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

The first table below looks at the demand for SAN 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 SAN over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 49 30 26
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -4
Contract jobs citing SAN 14 36 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.905% 4.444% 4.688%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.85% 21.95% 23.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 32
Average daily rate £500 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.93% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £300 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £640 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £364 £349
% change year-on-year
+0.34% +4.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -1.88%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 129 164 194
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 17.55% 20.25% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 86 125
Average daily rate £319 £330 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.40% -0.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £150 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £527 £488 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 4
Average hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
SAN
North West

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cheshire SAN Daily Rate Histogram

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 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 -4 6 - -
Macclesfield -4 1 - -
Knutsford - 1 £180 -
SAN
North West

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 13 (41.94%) VMware
2 11 (35.48%) Windows
3 10 (32.26%) ITIL
3 10 (32.26%) Citrix
4 9 (29.03%) Oracle
4 9 (29.03%) UNIX
4 9 (29.03%) Migration
4 9 (29.03%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (25.81%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (25.81%) DNS
5 8 (25.81%) HP
6 7 (22.58%) IBM
6 7 (22.58%) AIX
6 7 (22.58%) SAP
6 7 (22.58%) Hyper-V
7 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
7 6 (19.35%) Windows 2000
7 6 (19.35%) LAN
7 6 (19.35%) DHCP
7 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
7 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
7 6 (19.35%) Active Directory
7 6 (19.35%) SCCM
7 6 (19.35%) Brocade
7 6 (19.35%) Clustering
7 6 (19.35%) TOGAF
8 5 (16.13%) SCOM
8 5 (16.13%) Cisco
8 5 (16.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (16.13%) Windows NT

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 3 (9.677%) SAP Basis
2 1 (3.226%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.677%) NetWeaver
1 3 (9.677%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.452%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (6.452%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (3.226%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (3.226%) IIS
3 1 (3.226%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.226%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (9.677%) MS Project
1 3 (9.677%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.226%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) DNS
2 6 (19.35%) LAN
2 6 (19.35%) DHCP
2 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
3 4 (12.90%) WAN
3 4 (12.90%) VPN
3 4 (12.90%) NAS
3 4 (12.90%) Firewall
4 2 (6.452%) SMTP
5 1 (3.226%) VLAN
5 1 (3.226%) SSL
5 1 (3.226%) HTTP
5 1 (3.226%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.226%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.226%) SAP HANA
General
1 3 (9.677%) Local Government
2 2 (6.452%) Banking
3 1 (3.226%) Finance
3 1 (3.226%) German Language
Job Titles
1 5 (16.13%) Wintel Engineer
1 5 (16.13%) Architect
1 5 (16.13%) Analyst
1 5 (16.13%) Wintel Analyst
2 4 (12.90%) Consultant
3 3 (9.677%) Administrator
3 3 (9.677%) Security Architect
3 3 (9.677%) SAP Manager
3 3 (9.677%) Information Architect
3 3 (9.677%) Wintel Specialist
3 3 (9.677%) Information Security Architect
4 2 (6.452%) SAP Release Manager
4 2 (6.452%) AIX Engineer
4 2 (6.452%) Storage Specialist
4 2 (6.452%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (6.452%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (6.452%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (6.452%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (6.452%) Release Manager
5 1 (3.226%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Clustering
2 3 (9.677%) Replication
2 3 (9.677%) Client/Server
3 2 (6.452%) FMCG
3 2 (6.452%) CLARiiON
4 1 (3.226%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.226%) Celerra
4 1 (3.226%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Windows
2 9 (29.03%) UNIX
2 9 (29.03%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (25.81%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (22.58%) AIX
5 6 (19.35%) Windows 2000
6 5 (16.13%) Windows NT
7 3 (9.677%) Solaris
8 1 (3.226%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (3.226%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) ITIL
2 9 (29.03%) Migration
3 6 (19.35%) TOGAF
4 4 (12.90%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (12.90%) Information Security
4 4 (12.90%) Security Management
5 3 (9.677%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (9.677%) CRM
5 3 (9.677%) Capacity Management
6 2 (6.452%) Change Control
6 2 (6.452%) PRINCE2
6 2 (6.452%) Project Management
6 2 (6.452%) Service Management
6 2 (6.452%) Change Management
7 1 (3.226%) Incident Management
7 1 (3.226%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (3.226%) Load Balancing
7 1 (3.226%) Release Management
7 1 (3.226%) Configuration Management
7 1 (3.226%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.90%) SQL
3 3 (9.677%) Java
3 3 (9.677%) ABAP
4 2 (6.452%) Perl
5 1 (3.226%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.226%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.226%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (3.226%) MCTS
1 1 (3.226%) MCITP
1 1 (3.226%) Degree
1 1 (3.226%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (3.226%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.226%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (3.226%) MCSE
1 1 (3.226%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.452%) QA
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Hyper-V
2 6 (19.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (9.677%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.226%) Postfix
4 1 (3.226%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) SCCM
2 5 (16.13%) SCOM
2 5 (16.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (9.677%) NetBackup
4 2 (6.452%) Tivoli
5 1 (3.226%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (3.226%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) VMware
2 10 (32.26%) Citrix
3 9 (29.03%) Oracle
4 8 (25.81%) HP
5 7 (22.58%) IBM
5 7 (22.58%) SAP
6 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
6 6 (19.35%) Brocade
7 5 (16.13%) Cisco
8 3 (9.677%) NetApp
9 2 (6.452%) EMC
9 2 (6.452%) Hitachi
10 1 (3.226%) IronPort
10 1 (3.226%) Symantec
10 1 (3.226%) Sun
10 1 (3.226%) BMC
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