The first table below looks at the demand for the Storage Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Storage Consultant in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Storage Consultant
Rank 444 487 510
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Consultant 68 70 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.161% 0.131% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.174% 0.141% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 35 21
Average daily rate £350 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £330 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £458 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £406 £400
% change year-on-year
-15.69% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
Average hourly rate - £41.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +50.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £41.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +50.90%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
39141 49545 51375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.52% 92.60% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22991 28027 28527
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2036 2429 2720
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.17 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Storage Consultant
UK

Storage Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Storage Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Storage Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Storage Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Storage Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Storage Consultant across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Storage Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Storage Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Storage Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Storage Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Consultant 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
South West +42 20 £300 -25.00%
London +11 17 £450 +12.50%
South East +20 10 £425 +21.42%
East of England +6 9 £340 -20.00%
Yorkshire +10 6 £350 -
West Midlands +15 4 £310 -18.68%
North West +6 1 £325 -22.61%
East Midlands - 1 £345 -
Storage Consultant
UK

Storage Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Storage Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 50 (36.23%) SAN
2 47 (34.06%) Windows
3 45 (32.61%) NetApp
4 43 (31.16%) EMC
5 42 (30.43%) HP
6 33 (23.91%) VMware
7 27 (19.57%) Migration
7 27 (19.57%) Brocade
8 23 (16.67%) UNIX
9 21 (15.22%) Linux
10 16 (11.59%) Security Cleared
10 16 (11.59%) IBM
11 15 (10.87%) Cisco
11 15 (10.87%) NAS
12 14 (10.14%) 3PAR
13 13 (9.420%) SRDF
14 12 (8.696%) Replication
14 12 (8.696%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 11 (7.971%) NetBackup
16 10 (7.246%) Data Migration
16 10 (7.246%) VMware Infrastructure
16 10 (7.246%) CLARiiON
16 10 (7.246%) Symmetrix DMX
17 9 (6.522%) Symmetrix
17 9 (6.522%) Symantec
17 9 (6.522%) SC Cleared
17 9 (6.522%) Windows Server 2008
18 8 (5.797%) Tivoli
18 8 (5.797%) SQL
19 7 (5.072%) AIX

Storage Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Storage Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.899%) MS Exchange
2 3 (2.174%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.449%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.725%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.725%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 50 (36.23%) SAN
2 15 (10.87%) NAS
3 6 (4.348%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (1.449%) Firewall
4 2 (1.449%) DNS
5 1 (0.725%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.725%) SMTP
5 1 (0.725%) DHCP
5 1 (0.725%) HTTP
5 1 (0.725%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.725%) VPN
5 1 (0.725%) MPLS
5 1 (0.725%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.449%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (5.072%) Finance
1 7 (5.072%) Banking
2 4 (2.899%) Corporate Banking
2 4 (2.899%) Investment Banking
3 3 (2.174%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.696%) Replication
2 10 (7.246%) CLARiiON
2 10 (7.246%) Symmetrix DMX
3 9 (6.522%) Symmetrix
4 7 (5.072%) Clustering
5 4 (2.899%) EMC Centera
5 4 (2.899%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.174%) Celerra
7 2 (1.449%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (1.449%) Firmware
8 1 (0.725%) IaaS
8 1 (0.725%) Data Extraction
8 1 (0.725%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.725%) SaaS
8 1 (0.725%) PaaS
8 1 (0.725%) EqualLogic
8 1 (0.725%) HP StorageWorks
8 1 (0.725%) Open Source
8 1 (0.725%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 47 (34.06%) Windows
2 23 (16.67%) UNIX
3 21 (15.22%) Linux
4 9 (6.522%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (5.072%) AIX
6 6 (4.348%) HPUX
7 5 (3.623%) Solaris
8 3 (2.174%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.449%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.449%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (19.57%) Migration
2 10 (7.246%) Data Migration
3 5 (3.623%) Service Management
3 5 (3.623%) Programme Management
4 4 (2.899%) Business Continuity
4 4 (2.899%) Fund Management
4 4 (2.899%) Wealth Management
4 4 (2.899%) Business Transformation
5 3 (2.174%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (2.174%) Change Management
5 3 (2.174%) Performance Testing
6 2 (1.449%) Data Management
6 2 (1.449%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (1.449%) Validation
6 2 (1.449%) High Availability
7 1 (0.725%) Change Control
7 1 (0.725%) Capacity Management
7 1 (0.725%) ITIL
7 1 (0.725%) Service Delivery
7 1 (0.725%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.797%) SQL
2 2 (1.449%) C
3 1 (0.725%) Perl
3 1 (0.725%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.725%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.522%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.072%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.174%) NCDA
4 3 (2.174%) NCIE
5 1 (0.725%) EMC Certification
5 1 (0.725%) HP ASE
5 1 (0.725%) HP MASE
System Software
1 13 (9.420%) SRDF
2 10 (7.246%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.072%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 6 (4.348%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.899%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.899%) VMware ESX
6 3 (2.174%) vSphere
7 2 (1.449%) XenApp
8 1 (0.725%) XenServer
8 1 (0.725%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (8.696%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 11 (7.971%) NetBackup
3 8 (5.797%) Tivoli
4 6 (4.348%) Backup Exec
5 4 (2.899%) EMC TimeFinder
6 3 (2.174%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.449%) Legato
7 2 (1.449%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 1 (0.725%) SCOM
8 1 (0.725%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.725%) WSUS
8 1 (0.725%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 45 (32.61%) NetApp
2 43 (31.16%) EMC
3 42 (30.43%) HP
4 33 (23.91%) VMware
5 27 (19.57%) Brocade
6 16 (11.59%) IBM
7 15 (10.87%) Cisco
8 14 (10.14%) 3PAR
9 9 (6.522%) Symantec
10 6 (4.348%) Microsoft
11 5 (3.623%) Citrix
12 4 (2.899%) Mercator
13 3 (2.174%) Verint
13 3 (2.174%) Oracle
13 3 (2.174%) Dell
13 3 (2.174%) Hitachi
13 3 (2.174%) Isilon
14 2 (1.449%) FalconStor
14 2 (1.449%) Sun
14 2 (1.449%) CommVault
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
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