The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 - 60 -
Contract jobs citing NAS 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow - 0.129% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 1.493% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +58.33%
All Communications & Networking
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
67 67 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 7.001% 8.668% 4.971%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 21 11
Average daily rate £336 £305 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.24% +1.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £120 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £422 £440 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 2
Average hourly rate £14.50 £26.00 £97.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.23% -73.19%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
NAS
Scotland

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow NAS Hourly Rate Trend

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL V3
2 1 (33.33%) HSRP
2 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (33.33%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) SonicWALL
2 1 (33.33%) Celerra
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Lotus Domino
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) HSRP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) ADSL
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WLAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Project Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (33.33%) Celerra
2 1 (33.33%) EPoS
2 1 (33.33%) EMV
2 1 (33.33%) Symmetrix
2 1 (33.33%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL V3
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) SonicWALL
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix