Cisco Contracts in London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

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

Cisco England / London
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	86	68	49
Rank change year-on-year	-18	-19
Contract jobs citing Cisco	604	713	899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	2.95%	3.34%	3.84%
As % of the Vendors category	7.13%	8.06%	8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted	404	488	589
Median daily rate	£425	£413	£360
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.03%	+14.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£228	£224	£219
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£564	£575	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£388	£375	£340
% change year-on-year	+3.33%	+10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted	20	13	20
Median hourly rate	£24.86	£10.00	£21.25
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+148.60%	-52.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.93	£10.00	£16.31
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£26.00	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£26.69	£25.00	£20.50
% change year-on-year	+6.76%	+21.95%

Cisco is in the vendor products and services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all vendor product and service related skills in contract job vacancies advertised in London.

Contract Vendor Product & Service Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for skills associated with vendor products and/or services	8472	8849	10314
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	41.40%	41.39%	44.04%
Number of daily rates quoted	5730	6113	6803
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	+5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£275	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£605	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£363
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted	108	110	256
Median hourly rate	£23.75	£18.00	£20.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+31.94%	-10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.93	£12.45	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£42.33	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£20.50	£18.50
% change year-on-year	-14.63%	+10.81%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing Cisco as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Vendors category.

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Cisco in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Cisco in London

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Cisco in London over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Cisco in London

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Cisco in London

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Cisco in London over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Cisco in London

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the London region over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-18	96	£425	-5.55%	29
Feltham	+9	7	£375	+54.63%
Canary Wharf	+7	5	£573	-
Hammersmith	-	5	£300	-
New Malden	-	5	-	-	1
West End of London	-	4	£516	-	5
Croydon	-5	3	£450	-2.17%
Uxbridge	-	3	£90	-
Romford	+4	2	£125	-58.33%
Heathrow	-	2	£350	-
Bromley	-	2	£325	-
Chessington	-	2	£438	-
Westminster	+5	1	£475	-17.39%
Docklands, London	+1	1	£450	+5.88%
Ilford	-1	1	£168	+39.58%
Brentford	-1	1	-	-
Hillingdon	-1	1	£375	-3.22%
Enfield	-	1	-	-
Cisco England

Cisco
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Cisco also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for Cisco.

1	458 (38.20%)	Cisco Certification
2	442 (36.86%)	Firewall
3	342 (28.52%)	Windows
4	325 (27.11%)	WAN
5	303 (25.27%)	LAN
6	294 (24.52%)	CCNP
7	262 (21.85%)	VMware
8	233 (19.43%)	Data Centre
9	232 (19.35%)	Active Directory
10	228 (19.02%)	VPN
11	222 (18.52%)	Finance
12	219 (18.27%)	Microsoft
13	205 (17.10%)	Wireless
14	197 (16.43%)	Cisco ASA
15	189 (15.76%)	Juniper

16	187 (15.60%)	CheckPoint
17	183 (15.26%)	Citrix
18	176 (14.68%)	TCP/IP
19	170 (14.18%)	CCIE
20	166 (13.84%)	MPLS
21	165 (13.76%)	CCNA
22	160 (13.34%)	ITIL
23	155 (12.93%)	Linux
23	155 (12.93%)	BGP
24	154 (12.84%)	Network Security
25	150 (12.51%)	Migration
26	148 (12.34%)	VMware Infrastructure
27	147 (12.26%)	Cisco Nexus
28	142 (11.84%)	Palo Alto
29	141 (11.76%)	OSPF

Cisco
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	80 (6.67%)	Skype for Business
2	51 (4.25%)	MS Exchange
3	29 (2.42%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	28 (2.34%)	SharePoint
5	21 (1.75%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
6	19 (1.58%)	Exchange Server 2013
7	16 (1.33%)	IIS
8	14 (1.17%)	CMS
9	12 (1.00%)	Apache
9	12 (1.00%)	Exchange Server 2007
9	12 (1.00%)	IBM Notes
10	10 (0.83%)	Confluence
11	7 (0.58%)	Tomcat
12	5 (0.42%)	OpenStack
13	4 (0.33%)	nginx
13	4 (0.33%)	Office Communications Server
14	3 (0.25%)	Jetty
14	3 (0.25%)	WebLogic
15	2 (0.17%)	SharePoint 2010
15	2 (0.17%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	90 (7.51%)	Microsoft Office
2	31 (2.59%)	Microsoft Excel
3	18 (1.50%)	MS Visio
4	3 (0.25%)	CINEMA 4D
4	3 (0.25%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	2 (0.17%)	3ds Max
5	2 (0.17%)	Acrobat
5	2 (0.17%)	AutoCAD
5	2 (0.17%)	Microsoft Project
5	2 (0.17%)	SketchUp
6	1 (0.083%)	Shockwave

Business Applications
1	8 (0.67%)	Eikon
2	6 (0.50%)	Dynamics CRM
3	4 (0.33%)	Dynamics AX
4	3 (0.25%)	Remedy ITSM
4	3 (0.25%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	2 (0.17%)	Payment Gateway
5	2 (0.17%)	Sentinel
6	1 (0.083%)	Cisco SocialMiner
6	1 (0.083%)	Unit4 Business World

Cloud Services
1	88 (7.34%)	Office 365
2	82 (6.84%)	Microsoft Azure
3	67 (5.59%)	Amazon AWS
4	19 (1.58%)	SaaS
5	15 (1.25%)	IaaS
6	13 (1.08%)	PaaS
7	7 (0.58%)	Cloud Computing
7	7 (0.58%)	Virtual Private Cloud
8	4 (0.33%)	Azure Active Directory
8	4 (0.33%)	Yammer
9	3 (0.25%)	OneDrive
10	2 (0.17%)	Akamai
10	2 (0.17%)	GitHub
10	2 (0.17%)	Mimecast
10	2 (0.17%)	OpenShift
11	1 (0.083%)	Adobe Analytics
11	1 (0.083%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
11	1 (0.083%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	1 (0.083%)	G Suite

Communications & Networking
1	442 (36.86%)	Firewall
2	325 (27.11%)	WAN
3	303 (25.27%)	LAN
4	228 (19.02%)	VPN
5	205 (17.10%)	Wireless
6	197 (16.43%)	Cisco ASA
7	176 (14.68%)	TCP/IP
8	166 (13.84%)	MPLS
9	155 (12.93%)	BGP
10	154 (12.84%)	Network Security
11	147 (12.26%)	Cisco Nexus
12	141 (11.76%)	OSPF
13	133 (11.09%)	DNS
14	129 (10.76%)	Cisco IOS
15	108 (9.01%)	VoIP
16	99 (8.26%)	DHCP
17	98 (8.17%)	SAN
18	77 (6.42%)	Ethernet
19	74 (6.17%)	VLAN
20	66 (5.50%)	Unified Communications

Database & Business Intelligence
1	50 (4.17%)	SQL Server
2	19 (1.58%)	SQL Server 2012
3	7 (0.58%)	Big Data
3	7 (0.58%)	MySQL
3	7 (0.58%)	Oracle Database
3	7 (0.58%)	PostgreSQL
4	6 (0.50%)	Oracle Database 11g
4	6 (0.50%)	Relational Database
4	6 (0.50%)	SQL Server 2008
5	2 (0.17%)	Amazon RDS
5	2 (0.17%)	Data Lake
5	2 (0.17%)	GIS
5	2 (0.17%)	RDBMS
6	1 (0.083%)	Blockchain
6	1 (0.083%)	Data Warehouse
6	1 (0.083%)	DB2
6	1 (0.083%)	FileMaker
6	1 (0.083%)	HBase
6	1 (0.083%)	MarkLogic
6	1 (0.083%)	SQL Server 2014

Development Applications
1	22 (1.83%)	VSS/SourceSafe
2	11 (0.92%)	Jenkins
2	11 (0.92%)	JIRA
3	9 (0.75%)	Git (software)
3	9 (0.75%)	Sonatype Nexus
4	8 (0.67%)	Visual Studio
5	6 (0.50%)	Vagrant
6	3 (0.25%)	GitLab
7	2 (0.17%)	Cucumber
7	2 (0.17%)	Grunt
7	2 (0.17%)	gulp
7	2 (0.17%)	Subversion
7	2 (0.17%)	webpack
8	1 (0.083%)	Atlassian Bamboo
8	1 (0.083%)	Eclipse
8	1 (0.083%)	ERwin
8	1 (0.083%)	Gerrit
8	1 (0.083%)	Talend Open Studio
8	1 (0.083%)	Team Foundation Server

General
1	222 (18.52%)	Finance
2	109 (9.09%)	Banking
3	69 (5.75%)	Telecoms
4	37 (3.09%)	Retail
5	33 (2.75%)	Investment Banking
6	25 (2.09%)	Law
7	17 (1.42%)	Legal
8	16 (1.33%)	Military
9	11 (0.92%)	Manufacturing
10	9 (0.75%)	Financial Institution
11	8 (0.67%)	Marketing
12	7 (0.58%)	Advertising
12	7 (0.58%)	Back Office
12	7 (0.58%)	Multimedia
13	6 (0.50%)	French Language
13	6 (0.50%)	Retail Banking
14	5 (0.42%)	Billing
14	5 (0.42%)	Publishing
15	3 (0.25%)	Electronics
15	3 (0.25%)	Local Government

Job Titles
1	319 (26.61%)	Network Engineer
2	182 (15.18%)	Cisco Engineer
3	173 (14.43%)	Architect
4	124 (10.34%)	Analyst
5	122 (10.18%)	Cisco Network Engineer
6	94 (7.84%)	Consultant
7	82 (6.84%)	Network Architect
8	76 (6.34%)	Support Engineer
9	62 (5.17%)	Senior Network Engineer
10	60 (5.00%)	Infrastructure Engineer
11	59 (4.92%)	Security Engineer
12	53 (4.42%)	Administrator
13	48 (4.00%)	3rd Line Engineer
13	48 (4.00%)	Support Analyst
14	45 (3.75%)	Network Analyst
14	45 (3.75%)	Network Support
15	44 (3.67%)	Network Security Engineer
16	43 (3.59%)	2nd Line Support
16	43 (3.59%)	Voice Engineer
17	42 (3.50%)	Project Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	76 (6.34%)	802.1X
2	49 (4.09%)	XMPP
3	17 (1.42%)	Web Services
4	13 (1.08%)	Middleware
5	6 (0.50%)	Software Packaging
6	5 (0.42%)	SOAP
6	5 (0.42%)	XML
7	4 (0.33%)	CSS
7	4 (0.33%)	HTML
7	4 (0.33%)	LAMP
7	4 (0.33%)	OAuth
7	4 (0.33%)	OpenID
7	4 (0.33%)	SailPoint
7	4 (0.33%)	SAML
8	3 (0.25%)	LEMP Stack
8	3 (0.25%)	Servlets
8	3 (0.25%)	WAP
9	2 (0.17%)	COM
9	2 (0.17%)	React
9	2 (0.17%)	RFC 2544

Miscellaneous
1	233 (19.43%)	Data Centre
2	114 (9.51%)	Analytical Skills
3	45 (3.75%)	Video Conferencing
4	44 (3.67%)	Blackberry
5	35 (2.92%)	Clustering
6	30 (2.50%)	Management Information System
7	26 (2.17%)	Hybrid Cloud
8	22 (1.83%)	BYOD
9	21 (1.75%)	Computer Science
10	18 (1.50%)	Private Cloud
10	18 (1.50%)	Replication
11	16 (1.33%)	Driving Licence
11	16 (1.33%)	Virtual Team
12	15 (1.25%)	Handset
12	15 (1.25%)	Public Cloud
13	14 (1.17%)	IVR
14	13 (1.08%)	PKI
15	11 (0.92%)	iPad
15	11 (0.92%)	NHS
16	10 (0.83%)	iPhone

Operating Systems
1	342 (28.52%)	Windows
2	155 (12.93%)	Linux
3	130 (10.84%)	Windows Server
4	97 (8.09%)	Windows Server 2012
5	83 (6.92%)	Windows 7
6	77 (6.42%)	Windows Server 2008
7	51 (4.25%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	49 (4.09%)	Unix
8	49 (4.09%)	Windows 10
9	33 (2.75%)	Android
10	31 (2.59%)	Windows Server 2003
11	25 (2.09%)	Mac OS X
12	22 (1.83%)	CentOS
13	15 (1.25%)	Solaris
14	14 (1.17%)	Mac OS
15	13 (1.08%)	Windows 8
16	12 (1.00%)	Windows XP
17	9 (0.75%)	SUSE
18	7 (0.58%)	Ubuntu
19	5 (0.42%)	VMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	160 (13.34%)	ITIL
2	150 (12.51%)	Migration
3	99 (8.26%)	Network Design
4	78 (6.51%)	Network Management
5	71 (5.92%)	Project Management
6	64 (5.34%)	Change Management
7	55 (4.59%)	High Availability
8	47 (3.92%)	Load Balancing
9	42 (3.50%)	Service Management
10	40 (3.34%)	Disaster Recovery
10	40 (3.34%)	Information Security
11	38 (3.17%)	DevOps
12	33 (2.75%)	Configuration Management
12	33 (2.75%)	Network Architecture
13	30 (2.50%)	Stakeholder Management
14	29 (2.42%)	Mentoring
14	29 (2.42%)	Network Monitoring
15	26 (2.17%)	Agile Software Development
15	26 (2.17%)	Continuous Improvement
15	26 (2.17%)	Root Cause Analysis

Programming Languages
1	65 (5.42%)	PowerShell
2	55 (4.59%)	SQL
3	44 (3.67%)	Python
4	35 (2.92%)	Perl
5	22 (1.83%)	C
6	14 (1.17%)	Bash Shell
7	12 (1.00%)	Java
8	10 (0.83%)	Shell Script
9	8 (0.67%)	Lisp
10	6 (0.50%)	C#
10	6 (0.50%)	Korn
11	4 (0.33%)	PHP
12	3 (0.25%)	JavaScript
12	3 (0.25%)	Ruby
13	2 (0.17%)	VBScript
14	1 (0.083%)	C++
14	1 (0.083%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	458 (38.20%)	Cisco Certification
2	294 (24.52%)	CCNP
3	170 (14.18%)	CCIE
4	165 (13.76%)	CCNA
5	86 (7.17%)	Security Cleared
6	65 (5.42%)	Microsoft Certification
7	56 (4.67%)	SC Cleared
8	39 (3.25%)	Degree
9	30 (2.50%)	JNCIE
10	28 (2.34%)	CCDP
11	25 (2.09%)	MCSE
12	22 (1.83%)	CISSP
12	22 (1.83%)	ITIL Certification
13	19 (1.58%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14	18 (1.50%)	CCSE
15	17 (1.42%)	CCIE Routing and Switching
15	17 (1.42%)	JNCIS
15	17 (1.42%)	MCP
16	15 (1.25%)	CCSP
17	13 (1.08%)	JNCIP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	47 (3.92%)	SLA
2	29 (2.42%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	14 (1.17%)	PCI DSS
4	11 (0.92%)	QA
5	5 (0.42%)	Cyber Essentials
6	4 (0.33%)	GPG13
6	4 (0.33%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6	4 (0.33%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	3 (0.25%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
7	3 (0.25%)	JSP 440
7	3 (0.25%)	RMADS
8	2 (0.17%)	COBIT
8	2 (0.17%)	Disclosure Scotland
8	2 (0.17%)	PMO
9	1 (0.083%)	BS25999
9	1 (0.083%)	COSO
9	1 (0.083%)	GxP

System Software
1	232 (19.35%)	Active Directory
2	148 (12.34%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	81 (6.76%)	Hyper-V
4	40 (3.34%)	VMware ESXi
5	31 (2.59%)	vSphere
6	26 (2.17%)	XenApp
7	21 (1.75%)	XenDesktop
8	20 (1.67%)	vCloud
9	17 (1.42%)	Virtual Machines
10	16 (1.33%)	Virtual Servers
11	14 (1.17%)	NFS
11	14 (1.17%)	Virtual Desktop
12	9 (0.75%)	Terminal Services
13	8 (0.67%)	GPFS
13	8 (0.67%)	LXC
14	7 (0.58%)	Firmware
14	7 (0.58%)	ProxySG
15	6 (0.50%)	KVM
15	6 (0.50%)	Xen
16	5 (0.42%)	ISA Server

Systems Management
1	98 (8.17%)	Cisco CUCM
2	63 (5.25%)	SCCM
3	49 (4.09%)	Cisco Prime
4	43 (3.59%)	Cisco UCCX
5	34 (2.84%)	FortiGate
6	29 (2.42%)	Puppet
7	28 (2.34%)	Nagios
8	18 (1.50%)	Opscode Chef
8	18 (1.50%)	vCenter Server
9	17 (1.42%)	SCOM
10	16 (1.33%)	ZABBIX
11	15 (1.25%)	NetBackup
12	14 (1.17%)	AirWatch
12	14 (1.17%)	Cisco UCCE
13	12 (1.00%)	Cacti
14	11 (0.92%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
15	10 (0.83%)	Ansible
16	9 (0.75%)	Backup Exec
16	9 (0.75%)	Norton AntiVirus
17	8 (0.67%)	PowerCLI

Vendors
1	262 (21.85%)	VMware
2	219 (18.27%)	Microsoft
3	189 (15.76%)	Juniper
4	187 (15.60%)	CheckPoint
5	183 (15.26%)	Citrix
6	142 (11.84%)	Palo Alto
7	114 (9.51%)	F5
8	96 (8.01%)	HP
8	96 (8.01%)	SolarWinds
9	77 (6.42%)	Fortinet
10	55 (4.59%)	NetApp
11	50 (4.17%)	Red Hat
12	47 (3.92%)	Avaya
12	47 (3.92%)	EMC
13	35 (2.92%)	Splunk
14	31 (2.59%)	Riverbed
15	30 (2.50%)	Arista
16	28 (2.34%)	Dell
16	28 (2.34%)	Oracle
17	26 (2.17%)	Symantec