The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NAS 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 Edinburgh 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
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 55 61 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing NAS 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.240% 0.184% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.353% 1.460% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £375 £338 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £375 £374
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +47.57%
All Communications & Networking
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
85 137 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 10.20% 12.60% 8.880%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 57 31
Average daily rate £363 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £243 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £423 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
Average hourly rate £9.20 £32.00 £15.58
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-71.25% +105.39%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
NAS
Scotland

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh NAS Daily Rate Trend

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 4 (100.00%) UNIX
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) NetApp
2 3 (75.00%) EMC
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 3 (75.00%) Brocade
3 2 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (50.00%) Celerra
3 2 (50.00%) Connectrix
3 2 (50.00%) Symmetrix
3 2 (50.00%) EMC Centera
3 2 (50.00%) EMC TimeFinder
3 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (50.00%) Symantec
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Replication
3 2 (50.00%) AIX
3 2 (50.00%) HPUX
3 2 (50.00%) NFS
3 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (50.00%) SRDF
3 2 (50.00%) Hedge funds
4 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) CCNA

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) Connectrix
3 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) Network Support
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Celerra
1 2 (50.00%) Symmetrix
1 2 (50.00%) EMC Centera
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
1 2 (50.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) AIX
3 2 (50.00%) HPUX
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) NFS
1 2 (50.00%) SRDF
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (50.00%) EMC TimeFinder
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) NetApp
1 3 (75.00%) EMC
1 3 (75.00%) Brocade
2 2 (50.00%) Symantec
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) VMware