The first table below looks at the demand for SRDF 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 SRDF over the 3 months to 17 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 System Software 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF)
Rank 477 518 543
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +25
Contract jobs citing SRDF 33 40 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.079% 0.075% 0.051%
As % of the System Software category 0.839% 0.930% 0.708%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 19
Average daily rate £475 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £325 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £458 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £390 £371
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +5.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
3935 4299 4095
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.466% 8.058% 7.257%
Number of daily rates quoted 1913 2094 1830
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 582 611
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £37.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
SRDF
UK

SRDF
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SRDF across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

England SRDF Jobs Demand Trend

SRDF
Daily Rate Trend

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

England SRDF Daily Rate Trend

SRDF
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SRDF across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England SRDF Daily Rate Histogram

SRDF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England SRDF Hourly Rate Trend

SRDF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SRDF within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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 +26 25 £475 +11.76%
South East +19 8 £463 +5.71%
SRDF
UK

SRDF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing SRDF 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 SRDF.

1 37 (66.07%) Windows
2 30 (53.57%) EMC
3 29 (51.79%) Clustering
4 27 (48.21%) SAN
5 23 (41.07%) Finance
6 19 (33.93%) Cisco
7 18 (32.14%) Banking
8 17 (30.36%) Linux
9 16 (28.57%) Solaris
9 16 (28.57%) IBM
9 16 (28.57%) Veritas
10 15 (26.79%) CLARiiON
10 15 (26.79%) Symmetrix
10 15 (26.79%) EMC Centera
10 15 (26.79%) ITIL
11 14 (25.00%) UNIX
11 14 (25.00%) VMware
12 13 (23.21%) EMC TimeFinder
13 12 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
13 12 (21.43%) Symmetrix DMX
13 12 (21.43%) Migration
13 12 (21.43%) Citrix
13 12 (21.43%) Shell Script
13 12 (21.43%) VMS
14 11 (19.64%) Oracle
14 11 (19.64%) Windows Server 2003
14 11 (19.64%) HP
14 11 (19.64%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (19.64%) Project Management
14 11 (19.64%) VMware Infrastructure

SRDF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing SRDF 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 SRDF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (8.929%) WebSphere
2 4 (7.143%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 9 (16.07%) IIS
2 5 (8.929%) Apache
2 5 (8.929%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.571%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.786%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (1.786%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 27 (48.21%) SAN
2 7 (12.50%) Connectrix
2 7 (12.50%) NAS
3 5 (8.929%) Gigabit Ethernet
3 5 (8.929%) DHCP
3 5 (8.929%) Ethernet
3 5 (8.929%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.571%) DNS
4 2 (3.571%) LDAP
4 2 (3.571%) SMTP
4 2 (3.571%) FTP
4 2 (3.571%) SNMP
4 2 (3.571%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.929%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (8.929%) SQL Server 2012
3 4 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (3.571%) SQLPlus
4 2 (3.571%) Essbase
5 1 (1.786%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (1.786%) DTS
5 1 (1.786%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (1.786%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 23 (41.07%) Finance
2 18 (32.14%) Banking
3 8 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 7 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.143%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (28.57%) Administrator
1 16 (28.57%) Storage Administrator
2 14 (25.00%) Consultant
3 13 (23.21%) Storage Consultant
4 12 (21.43%) Analyst
5 10 (17.86%) Storage Specialist
5 10 (17.86%) Wintel Analyst
6 7 (12.50%) DBA
7 6 (10.71%) Senior Consultant
7 6 (10.71%) Senior Storage Consultant
7 6 (10.71%) Senior Storage Specialist
7 6 (10.71%) Senior Storage Administrator
8 5 (8.929%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (8.929%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 5 (8.929%) EMC Storage Consultant
8 5 (8.929%) SQL DBA
9 4 (7.143%) SAN Consultant
9 4 (7.143%) SAN Engineer
9 4 (7.143%) SAN Storage Consultant
9 4 (7.143%) SAN Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (51.79%) Clustering
2 15 (26.79%) CLARiiON
2 15 (26.79%) Symmetrix
2 15 (26.79%) EMC Centera
3 12 (21.43%) Symmetrix DMX
4 5 (8.929%) Replication
5 4 (7.143%) IBM Mainframe
5 4 (7.143%) Mainframe
6 2 (3.571%) Blackberry
6 2 (3.571%) Celerra
6 2 (3.571%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 37 (66.07%) Windows
2 17 (30.36%) Linux
3 16 (28.57%) Solaris
4 14 (25.00%) UNIX
5 12 (21.43%) VMS
5 12 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
6 11 (19.64%) Windows Server 2003
7 10 (17.86%) HPUX
8 8 (14.29%) AIX
9 6 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.79%) ITIL
2 12 (21.43%) Migration
3 11 (19.64%) Project Management
3 11 (19.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (17.86%) Incident Management
4 10 (17.86%) Capacity Planning
5 9 (16.07%) Change Control
5 9 (16.07%) Change Management
6 8 (14.29%) Validation
7 7 (12.50%) High Availability
8 6 (10.71%) Business Continuity
9 4 (7.143%) Business Transformation
9 4 (7.143%) Fund Management
9 4 (7.143%) Wealth Management
10 3 (5.357%) Problem Management
10 3 (5.357%) Performance Management
10 3 (5.357%) Data Migration
10 3 (5.357%) Information Security
11 2 (3.571%) Service Delivery
12 1 (1.786%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) Shell Script
2 9 (16.07%) PowerShell
2 9 (16.07%) VBScript
3 8 (14.29%) SQL
4 5 (8.929%) Perl
4 5 (8.929%) Python
4 5 (8.929%) Bash shell
4 5 (8.929%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (8.929%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.929%) SLA
2 1 (1.786%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (19.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (17.86%) Hyper-V
2 10 (17.86%) Active Directory
3 9 (16.07%) XenServer
4 5 (8.929%) Samba
4 5 (8.929%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (8.929%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (5.357%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (3.571%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.786%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (23.21%) EMC TimeFinder
2 10 (17.86%) SCCM
2 10 (17.86%) SCOM
3 5 (8.929%) Puppet
3 5 (8.929%) Cobbler
3 5 (8.929%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (7.143%) Tivoli
4 4 (7.143%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (3.571%) EMC Navisphere
Vendors
1 30 (53.57%) EMC
2 19 (33.93%) Cisco
3 16 (28.57%) IBM
3 16 (28.57%) Veritas
4 14 (25.00%) VMware
5 12 (21.43%) Citrix
6 11 (19.64%) Oracle
6 11 (19.64%) HP
7 10 (17.86%) Altiris
8 9 (16.07%) Dell
9 6 (10.71%) Red Hat
10 5 (8.929%) NetApp
11 3 (5.357%) Microsoft
12 2 (3.571%) Novell
12 2 (3.571%) McAfee
12 2 (3.571%) Brocade
12 2 (3.571%) 3PAR
12 2 (3.571%) Isilon
12 2 (3.571%) RightFax
13 1 (1.786%) Sybase
London
Global financial institution requires a storage administrator for a contract position. You should have extensive hands on experience within a support function, preferably from within financial services.
Scope AT Ltd
Rate: negotiable
Posted: 7 May 2013