The first table below looks at the demand for SAN 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 SAN over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 34 48 30
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -18
Contract jobs citing SAN 12 7 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 2.505% 1.084% 3.156%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.22% 10.77% 19.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 15
Average daily rate £375 £268 £170
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.18% +57.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £367 £264 £140
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £334 £215
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £330 £340
% change year-on-year
+4.54% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £25.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year
+8.00% +2.04%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
54 65 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 11.27% 10.06% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 38
Average daily rate £350 £150 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+133.33% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £194 £100 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £375 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.54% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +122.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
SAN
West Midlands

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham SAN Jobs Demand Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SAN 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 SAN.

1 24 (85.71%) Windows
2 15 (53.57%) Active Directory
3 14 (50.00%) MS Exchange
4 13 (46.43%) HP
4 13 (46.43%) VMware
5 12 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 12 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
6 11 (39.29%) EMC
7 10 (35.71%) Citrix
8 7 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (21.43%) NetApp
9 6 (21.43%) DNS
9 6 (21.43%) DHCP
9 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
10 5 (17.86%) UNIX
10 5 (17.86%) MS Excel
10 5 (17.86%) Windows XP
10 5 (17.86%) Cisco
10 5 (17.86%) IBM
10 5 (17.86%) Lync
10 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
10 5 (17.86%) NAS
10 5 (17.86%) Windows 7
11 4 (14.29%) XenApp
11 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (14.29%) Migration
11 4 (14.29%) Replication
11 4 (14.29%) Firewall
11 4 (14.29%) Symantec

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SAN 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 SAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.571%) COM
Application Platforms
1 14 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 7 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (17.86%) Lync
4 2 (7.143%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (3.571%) IIS
5 1 (3.571%) Apache
5 1 (3.571%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) MS Excel
2 3 (10.71%) S-PLUS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) DHCP
1 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
1 6 (21.43%) DNS
2 5 (17.86%) NAS
3 4 (14.29%) Firewall
4 3 (10.71%) VLAN
4 3 (10.71%) iSCSI
4 3 (10.71%) MPLS
4 3 (10.71%) LAN
4 3 (10.71%) WAN
5 2 (7.143%) HTTP
6 1 (3.571%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (3.571%) Wireless
6 1 (3.571%) IPsec
6 1 (3.571%) Ethernet
6 1 (3.571%) FTP
6 1 (3.571%) NetScreen
6 1 (3.571%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.143%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (3.571%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Consultant
2 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) IT Support
4 3 (10.71%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) Storage Consultant
4 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (7.143%) Customer Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Support Technician
5 2 (7.143%) IT Support Technician
5 2 (7.143%) Customer Support Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Backup Consultant
6 1 (3.571%) VMware Technical Consultant
6 1 (3.571%) Backup Administrator
6 1 (3.571%) AIX Specialist
6 1 (3.571%) VMware Consultant
6 1 (3.571%) Storage Administrator
6 1 (3.571%) AIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Replication
2 3 (10.71%) CLARiiON
2 3 (10.71%) Symmetrix
2 3 (10.71%) EqualLogic
3 2 (7.143%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.571%) HACMP
4 1 (3.571%) Clustering
4 1 (3.571%) LPAR
4 1 (3.571%) DLPAR
Operating Systems
1 24 (85.71%) Windows
2 12 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (17.86%) Windows 7
3 5 (17.86%) Windows XP
3 5 (17.86%) UNIX
4 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (7.143%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (7.143%) AIX
6 1 (3.571%) Solaris
6 1 (3.571%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (3.571%) Business Continuity
2 1 (3.571%) Data Migration
2 1 (3.571%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.143%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.571%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) CCNP
1 3 (10.71%) CCNA
1 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (10.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (3.571%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.571%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.571%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) QA
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.29%) XenApp
4 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
4 3 (10.71%) VMware Server
5 2 (7.143%) XenServer
6 1 (3.571%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (7.143%) WSUS
2 2 (7.143%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.571%) SCOM
3 1 (3.571%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) HP
1 13 (46.43%) VMware
2 12 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 11 (39.29%) EMC
4 10 (35.71%) Citrix
5 6 (21.43%) NetApp
6 5 (17.86%) Cisco
6 5 (17.86%) IBM
7 4 (14.29%) Symantec
8 3 (10.71%) SonicWALL
8 3 (10.71%) Veeam
8 3 (10.71%) Dell
9 1 (3.571%) Juniper
9 1 (3.571%) Sun
9 1 (3.571%) Veritas
9 1 (3.571%) Red Hat
9 1 (3.571%) WatchGuard