The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco 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 Vendors for the North East region.

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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco
Rank 23 17 45
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +28
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 53 79 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 7.681% 9.175% 3.279%
As % of the Vendors category 19.63% 19.80% 7.973%
Number of salaries quoted 43 70 19
Average salary £40,000 £27,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+48.14% -28.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+1.25% -
All Vendors
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
270 399 301
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 39.13% 46.34% 41.12%
Number of salaries quoted 237 336 257
Average salary £40,000 £31,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.03% -4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,025 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Cisco
England

Cisco
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East Cisco Jobs Demand Trend

Cisco
Salary Trend

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

North East Cisco Salary Trend

Cisco
Salary Histogram

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

North East Cisco Salary Histogram

Cisco
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the North East region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tyne and Wear -3 48 £40,000 +33.33%
Durham +6 3 £32,500 +12.06%
Cisco
England

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 57 (53.27%) Linux
2 55 (51.40%) Firewall
3 51 (47.66%) HP
4 45 (42.06%) VLAN
5 44 (41.12%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (33.64%) OSPF
6 36 (33.64%) Telecoms
7 35 (32.71%) Wireless
7 35 (32.71%) Red Hat
8 33 (30.84%) Microsoft
8 33 (30.84%) Disaster Recovery
9 32 (29.91%) Internet
9 32 (29.91%) DNS
9 32 (29.91%) MySQL
10 31 (28.97%) Apache
10 31 (28.97%) DHCP
10 31 (28.97%) CentOS
11 29 (27.10%) Windows
11 29 (27.10%) SAN
12 28 (26.17%) Citrix
12 28 (26.17%) Degree
13 26 (24.30%) Cisco ASA
13 26 (24.30%) CCNA
13 26 (24.30%) LDAP
14 24 (22.43%) WAN
15 23 (21.50%) XenServer
16 22 (20.56%) MS Excel
16 22 (20.56%) CCNP
16 22 (20.56%) BGP
17 20 (18.69%) Nagios

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (3.738%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 31 (28.97%) Apache
2 9 (8.411%) MS Exchange
3 5 (4.673%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.738%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.869%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.935%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.935%) Lync
Applications
1 22 (20.56%) MS Excel
2 18 (16.82%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.673%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 55 (51.40%) Firewall
2 45 (42.06%) VLAN
3 36 (33.64%) OSPF
4 35 (32.71%) Wireless
5 32 (29.91%) Internet
5 32 (29.91%) DNS
6 31 (28.97%) DHCP
7 29 (27.10%) SAN
8 26 (24.30%) Cisco ASA
8 26 (24.30%) LDAP
9 24 (22.43%) WAN
10 22 (20.56%) BGP
11 18 (16.82%) VPN
12 16 (14.95%) HSRP
12 16 (14.95%) LAN
13 14 (13.08%) Cisco IOS
13 14 (13.08%) Fibre Channel
14 11 (10.28%) TCP/IP
15 10 (9.346%) Cisco PIX
16 8 (7.477%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (29.91%) MySQL
2 5 (4.673%) SQL Server
General
1 36 (33.64%) Telecoms
2 6 (5.607%) Manufacturing
3 4 (3.738%) Back Office
4 2 (1.869%) German Language
5 1 (0.935%) Finance
Job Titles
1 51 (47.66%) Administrator
2 30 (28.04%) Systems Administrator
3 27 (25.23%) Linux Administrator
4 17 (15.89%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 15 (14.02%) Network Administrator
6 13 (12.15%) Senior Network Administrator
7 12 (11.21%) Senior Linux Administrator
8 10 (9.346%) Network Engineer
9 7 (6.542%) Support Engineer
10 6 (5.607%) Field Service Engineer
10 6 (5.607%) Field Engineer
11 5 (4.673%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (3.738%) Project Manager
12 4 (3.738%) Network Technician
12 4 (3.738%) Network Support
12 4 (3.738%) Senior Network Engineer
12 4 (3.738%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 3 (2.804%) SAN Engineer
13 3 (2.804%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
13 3 (2.804%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.607%) Blackberry
2 4 (3.738%) Replication
3 2 (1.869%) Clustering
3 2 (1.869%) CLARiiON
3 2 (1.869%) Celerra
3 2 (1.869%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (1.869%) Symmetrix DMX
4 1 (0.935%) Psychology
4 1 (0.935%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 57 (53.27%) Linux
2 31 (28.97%) CentOS
3 29 (27.10%) Windows
4 17 (15.89%) Solaris
5 10 (9.346%) UNIX
6 9 (8.411%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (7.477%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (6.542%) Windows 7
9 5 (4.673%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (2.804%) Windows XP
11 2 (1.869%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.935%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.84%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (14.02%) Network Design
3 14 (13.08%) Capacity Planning
3 14 (13.08%) Network Management
4 8 (7.477%) Validation
5 7 (6.542%) Identity Management
6 6 (5.607%) ITIL
6 6 (5.607%) Problem Management
6 6 (5.607%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (4.673%) Change Control
7 5 (4.673%) Service Management
8 4 (3.738%) PRINCE2
8 4 (3.738%) Data Management
9 3 (2.804%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (2.804%) Capacity Management
9 3 (2.804%) Time Management
9 3 (2.804%) Performance Management
9 3 (2.804%) Service Delivery
9 3 (2.804%) Change Management
10 2 (1.869%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.346%) C
2 4 (3.738%) SQL
3 1 (0.935%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.935%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 44 (41.12%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (26.17%) Degree
3 26 (24.30%) CCNA
4 22 (20.56%) CCNP
5 14 (13.08%) RHCE
6 11 (10.28%) MCSE
6 11 (10.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (7.477%) MCDST
8 7 (6.542%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (5.607%) HNC
9 6 (5.607%) HND
10 5 (4.673%) Security Cleared
11 4 (3.738%) MCSA
12 3 (2.804%) SC Cleared
12 3 (2.804%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (1.869%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (1.869%) CCENT
14 1 (0.935%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.935%) JNCIE
14 1 (0.935%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.738%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (21.50%) XenServer
2 12 (11.21%) Active Directory
3 10 (9.346%) Hyper-V
4 9 (8.411%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (7.477%) VMware ESX
6 6 (5.607%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (3.738%) ISA Server
7 4 (3.738%) Forefront TMG
8 3 (2.804%) NFS
9 2 (1.869%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (18.69%) Nagios
2 4 (3.738%) Backup Exec
3 2 (1.869%) WSUS
4 1 (0.935%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (0.935%) SCOM
Vendors
1 51 (47.66%) HP
2 35 (32.71%) Red Hat
3 33 (30.84%) Microsoft
4 28 (26.17%) Citrix
5 13 (12.15%) VMware
6 12 (11.21%) Oracle
7 6 (5.607%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.738%) Sophos
8 4 (3.738%) Juniper
9 3 (2.804%) EMC
9 3 (2.804%) NetApp
10 2 (1.869%) Veritas
11 1 (0.935%) Twitter
11 1 (0.935%) Blue Coat
11 1 (0.935%) Riverbed
11 1 (0.935%) Sun
11 1 (0.935%) Dell
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Primary Duties: Diagnose faults and offer solutions across a broad range of IT and communication systems with an emphasis on Cisco networking equipment... Backup solutions and disaster recovery.....
Catalyst
Salary: From £35,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Innovative, rapidly expanding global leader in the provision of communication solutions to its target markets, delivering some of the most interesting and challenging systems projects around, requires a...
Catalyst
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013