The first table below looks at the demand for iSCSI skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited iSCSI 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 East of England 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
iSCSI
Rank 111 120 113
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -7
Contract jobs citing iSCSI 5 14 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.236% 0.475% 0.336%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.305% 2.647% 2.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 4
Average daily rate £225 £375 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% +11.94%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £300 £395
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -24.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year
- -24.24%
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
383 529 433
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 18.07% 17.93% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 168 129
Average daily rate £325 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £209 £187
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 51 85
Average hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.66% +9.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £52.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
iSCSI
England

iSCSI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England iSCSI Jobs Demand Trend

iSCSI
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing iSCSI across the East of England region.

East of England iSCSI Daily Rate Trend

iSCSI
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing iSCSI across the East of England region.

East of England iSCSI Hourly Rate Trend

iSCSI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iSCSI within the East of England 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
Essex - 4 £225 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £250 -
iSCSI
England

iSCSI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing iSCSI 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 iSCSI.

1 6 (85.71%) VMware
1 6 (85.71%) Hyper-V
2 5 (71.43%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (71.43%) Backup Exec
2 5 (71.43%) MCITP
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (71.43%) MS Exchange
2 5 (71.43%) WAN
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) MCSE
3 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 4 (57.14%) NHS
3 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
5 2 (28.57%) Windows
5 2 (28.57%) HP
5 2 (28.57%) Network Load Balancing
6 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
6 1 (14.29%) WSUS
6 1 (14.29%) Banking
6 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (14.29%) LANDesk
6 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (14.29%) Network Security
6 1 (14.29%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008

iSCSI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing iSCSI 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 iSCSI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) Exchange Server 2010
1 5 (71.43%) MS Exchange
2 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (14.29%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (14.29%) Lync
3 1 (14.29%) Apache
3 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) NAS
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Wintel Support
3 1 (14.29%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Wintel Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Wintel Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Server Support
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Support
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) MCITP
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (71.43%) MCSE
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) XenApp
2 1 (14.29%) XenServer
2 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Backup Exec
2 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) HP
4 1 (14.29%) LANDesk
4 1 (14.29%) EMC
4 1 (14.29%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) IBM
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
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