The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 17 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 Birmingham 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 38 52 42
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -10
Contract jobs citing NAS 5 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.142% 0.163% 0.600%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.90% 1.695% 4.167%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
Average daily rate £275 - £153
UK excluding London average daily rate £419 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £19.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +26.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +58.33%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
42 59 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 9.589% 9.625% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 35
Average daily rate £400 £325 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% +27.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £100 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £430 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
Average hourly rate £13.00 £30.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.66% +122.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
NAS
West Midlands

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham NAS Hourly Rate Trend

NAS
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 5 (83.33%) SAN
2 4 (66.67%) Symantec
2 4 (66.67%) UNIX
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 4 (66.67%) HP
2 4 (66.67%) EMC
3 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (50.00%) Replication
3 3 (50.00%) CLARiiON
3 3 (50.00%) Symmetrix
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
4 1 (16.67%) Veritas
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (16.67%) Sun
4 1 (16.67%) Solaris
4 1 (16.67%) Linux

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) SAN
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Backup Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Storage Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Backup Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Replication
1 3 (50.00%) CLARiiON
1 3 (50.00%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Migration
1 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) HP
1 4 (66.67%) EMC
1 4 (66.67%) IBM
1 4 (66.67%) Symantec
2 1 (16.67%) Sun
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
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Posted: 6 May 2013