East of England Storage Specialist Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Storage Specialist role in IT contracts within the East of England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Storage Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bridgend Cheshire City of London Docklands, London East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hertfordshire Kent Knutsford Livingston London Manchester Midlands North West North Yorkshire Oxfordshire Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Swindon UK Wales West Lothian West Malling West Midlands Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	126	152
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	13	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.377 %	0.022 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£437	-
Average daily rate	£437	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£437	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£408	£388
% change on same period last year	+5.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.03	£38.66
% change on same period last year	-14.57 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3451	4596
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.600 %	4.585 %
Daily rates quoted	1085	1406
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£324
Average daily rate	£354	£343
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	454	636
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.18	£25.47
Average hourly rate	£23.66	£26.68
% change on same period last year	-11.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.15	£27.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Storage Specialist 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Storage Specialist across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Storage Specialist across the East of England region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Specialist within the East of England region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Hertfordshire	+27	12	£437	-
Essex	-	1	-	-

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Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Storage Specialist in their job title 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 with Storage Specialist in their job title.

1 26 (92.86 %) Solaris 2 25 (89.29 %) StorageTek 2 25 (89.29 %) VERITAS 2 25 (89.29 %) EMC 2 25 (89.29 %) Brocade 3 23 (82.14 %) Shell Script 3 23 (82.14 %) Sun 4 22 (78.57 %) NetApp 4 22 (78.57 %) Perl 5 20 (71.43 %) NetBackup 5 20 (71.43 %) Symmetrix 6 19 (67.86 %) AWK 7 13 (46.43 %) SLA 8 10 (35.71 %) Finance 9 8 (28.57 %) Financial Institution

10 1 (3.571 %) Disaster Recovery 10 1 (3.571 %) Middleware 10 1 (3.571 %) Pharmaceutical 10 1 (3.571 %) UNIX 10 1 (3.571 %) zOS 10 1 (3.571 %) Tivoli 10 1 (3.571 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 10 1 (3.571 %) Migration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Storage Specialist in their job title 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 with Storage Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.571 %) Middleware	General 1 10 (35.71 %) Finance 2 8 (28.57 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (3.571 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 20 (71.43 %) Symmetrix	Operating Systems 1 26 (92.86 %) Solaris 2 1 (3.571 %) UNIX 2 1 (3.571 %) zOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (3.571 %) Disaster Recovery 1 1 (3.571 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 23 (82.14 %) Shell Script 2 22 (78.57 %) Perl 3 19 (67.86 %) AWK
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (46.43 %) SLA	System Software 1 20 (71.43 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 1 (3.571 %) Tivoli 1 1 (3.571 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 25 (89.29 %) StorageTek 1 25 (89.29 %) VERITAS 1 25 (89.29 %) EMC 1 25 (89.29 %) Brocade 2 23 (82.14 %) Sun 3 22 (78.57 %) NetApp