The first table below looks at the demand for SAN 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 SAN over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 83 51 65
Rank change year-on-year
-32 +14
Contract jobs citing SAN 31 96 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.449% 3.249% 2.421%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.158% 18.01% 14.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 52 22
Average daily rate £300 £309 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.83% +23.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £166 £229 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £425 £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £363 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 7
Average hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +46.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.85 £15.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.25 £41.50 £30.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -1.88%
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
380 533 431
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.77% 18.04% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 171 127
Average daily rate £325 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £217 £212 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £476
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 52 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 £12.05 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £52.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
SAN
England

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England SAN Hourly Rate Histogram

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 East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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 -1 9 - -
Cambridgeshire -5 8 - -
Hertfordshire -7 8 £325 +15.55%
Bedfordshire -8 3 £306 -18.33%
East Anglia +9 1 - -
Norfolk -3 1 - -
Suffolk -10 1 £133 -48.79%
SAN
England

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 51 (59.30%) Windows
1 51 (59.30%) VMware
2 34 (39.53%) NAS
3 32 (37.21%) Windows Server 2008
4 28 (32.56%) Firewall
5 26 (30.23%) Cisco
5 26 (30.23%) Active Directory
6 25 (29.07%) MS Exchange
7 24 (27.91%) VMware Infrastructure
8 22 (25.58%) Linux
9 21 (24.42%) ITIL
9 21 (24.42%) HP
10 17 (19.77%) VoIP
10 17 (19.77%) WAN
10 17 (19.77%) SQL
11 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
11 16 (18.60%) Windows Server 2003
12 15 (17.44%) LAN
12 15 (17.44%) Citrix
12 15 (17.44%) IIS
13 14 (16.28%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (16.28%) DNS
13 14 (16.28%) Exchange Server 2007
14 13 (15.12%) DHCP
15 12 (13.95%) PRINCE2
15 12 (13.95%) Project Management
16 11 (12.79%) UNIX
16 11 (12.79%) TCP/IP
16 11 (12.79%) Exchange Server 2003
16 11 (12.79%) NetBackup

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 Development
1 5 (5.814%) Middleware
2 4 (4.651%) Web Services
3 1 (1.163%) Application Packaging
3 1 (1.163%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 25 (29.07%) MS Exchange
2 15 (17.44%) IIS
3 14 (16.28%) Exchange Server 2007
4 11 (12.79%) Exchange Server 2003
4 11 (12.79%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (5.814%) Apache
5 5 (5.814%) Tomcat
6 3 (3.488%) Amazon AWS
7 2 (2.326%) SharePoint
8 1 (1.163%) WebLogic
8 1 (1.163%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 7 (8.140%) MS Office
2 2 (2.326%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.163%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (39.53%) NAS
2 28 (32.56%) Firewall
3 17 (19.77%) VoIP
3 17 (19.77%) WAN
4 15 (17.44%) LAN
5 14 (16.28%) DNS
6 13 (15.12%) DHCP
7 11 (12.79%) TCP/IP
8 10 (11.63%) WAAS
8 10 (11.63%) VPN
9 7 (8.140%) Wireless
10 6 (6.977%) BIG-IP
10 6 (6.977%) DMZ
11 4 (4.651%) Network Security
12 3 (3.488%) HTTP
12 3 (3.488%) Internet
13 2 (2.326%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (2.326%) SNMP
14 1 (1.163%) SMTP
14 1 (1.163%) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.140%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (6.977%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (5.814%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (1.163%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.163%) Oracle 9i
5 1 (1.163%) MySQL
5 1 (1.163%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (1.163%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.163%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.163%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.163%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.163%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 6 (6.977%) Back Office
1 6 (6.977%) Telecoms
2 4 (4.651%) Finance
3 3 (3.488%) Automotive
4 1 (1.163%) Law
4 1 (1.163%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.163%) Banking
4 1 (1.163%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (13.95%) Analyst
2 9 (10.47%) Consultant
3 7 (8.140%) Network Engineer
3 7 (8.140%) Administrator
4 5 (5.814%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (5.814%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (5.814%) Head of IT
4 5 (5.814%) Network Specialist
4 5 (5.814%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (5.814%) Technical Analyst
4 5 (5.814%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 5 (5.814%) Backup Engineer
5 4 (4.651%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (4.651%) Storage Consultant
5 4 (4.651%) Support Engineer
5 4 (4.651%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (4.651%) Architect
6 3 (3.488%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (3.488%) IT Manager
6 3 (3.488%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.47%) Clustering
2 5 (5.814%) NHS
2 5 (5.814%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (4.651%) PACS
4 2 (2.326%) Fat Client
4 2 (2.326%) CLARiiON
4 2 (2.326%) Replication
4 2 (2.326%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.163%) Firmware
5 1 (1.163%) PKI
5 1 (1.163%) Symmetrix DMX
5 1 (1.163%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.163%) IaaS
5 1 (1.163%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 51 (59.30%) Windows
2 32 (37.21%) Windows Server 2008
3 22 (25.58%) Linux
4 16 (18.60%) Windows Server 2003
5 11 (12.79%) UNIX
6 6 (6.977%) SUSE
7 4 (4.651%) AIX
7 4 (4.651%) Solaris
8 2 (2.326%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.326%) Windows 2000
8 2 (2.326%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.163%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.42%) ITIL
2 12 (13.95%) PRINCE2
2 12 (13.95%) Project Management
3 9 (10.47%) PRINCE
4 7 (8.140%) Infrastructure Management
5 6 (6.977%) Service Management
6 5 (5.814%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (5.814%) ITIL V3
7 4 (4.651%) Performance Management
7 4 (4.651%) Service Delivery
8 3 (3.488%) Six Sigma
8 3 (3.488%) Configuration Management
8 3 (3.488%) Change Management
8 3 (3.488%) Programme Office Management
8 3 (3.488%) Migration
8 3 (3.488%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (3.488%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (3.488%) Change Control
8 3 (3.488%) Build Automation
8 3 (3.488%) PDCA
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.77%) SQL
2 10 (11.63%) Perl
3 4 (4.651%) Shell Script
3 4 (4.651%) Java
3 4 (4.651%) VBScript
3 4 (4.651%) VB
4 2 (2.326%) Bash shell
4 2 (2.326%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.326%) Python
5 1 (1.163%) C
5 1 (1.163%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (16.28%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (11.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (11.63%) ITIL Certification
2 10 (11.63%) CCNP
3 9 (10.47%) MCSE
4 8 (9.302%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (8.140%) Degree
6 6 (6.977%) Security Cleared
7 5 (5.814%) CCDP
7 5 (5.814%) CCIP
8 4 (4.651%) CCIE
9 3 (3.488%) CISSP
9 3 (3.488%) CCNA
10 2 (2.326%) VCP4
10 2 (2.326%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.326%) CCA
10 2 (2.326%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (1.163%) MCDBA
11 1 (1.163%) MCP
11 1 (1.163%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.814%) SLA
2 2 (2.326%) QA
System Software
1 26 (30.23%) Active Directory
2 24 (27.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (10.47%) Forefront TMG
4 5 (5.814%) vSphere
5 4 (4.651%) ISA Server
6 3 (3.488%) DFS Replication
7 2 (2.326%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.163%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.163%) VMware ESX
8 1 (1.163%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.163%) XenApp
8 1 (1.163%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.163%) UAG
Systems Management
1 11 (12.79%) NetBackup
2 9 (10.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (5.814%) Backup Exec
4 3 (3.488%) ARCserve
4 3 (3.488%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (3.488%) WhatsUp Gold
4 3 (3.488%) Puppet
5 2 (2.326%) PureDisk
5 2 (2.326%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 2 (2.326%) WSUS
5 2 (2.326%) SCOM
6 1 (1.163%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (1.163%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.163%) SCCM
6 1 (1.163%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.163%) YUM
Vendors
1 51 (59.30%) VMware
2 26 (30.23%) Cisco
3 21 (24.42%) HP
4 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
5 15 (17.44%) Citrix
6 10 (11.63%) Brocade
6 10 (11.63%) IBM
6 10 (11.63%) EMC
7 8 (9.302%) Oracle
8 6 (6.977%) NetApp
8 6 (6.977%) Symantec
8 6 (6.977%) Dell
9 5 (5.814%) Veritas
10 4 (4.651%) 3PAR
10 4 (4.651%) CommVault
10 4 (4.651%) JBoss
10 4 (4.651%) Compaq
10 4 (4.651%) ADIC
11 3 (3.488%) Juniper
11 3 (3.488%) McAfee
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