NAS Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 267 275 330
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +55
Contract jobs citing NAS 265 329 261
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.635% 0.616% 0.471%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.330% 3.933% 3.606%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 148 139
Average daily rate £414 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.43% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 7
Average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.63% +123.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.09 £16.50 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.25 £50.00 £33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +58.33%
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 6120 8366 7238
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.67% 15.67% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3067 3924 3355
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 560 719
Average hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
NAS
UK

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

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 England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

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 England region.

England NAS Hourly Rate Trend

NAS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NAS across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England NAS Hourly Rate Histogram

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 England region over the 3 months to 20 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
London -1 134 £414 +3.43%
South East +12 49 £425 +6.25%
Yorkshire +5 21 £308 +2.50%
South West +22 20 £440 +17.33%
East of England -2 16 £241 -35.66%
West Midlands +21 14 £275 -
North West +15 9 £226 -24.66%
East Midlands -6 2 - -
NAS
UK

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 471 (85.48%) SAN
2 275 (49.91%) Windows
3 263 (47.73%) VMware
4 233 (42.29%) Linux
5 207 (37.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 145 (26.32%) UNIX
7 144 (26.13%) Cisco
8 136 (24.68%) Windows Server 2008
9 134 (24.32%) EMC
10 131 (23.77%) NetApp
11 130 (23.59%) Microsoft
12 128 (23.23%) Oracle
12 128 (23.23%) Windows Server 2003
13 120 (21.78%) Active Directory
14 118 (21.42%) HP
15 110 (19.96%) Red Hat
16 101 (18.33%) Firewall
16 101 (18.33%) SQL Server
17 100 (18.15%) Clustering
18 97 (17.60%) Perl
19 93 (16.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20 91 (16.52%) Finance
21 87 (15.79%) LAN
22 85 (15.43%) MS Exchange
23 83 (15.06%) Apache
23 83 (15.06%) Solaris
24 81 (14.70%) WAN
25 79 (14.34%) Citrix
26 74 (13.43%) Veritas
27 73 (13.25%) ITIL

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 46 (8.348%) Middleware
2 42 (7.623%) .NET
3 29 (5.263%) Web Services
4 23 (4.174%) XML
4 23 (4.174%) HTML
5 20 (3.630%) WebSphere
6 19 (3.448%) SOAP
7 17 (3.085%) ADSI
8 16 (2.904%) J2EE
8 16 (2.904%) ASP.NET
9 15 (2.722%) REST
10 14 (2.541%) Java EE
11 12 (2.178%) WSRP
11 12 (2.178%) JSR 168
11 12 (2.178%) Ajax
11 12 (2.178%) HTML5
11 12 (2.178%) DHTML
11 12 (2.178%) Flash
12 9 (1.633%) XSLT
13 8 (1.452%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 85 (15.43%) MS Exchange
2 83 (15.06%) Apache
3 54 (9.800%) IIS
4 48 (8.711%) Exchange Server 2010
5 40 (7.260%) Tomcat
6 32 (5.808%) Exchange Server 2003
7 22 (3.993%) SharePoint
8 18 (3.267%) Oracle Application Server
9 17 (3.085%) Lync
9 17 (3.085%) Amazon AWS
10 16 (2.904%) Exchange Server 2007
11 14 (2.541%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (2.359%) Oracle 10gAS
12 13 (2.359%) WebLogic
13 11 (1.996%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 8 (1.452%) Liferay
15 6 (1.089%) SharePoint 2010
16 5 (0.907%) WorkSite
17 4 (0.726%) Lotus Notes
17 4 (0.726%) Documentum
Applications
1 17 (3.085%) MS Excel
2 4 (0.726%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.544%) MS Office
4 2 (0.363%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (2.541%) Oracle 11i
1 14 (2.541%) Oracle EBS
1 14 (2.541%) Oracle EBS R12
2 10 (1.815%) RMDS
3 6 (1.089%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.363%) ENOVIA
5 1 (0.181%) AWD
Communications & Networking
1 471 (85.48%) SAN
2 101 (18.33%) Firewall
3 87 (15.79%) LAN
4 81 (14.70%) WAN
5 63 (11.43%) DNS
6 51 (9.256%) VPN
7 49 (8.893%) TCP/IP
8 42 (7.623%) DHCP
9 40 (7.260%) iSCSI
10 39 (7.078%) Internet
11 33 (5.989%) SMTP
12 28 (5.082%) LDAP
12 28 (5.082%) SSL
12 28 (5.082%) Network Security
13 25 (4.537%) HTTP
14 22 (3.993%) Fibre Channel
15 21 (3.811%) Wireless
16 20 (3.630%) VoIP
17 16 (2.904%) FTP
17 16 (2.904%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (18.33%) SQL Server
2 40 (7.260%) MySQL
3 20 (3.630%) SQL Server 2005
4 19 (3.448%) SQL Server 2008
5 18 (3.267%) Oracle 8/8i
6 16 (2.904%) RDBMS
7 15 (2.722%) CouchDB
7 15 (2.722%) MongoDB
7 15 (2.722%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.722%) Redis
8 14 (2.541%) Oracle BI EE
8 14 (2.541%) Oracle 10g
9 9 (1.633%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.452%) Oracle 11g
10 8 (1.452%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.726%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (0.544%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.544%) SQL Server 2012
12 3 (0.544%) SQL Server 2000
12 3 (0.544%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 24 (4.356%) Git (software)
2 22 (3.993%) Hudson
2 22 (3.993%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.722%) Maven
4 14 (2.541%) JIRA
4 14 (2.541%) Selenium
5 8 (1.452%) TeamCity
6 7 (1.270%) MSI
7 2 (0.363%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.181%) CruiseControl
8 1 (0.181%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 1 (0.181%) ClearCase
General
1 91 (16.52%) Finance
2 71 (12.89%) Banking
3 42 (7.623%) Investment Banking
4 17 (3.085%) Telecoms
5 10 (1.815%) Financial Institution
6 6 (1.089%) Retail
6 6 (1.089%) Manufacturing
7 5 (0.907%) German Language
8 4 (0.726%) Back Office
9 3 (0.544%) Legal
9 3 (0.544%) Automotive
9 3 (0.544%) Publishing
9 3 (0.544%) Retail Banking
9 3 (0.544%) Marketing
9 3 (0.544%) French Language
10 2 (0.363%) Dutch Language
10 2 (0.363%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.363%) Law
10 2 (0.363%) Front Office
11 1 (0.181%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 79 (14.34%) Administrator
2 70 (12.70%) Architect
3 50 (9.074%) Systems Administrator
4 46 (8.348%) Consultant
5 43 (7.804%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 43 (7.804%) Storage Engineer
6 37 (6.715%) Systems Engineer
7 36 (6.534%) Analyst
8 30 (5.445%) Linux Engineer
9 27 (4.900%) 3rd Line Support
10 26 (4.719%) Support Engineer
11 22 (3.993%) Solutions Architect
11 22 (3.993%) Wintel Engineer
11 22 (3.993%) Linux Administrator
12 21 (3.811%) Infrastructure Team Leader
12 21 (3.811%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 21 (3.811%) Technical Architect
12 21 (3.811%) Team Leader
13 20 (3.630%) Storage Administrator
13 20 (3.630%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 100 (18.15%) Clustering
2 29 (5.263%) CLARiiON
3 23 (4.174%) Replication
4 18 (3.267%) Hedge funds
5 15 (2.722%) Blackberry
6 14 (2.541%) Thin Client
6 14 (2.541%) Computer Science
6 14 (2.541%) Fat Client
7 12 (2.178%) Symmetrix DMX
7 12 (2.178%) Open Source
7 12 (2.178%) Cryptography
7 12 (2.178%) Taxonomies
7 12 (2.178%) Ontologies
8 9 (1.633%) Firmware
8 9 (1.633%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.633%) EMC Centera
9 7 (1.270%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.089%) Mobile Computing
10 6 (1.089%) NHS
10 6 (1.089%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 275 (49.91%) Windows
2 233 (42.29%) Linux
3 145 (26.32%) UNIX
4 136 (24.68%) Windows Server 2008
5 128 (23.23%) Windows Server 2003
6 93 (16.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 83 (15.06%) Solaris
8 34 (6.171%) Windows XP
9 33 (5.989%) HPUX
10 28 (5.082%) Windows 2000
11 26 (4.719%) Windows NT
12 23 (4.174%) AIX
13 22 (3.993%) SUSE
14 14 (2.541%) Windows 7
15 10 (1.815%) Oracle Linux
15 10 (1.815%) CentOS
16 7 (1.270%) Windows Server 2012
16 7 (1.270%) Ubuntu
16 7 (1.270%) VMS
17 5 (0.907%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (13.25%) ITIL
2 66 (11.98%) Migration
3 48 (8.711%) Disaster Recovery
4 45 (8.167%) Load Balancing
5 44 (7.985%) Project Management
6 30 (5.445%) Capacity Planning
7 29 (5.263%) Configuration Management
8 26 (4.719%) PRINCE2
9 20 (3.630%) Release Management
10 19 (3.448%) SOA
10 19 (3.448%) Change Management
11 18 (3.267%) Penetration Testing
11 18 (3.267%) High Availability
12 15 (2.722%) Information Assurance
12 15 (2.722%) Benchmarking
13 13 (2.359%) Capacity Management
14 12 (2.178%) Information Architecture
14 12 (2.178%) Service Management
14 12 (2.178%) DRM
14 12 (2.178%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 97 (17.60%) Perl
2 63 (11.43%) Shell Script
3 58 (10.53%) SQL
4 42 (7.623%) Java
5 23 (4.174%) Bash shell
6 22 (3.993%) PHP
7 21 (3.811%) JavaScript
7 21 (3.811%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.359%) VB.NET
8 13 (2.359%) Python
9 12 (2.178%) VB
9 12 (2.178%) C#
10 11 (1.996%) VBScript
11 8 (1.452%) C
12 5 (0.907%) AWK
12 5 (0.907%) sed
13 4 (0.726%) Korn
13 4 (0.726%) C++
14 1 (0.181%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.181%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (7.804%) Security Cleared
2 40 (7.260%) Microsoft Certification
3 39 (7.078%) MCSE
4 34 (6.171%) Degree
5 32 (5.808%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (4.719%) SC Cleared
7 18 (3.267%) CCNA
8 14 (2.541%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 13 (2.359%) MCTS
9 13 (2.359%) CCNP
10 12 (2.178%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.996%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (1.815%) MCITP
13 6 (1.089%) MCSA
13 6 (1.089%) OCA
13 6 (1.089%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (1.089%) ISEB
13 6 (1.089%) MCP
14 5 (0.907%) CCIE
14 5 (0.907%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.174%) SLA
2 12 (2.178%) QA
System Software
1 207 (37.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 120 (21.78%) Active Directory
3 70 (12.70%) VMware ESX
4 48 (8.711%) vSphere
5 41 (7.441%) XenApp
5 41 (7.441%) NFS
6 31 (5.626%) Samba
7 29 (5.263%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 27 (4.900%) Oracle RAC
9 25 (4.537%) Hyper-V
10 17 (3.085%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 17 (3.085%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 13 (2.359%) XenDesktop
12 11 (1.996%) Postfix
13 9 (1.633%) VMware ESXi
13 9 (1.633%) VMware Workstation
14 8 (1.452%) Squid
14 8 (1.452%) XenServer
15 7 (1.270%) SRDF
15 7 (1.270%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (9.256%) NetBackup
2 40 (7.260%) SCOM
2 40 (7.260%) Puppet
3 32 (5.808%) Nagios
4 27 (4.900%) SCCM
5 21 (3.811%) Backup Exec
6 19 (3.448%) Legato
7 17 (3.085%) OpenView
8 16 (2.904%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 12 (2.178%) ZABBIX
9 12 (2.178%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 11 (1.996%) Tivoli
11 10 (1.815%) BMC PATROL
11 10 (1.815%) BMC Performance Manager
12 8 (1.452%) EMC NetWorker
12 8 (1.452%) Cobbler
13 6 (1.089%) Cacti
13 6 (1.089%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 5 (0.907%) MAILsweeper
14 5 (0.907%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 263 (47.73%) VMware
2 144 (26.13%) Cisco
3 134 (24.32%) EMC
4 131 (23.77%) NetApp
5 130 (23.59%) Microsoft
6 128 (23.23%) Oracle
7 118 (21.42%) HP
8 110 (19.96%) Red Hat
9 79 (14.34%) Citrix
10 74 (13.43%) Veritas
11 55 (9.982%) IBM
12 45 (8.167%) Brocade
13 43 (7.804%) Symantec
14 41 (7.441%) Sun
15 39 (7.078%) F5
16 35 (6.352%) McAfee
17 33 (5.989%) Dell
18 29 (5.263%) BMC
19 27 (4.900%) JBoss
20 26 (4.719%) Juniper
Storage Consultants (EMC/NetApp etc.) - Ad-hoc/interim - London
West London
We are looking for experienced self-employed storage consultants (SAN, NAS, EMC, NetApp, HP, 3PAR etc.) for future assignments in 2013 with our clients in the IT channel.
Orderwork
Rate: Competitive dayrates
Posted: 6 May 2013
Storage Consultants - Ad-hoc/interim - Midlands
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
We are looking for experienced self-employed storage consultants (SAN, NAS, EMC, NetApp, HP, 3PAR etc.) for future assignments in 2013 with our clients in the IT channel.
Orderwork
Rate: Competitive dayrates
Posted: 6 May 2013
Rollout Technical / Project Lead
Blackpool, North West
This is a contract position working to roll out Active Directory and SCCM across the estate.Key areas required are a strong technical knowledge within Microsoft including Active...
Rate: £20.00 - £25.00 per hour
Posted: 25 April 2013
Infrastructure Architect
Leeds, Yorkshire
You will have experience of Web Services, LAMP stack, load balancing, firewalls, virtualization, messaging and collaboration, data protection and retention, etc.) *You will have experience of short and...
Posted: 23 April 2013
NetBackup Consultant - Banking
Bournemouth, Dorset
Expert level Symantec Net Backup experience. * * Strong problem solving, time management and organizational skills... * Hands on Unix/Linux/Windows System Administration Experience. * Hands on experience with VMWare Server...
Aston Carter
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Project Manager
London
This is an excellent opportunity to join a fast moving NHS organisation which is at the forefront of patient services. This role focuses on the aspect of how...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £375.00 per day
Posted: 1 May 2013
Infrastructure Architect
West Yorkshire
Proven expertise in required operating systems: VMware and Linux... REDHAT - essential. Web services experience. Understanding of database technologies and applications, such as Informix, Oracle, PostgreSQL & MySQL are highly...
Assured Recruitment Solutions
Rate: £500 - 550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
UNIX ENGINEER- SAN/NAS - Investment Banking
Camberley, Surrey
A leading investment bank requires a senior UNIX engineer to work within their infrastructure area. The successful candidate will need: Requirements: * Deep knowledge of Linux and Solaris Operating...
iKas International
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Linux/Storage Engineer (Solaris/Veritas) - Banking
London
Strong Linux and Solaris is required in addition to deep knowledge of Veritas Volume Manager and cluster serve. Strong SAN and NAS migration experience is essential with exposure...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £450 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
UNIX System Administrator - Banking - 450/day - SW London
Surrey
UNIX System Administrator - Banking - 450/day - SW London. My client, a Top Tier Leading Investment Bank, seeks to find an experienced UNIX System Administrator to work on a...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Operations Analyst (Contract)
London
Thorough understanding of security fundamentals, including firewalls (Checkpoint specifically), RSA SecurID Server, anti-virus, Juniper SA SSL appliances, and web filtering systems. * Experienced in Server Virtualisation technologies, NAS/...
RDF Resources
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Operations Analyst (Contract)
London
Thorough understanding of security fundamentals, including firewalls (Checkpoint specifically), RSA SecurID Server, anti-virus, Juniper SA SSL appliances, and web filtering systems. * Experienced in Server Virtualisation technologies, NAS/...
RDF Resources
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Senior Linux Systems Administrator - City - Digital Agency
London
Linux (CentOS), MySQL, Apache, Exim, PHP, clustering (SAN, NAS), Senior Systems Administrator, Canary Wharf, Contract Role, Digital Agency... *Strong experience with MySQL, Apache, Exim and PHP... *Languages: Bash,...
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £400 - £420 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
UNIX LINUX Solaris SA Specialist - Investment Banking
Camberley, Surrey
Knowledge of AIX, HpUX. Ability to deploy and configure Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server... Required skills; Linux, RHEL, Solaris, Shell Scripting, AIX, HpUX, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas...
iKas International
Rate: £450 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Linux Build Engineer / Infrastructure Build Engineer
York, Yorkshire
My client is actively seeking a dynamic, communicable and intelligent Linux Build and Deployment Engineer with proven past experience in Linux based domains to deliver server and portal...
IQ Resourcing
Rate: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 3 May 2013
Network Operator Test Support Engineer
Farnborough, South East
My client are a world leader in 3G and mobile technologies currently recruiting for a Test Support Engineer who possess the following mandatory technical skills (in priority order):...
Rate: £200 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
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