The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Devon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 23 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 Devon 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 30 - 29
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SAN 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 0.585% - 0.654%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.000% - 4.167%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £364 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.03% +3.92%
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
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20 24 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 11.70% 13.26% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 14
Average daily rate £268 £324 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.43% +11.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £350 £353
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Average hourly rate £40.50 - £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
SAN
South West

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon region over the 3 months to 23 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
Exeter - 1 - -
SAN
South West

SAN
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 (92.86%) VMware
2 12 (85.71%) Active Directory
3 8 (57.14%) Windows
4 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (28.57%) SQL
6 3 (21.43%) Citrix
6 3 (21.43%) Terminal Server
7 2 (14.29%) EMC
7 2 (14.29%) Cisco
7 2 (14.29%) Migration
7 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (7.143%) NAS
8 1 (7.143%) Silverlight
8 1 (7.143%) NetApp
8 1 (7.143%) Java
8 1 (7.143%) .NET
8 1 (7.143%) Oracle
8 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
8 1 (7.143%) IIS
8 1 (7.143%) AIX
8 1 (7.143%) Linux
8 1 (7.143%) Apache
8 1 (7.143%) Tomcat

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 1 (7.143%) Silverlight
1 1 (7.143%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) IIS
1 1 (7.143%) Apache
1 1 (7.143%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) IT Support
2 4 (28.57%) Administrator
2 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Network Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Designer
4 1 (7.143%) IT Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Web Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Support Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (7.143%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Support
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.143%) AIX
3 1 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (7.143%) Java
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (21.43%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Citrix
3 2 (14.29%) EMC
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
4 1 (7.143%) NetApp
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle