NAS Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NAS 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 118 121 114
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -7
Contract jobs citing NAS 2 14 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.084% 0.445% 0.504%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.322% 1.293% 2.183%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 9
Average daily rate - £275 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -35.29%
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £375 £374
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +47.57%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 622 1083 687
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 25.97% 34.44% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 217 195
Average daily rate £285 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 47 57
Average hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £14.50 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £148.70 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
NAS
South East

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NAS across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Berkshire NAS Jobs Demand Trend

NAS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing NAS across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire NAS Daily Rate Trend

NAS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing NAS across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire NAS Hourly Rate Trend

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing NAS 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited NAS.

1 18 (94.74%) Windows
1 18 (94.74%) SAN
2 12 (63.16%) VMware
2 12 (63.16%) Clustering
2 12 (63.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (52.63%) Linux
4 9 (47.37%) ITIL
4 9 (47.37%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (47.37%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (42.11%) Release Management
5 8 (42.11%) Symantec
5 8 (42.11%) NetBackup
5 8 (42.11%) VMware Workstation
5 8 (42.11%) NetApp
5 8 (42.11%) VPN
6 7 (36.84%) Active Directory
7 6 (31.58%) LDAP
7 6 (31.58%) SQL
7 6 (31.58%) TCP/IP
8 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
9 3 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (15.79%) Project Management
9 3 (15.79%) Legato
9 3 (15.79%) PRINCE
9 3 (15.79%) Veritas
9 3 (15.79%) DNS
9 3 (15.79%) SLA
9 3 (15.79%) HP
9 3 (15.79%) EMC
9 3 (15.79%) Citrix

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing NAS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited NAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) IIS
1 3 (15.79%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 18 (94.74%) SAN
2 8 (42.11%) VPN
3 6 (31.58%) LDAP
3 6 (31.58%) TCP/IP
4 3 (15.79%) DNS
4 3 (15.79%) LAN
4 3 (15.79%) WAN
4 3 (15.79%) DHCP
5 1 (5.263%) IPv6
5 1 (5.263%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (5.263%) Electronics
1 1 (5.263%) Telecoms
1 1 (5.263%) Finance
1 1 (5.263%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Desktop Support
2 7 (36.84%) Support Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Manager
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Project Manager
4 3 (15.79%) Project Manager
5 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Senior Tester
6 1 (5.263%) Server Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) QA Tester
6 1 (5.263%) Windows Administrator
6 1 (5.263%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Server Support Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Server Support
6 1 (5.263%) Systems Support
6 1 (5.263%) Systems Tester
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Clustering
2 3 (15.79%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) Windows
2 10 (52.63%) Linux
3 9 (47.37%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (47.37%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (15.79%) UNIX
5 1 (5.263%) HPUX
5 1 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) ITIL
2 8 (42.11%) Release Management
3 3 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (15.79%) Project Management
3 3 (15.79%) PRINCE
3 3 (15.79%) PRINCE2
3 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
3 3 (15.79%) System Testing
3 3 (15.79%) Product Management
4 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.53%) Capacity Management
4 2 (10.53%) Problem Management
4 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.263%) Migration
5 1 (5.263%) Data Migration
5 1 (5.263%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) SQL
2 1 (5.263%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.263%) MCSE
2 1 (5.263%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) SLA
1 3 (15.79%) QA
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (42.11%) VMware Workstation
3 7 (36.84%) Active Directory
4 3 (15.79%) NFS
4 3 (15.79%) NLBS
4 3 (15.79%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) NetBackup
2 3 (15.79%) Legato
2 3 (15.79%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) VMware
2 8 (42.11%) Symantec
2 8 (42.11%) NetApp
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
4 3 (15.79%) Veritas
4 3 (15.79%) HP
4 3 (15.79%) EMC
4 3 (15.79%) Citrix
5 1 (5.263%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.263%) Oracle
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