England Storage Specialist Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Storage Specialist role in IT contracts within the England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Storage Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Cheshire East Midlands Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Kent London North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Sandwich Scotland South East South Yorkshire UK Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	488	558
Rank change on same period last year	+70
Matching contract IT job ads	31	67
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.072 %
As % of the category below	0.059 %	0.084 %
Daily rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£459
Average daily rate	£400	£469
% change on same period last year	-14.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£480
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£412
% change on same period last year	-14.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£36.47
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£37.03
% change on same period last year	-5.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£37.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.00	£37.03
% change on same period last year	-5.47 %
Job Titles England
Matching contract IT job ads	52250	79626
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	82.30 %	85.32 %
Daily rates quoted	16864	24512
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£390
Average daily rate	£392	£414
% change on same period last year	-5.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£438
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	5137	7273
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.14	£23.57
Average hourly rate	£23.59	£25.15
% change on same period last year	-6.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.04	£26.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Storage Specialist across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Storage Specialist across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Specialist within the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+90	11	£425	-17.07 %
South East	+42	10	-	-
North West	+14	4	-	-
Yorkshire	+20	3	£388	-
East Midlands	-	2	£375	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Storage Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 57 (57.58 %) SAN 2 40 (40.40 %) Brocade 3 37 (37.37 %) EMC 4 24 (24.24 %) NetBackup 5 23 (23.23 %) Solaris 5 23 (23.23 %) Windows 6 22 (22.22 %) VERITAS 7 21 (21.21 %) AIX 8 20 (20.20 %) Sun 8 20 (20.20 %) Cisco 8 20 (20.20 %) IBM 9 19 (19.19 %) Mainframe 10 18 (18.18 %) Finance 10 18 (18.18 %) NetApp 11 17 (17.17 %) Symmetrix

12 16 (16.16 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 12 16 (16.16 %) CLARiiON 13 14 (14.14 %) StorageTek 13 14 (14.14 %) UNIX 14 12 (12.12 %) HP 15 11 (11.11 %) Perl 15 11 (11.11 %) Shell Script 16 10 (10.10 %) IBM Mainframe 17 9 (9.091 %) AWK 17 9 (9.091 %) SLA 18 8 (8.081 %) OpenVMS 18 8 (8.081 %) Tivoli 18 8 (8.081 %) Replication 18 8 (8.081 %) Financial Institution 18 8 (8.081 %) Clustering

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Storage Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.010 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.030 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.010 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (1.010 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (1.010 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 3 (3.030 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.010 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 57 (57.58 %) SAN 2 4 (4.040 %) SMS 3 2 (2.020 %) iSCSI 4 1 (1.010 %) Intranet 4 1 (1.010 %) DHCP 4 1 (1.010 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (1.010 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.010 %) SQL Server 1 1 (1.010 %) Informix 1 1 (1.010 %) Oracle 10g	General 1 18 (18.18 %) Finance 2 8 (8.081 %) Financial Institution 3 6 (6.061 %) Banking 4 2 (2.020 %) Multimedia
Miscellaneous 1 19 (19.19 %) Mainframe 2 17 (17.17 %) Symmetrix 3 16 (16.16 %) CLARiiON 4 10 (10.10 %) IBM Mainframe 5 8 (8.081 %) Replication 5 8 (8.081 %) Clustering 6 4 (4.040 %) EMC Centera 7 3 (3.030 %) Celerra 8 2 (2.020 %) Dutch Language 9 1 (1.010 %) French Language 9 1 (1.010 %) German Language 9 1 (1.010 %) Italian Language 9 1 (1.010 %) Spanish Language 9 1 (1.010 %) Firmware	Operating Systems 1 23 (23.23 %) Windows 1 23 (23.23 %) Solaris 2 21 (21.21 %) AIX 3 14 (14.14 %) UNIX 4 8 (8.081 %) OpenVMS 5 7 (7.071 %) HPUX 6 5 (5.051 %) Windows Server 2003 7 3 (3.030 %) Linux 8 1 (1.010 %) Windows 2000 8 1 (1.010 %) Tru64 8 1 (1.010 %) Windows Server 2008 8 1 (1.010 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 1 (1.010 %) zOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (7.071 %) Migration 2 6 (6.061 %) Problem Management 3 5 (5.051 %) Disaster Recovery 4 3 (3.030 %) Data Protection 5 2 (2.020 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (1.010 %) DV Cleared 6 1 (1.010 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (1.010 %) ITSM 6 1 (1.010 %) ITIL 6 1 (1.010 %) Project Management 6 1 (1.010 %) Service Management 6 1 (1.010 %) Business Continuity 6 1 (1.010 %) Data Management 6 1 (1.010 %) Project Planning	Programming Languages 1 11 (11.11 %) Perl 1 11 (11.11 %) Shell Script 2 9 (9.091 %) AWK 3 3 (3.030 %) C 4 1 (1.010 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (1.010 %) CCNA 1 1 (1.010 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (1.010 %) SNIA Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (9.091 %) SLA 2 1 (1.010 %) QA
System Software 1 24 (24.24 %) NetBackup 2 4 (4.040 %) NFS 3 3 (3.030 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (1.010 %) Active Directory 4 1 (1.010 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 16 (16.16 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 8 (8.081 %) Tivoli 3 6 (6.061 %) Legato 4 2 (2.020 %) EMC NetWorker 5 1 (1.010 %) OVPA 5 1 (1.010 %) HP Data Protector 5 1 (1.010 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 40 (40.40 %) Brocade 2 37 (37.37 %) EMC 3 22 (22.22 %) VERITAS 4 20 (20.20 %) Cisco 4 20 (20.20 %) IBM 4 20 (20.20 %) Sun 5 18 (18.18 %) NetApp 6 14 (14.14 %) StorageTek 7 12 (12.12 %) HP 8 7 (7.071 %) Microsoft 8 7 (7.071 %) Oracle 9 5 (5.051 %) Hitachi 9 5 (5.051 %) VMware 10 3 (3.030 %) CA 11 1 (1.010 %) Capita 11 1 (1.010 %) Lotus 11 1 (1.010 %) Symantec