The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 18 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 Gloucester 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 17 21 20
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -1
Contract jobs citing SAN 1 12 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 1.333% 7.186% 3.093%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% 27.91% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 0
Average daily rate - £400 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £328 £350
% change year-on-year
+5.34% -6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £21.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.75 £25.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+3.00% +4.16%
All Communications & Networking
Gloucester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
5 43 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 6.667% 25.75% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 20 10
Average daily rate £300 £410 £198
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.82% +107.59%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Average hourly rate £21.00 £16.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -8.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
SAN
Gloucestershire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) GlassFish
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (50.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Server Support
1 1 (50.00%) Support Technician
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Server Support Technician
1 1 (50.00%) Server Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
For these roles, you need to have previous experience of working within a Server Support / Technician position with technical skills of 3 or more of the following: Active...
Connectus
Rate: £17 - £25 per hour
Posted: 12 June 2013