Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SAN 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 SAN over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Buckinghamshire region.

 Storage Area Network (SAN)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank454273
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Up+31
Matching contract IT job ads10717
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire1.391 %1.226 %1.175 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category9.174 %8.537 %6.996 %
Daily rates quoted221
Average daily rate£275£350£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42 %-6.660 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£375
% change year-on-year
--6.660 %
Hourly rates quoted102
Average hourly rate£12.50-£50.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£30.00£30.50
% change year-on-year
-18.33 %-1.630 %
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
10982243
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire15.16 %14.36 %16.79 %
Daily rates quoted243039
Average daily rate£300£332£313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.630 %+6.240 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£275£185£210
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£428£425£400
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£325
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %+3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted19228
Average hourly rate£15.50£37.10£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-58.22 %+15.93 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.00£37.10£15.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£47.00£37.10£50.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£24.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
+4.160 %-12.72 %
SAN South EastSAN
South East

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.

SAN
Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire SAN Demand Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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 KeynesDown-17£275-
SAN South EastSAN
South East

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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.

18 (47.06 %)IBM
18 (47.06 %)Clustering
27 (41.18 %)AIX
27 (41.18 %)UNIX
35 (29.41 %)Windows
35 (29.41 %)HACMP
35 (29.41 %)Shell Script
35 (29.41 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
44 (23.53 %)Solaris
44 (23.53 %)EMC
44 (23.53 %)Microsoft
44 (23.53 %)Veritas
44 (23.53 %)NAS
44 (23.53 %)Windows Server 2008
53 (17.65 %)Hyper-V
53 (17.65 %)Capacity Planning
53 (17.65 %)VMware Infrastructure
53 (17.65 %)Brocade
53 (17.65 %)Incident Management
53 (17.65 %)Celerra
53 (17.65 %)Hitachi
53 (17.65 %)Oracle
53 (17.65 %)Change Management
53 (17.65 %)Project Management
53 (17.65 %)Active Directory
53 (17.65 %)Finance
53 (17.65 %)VMware
53 (17.65 %)EMC Centera
62 (11.76 %)Management Information System
62 (11.76 %)Migration

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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.

Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12 (11.76 %)ASP
21 (5.882 %)WebSphere
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (11.76 %)SharePoint
12 (11.76 %)SharePoint Server 2007
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (5.882 %)Photoshop
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (23.53 %)NAS
22 (11.76 %)VPN
31 (5.882 %)SSL
31 (5.882 %)SSH
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (11.76 %)SQL Server
12 (11.76 %)SQL Server 2005
21 (5.882 %)Oracle 8/8i
21 (5.882 %)DB2
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13 (17.65 %)Finance
21 (5.882 %)Financial Institution
21 (5.882 %)Government
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14 (23.53 %)Administrator
23 (17.65 %)UNIX Support
23 (17.65 %)Technical Support
23 (17.65 %)Storage Administrator
32 (11.76 %)Storage Consultant
32 (11.76 %)Consultant
32 (11.76 %)Systems Engineer
32 (11.76 %)SharePoint Specialist
41 (5.882 %)Windows Systems Engineer
41 (5.882 %)EMC Storage Consultant
41 (5.882 %)AIX Engineer
41 (5.882 %)SAN Administrator
41 (5.882 %)Implementation Engineer
41 (5.882 %)Support Analyst
41 (5.882 %)Senior Systems Engineer
41 (5.882 %)Project Manager
41 (5.882 %)Analyst
41 (5.882 %)Helpdesk Technician
41 (5.882 %)Storage Engineer
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
18 (47.06 %)Clustering
25 (29.41 %)HACMP
33 (17.65 %)Celerra
33 (17.65 %)EMC Centera
42 (11.76 %)Management Information System
42 (11.76 %)PACS
42 (11.76 %)Symmetrix
51 (5.882 %)Symmetrix DMX
51 (5.882 %)Fat Client
51 (5.882 %)NHS
51 (5.882 %)Firmware
51 (5.882 %)Thin Client
51 (5.882 %)CLARiiON
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
17 (41.18 %)AIX
17 (41.18 %)UNIX
25 (29.41 %)Windows
34 (23.53 %)Solaris
34 (23.53 %)Windows Server 2008
41 (5.882 %)Windows Vista
41 (5.882 %)HPUX
41 (5.882 %)Windows Server 2003
41 (5.882 %)Windows 2000
41 (5.882 %)Windows NT
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (17.65 %)Capacity Planning
13 (17.65 %)Incident Management
13 (17.65 %)Change Management
13 (17.65 %)Project Management
22 (11.76 %)Migration
22 (11.76 %)Disaster Recovery
22 (11.76 %)Load Balancing
22 (11.76 %)Supplier Management
31 (5.882 %)WFM
31 (5.882 %)Use Case
31 (5.882 %)Data Migration
31 (5.882 %)PRINCE2
31 (5.882 %)E-business
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15 (29.41 %)Shell Script
22 (11.76 %)PowerShell
31 (5.882 %)SQL
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (11.76 %)Security Cleared
21 (5.882 %)Degree
21 (5.882 %)DV Cleared
21 (5.882 %)Microsoft Certification
21 (5.882 %)PRINCE2 Certification
21 (5.882 %)MCSE
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
15 (29.41 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
22 (11.76 %)GxP
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (17.65 %)Hyper-V
13 (17.65 %)VMware Infrastructure
13 (17.65 %)Active Directory
22 (11.76 %)ISA Server
22 (11.76 %)Veritas File System
22 (11.76 %)SRDF
31 (5.882 %)Veritas Cluster Server
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (11.76 %)NetBackup
21 (5.882 %)PureDisk
21 (5.882 %)Tivoli
21 (5.882 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
21 (5.882 %)CONTROL-M
21 (5.882 %)EMC TimeFinder
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
18 (47.06 %)IBM
24 (23.53 %)EMC
24 (23.53 %)Microsoft
24 (23.53 %)Veritas
33 (17.65 %)Brocade
33 (17.65 %)Hitachi
33 (17.65 %)Oracle
33 (17.65 %)VMware
42 (11.76 %)SAP
42 (11.76 %)NetApp
42 (11.76 %)Cisco
51 (5.882 %)Intel
51 (5.882 %)Adobe