The first table below looks at the demand for Fibre Channel skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fibre Channel over the 3 months to 18 June 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 City of London 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fibre Channel (FC)
Rank 198 213 236
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +23
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 17 9 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.247% 0.117% 0.120%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.988% 0.963% 1.148%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 8
Average daily rate £575 £320 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+79.68% -28.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £225 £389
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £350 £533
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £344 £350
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 -
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
855 935 1045
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.40% 12.12% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 630 671
Average daily rate £388 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £250 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £503 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 30 84
Average hourly rate £28.00 £23.00 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.73% +8.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.75 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £79.00 £41.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
Fibre Channel
London

Fibre Channel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Fibre Channel Jobs Demand Trend

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Fibre Channel across the City of London region.

City of London Fibre Channel Daily Rate Trend

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fibre Channel across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Fibre Channel Daily Rate Histogram

Fibre Channel
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Fibre Channel across the City of London region.

City of London Fibre Channel Hourly Rate Trend

Fibre Channel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel.

1 16 (80.00%) Cisco
1 16 (80.00%) SAN
2 11 (55.00%) Windows
3 10 (50.00%) EMC
3 10 (50.00%) NetApp
3 10 (50.00%) FCoE
4 9 (45.00%) VMware
5 8 (40.00%) Linux
6 7 (35.00%) SQL
6 7 (35.00%) NAS
7 6 (30.00%) vSphere
7 6 (30.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (30.00%) Oracle
7 6 (30.00%) Apache
7 6 (30.00%) LAN
7 6 (30.00%) WAN
8 5 (25.00%) Red Hat
8 5 (25.00%) Intel
8 5 (25.00%) Benchmarking
8 5 (25.00%) NFS
8 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
8 5 (25.00%) Solaris
8 5 (25.00%) Load Balancing
8 5 (25.00%) Clustering
8 5 (25.00%) SRDF
9 4 (20.00%) Banking
9 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
9 4 (20.00%) Firewall
10 3 (15.00%) Finance

Fibre Channel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (15.00%) HTML
1 3 (15.00%) XML
1 3 (15.00%) XSLT
1 3 (15.00%) Rendezvous
1 3 (15.00%) Middleware
1 3 (15.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) Apache
2 3 (15.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle Coherence
2 3 (15.00%) CloudStack
2 3 (15.00%) IIS
3 1 (5.000%) MS Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) SAN
2 10 (50.00%) FCoE
3 7 (35.00%) NAS
4 6 (30.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (30.00%) LAN
4 6 (30.00%) WAN
5 4 (20.00%) Firewall
6 3 (15.00%) BIG-IP
6 3 (15.00%) FWSM
6 3 (15.00%) HTTP
7 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
8 1 (5.000%) VPN
8 1 (5.000%) SNA
8 1 (5.000%) DNS
8 1 (5.000%) DHCP
8 1 (5.000%) PSTN
8 1 (5.000%) VLAN
8 1 (5.000%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.00%) MySQL
3 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (10.00%) HBase
General
1 4 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Advertising
3 1 (5.000%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.000%) Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Storage Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) UNIX Specialist
4 1 (5.000%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) SAN Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Network Technician
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Clustering
2 3 (15.00%) Open Source
2 3 (15.00%) CLARiiON
3 2 (10.00%) Replication
3 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (10.00%) Firmware
4 1 (5.000%) Blackberry
4 1 (5.000%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) Linux
3 5 (25.00%) Solaris
4 3 (15.00%) UNIX
4 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Benchmarking
1 5 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (10.00%) ITIL
2 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.000%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (5.000%) Change Management
3 1 (5.000%) PRINCE2
3 1 (5.000%) Data Modelling
3 1 (5.000%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (15.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) PHP
4 1 (5.000%) Perl
4 1 (5.000%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) VCP4
2 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (30.00%) vSphere
2 5 (25.00%) SRDF
2 5 (25.00%) NFS
3 3 (15.00%) vCloud
4 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (10.00%) VMware ESX
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (10.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.000%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Nagios
1 3 (15.00%) Zenoss
2 1 (5.000%) HP SIM
2 1 (5.000%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Cisco
2 10 (50.00%) EMC
2 10 (50.00%) NetApp
3 9 (45.00%) VMware
4 6 (30.00%) Oracle
5 5 (25.00%) Red Hat
5 5 (25.00%) Intel
6 3 (15.00%) IBM
6 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (15.00%) CheckPoint
6 3 (15.00%) TIBCO
6 3 (15.00%) DataSynapse
6 3 (15.00%) F5
6 3 (15.00%) 29West
7 2 (10.00%) Sybase
7 2 (10.00%) Brocade
7 2 (10.00%) HP
7 2 (10.00%) Citrix
8 1 (5.000%) CommVault
8 1 (5.000%) Riverbed
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