The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London 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 Docklands, 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 23 31 40
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +9
Contract jobs citing SAN 8 1 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 4.651% 0.463% 3.401%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 38.10% 5.000% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 15
Average daily rate £413 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.85% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £350 £365
10% offered a daily rate of more than £473 £350 £500
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
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21 20 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 12.21% 9.259% 8.503%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 28
Average daily rate £375 £455 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.58% +7.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £220 £329
10% offered a daily rate of more than £497 £625 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £47.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +106.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
SAN
London

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 7 (70.00%) Solaris
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) UNIX
2 6 (60.00%) DNS
3 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 5 (50.00%) SUSE
3 5 (50.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 4 (40.00%) Equities
4 4 (40.00%) Banking
4 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
4 4 (40.00%) NFS
4 4 (40.00%) LDAP
4 4 (40.00%) HP
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
4 4 (40.00%) Perl
5 3 (30.00%) C
5 3 (30.00%) C++
5 3 (30.00%) ITIL
5 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (30.00%) IBM
5 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Vista
6 2 (20.00%) Selenium
6 2 (20.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 2 (20.00%) SCCM
6 2 (20.00%) SCOM

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) DNS
2 4 (40.00%) LDAP
3 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (20.00%) NetScaler
4 2 (20.00%) Ethernet
5 1 (10.00%) BIG-IP
5 1 (10.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
1 2 (20.00%) MSI
1 2 (20.00%) InstallShield
1 2 (20.00%) Bugzilla
1 2 (20.00%) WinRunner
1 2 (20.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (20.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) UNIX Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix Administrator
4 2 (20.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 2 (20.00%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) Solaris Systems Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) Solaris Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Equities
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Solaris
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) UNIX
3 5 (50.00%) SUSE
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Vista
6 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
6 2 (20.00%) Windows NT
6 2 (20.00%) Windows 2000
7 1 (10.00%) AIX
7 1 (10.00%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Software Distribution
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
3 3 (30.00%) C
3 3 (30.00%) C++
4 2 (20.00%) Ruby
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (20.00%) ISEB
1 2 (20.00%) CCA
1 2 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 4 (40.00%) NFS
3 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (20.00%) XenApp
4 2 (20.00%) XenServer
4 2 (20.00%) XenDesktop
4 2 (20.00%) VMware ESX
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (10.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
1 2 (20.00%) SCOM
1 2 (20.00%) Tivoli
1 2 (20.00%) MOM
1 2 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (40.00%) HP
3 3 (30.00%) IBM
4 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) Compaq
4 2 (20.00%) Dell
4 2 (20.00%) EMC
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 2 (20.00%) NetApp
4 2 (20.00%) Veritas
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle
5 1 (10.00%) Sybase
5 1 (10.00%) Sun