance
15 30 (15.79%) Internet
16 28 (14.74%) Risk Management
16 28 (14.74%) Cisco PIX
17 27 (14.21%) Security Cleared
17 27 (14.21%) Intrusion Detection
18 26 (13.68%) SC Cleared
18 26 (13.68%) LAN
19 25 (13.16%) Computer Forensics
20 23 (12.11%) Blue Coat
20 23 (12.11%) JNCIS

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Cisco Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (1.579%) VXML
2 1 (0.526%) CSS
2 1 (0.526%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 4 (2.105%) Lync
2 3 (1.579%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (1.579%) MS Exchange
3 2 (1.053%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (1.053%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.053%) CMS
4 1 (0.526%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 17 (8.947%) MS Excel
2 5 (2.632%) MS Project
2 5 (2.632%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.526%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 37 (19.47%) Sentinel
2 3 (1.579%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 90 (47.37%) Firewall
2 50 (26.32%) Network Security
3 35 (18.42%) WAN
4 31 (16.32%) Cisco ASA
5 30 (15.79%) Internet
6 28 (14.74%) Cisco PIX
7 27 (14.21%) Intrusion Detection
8 26 (13.68%) LAN
9 18 (9.474%) VPN
10 16 (8.421%) Wireless
10 16 (8.421%) Unified Communications
11 15 (7.895%) Cisco Nexus
12 14 (7.368%) MPLS
13 13 (6.842%) BGP
13 13 (6.842%) IP Telephony
14 12 (6.316%) TCP/IP
15 11 (5.789%) VoIP
16 10 (5.263%) OSPF
17 9 (4.737%) WLAN
18 8 (4.211%) EIGRP
General
1 33 (17.37%) Telecoms
2 30 (15.79%) Finance
3 6 (3.158%) Banking
3 6 (3.158%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (27.37%) Security Specialist
2 45 (23.68%) Network Engineer
3 33 (17.37%) Security Engineer
4 25 (13.16%) Network Security Engineer
5 23 (12.11%) Firewall Engineer
6 20 (10.53%) Consultant
7 9 (4.737%) Project Manager
7 9 (4.737%) Support Engineer
7 9 (4.737%) Senior Network Engineer
7 9 (4.737%) Pre Sales Consultant
8 8 (4.211%) Network Specialist
8 8 (4.211%) Cisco Consultant
9 7 (3.684%) Sales Consultant
9 7 (3.684%) Cisco Engineer
10 6 (3.158%) Information Manager
10 6 (3.158%) Information Security Manager
10 6 (3.158%) Technical Engineer
10 6 (3.158%) Technical Support Engineer
10 6 (3.158%) Network Security Specialist
10 6 (3.158%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.895%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.053%) Symmetrix DMX
2 2 (1.053%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (1.053%) Blackberry
3 1 (0.526%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.526%) Mathematics
3 1 (0.526%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.526%) Clustering
3 1 (0.526%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.58%) Windows
2 11 (5.789%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.526%) Linux
3 1 (0.526%) UNIX
3 1 (0.526%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (24.74%) SIEM
2 28 (14.74%) Risk Management
3 25 (13.16%) Computer Forensics
4 22 (11.58%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 19 (10.00%) Project Management
6 17 (8.947%) Network Design
7 14 (7.368%) ITIL
8 9 (4.737%) Network Management
9 8 (4.211%) Change Management
10 7 (3.684%) Migration
11 6 (3.158%) Risk Assessment
11 6 (3.158%) Information Security
11 6 (3.158%) Load Balancing
11 6 (3.158%) Time Management
11 6 (3.158%) Validation
12 5 (2.632%) Service Delivery
12 5 (2.632%) PRINCE
13 4 (2.105%) Disaster Recovery
13 4 (2.105%) Data Security
13 4 (2.105%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 38 (20.00%) Java
1 38 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (4.211%) C
3 5 (2.632%) R
3 5 (2.632%) SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (55.26%) CCNA
2 73 (38.42%) CCNP
3 69 (36.32%) CISSP
4 45 (23.68%) ACSA
5 38 (20.00%) CCIE
6 30 (15.79%) CCSE
7 27 (14.21%) Security Cleared
8 26 (13.68%) SC Cleared
9 23 (12.11%) JNCIS
10 16 (8.421%) CEH
10 16 (8.421%) CCSP
11 15 (7.895%) CCDP
12 11 (5.789%) MCSE
12 11 (5.789%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (4.737%) CCDA
14 7 (3.684%) PMP
14 7 (3.684%) PMI Certification
14 7 (3.684%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (3.158%) JNCIP
15 6 (3.158%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.842%) SLA
2 6 (3.158%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (5.789%) Active Directory
1 11 (5.789%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.105%) vSphere
3 3 (1.579%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.053%) XenServer
4 2 (1.053%) ISA Server
4 2 (1.053%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (0.526%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.526%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.526%) XenApp
5 1 (0.526%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (0.526%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 11 (5.789%) Cisco UCCE
2 9 (4.737%) Cisco CUCM
3 8 (4.211%) Cisco UCCX
4 3 (1.579%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.579%) SCOM
5 1 (0.526%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 1 (0.526%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.526%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.526%) Nagios
5 1 (0.526%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (0.526%) HP Data Protector
5 1 (0.526%) Cacti
5 1 (0.526%) WSUS
Vendors
1 104 (54.74%) Cisco
2 47 (24.74%) Juniper
2 47 (24.74%) CheckPoint
3 36 (18.95%) F5
4 23 (12.11%) Blue Coat
4 23 (12.11%) Websense
5 20 (10.53%) Microsoft
6 19 (10.00%) VMware
7 13 (6.842%) HP
8 11 (5.789%) NetApp
9 9 (4.737%) Avaya
10 6 (3.158%) Twitter
11 5 (2.632%) Aruba
11 5 (2.632%) Verint
11 5 (2.632%) Nortel
11 5 (2.632%) Mitel
12 4 (2.105%) Huawei
12 4 (2.105%) EMC
12 4 (2.105%) Nokia
13 3 (1.579%) Trapeze
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Extensive experience of Cisco and Juniper security solutions (CCIE level of expertise in security and routing/switching). *Checkpoint experience an advantage... *CCIE or similar high level appropriate Cisco/...
Polar Recruitment
Salary: £55000 - £75000 per annum + + Car & Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
You will primarily be responsible for the following:- -Cisco/Alcatel-Lucent routing, switching, WAN-ADSL, Nexus, NetApps, Microsoft, AV and TelePresence -Technical competence in Alcatel-Lucent and / or...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 per annum + Project Bonus + Car Allowance
Posted: 16 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
The ideal candidate will have a skill set to include as many of the following; - VMware - NetApp - CCNP - CCNA - Cisco Routing, Switching & Firewalls - Cisco Security (PIX and ASA...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
You must have excellent network security experience of working in a large corporate or data centre/service delivery environment... The suitable candidate must be SC cleared or be...
Monarch Recruitment
Salary: £40000 to £50000 per annum - Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Skills o Excellent written and oral communications skills o Strong facilitation and negotiation skills o Ability to moderate and build consensus o Ability to articulate and sell a...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £59000 - £61000 per annum + Car Allowance + Bonus + Overtime
Posted: 21 May 2013