The first table below looks at the demand for the Storage Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Storage Specialist in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Storage Specialist
Rank 54 61 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Specialist 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.360% 0.184% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.382% 0.196% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £425 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £425 £302
% change year-on-year
-23.52% +40.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
785 1022 1226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.24% 94.02% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 508 595
Average daily rate £400 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.67% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 36
Average hourly rate £13.93 £23.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.43% +50.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Storage Specialist
Scotland

Storage Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Storage Specialist across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh Storage Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Storage Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Storage Specialist across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Storage Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Storage Specialist
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 9 (100.00%) SAN
2 6 (66.67%) Migration
2 6 (66.67%) Replication
3 5 (55.56%) SRDF
4 4 (44.44%) EMC
4 4 (44.44%) Mainframe
5 3 (33.33%) IBM
6 2 (22.22%) zOS
6 2 (22.22%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
7 1 (11.11%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (11.11%) Brocade
7 1 (11.11%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (11.11%) HP
7 1 (11.11%) Oracle
7 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
7 1 (11.11%) RDBMS

Storage Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Replication
2 4 (44.44%) Mainframe
3 2 (22.22%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (11.11%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) EMC
2 3 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Brocade
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle