The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Erskine region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Communications & Networking category for the Erskine 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 10 17 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing SAN 12 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 20.00% 2.326% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 57.14% 3.125% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+6.15% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year
- +2.04%
All Communications & Networking
Erskine
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21 32 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 35.00% 74.42% -
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 0
Average daily rate £418 £385 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.44% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
SAN
Renfrewshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SAN across the Erskine region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Erskine SAN Jobs Demand Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Erskine SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the Erskine region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Erskine SAN Daily Rate Histogram

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine region citing SAN 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 SAN.

1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (94.12%) Windows
3 13 (76.47%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
5 10 (58.82%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (58.82%) Netcool
5 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
5 10 (58.82%) Veritas
6 9 (52.94%) Windows Server 2003
7 8 (47.06%) HP
7 8 (47.06%) Clustering
8 6 (35.29%) Tivoli
8 6 (35.29%) NAS
8 6 (35.29%) Software Distribution
8 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
8 6 (35.29%) Configuration Management
8 6 (35.29%) AIX
8 6 (35.29%) Solaris
8 6 (35.29%) Linux
8 6 (35.29%) Windows XP
8 6 (35.29%) DHCP
8 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
8 6 (35.29%) DNS
9 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
10 4 (23.53%) XML
10 4 (23.53%) XSL
10 4 (23.53%) HTML
10 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
10 4 (23.53%) Citrix
10 4 (23.53%) Lumension

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine region citing SAN 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 SAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (23.53%) XML
1 4 (23.53%) XSL
1 4 (23.53%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) IIS
1 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) NAS
1 6 (35.29%) DHCP
1 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
1 6 (35.29%) DNS
2 1 (5.882%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (5.882%) Finance
1 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Operations Consultant
3 1 (5.882%) Team Leader
3 1 (5.882%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Clustering
2 3 (17.65%) Fat Client
2 3 (17.65%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 10 (58.82%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (52.94%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (35.29%) AIX
4 6 (35.29%) Solaris
4 6 (35.29%) Linux
4 6 (35.29%) Windows XP
5 3 (17.65%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Software Distribution
1 6 (35.29%) Configuration Management
2 3 (17.65%) Information Assurance
3 2 (11.76%) Change Management
3 2 (11.76%) Workflow
3 2 (11.76%) Performance Management
3 2 (11.76%) Test Scripting
3 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.882%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
1 4 (23.53%) XPath
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.882%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (76.47%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 10 (58.82%) Netcool
3 6 (35.29%) Tivoli
4 4 (23.53%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
1 10 (58.82%) Veritas
2 8 (47.06%) HP
3 4 (23.53%) Citrix
3 4 (23.53%) Lumension
4 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 3 (17.65%) Wyse
4 3 (17.65%) Symantec
4 3 (17.65%) McAfee
4 3 (17.65%) Sophos
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle