The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NAS 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the Essex 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
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 42 44 46
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +2
Contract jobs citing NAS 7 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 1.667% 0.490% 0.510%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.589% 4.255% 5.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £475 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +11.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +58.33%
All Communications & Networking
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
73 47 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 17.38% 11.52% 9.694%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 17 9
Average daily rate £325 £363 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.34% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £137 £176
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 15
Average hourly rate £25.00 £23.50 £20.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% +16.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.10 £10.43
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.84 £28.70 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
NAS
East of England

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex NAS Jobs Demand Trend

NAS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex NAS Daily Rate Trend

NAS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex NAS Hourly Rate Trend

NAS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the Essex 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
Brentwood - 4 - -
NAS
East of England

NAS
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing NAS 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 NAS.

1 10 (100.00%) SAN
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (90.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) IBM
3 6 (60.00%) Perl
3 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (60.00%) SUSE
4 3 (30.00%) Automotive
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
5 1 (10.00%) CCNP
5 1 (10.00%) Citrix
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (10.00%) Juniper
5 1 (10.00%) VPN
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco
5 1 (10.00%) Riverbed
5 1 (10.00%) IP Telephony
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing NAS 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 NAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco IPT
General
1 3 (30.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Backup Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Backup Consultant
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (60.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCNP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (90.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Riverbed