The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire 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 55 54 68
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +14
Contract jobs citing NAS 10 21 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 1.269% 2.067% 0.660%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.64% 13.29% 4.375%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
Average daily rate £425 £309 £180
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.54% +71.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £419 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +58.33%
All Communications & Networking
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
94 158 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 11.93% 15.55% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 38 59
Average daily rate £425 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.64% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £246 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 20 18
Average hourly rate £14.96 £13.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.81% -35.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £10.06 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £38.75 £90.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
NAS
South East

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire NAS Hourly Rate Trend

NAS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes -2 7 £425 +37.54%
Amersham - 3 - -
NAS
South East

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 20 (100.00%) SAN
2 13 (65.00%) Windows
3 11 (55.00%) VMware
4 10 (50.00%) Oracle
5 9 (45.00%) UNIX
5 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (45.00%) Sun
5 9 (45.00%) HP
5 9 (45.00%) Citrix
6 8 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (40.00%) Windows NT
6 8 (40.00%) MCSE
6 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
6 8 (40.00%) Clustering
6 8 (40.00%) Firewall
6 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (35.00%) Cryptography
8 6 (30.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (30.00%) StorageTek
8 6 (30.00%) OpenView
8 6 (30.00%) MS Exchange
8 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
8 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
9 5 (25.00%) Degree
9 5 (25.00%) Windows 2000
9 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
9 5 (25.00%) Intel
9 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (20.00%) Internet

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 Development
1 3 (15.00%) SOAP
1 3 (15.00%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (15.00%) Lync
3 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 20 (100.00%) SAN
2 8 (40.00%) Firewall
3 4 (20.00%) Internet
3 4 (20.00%) SMTP
4 3 (15.00%) iSCSI
5 2 (10.00%) Broadband
5 2 (10.00%) LAN
5 2 (10.00%) WAN
6 1 (5.000%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.000%) VPN
6 1 (5.000%) ICMP
6 1 (5.000%) IPsec
6 1 (5.000%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (5.000%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (5.000%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Administrator
2 7 (35.00%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (30.00%) Architect
3 6 (30.00%) Technical Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Windows Administrator
4 3 (15.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 3 (15.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 3 (15.00%) UNIX Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Storage Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (5.000%) Security Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Wintel Administrator
6 1 (5.000%) Wintel Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Clustering
2 7 (35.00%) Cryptography
3 4 (20.00%) Client/Server
4 2 (10.00%) Thin Client
4 2 (10.00%) Mainframe
4 2 (10.00%) EMC Centera
4 2 (10.00%) Fat Client
4 2 (10.00%) Symmetrix DMX
5 1 (5.000%) PKI
5 1 (5.000%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) UNIX
3 8 (40.00%) Windows NT
3 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (25.00%) Windows 2000
5 3 (15.00%) HPUX
5 3 (15.00%) Solaris
5 3 (15.00%) Windows 7
6 2 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (5.000%) Linux
7 1 (5.000%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (15.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (5.000%) ITIL
4 1 (5.000%) Change Management
4 1 (5.000%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Time Management
4 1 (5.000%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
1 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) MCSE
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) Degree
4 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (20.00%) MCTS
4 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (20.00%) CCSP
4 4 (20.00%) CCNA
5 3 (15.00%) ISEB
5 3 (15.00%) MCP
6 1 (5.000%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.000%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (20.00%) VMware ESX
4 3 (15.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (15.00%) XenApp
5 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (10.00%) ISA Server
5 2 (10.00%) Terminal Services
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) OpenView
1 6 (30.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (15.00%) Tivoli
2 3 (15.00%) SCOM
2 3 (15.00%) HP Data Protector
2 3 (15.00%) HP SIM
3 2 (10.00%) BladeLogic
4 1 (5.000%) SCCM
4 1 (5.000%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) VMware
2 10 (50.00%) Oracle
3 9 (45.00%) Citrix
3 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (45.00%) Sun
3 9 (45.00%) HP
4 6 (30.00%) StorageTek
5 5 (25.00%) Intel
6 3 (15.00%) Cisco
7 2 (10.00%) IBM
7 2 (10.00%) NetApp
7 2 (10.00%) EMC
7 2 (10.00%) Brocade
7 2 (10.00%) Fujitsu
7 2 (10.00%) 3PAR