The first table below looks at the demand for SAN 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 SAN over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 38 37 48
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +11
Contract jobs citing SAN 9 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 2.239% 1.928% 0.510%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.04% 17.02% 6.452%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 1
Average daily rate - £450 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +111.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £363 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
Average hourly rate £25.00 £26.75 £9.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.54% +174.35%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -1.88%
All Communications & Networking
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
69 47 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 17.16% 11.33% 7.908%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 17 8
Average daily rate £325 £380 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.47% +23.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £146 £174
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 12
Average hourly rate £25.00 £23.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% +34.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.20 £15.10 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £28.70 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
SAN
East of England

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Essex region over the 3 months to 24 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 - -
Basildon - 1 - -
SAN
East of England

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 20 (83.33%) Windows
2 15 (62.50%) VMware
3 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (41.67%) NAS
4 10 (41.67%) MS Exchange
4 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
4 10 (41.67%) Active Directory
5 9 (37.50%) Linux
5 9 (37.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 9 (37.50%) IBM
6 8 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
7 7 (29.17%) SQL
7 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
7 7 (29.17%) HP
8 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
8 6 (25.00%) Perl
8 6 (25.00%) Oracle
8 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (25.00%) SUSE
8 6 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
9 5 (20.83%) Clustering
9 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2005
9 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2000
9 5 (20.83%) MCSE
10 4 (16.67%) VPN
10 4 (16.67%) Cisco
10 4 (16.67%) Compaq
10 4 (16.67%) Dell

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 Platforms
1 10 (41.67%) MS Exchange
2 8 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (8.333%) IIS
5 1 (4.167%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Office
2 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) NAS
2 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (16.67%) VPN
3 4 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (4.167%) IP Telephony
4 1 (4.167%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (4.167%) ISDN
4 1 (4.167%) WAN
4 1 (4.167%) SMTP
4 1 (4.167%) BGP
4 1 (4.167%) EIGRP
4 1 (4.167%) MGCP
4 1 (4.167%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 6 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (4.167%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.167%) MySQL
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle 9i
General
1 3 (12.50%) Automotive
2 1 (4.167%) Law
2 1 (4.167%) Back Office
2 1 (4.167%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.167%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Backup Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Analyst
2 3 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (8.333%) Administrator
3 2 (8.333%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (8.333%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.167%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) Teradata DBA
4 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) Backup Consultant
4 1 (4.167%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (4.167%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) Team Leader
4 1 (4.167%) SQL DBA
4 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (4.167%) Help Desk Team Lead
4 1 (4.167%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Clustering
2 4 (16.67%) PACS
3 1 (4.167%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.167%) IaaS
3 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.167%) Replication
3 1 (4.167%) PKI
3 1 (4.167%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 20 (83.33%) Windows
2 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (37.50%) Linux
4 6 (25.00%) SUSE
5 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (4.167%) Windows 2000
6 1 (4.167%) Solaris
6 1 (4.167%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 2 (8.333%) ITIL
4 1 (4.167%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (4.167%) High Availability
4 1 (4.167%) Test Strategy
4 1 (4.167%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (4.167%) SOA
4 1 (4.167%) Project Management
4 1 (4.167%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) Perl
3 4 (16.67%) VBScript
3 4 (16.67%) VB
4 1 (4.167%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (20.83%) MCSE
3 1 (4.167%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.167%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.167%) NCIE
3 1 (4.167%) VCP5
3 1 (4.167%) MCDST
3 1 (4.167%) MCITP
3 1 (4.167%) MCP
3 1 (4.167%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.167%) CCNP
3 1 (4.167%) MCDBA
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) ISA Server
2 4 (16.67%) Forefront TMG
3 3 (12.50%) DFS Replication
3 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (8.333%) vSphere
5 1 (4.167%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Backup Exec
3 1 (4.167%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (4.167%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) VMware
2 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 9 (37.50%) IBM
4 7 (29.17%) HP
5 6 (25.00%) Oracle
6 4 (16.67%) Cisco
6 4 (16.67%) Compaq
6 4 (16.67%) Dell
6 4 (16.67%) ADIC
6 4 (16.67%) CommVault
6 4 (16.67%) Veritas
7 3 (12.50%) NetApp
7 3 (12.50%) Juniper
8 2 (8.333%) BMC
9 1 (4.167%) Riverbed
9 1 (4.167%) Citrix
9 1 (4.167%) CA
9 1 (4.167%) McAfee
9 1 (4.167%) Clearswift
Basildon, Essex
Active Directory 2008 - PACS system Administration exposure - ISA Server 2006 and ForeFront TMG 2010 - Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 - Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 - Windows Server...
Skye Group
Rate: £25 per hour
Posted: 23 May 2013