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

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

Cisco
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank385656
Rank change year-on-year
Up+18No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads626947213598
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK5.173 %3.869 %3.779 %
As % of the Vendors category10.86 %8.247 %8.513 %
Number of salaries quoted523439912935
Average salary£44,000£41,500£40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.02 %+2.46 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£26,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£64,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£39,250
% change year-on-year
-+1.91 %
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
577175724842267
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK47.62 %46.92 %44.39 %
Number of salaries quoted486384748333833
Average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,500£27,500£26,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£70,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000

Cisco
Demand Trend

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

Cisco Demand Trend

Cisco
Salary Trend

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

Cisco Salary Trend

Cisco
Salary Histogram

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

Cisco Salary Histogram

Cisco
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 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+175897£45,000+8.43 %
LondonUp+282446£50,000+5.26 %
South EastUp+31855£42,500+3.65 %
City of LondonUp+27658£52,500-
BerkshireUp+6608£43,000-4.44 %
SurreyDown-5503£45,000+9.75 %
East of EnglandUp+15370£40,000-
HampshireUp+15296£45,000+28.57 %
North WestUp+5290£35,000-6.66 %
YorkshireUp+5261£37,500+7.14 %
South WestUp+5236£37,500-
West MidlandsDown-16207£35,000-6.66 %
ManchesterUp+14177£37,000-1.33 %
SloughUp+25159£40,000-3.61 %
West YorkshireDown-9157£37,500-1.31 %
ReadingDown-4152£45,000-
BuckinghamshireUp+51146£38,750+3.33 %
East MidlandsUp+4139£36,000+18.03 %
ScotlandUp+10137£36,000-10.00 %
WalesUp+41119£35,000+16.66 %
South WalesUp+47117£35,000+9.37 %
HertfordshireDown-9114£45,000+5.88 %
StainesNo change096£50,250+18.23 %
LeedsDown-791£36,000+2.85 %
CambridgeshireUp+2989£37,500+7.14 %
Milton KeynesUp+4684£37,500+11.11 %
BirminghamDown-181£37,500-
GloucestershireUp+1480£40,000+15.94 %
North EastUp+2575£27,500-26.66 %
CheshireUp+974£33,750+0.74 %

Cisco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

15293 (42.11 %)Cisco Certification
24797 (38.17 %)Windows
34325 (34.41 %)Firewall
43799 (30.23 %)VMware
53674 (29.23 %)Microsoft
63044 (24.22 %)LAN
72989 (23.78 %)WAN
82865 (22.80 %)CCNP
92832 (22.53 %)CCNA
102498 (19.88 %)Active Directory
112470 (19.65 %)Linux
122248 (17.89 %)TCP/IP
132125 (16.91 %)Juniper
142095 (16.67 %)VMware Infrastructure
152070 (16.47 %)Finance
162049 (16.30 %)HP
172006 (15.96 %)VPN
181971 (15.68 %)Windows Server 2008
191970 (15.67 %)ITIL
201949 (15.51 %)SAN
211918 (15.26 %)MS Exchange
221837 (14.62 %)CheckPoint
231800 (14.32 %)Windows Server 2003
241794 (14.27 %)Citrix
251763 (14.03 %)MS Excel
261637 (13.03 %)DNS
271560 (12.41 %)VoIP
281504 (11.97 %)Microsoft Certification
291490 (11.86 %)Telecoms
291490 (11.86 %)Cisco ASA

Cisco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1319 (2.538 %).NET
2245 (1.949 %)CSS
3129 (1.026 %)XML
4124 (0.987 %)HTML
5119 (0.947 %)LAMP
6108 (0.859 %)Web Services
789 (0.708 %)Middleware
887 (0.692 %)J2EE
975 (0.597 %)WebSphere
1050 (0.398 %)ASP.NET
1141 (0.326 %)SOAP
1239 (0.310 %)Forefront TMG
1337 (0.294 %).NET Framework
1435 (0.278 %)ASP
1534 (0.271 %)ODBC
1534 (0.271 %)COM
1631 (0.247 %)Regular Expression
1723 (0.183 %)Ajax
1822 (0.175 %)WSH
1920 (0.159 %)CodeIgniter
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11918 (15.26 %)MS Exchange
2893 (7.105 %)Exchange Server 2007
3839 (6.676 %)Exchange Server 2010
4697 (5.546 %)Exchange Server 2003
5619 (4.925 %)IIS
6599 (4.766 %)SharePoint
7545 (4.336 %)Apache
8246 (1.957 %)Tomcat
9206 (1.639 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
10184 (1.464 %)Lync
11134 (1.066 %)WebLogic
12102 (0.812 %)Office Communications Server
1388 (0.700 %)Lotus Notes
1481 (0.644 %)CMS
1551 (0.406 %)Exchange Server 2000
1551 (0.406 %)SAS
1645 (0.358 %)SharePoint 2010
1645 (0.358 %)BizTalk Server
1733 (0.263 %)Amazon AWS
1832 (0.255 %)nginx
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11763 (14.03 %)MS Excel
2586 (4.663 %)MS Office
3313 (2.490 %)MS Visio
4138 (1.098 %)MS PowerPoint
547 (0.374 %)MS Project
625 (0.199 %)Google Apps
719 (0.151 %)Office 365
84 (0.032 %)Acrobat
93 (0.024 %)AutoCAD
93 (0.024 %)Spreadsheet
93 (0.024 %)InfoPath
102 (0.016 %)MATLAB
111 (0.008 %)S-PLUS
111 (0.008 %)PrintSoft PReS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
140 (0.318 %)SAP ERP
235 (0.278 %)Dynamics CRM
317 (0.135 %)GoldMine
415 (0.119 %)Line 100
415 (0.119 %)Sage MMS
514 (0.111 %)BASE24
610 (0.080 %)Dynamics NAV
77 (0.056 %)Metrica
77 (0.056 %)assyst
86 (0.048 %)Dynamics AX
86 (0.048 %)Line 50
86 (0.048 %)Oracle Retail
86 (0.048 %)Nortel Periphonics
95 (0.040 %)RMDS
95 (0.040 %)Summit
95 (0.040 %)SunGard APT
95 (0.040 %)FastVal
104 (0.032 %)Line 500
104 (0.032 %)Advent Portfolio Exchange
113 (0.024 %)BusinessWorks
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14325 (34.41 %)Firewall
23044 (24.22 %)LAN
32989 (23.78 %)WAN
42248 (17.89 %)TCP/IP
52006 (15.96 %)VPN
61949 (15.51 %)SAN
71637 (13.03 %)DNS
81560 (12.41 %)VoIP
91490 (11.86 %)Cisco ASA
101448 (11.52 %)OSPF
111443 (11.48 %)MPLS
121430 (11.38 %)BGP
131327 (10.56 %)Network Security
141297 (10.32 %)Wireless
151099 (8.744 %)Internet
161024 (8.148 %)DHCP
17828 (6.588 %)Cisco PIX
18770 (6.127 %)VLAN
19715 (5.689 %)Cisco IOS
20698 (5.554 %)EIGRP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11149 (9.142 %)SQL Server
2510 (4.058 %)MySQL
3260 (2.069 %)SQL Server 2005
4197 (1.567 %)SQL Server 2008
5100 (0.796 %)SQL Server 2000
675 (0.597 %)PostgreSQL
755 (0.438 %)DB2
851 (0.406 %)Oracle 8/8i
936 (0.286 %)Data Warehouse
1024 (0.191 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1123 (0.183 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1222 (0.175 %)Apache Cassandra
1318 (0.143 %)NoSQL
1318 (0.143 %)Data Mining
1416 (0.127 %)Oracle 11g
1514 (0.111 %)MongoDB
1514 (0.111 %)RDBMS
1613 (0.103 %)Oracle Reports
1712 (0.095 %)Crystal Reports
1811 (0.088 %)Oracle 10g
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1101 (0.804 %)Subversion
249 (0.390 %)Git (software)
325 (0.199 %)Team Foundation Server
423 (0.183 %)Visual Studio
520 (0.159 %)PEAR
619 (0.151 %)WebLOAD
714 (0.111 %)TeamCity
810 (0.080 %)Cucumber
98 (0.064 %)JIRA
107 (0.056 %)MSI
107 (0.056 %)Rational Rhapsody
107 (0.056 %)Rational DOORS
107 (0.056 %)Selenium
116 (0.048 %)Metasploit
116 (0.048 %)Hudson
125 (0.040 %)JMeter
125 (0.040 %)VSS/SourceSafe
133 (0.024 %)Synon
133 (0.024 %)WinDbg
133 (0.024 %)Talend Open Studio
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12070 (16.47 %)Finance
21490 (11.86 %)Telecoms
3589 (4.687 %)Banking
4225 (1.790 %)Retail
5194 (1.544 %)Marketing
6139 (1.106 %)Law
7134 (1.066 %)German Language
7134 (1.066 %)Investment Banking
8122 (0.971 %)Legal
9118 (0.939 %)Back Office
10112 (0.891 %)Games
1196 (0.764 %)Financial Institution
1293 (0.740 %)French Language
1379 (0.629 %)Billing
1475 (0.597 %)Advertising
1566 (0.525 %)Manufacturing
1663 (0.501 %)Pharmaceutical
1756 (0.446 %)Spanish Language
1845 (0.358 %)Electronics
1944 (0.350 %)Italian Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12408 (19.16 %)Network Engineer
21498 (11.92 %)Analyst
31352 (10.76 %)Consultant
41101 (8.760 %)Support Engineer
51012 (8.052 %)Architect
6815 (6.485 %)Administrator
7620 (4.933 %)Support Analyst
8587 (4.671 %)Cisco Engineer
9586 (4.663 %)Systems Administrator
10535 (4.257 %)Infrastructure Engineer
11495 (3.939 %)Security Engineer
12476 (3.787 %)Senior Network Engineer
13440 (3.501 %)3rd Line Support
14425 (3.382 %)Systems Engineer
15414 (3.294 %)Network Support
16406 (3.230 %)Network Analyst
17356 (2.833 %)Technical Support
18330 (2.626 %)Infrastructure Manager
19316 (2.514 %)Network Security Engineer
20305 (2.427 %)Network Consultant
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1426 (3.390 %)Blackberry
2401 (3.191 %)Clustering
3337 (2.681 %)Computer Science
4291 (2.315 %)CLARiiON
5231 (1.838 %)Video Conferencing
6224 (1.782 %)Management Information System
7179 (1.424 %)Replication
8167 (1.329 %)Open Source
9148 (1.178 %)Cloud Computing
9148 (1.178 %)Hedge funds
10127 (1.011 %)SaaS
11125 (0.995 %)Symmetrix
12120 (0.955 %)Enterprise Storage
13117 (0.931 %)IVR
14103 (0.820 %)PKI
1592 (0.732 %)Statistics
1679 (0.629 %)Mathematics
1679 (0.629 %)Digital Media
1776 (0.605 %)Symmetrix DMX
1871 (0.565 %)HP StorageWorks
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14797 (38.17 %)Windows
22470 (19.65 %)Linux
31971 (15.68 %)Windows Server 2008
41800 (14.32 %)Windows Server 2003
51321 (10.51 %)UNIX
6657 (5.228 %)Solaris
7601 (4.782 %)Windows XP
8527 (4.193 %)Windows 7
9476 (3.787 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10262 (2.085 %)Windows Vista
11221 (1.758 %)Windows 2000 Server
12212 (1.687 %)AIX
13208 (1.655 %)CentOS
14175 (1.392 %)Debian
15158 (1.257 %)Windows 2000
16133 (1.058 %)Ubuntu
1778 (0.621 %)HPUX
1858 (0.461 %)Mac OS X
1953 (0.422 %)Windows NT
2038 (0.302 %)SUSE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11970 (15.67 %)ITIL
2808 (6.429 %)Project Management
3727 (5.785 %)Network Design
4718 (5.713 %)Load Balancing
5598 (4.758 %)Service Delivery
6597 (4.750 %)Network Management
7465 (3.700 %)Disaster Recovery
8430 (3.421 %)PRINCE2
9403 (3.207 %)Change Management
10393 (3.127 %)Service Management
11337 (2.681 %)Incident Management
12320 (2.546 %)Capacity Planning
13301 (2.395 %)Migration
14288 (2.292 %)Problem Management
15269 (2.140 %)E-Commerce
16249 (1.981 %)Information Security
17247 (1.965 %)Configuration Management
18203 (1.615 %)Business Continuity
19191 (1.520 %)Root Cause Analysis
20178 (1.416 %)Change Control
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11398 (11.12 %)SQL
2415 (3.302 %)Perl
3277 (2.204 %)Java
4260 (2.069 %)C
5190 (1.512 %)PHP
6186 (1.480 %)Python
7181 (1.440 %)Bash shell
8175 (1.392 %)C++
9145 (1.154 %)Shell Script
10138 (1.098 %)PowerShell
11132 (1.050 %)C#
1285 (0.676 %)VBScript
1378 (0.621 %)JavaScript
1462 (0.493 %)VB
1536 (0.286 %)Ruby
1628 (0.223 %)Tcl
1721 (0.167 %)VB.NET
1819 (0.151 %)XPath
1917 (0.135 %)AWK
2016 (0.127 %)C-shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
15293 (42.11 %)Cisco Certification
22865 (22.80 %)CCNP
32832 (22.53 %)CCNA
41504 (11.97 %)Microsoft Certification
51214 (9.659 %)CCIE
61100 (8.752 %)MCSE
7991 (7.885 %)Degree
8707 (5.625 %)CCSP
9657 (5.228 %)MCITP
10638 (5.076 %)Security Cleared
11585 (4.655 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12576 (4.583 %)CCVP
13497 (3.954 %)CCDP
14417 (3.318 %)SC Cleared
15414 (3.294 %)MCP
16333 (2.650 %)CCIP
17319 (2.538 %)MCSA
18317 (2.522 %)CCSE
19302 (2.403 %)CCSA
20297 (2.363 %)JNCIA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1670 (5.331 %)SLA
2267 (2.124 %)ISO/IEC 27001
3221 (1.758 %)PCI DSS
497 (0.772 %)QA
567 (0.533 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
645 (0.358 %)ISO 9001
726 (0.207 %)COBIT
815 (0.119 %)ISO 9000
914 (0.111 %)BS7799
105 (0.040 %)ISO/IEC 17799
105 (0.040 %)COSO
105 (0.040 %)HMG Infosec
114 (0.032 %)JSP 440
114 (0.032 %)TickIT
114 (0.032 %)ISO 14001
122 (0.016 %)HIPAA
131 (0.008 %)DICOM
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12498 (19.88 %)Active Directory
22095 (16.67 %)VMware Infrastructure
3831 (6.612 %)vSphere
4609 (4.846 %)Hyper-V
5581 (4.623 %)VMware ESX
6430 (3.421 %)XenApp
7211 (1.679 %)VMware ESXi
8184 (1.464 %)XenDesktop
9181 (1.440 %)Terminal Services
10140 (1.114 %)NFS
11138 (1.098 %)XenServer
12101 (0.804 %)Xen
1394 (0.748 %)ISA Server
1491 (0.724 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1580 (0.637 %)VMware Server
1672 (0.573 %)UAG
1757 (0.454 %)Squid
1852 (0.414 %)Samba
1948 (0.382 %)Sendmail
2047 (0.374 %)vCloud
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1327 (2.602 %)NetBackup
2307 (2.443 %)Backup Exec
3276 (2.196 %)Cisco CUCM
4225 (1.790 %)SCCM
5205 (1.631 %)Nagios
6173 (1.377 %)Cisco UCCX
7171 (1.361 %)SCOM
8160 (1.273 %)CiscoWorks
9154 (1.225 %)OpenView
10136 (1.082 %)Puppet
11134 (1.066 %)vCenter
12123 (0.979 %)Tivoli
13121 (0.963 %)Cisco IPCC
14102 (0.812 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
15100 (0.796 %)WSUS
1682 (0.652 %)Cacti
1767 (0.533 %)Nessus
1859 (0.469 %)Cisco UCCE
1953 (0.422 %)Norton AntiVirus
2045 (0.358 %)HP SIM
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13799 (30.23 %)VMware
23674 (29.23 %)Microsoft
32125 (16.91 %)Juniper
42049 (16.30 %)HP
51837 (14.62 %)CheckPoint
61794 (14.27 %)Citrix
71053 (8.378 %)EMC
81008 (8.020 %)NetApp
9796 (6.334 %)F5
10721 (5.737 %)Oracle
11709 (5.641 %)Red Hat
12647 (5.148 %)Symantec
13641 (5.100 %)IBM
14544 (4.328 %)Avaya
15527 (4.193 %)Blue Coat
16437 (3.477 %)Dell
17411 (3.270 %)Brocade
18403 (3.207 %)Nokia
19252 (2.005 %)Sun
20240 (1.910 %)McAfee