The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of NetApp products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NetApp over the 3 months to 20 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Network Appliance Corporation.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NetApp
Rank 53 60 67
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +7
Contract jobs citing NetApp 8 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.108% 1.107% 1.029%
As % of the Vendors category 2.198% 1.940% 2.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 7
Average daily rate £345 £380 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.21% +8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £341 £316 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £449 £444 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £400 £350
% change year-on-year
-13.75% +14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.46 £30.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year
-38.46% +44.57%
All Vendors
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
364 464 480
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 50.42% 57.07% 49.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 229 256
Average daily rate £370 £353 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.89% +0.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £286 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £494 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £15.75 £12.46
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+138.09% +26.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £14.00 £8.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £30.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
NetApp
North West

NetApp
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire NetApp Jobs Demand Trend

NetApp
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire NetApp Daily Rate Trend

NetApp
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NetApp across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Cheshire NetApp Daily Rate Histogram

NetApp
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire NetApp Hourly Rate Trend

NetApp
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetApp within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 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 - 3 - -
Warrington - 3 £345 -
Knutsford - 1 - -
Macclesfield - 1 - -
NetApp
North West

NetApp
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing NetApp 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 NetApp.

1 6 (60.00%) HP
2 5 (50.00%) IBM
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 4 (40.00%) Windows
4 3 (30.00%) SAN
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (20.00%) UNIX
6 1 (10.00%) Service Management
6 1 (10.00%) Change Management
6 1 (10.00%) Finance
6 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
6 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
6 1 (10.00%) EMC
6 1 (10.00%) Citrix
6 1 (10.00%) Hitachi
6 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
6 1 (10.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
6 1 (10.00%) Tru64
6 1 (10.00%) Project Management
6 1 (10.00%) AIX
6 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
6 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
6 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
6 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (10.00%) SQL

NetApp
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing NetApp 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 NetApp. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Storage Specialist
1 3 (30.00%) Storage Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Storage Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Server Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SAN Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (10.00%) AIX
3 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) Tru64
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (10.00%) Change Control
2 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Service Management
2 1 (10.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) XenApp
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) HP
2 5 (50.00%) IBM
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) Brocade
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) EMC
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Hitachi