Bristol SAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Storage Area Network (SAN) skills within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Storage Area Network (SAN)
Location Aberdeen Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Ipswich Kent Kidlington Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	58
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching contract IT job ads	24	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	19.35 %	9.790 %
Daily rates quoted	6	11
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£274
Average daily rate	£326	£298
% change on same period last year	+9.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£377
% change on same period last year	-6.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.18	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£30.39	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-6.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.59	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.46	£31.13
% change on same period last year	-2.16 %
Communications & Networking Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	124	143
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.176 %	0.144 %
Daily rates quoted	30	46
Average minimum daily rate	£237	£286
Average daily rate	£270	£303
% change on same period last year	-10.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£303	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.24	£23.54
Average hourly rate	£28.92	£26.34
% change on same period last year	+9.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.59	£29.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.56	£28.73
% change on same period last year	-4.06 %
SAN South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SAN across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 28 (60.87 %) NetBackup 2 25 (54.35 %) Windows 2 25 (54.35 %) Solaris 3 22 (47.83 %) VERITAS 4 21 (45.65 %) UNIX 5 18 (39.13 %) HP 6 14 (30.43 %) VMware 7 13 (28.26 %) Citrix 8 12 (26.09 %) Windows Server 2003 8 12 (26.09 %) Symantec 9 11 (23.91 %) SC Cleared 9 11 (23.91 %) Security Cleared 10 9 (19.57 %) Government 10 9 (19.57 %) Active Directory 10 9 (19.57 %) Cisco

11 8 (17.39 %) MS Exchange 11 8 (17.39 %) Sun 11 8 (17.39 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 7 (15.22 %) HPUX 12 7 (15.22 %) EMC 13 6 (13.04 %) Microsoft 13 6 (13.04 %) Windows 2000 13 6 (13.04 %) AIX 14 4 (8.696 %) Backup Exec 14 4 (8.696 %) Brocade 14 4 (8.696 %) Linux 14 4 (8.696 %) IBM 14 4 (8.696 %) Tivoli 15 3 (6.522 %) Remedy 15 3 (6.522 %) Shell Script

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 2 (4.348 %) .NET 2 1 (2.174 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 8 (17.39 %) MS Exchange 1 8 (17.39 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (6.522 %) IIS 3 2 (4.348 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 2 (4.348 %) WebLogic 4 1 (2.174 %) Apache 4 1 (2.174 %) SharePoint
Communications & Networking 1 3 (6.522 %) DNS 2 2 (4.348 %) Firewall 2 2 (4.348 %) LLU 2 2 (4.348 %) DHCP 2 2 (4.348 %) LAN 3 1 (2.174 %) SMS 3 1 (2.174 %) WAN 3 1 (2.174 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (2.174 %) Wireless 3 1 (2.174 %) BIG-IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.348 %) SQL Server Integration Services 1 2 (4.348 %) SQL Server 2005 1 2 (4.348 %) SQL Server 1 2 (4.348 %) OLAP 1 2 (4.348 %) OLTP 1 2 (4.348 %) VLDB
General 1 9 (19.57 %) Government 2 3 (6.522 %) Telecoms 3 2 (4.348 %) Music 4 1 (2.174 %) Law	Job Titles 1 9 (19.57 %) VERITAS Engineer 2 8 (17.39 %) Analyst 3 5 (10.87 %) Operations Analyst 3 5 (10.87 %) Infrastructure Engineer 4 4 (8.696 %) Storage Engineer 4 4 (8.696 %) UNIX Specialist 4 4 (8.696 %) Senior UNIX Specialist 4 4 (8.696 %) Administrator 5 3 (6.522 %) Consultant 6 2 (4.348 %) SQL DBA 6 2 (4.348 %) SAN Engineer 6 2 (4.348 %) Server Specialist 6 2 (4.348 %) Network Support 6 2 (4.348 %) Storage Consultant 6 2 (4.348 %) Storage Administrator 6 2 (4.348 %) UNIX Engineer 6 2 (4.348 %) Citrix Engineer 6 2 (4.348 %) Senior Analyst 6 2 (4.348 %) SQL Server DBA 6 2 (4.348 %) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.522 %) CLARiiON 2 2 (4.348 %) Replication 3 1 (2.174 %) Robotics 3 1 (2.174 %) Symmetrix	Operating Systems 1 25 (54.35 %) Windows 1 25 (54.35 %) Solaris 2 21 (45.65 %) UNIX 3 12 (26.09 %) Windows Server 2003 4 7 (15.22 %) HPUX 5 6 (13.04 %) Windows 2000 5 6 (13.04 %) AIX 6 4 (8.696 %) Linux 7 3 (6.522 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 3 (6.522 %) Red Hat Linux 8 2 (4.348 %) MVS 9 1 (2.174 %) IRIX 9 1 (2.174 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (23.91 %) SC Cleared 1 11 (23.91 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (4.348 %) Migration 2 2 (4.348 %) Performance Management 2 2 (4.348 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (2.174 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (2.174 %) ITIL 3 1 (2.174 %) Problem Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (6.522 %) Shell Script 1 3 (6.522 %) SQL 2 2 (4.348 %) Transact-SQL 2 2 (4.348 %) Perl 2 2 (4.348 %) JCL 3 1 (2.174 %) C 3 1 (2.174 %) Java
System Software 1 28 (60.87 %) NetBackup 2 9 (19.57 %) Active Directory 3 4 (8.696 %) Backup Exec 4 3 (6.522 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 3 (6.522 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 2 (4.348 %) VMware ESX 6 1 (2.174 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 4 (8.696 %) Tivoli 2 3 (6.522 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 2 (4.348 %) EMC Navisphere 3 2 (4.348 %) MOM 3 2 (4.348 %) Legato 4 1 (2.174 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 22 (47.83 %) VERITAS 2 18 (39.13 %) HP 3 14 (30.43 %) VMware 4 13 (28.26 %) Citrix 5 12 (26.09 %) Symantec 6 9 (19.57 %) Cisco 7 8 (17.39 %) Sun 8 7 (15.22 %) EMC 9 6 (13.04 %) Microsoft 10 4 (8.696 %) Brocade 10 4 (8.696 %) IBM 11 3 (6.522 %) Remedy 11 3 (6.522 %) Red Hat 12 2 (4.348 %) Oracle 13 1 (2.174 %) Websense 13 1 (2.174 %) Dell 13 1 (2.174 %) NetApp 13 1 (2.174 %) Fujitsu