The first table below looks at the demand for SNA 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 SNA over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA)
Rank 507 551 547
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -4
Contract jobs citing SNA 5 6 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.012% 0.011% 0.014%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.081% 0.071% 0.110%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £363
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £27.50 -
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6195 8413 7242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.64% 15.72% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3101 3939 3363
Average daily rate £350 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
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 £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 514 566 726
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 £12.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SNA
UK

SNA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England SNA Jobs Demand Trend

SNA
Daily Rate Trend

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

England SNA Daily Rate Trend

SNA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SNA across the England region.

England SNA Hourly Rate Trend

SNA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SNA within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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
North West - 4 - -
London +14 1 - -
SNA
UK

SNA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing SNA 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 SNA.

1 4 (80.00%) DB2
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
1 4 (80.00%) CICS
1 4 (80.00%) HP
1 4 (80.00%) Internet
1 4 (80.00%) Mainframe
1 4 (80.00%) JCL
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Retail
1 4 (80.00%) VSAM
1 4 (80.00%) Brocade
1 4 (80.00%) Online Banking
1 4 (80.00%) WebSphere
1 4 (80.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 4 (80.00%) Mobile Banking
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) PKI
2 3 (60.00%) Middleware
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) Tivoli
2 3 (60.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix

SNA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing SNA 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 SNA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (60.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) CICS
2 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Portal
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
1 4 (80.00%) Internet
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) DB2
2 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Mainframe
1 4 (80.00%) VSAM
1 4 (80.00%) Online Banking
1 4 (80.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 4 (80.00%) Mobile Banking
2 3 (60.00%) PKI
3 1 (20.00%) Firmware
3 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) AIX
2 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JCL
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (60.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (20.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
1 4 (80.00%) HP
1 4 (80.00%) Brocade
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (60.00%) CA
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle