The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Cisco Certification in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications currently tracked.

Cisco Certification
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank97142126
Rank change year-on-year
Up+45Down-16
Matching permanent IT job ads325222011805
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.683 %1.804 %1.896 %
As % of the Qualifications category9.673 %6.894 %7.823 %
Number of salaries quoted283718971466
Average salary£43,500£42,000£41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.57 %+2.43 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£26,800£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£67,500£62,100
UK excluding London average salary£41,000£40,000£38,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50 %+5.26 %
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
336203192723074
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK27.74 %26.16 %24.23 %
Number of salaries quoted286142663719117
Average salary£42,500£41,000£41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,500£38,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89 %+1.31 %

Cisco Certification
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Cisco Certification Demand Trend

Cisco Certification
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the UK.

Cisco Certification Salary Trend

Cisco Certification
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Cisco Certification Salary Histogram

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+453052£44,000+4.76 %
LondonUp+631288£50,000+5.26 %
South EastUp+401105£42,500+6.25 %
City of LondonUp+38353£55,000-8.33 %
BerkshireUp+15336£45,000-
SurreyUp+31277£40,000-3.61 %
HampshireUp+54235£45,000+28.57 %
East of EnglandUp+3141£40,000-
YorkshireUp+41140£40,000-11.11 %
ReadingDown-6120£42,500-5.55 %
North WestDown-24104£40,000+14.28 %
South WestDown-2396£35,000-
West YorkshireNo change092£40,000-11.11 %
West MidlandsDown-3977£35,000-6.66 %
BuckinghamshireUp+2971£40,000+2.56 %
ManchesterDown-1168£40,000+6.66 %
SloughUp+3365£45,000+15.38 %
ScotlandUp+963£40,000-23.80 %
WalesUp+2955£35,000-
South WalesUp+3053£35,000-
East MidlandsDown-1151£35,000+21.73 %
OxfordshireUp+2646£35,000-22.48 %
BedfordshireUp+3044£45,000+9.09 %
HertfordshireDown-543£40,000-8.57 %
Milton KeynesUp+3241£40,000+17.64 %
BristolDown-541£35,000-5.40 %
LeedsDown-741£37,500+2.73 %
FelthamNew entry-32£65,000-
MiddlesexUp+2031£40,000-4.76 %
East SussexDown-1131£52,500+55.55 %

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

15293 (81.95 %)Cisco
23746 (58.00 %)CCNA
33123 (48.35 %)CCNP
42538 (39.29 %)Firewall
51854 (28.70 %)WAN
51854 (28.70 %)LAN
61762 (27.28 %)Windows
71448 (22.42 %)Microsoft
81342 (20.78 %)CCIE
91280 (19.82 %)OSPF
101260 (19.51 %)BGP
111256 (19.45 %)VMware
121217 (18.84 %)Microsoft Certification
131214 (18.80 %)Juniper
141203 (18.63 %)VPN
151183 (18.32 %)TCP/IP
161087 (16.83 %)MPLS
171084 (16.78 %)ITIL
181067 (16.52 %)CheckPoint
19997 (15.44 %)MCSE
20962 (14.89 %)Finance
21927 (14.35 %)Linux
22909 (14.07 %)Cisco ASA
23902 (13.97 %)Network Security
24898 (13.90 %)Active Directory
25878 (13.59 %)Wireless
26818 (12.66 %)VoIP
27815 (12.62 %)DNS
28797 (12.34 %)Telecoms
29791 (12.25 %)CCSP

Cisco Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1138 (2.137 %)CSS
294 (1.455 %).NET
366 (1.022 %)Web Services
430 (0.464 %)LAMP
525 (0.387 %)Middleware
623 (0.356 %)ASP
722 (0.341 %)XML
819 (0.294 %)Forefront TMG
916 (0.248 %)SOAP
1012 (0.186 %)SAML
1111 (0.170 %)COM
1210 (0.155 %)XML Messaging
139 (0.139 %)FIX Protocol
139 (0.139 %)HTML
147 (0.108 %)REST
156 (0.093 %)COM+
156 (0.093 %).NET Framework
156 (0.093 %)Application Packaging
165 (0.077 %)DCOM
165 (0.077 %)ASP.NET
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1705 (10.92 %)MS Exchange
2355 (5.496 %)Exchange Server 2007
3331 (5.125 %)Exchange Server 2003
4293 (4.536 %)Exchange Server 2010
5244 (3.778 %)IIS
6217 (3.360 %)SharePoint
7147 (2.276 %)Apache
854 (0.836 %)CMS
943 (0.666 %)Lync
1042 (0.650 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1133 (0.511 %)Office Communications Server
1232 (0.495 %)Lotus Notes
1330 (0.464 %)SharePoint 2010
1429 (0.449 %)Exchange Server 2000
1429 (0.449 %)Amazon EC2
1516 (0.248 %)SAS
1615 (0.232 %)Tomcat
1615 (0.232 %)WebLogic
1710 (0.155 %)SharePoint Server
1710 (0.155 %)Live Communications Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1738 (11.43 %)MS Excel
2245 (3.793 %)MS Office
3173 (2.678 %)MS Visio
459 (0.913 %)MS PowerPoint
526 (0.403 %)Google Apps
613 (0.201 %)MS Project
79 (0.139 %)Office 365
82 (0.031 %)Acrobat
82 (0.031 %)AutoCAD
91 (0.015 %)Spreadsheet
91 (0.015 %)S-PLUS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
139 (0.604 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
28 (0.124 %)Dynamics AX
36 (0.093 %)Summit
45 (0.077 %)GoldMine
54 (0.062 %)Advent Portfolio Exchange
54 (0.062 %)Dynamics CRM
62 (0.031 %)FastVal
62 (0.031 %)SunGard APT
62 (0.031 %)Remedy ITSM
62 (0.031 %)Remedy AR System
71 (0.015 %)RMDS
71 (0.015 %)Dynamics NAV
71 (0.015 %)Line 500
71 (0.015 %)SoftGrid
71 (0.015 %)Maximo
71 (0.015 %)Oracle ERP
71 (0.015 %)ION MarketView
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12538 (39.29 %)Firewall
21854 (28.70 %)WAN
21854 (28.70 %)LAN
31280 (19.82 %)OSPF
41260 (19.51 %)BGP
51203 (18.63 %)VPN
61183 (18.32 %)TCP/IP
71087 (16.83 %)MPLS
8909 (14.07 %)Cisco ASA
9902 (13.97 %)Network Security
10878 (13.59 %)Wireless
11818 (12.66 %)VoIP
12815 (12.62 %)DNS
13629 (9.738 %)EIGRP
14616 (9.537 %)SAN
15584 (9.042 %)Cisco PIX
16569 (8.809 %)Internet
17524 (8.113 %)DHCP
18472 (7.308 %)VLAN
19441 (6.828 %)Cisco IOS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1360 (5.574 %)SQL Server
2116 (1.796 %)MySQL
376 (1.177 %)SQL Server 2005
460 (0.929 %)SQL Server 2008
520 (0.310 %)SQL Server 2000
619 (0.294 %)Oracle 10g
619 (0.294 %)RDBMS
718 (0.279 %)Oracle 11g
812 (0.186 %)Data Mining
911 (0.170 %)PostgreSQL
109 (0.139 %)GIS
109 (0.139 %)Crystal Reports
116 (0.093 %)Oracle 8/8i
116 (0.093 %)SQL Server Integration Services
125 (0.077 %)Oracle Reports
133 (0.046 %)EDRMS
142 (0.031 %)Oracle 9i
151 (0.015 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
151 (0.015 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
151 (0.015 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
17 (0.108 %)Rational DOORS
17 (0.108 %)Rational Rhapsody
25 (0.077 %)VSS/SourceSafe
34 (0.062 %)Subversion
41 (0.015 %)Maven
41 (0.015 %)NUnit
41 (0.015 %)Bugzilla
41 (0.015 %)InstallShield
41 (0.015 %)Synon
41 (0.015 %)Ant
41 (0.015 %)JUnit
41 (0.015 %)Visual Studio
41 (0.015 %)WinDbg
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1962 (14.89 %)Finance
2797 (12.34 %)Telecoms
3337 (5.218 %)Banking
4124 (1.920 %)German Language
5104 (1.610 %)Retail
688 (1.362 %)Law
781 (1.254 %)Investment Banking
875 (1.161 %)Legal
963 (0.975 %)Back Office
1059 (0.913 %)Marketing
1153 (0.821 %)Manufacturing
1249 (0.759 %)Financial Institution
1345 (0.697 %)Games
1441 (0.635 %)Advertising
1539 (0.604 %)French Language
1625 (0.387 %)Billing
1718 (0.279 %)Electronics
1816 (0.248 %)Italian Language
1915 (0.232 %)Spanish Language
2010 (0.155 %)Music
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11931 (29.90 %)Network Engineer
2777 (12.03 %)Consultant
3736 (11.39 %)Support Engineer
4586 (9.073 %)Analyst
5531 (8.221 %)Cisco Engineer
6460 (7.122 %)Architect
7386 (5.976 %)Senior Network Engineer
8348 (5.388 %)Security Engineer
9288 (4.459 %)Network Support
10287 (4.443 %)Network Consultant
11286 (4.428 %)Cisco Network Engineer
12280 (4.335 %)Network Analyst
13247 (3.824 %)Infrastructure Engineer
14246 (3.809 %)Network Architect
15217 (3.360 %)Support Analyst
16212 (3.282 %)3rd Line Support
17202 (3.127 %)Network Security Engineer
18194 (3.004 %)Technical Support
19182 (2.818 %)Administrator
20167 (2.586 %)Team Leader
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1177 (2.740 %)Computer Science
2130 (2.013 %)Blackberry
3123 (1.904 %)Clustering
487 (1.347 %)Management Information System
567 (1.037 %)Video Conferencing
567 (1.037 %)SaaS
663 (0.975 %)Cloud Computing
752 (0.805 %)Hedge funds
842 (0.650 %)IVR
939 (0.604 %)Replication
939 (0.604 %)PKI
1028 (0.434 %)e-Health
1127 (0.418 %)Fat Client
1127 (0.418 %)Thin Client
1225 (0.387 %)Client/Server
1324 (0.372 %)Statistics
1324 (0.372 %)Smartphone
1423 (0.356 %)Digital Media
1521 (0.325 %)SecurID
1619 (0.294 %)iPhone
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11762 (27.28 %)Windows
2927 (14.35 %)Linux
3748 (11.58 %)Windows Server 2003
4721 (11.16 %)Windows Server 2008
5478 (7.401 %)UNIX
6296 (4.583 %)Windows XP
7142 (2.198 %)Windows Vista
8119 (1.842 %)Solaris
9108 (1.672 %)Windows 7
10105 (1.626 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1173 (1.130 %)Windows 2000
1267 (1.037 %)CentOS
1348 (0.743 %)Debian
1441 (0.635 %)Windows 2000 Server
1538 (0.588 %)Ubuntu
1624 (0.372 %)Windows NT
1723 (0.356 %)Mac OS X
1817 (0.263 %)AIX
1817 (0.263 %)Mac OS
1910 (0.155 %)SUSE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11084 (16.78 %)ITIL
2576 (8.918 %)Network Design
3475 (7.354 %)Load Balancing
4471 (7.292 %)Network Management
5319 (4.939 %)Project Management
6242 (3.747 %)Service Delivery
7228 (3.530 %)Incident Management
8190 (2.942 %)Disaster Recovery
9188 (2.911 %)PRINCE2
10155 (2.400 %)Change Management
11150 (2.322 %)Capacity Planning
12146 (2.260 %)Problem Management
13145 (2.245 %)Business Continuity
14144 (2.229 %)Root Cause Analysis
15137 (2.121 %)Service Management
16126 (1.951 %)E-Commerce
17121 (1.873 %)Time Management
18116 (1.796 %)Configuration Management
19107 (1.657 %)Migration
2099 (1.533 %)Change Control
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1524 (8.113 %)SQL
2138 (2.137 %)Perl
3105 (1.626 %)C
493 (1.440 %)Python
573 (1.130 %)Bash shell
652 (0.805 %)PHP
746 (0.712 %)Java
836 (0.557 %)PowerShell
929 (0.449 %)Shell Script
1023 (0.356 %)VBScript
1118 (0.279 %)Tcl
1215 (0.232 %)VB
1314 (0.217 %)C++
1411 (0.170 %)JavaScript
159 (0.139 %)T-SQL
164 (0.062 %)C#
164 (0.062 %)AWK
173 (0.046 %)Ruby
173 (0.046 %)DataFlex
173 (0.046 %)PL/SQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13746 (58.00 %)CCNA
23123 (48.35 %)CCNP
31342 (20.78 %)CCIE
41217 (18.84 %)Microsoft Certification
5997 (15.44 %)MCSE
6791 (12.25 %)CCSP
7589 (9.119 %)CCVP
8552 (8.546 %)CCDP
9540 (8.360 %)Degree
10520 (8.051 %)MCITP
11382 (5.914 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12377 (5.837 %)Security Cleared
13364 (5.636 %)CCIP
14361 (5.589 %)MCSA
15350 (5.419 %)JNCIA
16339 (5.248 %)MCP
16339 (5.248 %)CCSA
17328 (5.078 %)CCSE
18247 (3.824 %)SC Cleared
19246 (3.809 %)CCDA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1453 (7.013 %)SLA
2144 (2.229 %)ISO/IEC 27001
3103 (1.595 %)PCI DSS
419 (0.294 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
419 (0.294 %)ISO 9001
517 (0.263 %)QA
67 (0.108 %)BS7799
74 (0.062 %)JSP 440
74 (0.062 %)COBIT
82 (0.031 %)ISO 9000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1898 (13.90 %)Active Directory
2700 (10.84 %)VMware Infrastructure
3273 (4.227 %)vSphere
4232 (3.592 %)VMware ESX
5211 (3.267 %)XenApp
6189 (2.926 %)Hyper-V
7124 (1.920 %)VMware ESXi
8117 (1.811 %)XenDesktop
9107 (1.657 %)XenServer
1099 (1.533 %)Terminal Services
1140 (0.619 %)VMware Server
1235 (0.542 %)ISA Server
1235 (0.542 %)Terminal Server
1333 (0.511 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1428 (0.434 %)MetaFrame
1523 (0.356 %)Squid
1622 (0.341 %)vCloud
1718 (0.279 %)Sendmail
1718 (0.279 %)NFS
1816 (0.248 %)Snort
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1171 (2.647 %)Cisco CUCM
2141 (2.183 %)Cisco UCCX
3106 (1.641 %)OpenView
498 (1.517 %)CiscoWorks
583 (1.285 %)vCenter
674 (1.146 %)Nagios
763 (0.975 %)Backup Exec
861 (0.944 %)SCCM
960 (0.929 %)Cisco IPCC
1041 (0.635 %)SolarWinds Orion
1136 (0.557 %)Cacti
1136 (0.557 %)SCOM
1227 (0.418 %)WSUS
1324 (0.372 %)Tivoli
1423 (0.356 %)Cisco UCCE
1514 (0.217 %)SCVMM
1514 (0.217 %)Nessus
1613 (0.201 %)NetBackup
1613 (0.201 %)Netcool
1613 (0.201 %)MOM
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15293 (81.95 %)Cisco
21448 (22.42 %)Microsoft
31256 (19.45 %)VMware
41214 (18.80 %)Juniper
51067 (16.52 %)CheckPoint
6660 (10.22 %)Citrix
7605 (9.367 %)HP
8498 (7.710 %)F5
9300 (4.645 %)Nokia
10299 (4.629 %)Blue Coat
11293 (4.536 %)Avaya
12223 (3.453 %)Red Hat
13170 (2.632 %)SolarWinds
14156 (2.415 %)NetApp
15135 (2.090 %)Symantec
15135 (2.090 %)Riverbed
16130 (2.013 %)EMC
17127 (1.966 %)Nortel
18116 (1.796 %)Oracle
19112 (1.734 %)Dell