The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 17 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 Dorset 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 30 28 26
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -2
Contract jobs citing SAN 2 5 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 1.020% 1.901% 4.290%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.897% 10.42% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
Average daily rate £263 £360 £398
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.08% -9.54%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £368 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.68% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+0.93% +0.94%
All Communications & Networking
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
29 48 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 14.80% 18.25% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 34 21
Average daily rate £240 £375 £382
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.00% -1.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £198 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 4
Average hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -32.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
SAN
South West

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bournemouth 0 2 £263 -27.08%
SAN
South West

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) ESB
2 1 (33.33%) WSUS
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) AWD
2 1 (33.33%) ProCurve
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) HP SIM
2 1 (33.33%) SWIFT
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (33.33%) ESB
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) AWD
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Blackberry
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
1 1 (33.33%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper
1 1 (33.33%) NetApp
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) TIBCO
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) ProCurve