The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Derby region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 20 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 Derby 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 14 18 34
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +16
Contract jobs citing SAN 1 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derby 1.429% 3.636% 0.444%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% 19.05% 6.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +23.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+6.15% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
All Communications & Networking
Derby
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
5 21 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derby 7.143% 19.09% 7.111%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 6
Average daily rate £313 £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.47% +41.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
Average hourly rate - £55.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +57.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
SAN
Derbyshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derby 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 Derby region.

Derby 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 Derby region.

Derby SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derby 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) ISA Server
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee
1 2 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) Riverbed
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derby 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 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) WAN Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) ISA Server
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Riverbed
1 2 (100.00%) MobileIron