The first table below looks at the demand for the Storage Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage System Administrator
Rank 501 494 472
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Systems Administrator 2 72 98
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.005% 0.135% 0.177%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.146% 0.191%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 58 64
Average daily rate £410 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £279 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £442 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £400 £383
% change year-on-year
-7.50% +4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £37.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +114.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £42.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
- +142.85%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38599 49457 51411
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.55% 92.65% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22682 27982 28506
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £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 2004 2401 2726
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.00 £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 Systems Administrator
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Storage Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Storage Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Storage Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Storage Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Storage Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Storage Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Storage Systems Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Systems Administrator within the England region over the 3 months to 20 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 East +12 1 £370 +5.71%
London -9 1 £451 +26.81%
Storage Systems Administrator
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Storage Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Storage Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 22 (57.89%) VMware
2 20 (52.63%) SAN
3 16 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (34.21%) Linux
5 11 (28.95%) Oracle
6 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
7 9 (23.68%) EMC
7 9 (23.68%) AIX
7 9 (23.68%) VMware ESX
8 8 (21.05%) UNIX
8 8 (21.05%) DNS
9 7 (18.42%) Windows
9 7 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (15.79%) Change Management
10 6 (15.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (15.79%) SQL
10 6 (15.79%) MS Exchange
10 6 (15.79%) LAN
10 6 (15.79%) WAN
10 6 (15.79%) Citrix
10 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
10 6 (15.79%) Red Hat
10 6 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (13.16%) Mainframe
11 5 (13.16%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 5 (13.16%) Symantec
11 5 (13.16%) NetApp
11 5 (13.16%) Solaris
11 5 (13.16%) HTTP

Storage Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (13.16%) LAMP
2 4 (10.53%) .NET
3 2 (5.263%) REST
3 2 (5.263%) SOAP
4 1 (2.632%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.79%) MS Exchange
2 4 (10.53%) IIS
2 4 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (7.895%) Apache
4 2 (5.263%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) MS Office
1 4 (10.53%) MS Excel
1 4 (10.53%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 20 (52.63%) SAN
2 8 (21.05%) DNS
3 6 (15.79%) LAN
3 6 (15.79%) WAN
4 5 (13.16%) HTTP
4 5 (13.16%) NAS
5 2 (5.263%) SSL
5 2 (5.263%) RTP
5 2 (5.263%) Firewall
5 2 (5.263%) RTSP
5 2 (5.263%) Network Security
6 1 (2.632%) DHCP
6 1 (2.632%) Intranet
6 1 (2.632%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.263%) MySQL
2 2 (5.263%) Hadoop
2 2 (5.263%) CouchDB
2 2 (5.263%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.263%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (5.263%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.263%) Redis
3 1 (2.632%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (5.263%) Maven
1 2 (5.263%) JIRA
1 2 (5.263%) Selenium
1 2 (5.263%) Git (software)
1 2 (5.263%) Hudson
1 2 (5.263%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (13.16%) Finance
2 3 (7.895%) Banking
2 3 (7.895%) Investment Banking
3 2 (5.263%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.263%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.632%) Back Office
4 1 (2.632%) French Language
4 1 (2.632%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Mainframe
2 3 (7.895%) HACMP
2 3 (7.895%) LPAR
2 3 (7.895%) DLPAR
3 2 (5.263%) Open Source
3 2 (5.263%) SaaS
3 2 (5.263%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.632%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 13 (34.21%) Linux
2 9 (23.68%) AIX
3 8 (21.05%) UNIX
4 7 (18.42%) Windows
5 6 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (13.16%) Solaris
7 2 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.632%) CentOS
8 1 (2.632%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (15.79%) Change Management
2 6 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (13.16%) Migration
4 4 (10.53%) Document Management
4 4 (10.53%) Load Balancing
4 4 (10.53%) Project Management
5 3 (7.895%) Software Deployment
5 3 (7.895%) Information Management
6 2 (5.263%) ERP
6 2 (5.263%) Data Migration
6 2 (5.263%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (5.263%) Business Continuity
6 2 (5.263%) Content Management
7 1 (2.632%) High Availability
7 1 (2.632%) Problem Management
7 1 (2.632%) Risk Management
7 1 (2.632%) Validation
7 1 (2.632%) Service Management
7 1 (2.632%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) SQL
2 5 (13.16%) Korn
3 4 (10.53%) VB
4 3 (7.895%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.263%) Java
5 2 (5.263%) PHP
6 1 (2.632%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.895%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.895%) Sun Certification
3 3 (7.895%) SCSA
4 1 (2.632%) Degree
4 1 (2.632%) MCSE
4 1 (2.632%) CCNA
4 1 (2.632%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.632%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.632%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.895%) QA
2 1 (2.632%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (23.68%) VMware ESX
3 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
4 4 (10.53%) XenApp
5 2 (5.263%) Samba
6 1 (2.632%) SRDF
6 1 (2.632%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (5.263%) Nagios
2 2 (5.263%) OpenView
2 2 (5.263%) ZABBIX
3 1 (2.632%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.632%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 22 (57.89%) VMware
2 11 (28.95%) Oracle
3 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
4 9 (23.68%) EMC
5 6 (15.79%) Citrix
5 6 (15.79%) Red Hat
6 5 (13.16%) Symantec
6 5 (13.16%) NetApp
7 3 (7.895%) Sun
8 2 (5.263%) HP
8 2 (5.263%) JBoss
9 1 (2.632%) Cisco
9 1 (2.632%) IBM
9 1 (2.632%) Isilon