SAN Contracts in Chester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the Chester 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 20 15 20
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +5
Contract jobs citing SAN 6 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 4.348% 6.034% 1.887%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.43% 30.43% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £550 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +89.65%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £368 £348
% change year-on-year
-0.68% +5.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -3.70%
All Communications & Networking
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 28 23 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 20.29% 19.83% 7.547%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 7
Average daily rate £270 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £170 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £425 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
Average hourly rate £16.60 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SAN
Cheshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 11 (61.11%) VMware
2 9 (50.00%) Citrix
3 8 (44.44%) Windows
4 7 (38.89%) HP
5 6 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (33.33%) DNS
5 6 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (27.78%) Hyper-V
6 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
6 5 (27.78%) ITIL
6 5 (27.78%) Windows 2000
6 5 (27.78%) DHCP
6 5 (27.78%) SCCM
7 4 (22.22%) SCOM
7 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
7 4 (22.22%) Clustering
7 4 (22.22%) Information Security
7 4 (22.22%) Firewall
7 4 (22.22%) Security Management
7 4 (22.22%) Migration
7 4 (22.22%) Windows NT
7 4 (22.22%) AIX
7 4 (22.22%) VPN
7 4 (22.22%) Cisco
7 4 (22.22%) IBM
7 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
7 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
8 3 (16.67%) SAP
8 3 (16.67%) SQL

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
2 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) DNS
2 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
2 5 (27.78%) DHCP
3 4 (22.22%) VPN
3 4 (22.22%) Firewall
4 2 (11.11%) LAN
5 1 (5.556%) WAN
5 1 (5.556%) SMTP
5 1 (5.556%) HTTP
5 1 (5.556%) SNMP
5 1 (5.556%) SSL
5 1 (5.556%) VLAN
5 1 (5.556%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (16.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Wintel Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Wintel Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Information Security Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Wintel Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Information Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Wintel Administrator
5 1 (5.556%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Security Consultant
5 1 (5.556%) Consultant
5 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (27.78%) Windows 2000
4 4 (22.22%) Windows NT
4 4 (22.22%) AIX
5 2 (11.11%) UNIX
6 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (5.556%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) ITIL
2 4 (22.22%) Security Management
2 4 (22.22%) Migration
2 4 (22.22%) Information Security
2 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
3 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.556%) Network Management
4 1 (5.556%) Change Control
4 1 (5.556%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.556%) Project Management
4 1 (5.556%) Service Management
4 1 (5.556%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Hyper-V
2 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) SCCM
2 4 (22.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) VMware
2 9 (50.00%) Citrix
3 7 (38.89%) HP
4 4 (22.22%) Cisco
4 4 (22.22%) IBM
5 3 (16.67%) Oracle
5 3 (16.67%) SAP
6 2 (11.11%) NetApp
7 1 (5.556%) Brocade
7 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
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