Cambridgeshire SAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Storage Area Network (SAN) skills within the Cambridgeshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Storage Area Network (SAN)
Location Aberdeen Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Cleethorpes Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hove Hull Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	68
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	5	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	3.226 %	1.838 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£225	£245
Average daily rate	£238	£270
% change on same period last year	-12.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£396
% change on same period last year	-12.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.92	£31.68
% change on same period last year	-5.55 %
Communications & Networking Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	155	272
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.205 %	0.271 %
Daily rates quoted	19	25
Average minimum daily rate	£237	£264
Average daily rate	£270	£280
% change on same period last year	-3.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£303	£297
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.92	£31.32
Average hourly rate	£26.14	£33.80
% change on same period last year	-22.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.35	£36.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.72	£28.70
% change on same period last year	-10.38 %
SAN East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SAN
Contract Locations

This section 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 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+16	5	£238	-12.03 %

SAN East of England

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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 6 (54.55 %) Windows 1 6 (54.55 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (45.45 %) HP 3 4 (36.36 %) Active Directory 3 4 (36.36 %) VMware 3 4 (36.36 %) VMware ESX 4 3 (27.27 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 3 (27.27 %) IBM 4 3 (27.27 %) LAN 4 3 (27.27 %) Linux 4 3 (27.27 %) Oracle 5 2 (18.18 %) SharePoint 5 2 (18.18 %) ERP 5 2 (18.18 %) Cisco 5 2 (18.18 %) Dell

5 2 (18.18 %) Citrix 5 2 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (18.18 %) Construction 5 2 (18.18 %) Migration 5 2 (18.18 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 2 (18.18 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (9.091 %) Red Hat Linux 6 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 6 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (9.091 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (9.091 %) Dynamics AX 6 1 (9.091 %) Brocade 6 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 5.5

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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 1 (9.091 %) WebServices 1 1 (9.091 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 6 (54.55 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (27.27 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (18.18 %) SharePoint 4 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (9.091 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS PowerPoint 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Dynamics AX 1 1 (9.091 %) Oracle ERP 1 1 (9.091 %) Axapta
Communications & Networking 1 3 (27.27 %) LAN 2 1 (9.091 %) Wireless 2 1 (9.091 %) Internet 2 1 (9.091 %) MPLS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server Integration Services 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server
General 1 2 (18.18 %) Construction 2 1 (9.091 %) Government 2 1 (9.091 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (9.091 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 3 (27.27 %) Infrastructure Engineer 1 3 (27.27 %) Administrator 2 2 (18.18 %) Consultant 2 2 (18.18 %) Citrix Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) Infrastructure Consultant 2 2 (18.18 %) Server Administrator 2 2 (18.18 %) Citrix Consultant 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Axapta Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) Architect 3 1 (9.091 %) Project Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) Systems Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Project Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Applications Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) 3rd Line Support
Operating Systems 1 6 (54.55 %) Windows 2 3 (27.27 %) Linux 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (9.091 %) Red Hat Linux 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 4 1 (9.091 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) ERP 1 2 (18.18 %) Migration 2 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) C# 1 1 (9.091 %) VB	Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software 1 4 (36.36 %) Active Directory 1 4 (36.36 %) VMware ESX 2 2 (18.18 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 2 (18.18 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (9.091 %) DameWare 1 1 (9.091 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 5 (45.45 %) HP 2 4 (36.36 %) VMware 3 3 (27.27 %) IBM 3 3 (27.27 %) Oracle 4 2 (18.18 %) Cisco 4 2 (18.18 %) Dell 4 2 (18.18 %) Citrix 5 1 (9.091 %) Brocade 5 1 (9.091 %) Symantec 5 1 (9.091 %) Red Hat