The first table below looks at the demand for the Storage Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Engineer
Rank 450 445 445
Rank change year-on-year
-5 0
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 68 118 128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.164% 0.221% 0.224%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.177% 0.239% 0.242%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 81 60
Average daily rate £425 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £347 £320 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £500 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
Average hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £21.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+41.30% +5.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £21.88
% change year-on-year
+18.18% +25.71%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38380 49421 52947
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.44% 92.55% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22598 27956 29382
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 1965 2419 2806
Average hourly rate £18.88 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.02% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.13 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £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 Engineer
UK

Storage Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Storage Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Storage Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Storage Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Storage Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Storage Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Storage Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Storage Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 +44 48 £406 +1.49%
South West +18 11 £450 +12.50%
South East +13 6 £425 -15.00%
West Midlands +5 1 £350 +19.14%
East Midlands +1 1 - -
Yorkshire -3 1 - -
Storage Engineer
UK

Storage Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Storage Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 123 (78.34%) SAN
2 74 (47.13%) Windows
3 72 (45.86%) NetApp
4 69 (43.95%) EMC
5 66 (42.04%) HP
6 58 (36.94%) UNIX
7 53 (33.76%) NetBackup
8 41 (26.11%) NAS
9 34 (21.66%) Brocade
9 34 (21.66%) Linux
10 32 (20.38%) Symantec
11 31 (19.75%) IBM
12 29 (18.47%) Cisco
13 28 (17.83%) Security Cleared
14 27 (17.20%) VMware
15 25 (15.92%) DV Cleared
16 24 (15.29%) CLARiiON
17 23 (14.65%) Banking
18 21 (13.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
19 19 (12.10%) Microsoft
20 18 (11.46%) C
20 18 (11.46%) VMware Infrastructure
20 18 (11.46%) Data Protection
20 18 (11.46%) Symmetrix DMX
21 17 (10.83%) Finance
21 17 (10.83%) Active Directory
22 16 (10.19%) Legato
23 15 (9.554%) Windows Server 2003
23 15 (9.554%) Disaster Recovery
23 15 (9.554%) Migration

Storage Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Storage Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (1.274%) COM
2 1 (0.637%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (4.459%) MS Exchange
2 5 (3.185%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (1.274%) IIS
4 1 (0.637%) Apache
4 1 (0.637%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.637%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (0.637%) Lync
4 1 (0.637%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 123 (78.34%) SAN
2 41 (26.11%) NAS
3 13 (8.280%) Fibre Channel
4 9 (5.732%) iSCSI
5 8 (5.096%) HTTP
6 5 (3.185%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (2.548%) Firewall
7 4 (2.548%) VPN
7 4 (2.548%) LAN
8 3 (1.911%) DNS
8 3 (1.911%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.274%) FCoE
9 2 (1.274%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.637%) LDAP
10 1 (0.637%) VoIP
10 1 (0.637%) WAN
10 1 (0.637%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.637%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.637%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 23 (14.65%) Banking
2 17 (10.83%) Finance
3 9 (5.732%) Investment Banking
4 4 (2.548%) Financial Institution
4 4 (2.548%) Telecoms
4 4 (2.548%) Law
5 3 (1.911%) Retail
6 1 (0.637%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.637%) Publishing
6 1 (0.637%) International Banking
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.29%) CLARiiON
2 18 (11.46%) Symmetrix DMX
3 14 (8.917%) Celerra
4 13 (8.280%) Replication
5 11 (7.006%) Clustering
5 11 (7.006%) Symmetrix
6 10 (6.369%) EMC Centera
7 8 (5.096%) Firmware
8 5 (3.185%) Blackberry
8 5 (3.185%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (2.548%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.911%) HACMP
10 3 (1.911%) LPAR
10 3 (1.911%) DLPAR
10 3 (1.911%) SaaS
11 2 (1.274%) HP StorageWorks
11 2 (1.274%) Statistics
11 2 (1.274%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
11 2 (1.274%) Computer Science
11 2 (1.274%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 74 (47.13%) Windows
2 58 (36.94%) UNIX
3 34 (21.66%) Linux
4 15 (9.554%) Windows Server 2003
5 14 (8.917%) Solaris
6 5 (3.185%) AIX
6 5 (3.185%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.548%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (2.548%) Windows 2000
8 2 (1.274%) HPUX
9 1 (0.637%) SUSE
9 1 (0.637%) Slackware
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (11.46%) Data Protection
2 15 (9.554%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (9.554%) Migration
3 13 (8.280%) Capacity Management
4 12 (7.643%) Capacity Planning
5 9 (5.732%) ITIL
6 5 (3.185%) Data Management
6 5 (3.185%) Data Analysis
6 5 (3.185%) Change Management
6 5 (3.185%) Data Migration
7 3 (1.911%) BCP
7 3 (1.911%) Service Delivery
7 3 (1.911%) High Availability
8 2 (1.274%) Product Management
8 2 (1.274%) System Testing
8 2 (1.274%) Performance Management
8 2 (1.274%) Test Scripting
8 2 (1.274%) Problem Management
8 2 (1.274%) Validation
8 2 (1.274%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.46%) C
2 10 (6.369%) VB
3 7 (4.459%) SQL
4 6 (3.822%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.548%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.548%) Perl
6 2 (1.274%) VBScript
7 1 (0.637%) Python
7 1 (0.637%) Ruby
7 1 (0.637%) Korn
7 1 (0.637%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 28 (17.83%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.92%) DV Cleared
3 6 (3.822%) Degree
4 5 (3.185%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (2.548%) NCDA
5 4 (2.548%) MCSE
5 4 (2.548%) MCSA
5 4 (2.548%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.274%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.274%) MCITP
7 1 (0.637%) EMC Certification
7 1 (0.637%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.637%) VTSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.274%) QA
2 1 (0.637%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (11.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (10.83%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.732%) VMware ESX
3 9 (5.732%) vSphere
4 8 (5.096%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 6 (3.822%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (3.822%) NFS
6 4 (2.548%) SRDF
7 2 (1.274%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.637%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.637%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.637%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.637%) Xen
8 1 (0.637%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.637%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.637%) XenApp
8 1 (0.637%) UAG
Systems Management
1 53 (33.76%) NetBackup
2 21 (13.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 16 (10.19%) Legato
4 14 (8.917%) EMC NetWorker
5 11 (7.006%) Tivoli
6 6 (3.822%) Backup Exec
7 5 (3.185%) SCOM
7 5 (3.185%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 4 (2.548%) EMC Navisphere
9 2 (1.274%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (1.274%) EMC TimeFinder
9 2 (1.274%) OpenView
10 1 (0.637%) MOM
10 1 (0.637%) MIMEsweeper
10 1 (0.637%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 1 (0.637%) SCCM
10 1 (0.637%) PureDisk
10 1 (0.637%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 72 (45.86%) NetApp
2 69 (43.95%) EMC
3 66 (42.04%) HP
4 34 (21.66%) Brocade
5 32 (20.38%) Symantec
6 31 (19.75%) IBM
7 29 (18.47%) Cisco
8 27 (17.20%) VMware
9 19 (12.10%) Microsoft
10 12 (7.643%) Veritas
11 11 (7.006%) Hitachi
12 9 (5.732%) 3PAR
13 7 (4.459%) Citrix
13 7 (4.459%) Oracle
14 6 (3.822%) Dell
14 6 (3.822%) Red Hat
15 5 (3.185%) CommVault
15 5 (3.185%) Sun
16 4 (2.548%) NetIQ
17 2 (1.274%) Isilon
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