Cisco Certification Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 3 months to 28 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.

Cisco Certification UK
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	143	115	120
Rank change year-on-year	-28	+5
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification	813	1141	1019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.73%	2.12%	1.85%
As % of the Qualifications category	9.01%	9.68%	9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted	532	690	625
Median daily rate	£400	£365	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+9.58%	+4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£206	£228	£206
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£538	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£388	£350	£350
% change year-on-year	+10.71%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	52	56	36
Median hourly rate	£32.25	£34.85	£28.88
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-7.46%	+20.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.78	£16.75	£8.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.92	£49.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£32.50	£28.75	£18.75
% change year-on-year	+13.04%	+53.33%

Cisco Certification is in the academic qualifications and professional certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all academic qualifications and professional certifications cited in contract job vacancies.

Academic & Professional Certification UK
Contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications	9020	11793	10440
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	19.15%	21.90%	18.93%
Number of daily rates quoted	11465	16220	12522
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£390
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£250	£225
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£590	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	1176	1038	1075
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£28.25	£24.23
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+15.04%	+16.59%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.88	£12.50	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£48.92	£51.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£32.50	£28.50	£22.50
% change year-on-year	+14.03%	+26.66%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cisco Certification as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Cisco Certification over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the UK over the 3 months to 28 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
England	-37	728	£410	+9.33%	205
UK excluding London	-29	523	£388	+10.71%	151
London	-31	270	£450	+12.50%	63
South East	-11	201	£403	+10.41%	39
North of England	-4	94	£400	+14.28%	33
Midlands	-15	63	£388	+10.71%	28
East of England	-3	50	£375	+25.00%	28
Scotland	+20	47	£300	-3.22%	7
South West	-43	46	£381	+8.92%	13
Wales	+12	25	£180	-44.61%	1
Northern Ireland	-60	2	£450	+42.85%	2

Cisco Certification
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Certification also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Cisco Certification.

1	1387 (82.07%)	Cisco
2	1012 (59.88%)	CCNP
3	870 (51.48%)	Firewall
4	770 (45.56%)	CCNA
5	572 (33.85%)	WAN
6	542 (32.07%)	LAN
7	445 (26.33%)	CCIE
8	413 (24.44%)	Wireless
9	391 (23.14%)	ITIL
10	384 (22.72%)	Security Cleared
11	361 (21.36%)	Juniper
12	352 (20.83%)	CheckPoint
13	337 (19.94%)	Cisco ASA
14	308 (18.22%)	Data Centre
15	305 (18.05%)	F5

16	302 (17.87%)	SC Cleared
16	302 (17.87%)	BGP
17	296 (17.51%)	Cisco Nexus
18	279 (16.51%)	VPN
19	261 (15.44%)	OSPF
20	259 (15.33%)	MPLS
21	250 (14.79%)	Windows
22	249 (14.73%)	Network Design
23	241 (14.26%)	Network Security
24	240 (14.20%)	VMware
25	218 (12.90%)	Microsoft
26	191 (11.30%)	TCP/IP
27	185 (10.95%)	HP
28	178 (10.53%)	Telecoms
29	174 (10.30%)	Finance

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring IT Skills 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	69 (4.08%)	MS Exchange
2	28 (1.66%)	Skype for Business
3	22 (1.30%)	IIS
4	19 (1.12%)	Exchange Server 2010
5	11 (0.65%)	Exchange Server 2013
5	11 (0.65%)	SharePoint
6	8 (0.47%)	Tomcat
7	7 (0.41%)	Exchange Server 2007
7	7 (0.41%)	OpenStack
8	6 (0.36%)	Apache
8	6 (0.36%)	JBoss
9	5 (0.30%)	WebSphere
10	4 (0.24%)	CMS
10	4 (0.24%)	WebLogic
11	3 (0.18%)	Confluence
12	2 (0.12%)	SharePoint 2013
12	2 (0.12%)	SharePoint Server
13	1 (0.059%)	Elasticsearch
13	1 (0.059%)	IBM Notes
13	1 (0.059%)	SharePoint 2010

Applications
1	44 (2.60%)	Microsoft Excel
2	43 (2.54%)	MS Visio
3	38 (2.25%)	Microsoft Office
4	9 (0.53%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	5 (0.30%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	10 (0.59%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	4 (0.24%)	Cisco SocialMiner
3	3 (0.18%)	Dynamics CRM
3	3 (0.18%)	Remedy ITSM
4	1 (0.059%)	CA PPM
4	1 (0.059%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	77 (4.56%)	Microsoft Azure
2	63 (3.73%)	Amazon AWS
3	57 (3.37%)	Office 365
4	14 (0.83%)	SaaS
5	12 (0.71%)	IaaS
6	11 (0.65%)	PaaS
7	8 (0.47%)	Virtual Private Cloud
8	7 (0.41%)	Cloud Computing
9	4 (0.24%)	Amazon S3
10	3 (0.18%)	Amazon EC2
10	3 (0.18%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	3 (0.18%)	Google Cloud Platform
11	2 (0.12%)	Akamai
11	2 (0.12%)	Amazon ELB
11	2 (0.12%)	AWS Lambda
11	2 (0.12%)	Azure Active Directory
12	1 (0.059%)	Amazon CloudWatch
12	1 (0.059%)	AWS CloudTrail
12	1 (0.059%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12	1 (0.059%)	CloudFront

Communications & Networking
1	870 (51.48%)	Firewall
2	572 (33.85%)	WAN
3	542 (32.07%)	LAN
4	413 (24.44%)	Wireless
5	337 (19.94%)	Cisco ASA
6	302 (17.87%)	BGP
7	296 (17.51%)	Cisco Nexus
8	279 (16.51%)	VPN
9	261 (15.44%)	OSPF
10	259 (15.33%)	MPLS
11	241 (14.26%)	Network Security
12	191 (11.30%)	TCP/IP
13	160 (9.47%)	VoIP
14	149 (8.82%)	DNS
15	145 (8.58%)	VLAN
16	141 (8.34%)	Cisco IOS
17	126 (7.46%)	DHCP
18	125 (7.40%)	EIGRP
19	99 (5.86%)	Internet
20	90 (5.33%)	WLAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	44 (2.60%)	SQL Server
2	18 (1.07%)	SQL Server 2012
3	8 (0.47%)	Big Data
3	8 (0.47%)	SQL Server 2005
4	7 (0.41%)	Hadoop
4	7 (0.41%)	SQL Server 2008
5	6 (0.36%)	SQL Server 2016
6	5 (0.30%)	Relational Database
6	5 (0.30%)	Star Schema
7	4 (0.24%)	Apache Cassandra
7	4 (0.24%)	MongoDB
7	4 (0.24%)	MySQL
7	4 (0.24%)	PostgreSQL
8	3 (0.18%)	Amazon RDS
8	3 (0.18%)	NoSQL
9	2 (0.12%)	Data Mining
9	2 (0.12%)	MS Access
9	2 (0.12%)	RDBMS
9	2 (0.12%)	Redis
10	1 (0.059%)	Data Warehouse

Development Applications
1	31 (1.83%)	VSS/SourceSafe
2	5 (0.30%)	Sonatype Nexus
3	4 (0.24%)	Rational DOORS
4	3 (0.18%)	Git (software)
4	3 (0.18%)	JIRA
4	3 (0.18%)	TeamCity
5	2 (0.12%)	CruiseControl
5	2 (0.12%)	Jenkins
5	2 (0.12%)	StarTeam
5	2 (0.12%)	Team Foundation Server
5	2 (0.12%)	Visual Studio Team System
6	1 (0.059%)	Subversion

General
1	178 (10.53%)	Telecoms
2	174 (10.30%)	Finance
3	78 (4.62%)	Banking
4	23 (1.36%)	Retail
5	20 (1.18%)	Investment Banking
5	20 (1.18%)	Manufacturing
6	18 (1.07%)	Marketing
7	14 (0.83%)	Military
8	12 (0.71%)	Electronics
9	11 (0.65%)	Law
10	10 (0.59%)	Local Government
11	5 (0.30%)	Financial Institution
11	5 (0.30%)	Legal
12	4 (0.24%)	Automotive
12	4 (0.24%)	Back Office
12	4 (0.24%)	French Language
13	3 (0.18%)	Aerospace
13	3 (0.18%)	Billing
13	3 (0.18%)	Games
13	3 (0.18%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	766 (45.33%)	Network Engineer
2	242 (14.32%)	Cisco Engineer
3	194 (11.48%)	Cisco Network Engineer
4	176 (10.41%)	Architect
5	118 (6.98%)	Network Architect
6	115 (6.80%)	Analyst
6	115 (6.80%)	Security Engineer
7	113 (6.69%)	Support Engineer
8	109 (6.45%)	Consultant
9	107 (6.33%)	Senior Network Engineer
10	89 (5.27%)	Network Security Engineer
11	74 (4.38%)	Network Support
12	73 (4.32%)	SC Cleared Network Engineer
13	61 (3.61%)	Network Consultant
14	58 (3.43%)	Network Analyst
14	58 (3.43%)	Network Support Engineer
15	57 (3.37%)	Infrastructure Engineer
16	53 (3.14%)	Design Engineer
17	42 (2.49%)	Firewall Engineer
18	40 (2.37%)	Voice Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	76 (4.50%)	802.1X
2	27 (1.60%)	XMPP
3	14 (0.83%)	Web Services
4	10 (0.59%)	.NET
4	10 (0.59%)	Middleware
5	6 (0.36%)	CSS
6	5 (0.30%)	WAP
6	5 (0.30%)	XML
7	4 (0.24%)	ASP.NET
7	4 (0.24%)	Elastic Stack
8	3 (0.18%)	COM
9	2 (0.12%)	ActiveMQ
9	2 (0.12%)	CGI
9	2 (0.12%)	JAAS
9	2 (0.12%)	JMS
9	2 (0.12%)	JMX
9	2 (0.12%)	JNDI
9	2 (0.12%)	SAML
9	2 (0.12%)	SAP Basis
9	2 (0.12%)	XSLT

Miscellaneous
1	308 (18.22%)	Data Centre
2	102 (6.04%)	Analytical Skills
3	72 (4.26%)	Computer Science
4	68 (4.02%)	Management Information System
5	40 (2.37%)	Video Conferencing
6	36 (2.13%)	Clustering
7	31 (1.83%)	Driving Licence
8	18 (1.07%)	BYOD
8	18 (1.07%)	NHS
9	16 (0.95%)	PKI
10	15 (0.89%)	Public Cloud
11	14 (0.83%)	Hybrid Cloud
12	12 (0.71%)	Smart Meter
12	12 (0.71%)	Virtual Team
13	11 (0.65%)	Greenfield Project
14	10 (0.59%)	CESG
14	10 (0.59%)	EMC VNX
14	10 (0.59%)	Linux Command Line
15	9 (0.53%)	CMDB
16	8 (0.47%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service

Operating Systems
1	250 (14.79%)	Windows
2	134 (7.93%)	Linux
3	128 (7.57%)	Windows Server
4	61 (3.61%)	Windows Server 2012
5	56 (3.31%)	Windows Server 2008
6	54 (3.20%)	Unix
7	38 (2.25%)	Windows 10
7	38 (2.25%)	Windows 7
8	25 (1.48%)	Mac OS X
9	23 (1.36%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	23 (1.36%)	Windows Server 2003
10	22 (1.30%)	CentOS
11	15 (0.89%)	SUSE
12	14 (0.83%)	Windows 8
13	8 (0.47%)	Solaris
14	7 (0.41%)	Windows Vista
15	6 (0.36%)	Android
16	5 (0.30%)	AIX
16	5 (0.30%)	Windows XP
17	4 (0.24%)	Mac OS

Processes & Methodologies
1	391 (23.14%)	ITIL
2	249 (14.73%)	Network Design
3	161 (9.53%)	Migration
4	125 (7.40%)	Service Management
5	121 (7.16%)	Network Management
6	96 (5.68%)	Load Balancing
7	90 (5.33%)	ITSM
8	71 (4.20%)	Change Management
8	71 (4.20%)	Information Security
9	69 (4.08%)	Project Management
10	56 (3.31%)	Service Delivery
11	54 (3.20%)	ITIL V3
12	53 (3.14%)	High Availability
13	51 (3.02%)	Network Monitoring
14	47 (2.78%)	Disaster Recovery
15	43 (2.54%)	Mentoring
16	42 (2.49%)	Network Architecture
16	42 (2.49%)	PRINCE2
17	40 (2.37%)	Incident Management
18	39 (2.31%)	Kalman Filter

Programming Languages
1	53 (3.14%)	PowerShell
2	47 (2.78%)	Python
3	36 (2.13%)	SQL
4	25 (1.48%)	C
5	22 (1.30%)	Perl
6	16 (0.95%)	Java
7	14 (0.83%)	Bash Shell
8	9 (0.53%)	C#
8	9 (0.53%)	Lisp
9	8 (0.47%)	Ruby
10	6 (0.36%)	Shell Script
11	4 (0.24%)	C++
12	2 (0.12%)	PHP
12	2 (0.12%)	VBScript
13	1 (0.059%)	JavaScript
13	1 (0.059%)	PL/SQL

Qualifications
1	1012 (59.88%)	CCNP
2	770 (45.56%)	CCNA
3	445 (26.33%)	CCIE
4	384 (22.72%)	Security Cleared
5	302 (17.87%)	SC Cleared
6	165 (9.76%)	CCDP
7	133 (7.87%)	Microsoft Certification
8	129 (7.63%)	Degree
9	124 (7.34%)	JNCIA
10	112 (6.63%)	CCSA
10	112 (6.63%)	CISSP
11	107 (6.33%)	CCSE
12	103 (6.09%)	JNCIE
13	91 (5.38%)	CCIP
14	88 (5.21%)	MCSE
15	79 (4.67%)	CCSP
16	69 (4.08%)	DV Cleared
17	67 (3.96%)	Computer Science Degree
18	53 (3.14%)	CISM
19	52 (3.08%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	80 (4.73%)	SLA
2	45 (2.66%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	41 (2.43%)	PCI DSS
4	20 (1.18%)	QA
5	8 (0.47%)	COBIT
6	7 (0.41%)	ISO/IEC 20000
7	6 (0.36%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
7	6 (0.36%)	ISO 22301
8	5 (0.30%)	RMADS
9	4 (0.24%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9	4 (0.24%)	PMO
10	3 (0.18%)	Cyber Essentials
10	3 (0.18%)	GPG13
10	3 (0.18%)	JSP 440
11	2 (0.12%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS
11	2 (0.12%)	Data Quality
11	2 (0.12%)	Disclosure Scotland
11	2 (0.12%)	ISO/IEC 27005
12	1 (0.059%)	Def Stans
12	1 (0.059%)	ISAE 3402

System Software
1	135 (7.99%)	Active Directory
2	134 (7.93%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	56 (3.31%)	Hyper-V
4	39 (2.31%)	vSphere
5	24 (1.42%)	VMware ESXi
6	14 (0.83%)	ProxySG
7	11 (0.65%)	XenApp
8	9 (0.53%)	Firmware
8	9 (0.53%)	Virtual Machines
9	8 (0.47%)	vCloud
9	8 (0.47%)	Virtual Servers
10	7 (0.41%)	Forefront TMG
11	6 (0.36%)	ISA Server
11	6 (0.36%)	UAG
12	5 (0.30%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
13	3 (0.18%)	BitLocker
13	3 (0.18%)	KVM
13	3 (0.18%)	Terminal Server
13	3 (0.18%)	Terminal Services
13	3 (0.18%)	XenDesktop

Systems Management
1	127 (7.51%)	FortiGate
2	106 (6.27%)	Cisco CUCM
3	76 (4.50%)	Cisco Prime
4	53 (3.14%)	Cisco UCCX
5	26 (1.54%)	HP Data Protector
6	24 (1.42%)	Opscode Chef
7	23 (1.36%)	Nagios
7	23 (1.36%)	Puppet
7	23 (1.36%)	Tivoli
7	23 (1.36%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
8	21 (1.24%)	Cisco UCCE
9	20 (1.18%)	SCCM
10	15 (0.89%)	SCOM
11	13 (0.77%)	Microsoft Clustering
12	12 (0.71%)	vCenter Server
13	10 (0.59%)	Ansible
13	10 (0.59%)	Cacti
14	8 (0.47%)	SolarWinds Orion
14	8 (0.47%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
15	7 (0.41%)	HP UCMDB

Vendors
1	1387 (82.07%)	Cisco
2	361 (21.36%)	Juniper
3	352 (20.83%)	CheckPoint
4	305 (18.05%)	F5
5	240 (14.20%)	VMware
6	218 (12.90%)	Microsoft
7	185 (10.95%)	HP
8	165 (9.76%)	Palo Alto
9	154 (9.11%)	Fortinet
10	131 (7.75%)	Riverbed
11	114 (6.75%)	Citrix
12	92 (5.44%)	SolarWinds
13	76 (4.50%)	Aruba
14	59 (3.49%)	Blue Coat
15	49 (2.90%)	Red Hat
16	41 (2.43%)	Dell
17	33 (1.95%)	Nokia
18	31 (1.83%)	Avaya
18	31 (1.83%)	EMC
19	27 (1.60%)	Splunk