East of England iSCSI Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for iSCSI skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited iSCSI over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

iSCSI
Location Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham East of England England Gatwick Gloucestershire Guildford Kent London Manchester Middlesex North West Oxford Oxfordshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey UK Uxbridge West Midlands West Sussex Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	118	143
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	5	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	0.838 %	1.529 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£450
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£380
% change on same period last year	-8.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£37.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.04	£48.75
% change on same period last year	-40.43 %
Communications & Networking East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	597	850
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.940 %	0.911 %
Daily rates quoted	137	224
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£289
Average daily rate	£309	£308
% change on same period last year	+0.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£332
% change on same period last year	+4.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	121	185
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.99	£28.13
Average hourly rate	£29.73	£29.96
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.47	£31.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.93	£29.11
% change on same period last year	-4.05 %
iSCSI England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

iSCSI
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing iSCSI across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

iSCSI
Daily Rate Trend

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

iSCSI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing iSCSI across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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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 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Suffolk	+5	3	-	-
Cambridgeshire	-	2	-	-

iSCSI England

iSCSI
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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 16 (100.00 %) TCP/IP 2 10 (62.50 %) NetApp 2 10 (62.50 %) VMware 2 10 (62.50 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 7 (43.75 %) NFS 3 7 (43.75 %) Clustering 3 7 (43.75 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 3 7 (43.75 %) Microsoft Certification 3 7 (43.75 %) SAN 3 7 (43.75 %) Perl 3 7 (43.75 %) SQL 3 7 (43.75 %) Solaris 3 7 (43.75 %) Linux 3 7 (43.75 %) MCSE 4 6 (37.50 %) PhD

4 6 (37.50 %) Ethernet 4 6 (37.50 %) Device Driver 4 6 (37.50 %) C 4 6 (37.50 %) Windows 4 6 (37.50 %) WDF 5 3 (18.75 %) HP 5 3 (18.75 %) EMC 5 3 (18.75 %) MS Project 5 3 (18.75 %) MS Office 5 3 (18.75 %) UNIX

iSCSI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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 6 (37.50 %) WDF	Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) MS Project 1 3 (18.75 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 16 (100.00 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (43.75 %) SAN 3 6 (37.50 %) Ethernet	Job Titles 1 7 (43.75 %) Storage Engineer 2 6 (37.50 %) Developer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (43.75 %) Clustering 2 6 (37.50 %) Device Driver	Operating Systems 1 7 (43.75 %) Solaris 1 7 (43.75 %) Linux 2 6 (37.50 %) Windows 3 3 (18.75 %) UNIX
Programming Languages 1 7 (43.75 %) Perl 1 7 (43.75 %) SQL 2 6 (37.50 %) C	Qualifications 1 7 (43.75 %) MCSE 1 7 (43.75 %) Microsoft Certification 1 7 (43.75 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 6 (37.50 %) PhD
System Software 1 10 (62.50 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 7 (43.75 %) NFS	Vendors 1 10 (62.50 %) NetApp 1 10 (62.50 %) VMware 2 3 (18.75 %) HP 2 3 (18.75 %) EMC