The first table below looks at the demand for NAS 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 NAS 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 99 91 105
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +14
Contract jobs citing NAS 16 38 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.743% 1.289% 1.027%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.211% 7.280% 6.109%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 3
Average daily rate £241 £375 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.66% +30.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £154 £325 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £425 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £419 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
Average hourly rate £25.00 £38.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.21% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +58.33%
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
380 522 442
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.64% 17.71% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 173 132
Average daily rate £325 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £199
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £476
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 50 85
Average hourly rate £19.00 £32.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.53% +18.18%
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 £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
NAS
England

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England NAS Jobs Demand Trend

NAS
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England NAS Daily Rate Trend

NAS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NAS across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England NAS Daily Rate Histogram

NAS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England NAS Hourly Rate Trend

NAS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the East of England 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
Essex +3 7 - -
Cambridgeshire +8 3 - -
Suffolk +1 2 £133 -
Hertfordshire 0 2 £350 +16.66%
Norfolk +1 1 - -
East Anglia - 1 - -
NAS
England

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing NAS 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 NAS.

1 36 (87.80%) SAN
2 25 (60.98%) Windows
2 25 (60.98%) VMware
3 18 (43.90%) Cisco
4 17 (41.46%) Firewall
4 17 (41.46%) Windows Server 2008
5 14 (34.15%) WAN
5 14 (34.15%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (31.71%) LAN
6 13 (31.71%) Linux
7 12 (29.27%) VoIP
8 11 (26.83%) ITIL
9 10 (24.39%) Perl
9 10 (24.39%) CCNP
9 10 (24.39%) VMware Infrastructure
9 10 (24.39%) WAAS
10 9 (21.95%) Wireless
10 9 (21.95%) Brocade
10 9 (21.95%) IBM
10 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
10 9 (21.95%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (21.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 8 (19.51%) DNS
12 7 (17.07%) DHCP
12 7 (17.07%) PRINCE2
12 7 (17.07%) PRINCE
13 6 (14.63%) IIS
13 6 (14.63%) SUSE
14 5 (12.20%) Telecoms
14 5 (12.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing NAS 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 NAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (9.756%) Middleware
2 3 (7.317%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (14.63%) IIS
2 5 (12.20%) MS Exchange
3 4 (9.756%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (9.756%) Apache
3 4 (9.756%) Tomcat
3 4 (9.756%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (7.317%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (2.439%) Lync
5 1 (2.439%) Office Communications Server
Communications & Networking
1 36 (87.80%) SAN
2 17 (41.46%) Firewall
3 14 (34.15%) WAN
4 13 (31.71%) LAN
5 12 (29.27%) VoIP
6 10 (24.39%) WAAS
7 9 (21.95%) Wireless
8 8 (19.51%) DNS
9 7 (17.07%) DHCP
10 4 (9.756%) TCP/IP
10 4 (9.756%) BIG-IP
11 2 (4.878%) Network Security
11 2 (4.878%) VPN
11 2 (4.878%) 3GPP
11 2 (4.878%) UMTS
11 2 (4.878%) LTE
12 1 (2.439%) iSCSI
12 1 (2.439%) Cisco IPT
12 1 (2.439%) IP Telephony
12 1 (2.439%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.439%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 5 (12.20%) Telecoms
2 3 (7.317%) Automotive
3 1 (2.439%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) Network Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Administrator
2 5 (12.20%) Network Specialist
2 5 (12.20%) Backup Engineer
3 4 (9.756%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (9.756%) Consultant
3 4 (9.756%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (9.756%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (7.317%) Storage Consultant
4 3 (7.317%) Analyst
5 2 (4.878%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (4.878%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (4.878%) Support Analyst
5 2 (4.878%) Support Engineer
6 1 (2.439%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (2.439%) Systems Support
6 1 (2.439%) Network Administrator
6 1 (2.439%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (2.439%) Network Support
6 1 (2.439%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.317%) NHS
2 2 (4.878%) Fat Client
2 2 (4.878%) Thin Client
2 2 (4.878%) Handset
2 2 (4.878%) Replication
3 1 (2.439%) Clustering
3 1 (2.439%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (2.439%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 25 (60.98%) Windows
2 17 (41.46%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (31.71%) Linux
4 6 (14.63%) SUSE
5 5 (12.20%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (9.756%) UNIX
7 1 (2.439%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.439%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) ITIL
2 7 (17.07%) PRINCE2
2 7 (17.07%) PRINCE
3 4 (9.756%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (7.317%) Configuration Management
5 2 (4.878%) Migration
5 2 (4.878%) Network Management
5 2 (4.878%) Change Control
6 1 (2.439%) Build Automation
6 1 (2.439%) Programme Office Management
6 1 (2.439%) Load Balancing
6 1 (2.439%) Network Load Balancing
6 1 (2.439%) Release Management
6 1 (2.439%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (2.439%) Project Management
6 1 (2.439%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) Perl
2 4 (9.756%) Java
2 4 (9.756%) Shell Script
3 2 (4.878%) C
3 2 (4.878%) C++
4 1 (2.439%) PHP
4 1 (2.439%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (24.39%) CCNP
3 9 (21.95%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (12.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (12.20%) CCIP
4 5 (12.20%) CCDP
5 4 (9.756%) CCIE
5 4 (9.756%) Security Cleared
6 3 (7.317%) CISSP
6 3 (7.317%) CCNA
7 2 (4.878%) MCSE
7 2 (4.878%) CCA
7 2 (4.878%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (4.878%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.878%) SC Cleared
8 1 (2.439%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.317%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.756%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.439%) XenApp
4 1 (2.439%) XenServer
4 1 (2.439%) XenDesktop
4 1 (2.439%) Forefront TMG
4 1 (2.439%) UAG
4 1 (2.439%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.439%) Terminal Services
4 1 (2.439%) VMware ESX
4 1 (2.439%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (7.317%) Puppet
3 1 (2.439%) Tivoli
3 1 (2.439%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.439%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.439%) WSUS
3 1 (2.439%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (2.439%) SCCM
3 1 (2.439%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (60.98%) VMware
2 18 (43.90%) Cisco
3 9 (21.95%) IBM
3 9 (21.95%) Brocade
4 5 (12.20%) Citrix
5 4 (9.756%) NetApp
5 4 (9.756%) JBoss
6 3 (7.317%) Microsoft
6 3 (7.317%) Akamai
6 3 (7.317%) 3PAR
7 2 (4.878%) McAfee
7 2 (4.878%) Sophos
7 2 (4.878%) HP
8 1 (2.439%) EMC
8 1 (2.439%) Veritas
8 1 (2.439%) Symantec
8 1 (2.439%) Juniper
8 1 (2.439%) LANDesk
8 1 (2.439%) Riverbed