The first table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Chester 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certification
Rank 50 36 52
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +16
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 1 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.296% 1.282% 1.190%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.639% 5.128% 7.143%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 3
Average salary £45,000 £32,500 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.46% +16.07%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -
All Qualifications
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
61 39 42
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 18.05% 25.00% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 42 34 39
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £21,386 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £42,500 £34,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Cisco Certification
Cheshire

Cisco Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Cisco Certification Salary Trend

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (40.00%) IPX
3 2 (40.00%) IPX/SPX
3 2 (40.00%) RIP
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) ATM
3 2 (40.00%) SSL
3 2 (40.00%) Frame Relay
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Nokia
3 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (40.00%) Internet
3 2 (40.00%) DWDM
3 2 (40.00%) OSPF
3 2 (40.00%) BGP
3 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco PIX
3 2 (40.00%) Network Management
3 2 (40.00%) HSRP
4 1 (20.00%) Marketing
4 1 (20.00%) Business Development
4 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
4 1 (20.00%) VTSP

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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.

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (40.00%) IPX
2 2 (40.00%) IPX/SPX
2 2 (40.00%) RIP
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) ATM
2 2 (40.00%) SSL
2 2 (40.00%) Frame Relay
2 2 (40.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) DWDM
2 2 (40.00%) OSPF
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco PIX
2 2 (40.00%) HSRP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Support
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Support
3 1 (20.00%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Network Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Business Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Sales Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Account Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) Network Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Development
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) VTSP
2 1 (20.00%) CCDP
2 1 (20.00%) CCVP
2 1 (20.00%) CCSP
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Nokia
2 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Sun