The first table below looks at the demand for Fibre Channel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fibre Channel over the 3 months to 22 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 Cambridgeshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fibre Channel (FC)
Rank 50 64 44
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -20
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 1 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.182% 0.143% 0.772%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.855% 0.917% 4.494%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
Average daily rate £325 £225 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.44% -32.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £344 £390
% change year-on-year
+5.45% -11.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 -
All Communications & Networking
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
117 109 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 21.35% 15.57% 17.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 47 32
Average daily rate £275 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.06% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £425 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 25
Average hourly rate £20.00 £41.25 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.51% +122.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £10.75 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
Fibre Channel
East of England

Fibre Channel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Fibre Channel Jobs Demand Trend

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Fibre Channel Daily Rate Trend

Fibre Channel
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fibre Channel within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Cambridge +12 1 £325 +44.44%
Fibre Channel
East of England

Fibre Channel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel.

1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) CommVault
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) AppManager
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Samba
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (50.00%) Cadence
2 1 (50.00%) IC Design
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Lync

Fibre Channel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (50.00%) Lync
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) FCoE
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) IC Design
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (50.00%) Samba
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Workstation
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) XenApp
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) AppManager
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) CommVault
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cadence