The first table below looks at the demand for SAN 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 SAN 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
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 42 39 42
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +3
Contract jobs citing SAN 8 23 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.457% 3.329% 1.718%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.723% 21.10% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 19 4
Average daily rate - £320 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +11.30%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £368 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.68% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
Average hourly rate £12.00 £42.50 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-71.76% +57.40%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+0.93% +0.94%
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%
SAN
East of England

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire SAN Jobs Demand Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 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 -1 5 - -
Peterborough - 3 - -
SAN
East of England

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 8 (61.54%) VMware
1 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (38.46%) NAS
2 5 (38.46%) IIS
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) UNIX
2 5 (38.46%) DHCP
2 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
2 5 (38.46%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) EMC
3 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
3 4 (30.77%) Middleware
3 4 (30.77%) Windows
3 4 (30.77%) JBoss
3 4 (30.77%) Apache
3 4 (30.77%) Tomcat
3 4 (30.77%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) Perl
3 4 (30.77%) BIG-IP
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (23.08%) Akamai
4 3 (23.08%) Puppet
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon AWS
4 3 (23.08%) Web Services
4 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
4 3 (23.08%) ARCserve
4 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
5 2 (15.38%) HP
5 2 (15.38%) Dell
5 2 (15.38%) MS Exchange

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 4 (30.77%) Middleware
2 3 (23.08%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) IIS
2 4 (30.77%) Apache
2 4 (30.77%) Tomcat
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon AWS
4 2 (15.38%) MS Exchange
5 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) DHCP
1 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
1 5 (38.46%) DNS
1 5 (38.46%) NAS
2 4 (30.77%) BIG-IP
3 2 (15.38%) HTTP
4 1 (7.692%) SNMP
4 1 (7.692%) LAN
4 1 (7.692%) WAN
4 1 (7.692%) Internet
General
1 1 (7.692%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (30.77%) Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Backup Specialist
3 1 (7.692%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (7.692%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.692%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (7.692%) IT Support
3 1 (7.692%) Support Technician
3 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.692%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Architect
3 1 (7.692%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) CLARiiON
2 1 (7.692%) Clustering
2 1 (7.692%) Fat Client
2 1 (7.692%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) UNIX
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
4 1 (7.692%) Windows XP
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
3 1 (7.692%) Service Management
3 1 (7.692%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (7.692%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Java
1 4 (30.77%) Perl
1 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.692%) Bash shell
2 1 (7.692%) PHP
2 1 (7.692%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) ARCserve
1 3 (23.08%) Puppet
2 2 (15.38%) PureDisk
2 2 (15.38%) NetBackup
3 1 (7.692%) Backup Exec
3 1 (7.692%) SCCM
3 1 (7.692%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 5 (38.46%) EMC
3 4 (30.77%) JBoss
4 3 (23.08%) Akamai
5 2 (15.38%) 3PAR
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (15.38%) HP
5 2 (15.38%) Dell
6 1 (7.692%) Citrix
6 1 (7.692%) NetApp
6 1 (7.692%) Symantec