The first table below looks at the demand for NAS 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 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 47 55 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing NAS 3 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.546% 1.013% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.521% 6.422% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £425 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £419 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £37.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +58.33%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
119 109 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 21.68% 15.77% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 48 30
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 £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 24
Average hourly rate £20.00 £42.50 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-52.94% +126.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £10.70 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
NAS
East of England

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge +8 3 - -
NAS
East of England

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 5 (62.50%) IIS
1 5 (62.50%) SAN
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (50.00%) Middleware
2 4 (50.00%) UNIX
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Perl
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) JBoss
2 4 (50.00%) Apache
2 4 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 4 (50.00%) DHCP
2 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (50.00%) DNS
3 3 (37.50%) Web Services
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Akamai
3 3 (37.50%) Puppet
3 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (25.00%) LTE
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) C
4 2 (25.00%) C++
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Active Directory

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 4 (50.00%) Middleware
2 3 (37.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) IIS
2 4 (50.00%) Apache
2 4 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
4 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) SAN
2 4 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 4 (50.00%) DHCP
2 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) 3GPP
3 2 (25.00%) UMTS
3 2 (25.00%) LTE
3 2 (25.00%) Wireless
4 1 (12.50%) Internet
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Handset
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Fat Client
2 1 (12.50%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) UNIX
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) Perl
1 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) C
2 2 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) Backup Exec
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) JBoss
3 3 (37.50%) Akamai
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) NetApp
5 1 (12.50%) Symantec
5 1 (12.50%) Citrix