NAS Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 21 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 Cheshire 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 60 59 74
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +15
Contract jobs citing NAS 3 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.408% 0.870% 0.206%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.308% 4.268% 1.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +58.33%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 130 164 197
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 17.69% 20.37% 20.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 84 129
Average daily rate £313 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £150 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £526 £488 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 3
Average hourly rate £39.00 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
NAS
North West

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Chester - 2 - -
NAS
North West

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) IIS
2 2 (40.00%) EMC
2 2 (40.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) CLARiiON
3 1 (20.00%) Clustering
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Postfix
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) MCTS
3 1 (20.00%) MCITP
3 1 (20.00%) Brocade
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (20.00%) IronPort
3 1 (20.00%) Celerra
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) SMTP
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 1 (20.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
1 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) SMTP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Storage Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Messaging Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CLARiiON
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Celerra
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (20.00%) Service Management
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) MCTS
1 1 (20.00%) MCITP
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
1 1 (20.00%) MCSA
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Postfix
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (20.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) Brocade
2 1 (20.00%) IronPort
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Sun
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Symantec
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
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