The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NAS 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 Leeds 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
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 57 55 53
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -2
Contract jobs citing NAS 17 12 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 2.300% 1.381% 0.157%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.770% 10.08% 1.613%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 1
Average daily rate £308 £313 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.60% -43.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £375 £374
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +47.57%
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
174 119 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 23.55% 13.69% 9.748%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 55 22
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £235 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £350 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 12
Average hourly rate £34.00 £13.75 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+147.27% -30.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.90 £11.00 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £30.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
NAS
West Yorkshire

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds NAS Daily Rate Trend

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 19 (100.00%) SAN
2 17 (89.47%) Windows
3 15 (78.95%) LAN
3 15 (78.95%) WAN
3 15 (78.95%) Cisco
3 15 (78.95%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (73.68%) Windows Server 2003
4 14 (73.68%) Microsoft
5 13 (68.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (68.42%) SQL Server
5 13 (68.42%) MCSE
5 13 (68.42%) Windows XP
5 13 (68.42%) MS Exchange
5 13 (68.42%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (68.42%) F5
6 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (21.05%) VMware
7 3 (15.79%) Firewall
7 3 (15.79%) Linux
8 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
8 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
8 2 (10.53%) Oracle
8 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
8 2 (10.53%) HPUX
8 2 (10.53%) ITIL
8 2 (10.53%) Legal
8 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
8 2 (10.53%) X-Windows
8 2 (10.53%) Project Management

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 Development
1 2 (10.53%) X-Windows
2 1 (5.263%) LAMP
2 1 (5.263%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 13 (68.42%) MS Exchange
1 13 (68.42%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (5.263%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 19 (100.00%) SAN
2 15 (78.95%) LAN
2 15 (78.95%) WAN
3 3 (15.79%) Firewall
4 2 (10.53%) Internet
5 1 (5.263%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (5.263%) SMTP
5 1 (5.263%) VoIP
5 1 (5.263%) Network Security
5 1 (5.263%) iSCSI
5 1 (5.263%) WAAS
5 1 (5.263%) FCoE
5 1 (5.263%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (68.42%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.263%) MySQL
General
1 2 (10.53%) Legal
2 1 (5.263%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Messaging Analyst
1 8 (42.11%) Analyst
2 7 (36.84%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (26.32%) Messaging Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Support Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Architect
5 3 (15.79%) Messaging Specialist
5 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Specialist
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (5.263%) Network Engineer
7 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 1 (5.263%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.263%) Project Manager
7 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (5.263%) Messaging Architect
7 1 (5.263%) VMware Specialist
Operating Systems
1 17 (89.47%) Windows
2 15 (78.95%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (73.68%) Windows Server 2003
4 13 (68.42%) Windows XP
5 3 (15.79%) Linux
6 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (10.53%) HPUX
7 1 (5.263%) UNIX
7 1 (5.263%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
1 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
1 2 (10.53%) ITIL
1 2 (10.53%) Project Management
2 1 (5.263%) Migration
2 1 (5.263%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (5.263%) Asset Management
2 1 (5.263%) Supplier Management
2 1 (5.263%) CRM
2 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.263%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) Microsoft Certification
1 13 (68.42%) MCSE
2 1 (5.263%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (5.263%) PMP
2 1 (5.263%) CCNP
2 1 (5.263%) CCNA
2 1 (5.263%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.263%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.263%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.263%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Cisco
2 14 (73.68%) Microsoft
3 13 (68.42%) F5
4 4 (21.05%) VMware
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle
5 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.263%) Symantec
6 1 (5.263%) McAfee
6 1 (5.263%) IBM
6 1 (5.263%) NetApp
6 1 (5.263%) Juniper
6 1 (5.263%) HP
6 1 (5.263%) EMC
6 1 (5.263%) Intel