The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 20 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 Bradford 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 20 28 22
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -6
Contract jobs citing SAN 6 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 3.871% 0.625% 1.709%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 50.00% 8.333% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £368 £348
% change year-on-year
-0.68% +5.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £175.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -3.70%
All Communications & Networking
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
12 12 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 7.742% 7.500% 6.838%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
Average daily rate £250 £165 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+51.51% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
Average hourly rate £18.71 £32.50 £7.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.43% +356.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £32.50 £6.83
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £32.50 £7.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SAN
West Yorkshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) VMware
3 5 (55.56%) MCSE
3 5 (55.56%) MCSA
3 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (44.44%) Citrix
4 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (44.44%) VoIP
4 4 (44.44%) Cisco
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 4 (44.44%) CCNA
4 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
4 4 (44.44%) ITIL
4 4 (44.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (33.33%) LANDesk
5 3 (33.33%) Replication
5 3 (33.33%) Firewall
5 3 (33.33%) Wireless
5 3 (33.33%) UNIX
5 3 (33.33%) Windows XP
5 3 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
5 3 (33.33%) Lotus Domino
5 3 (33.33%) HP
5 3 (33.33%) Lotus

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 3 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
2 3 (33.33%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) VoIP
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (11.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Storage Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Junior
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) HP Storage Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Junior Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (33.33%) UNIX
3 3 (33.33%) Windows XP
4 2 (22.22%) HPUX
4 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
4 2 (22.22%) Windows 8
5 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
1 1 (11.11%) VBScript
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) MCSE
1 5 (55.56%) MCSA
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (44.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (44.44%) CCNA
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) MCTS
3 1 (11.11%) MCITP
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (11.11%) XenApp
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Citrix
3 3 (33.33%) Lotus
3 3 (33.33%) HP
3 3 (33.33%) LANDesk
4 2 (22.22%) Brocade
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle
4 2 (22.22%) 3PAR
5 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds