The first table below looks at the demand for SAN 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 SAN over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 43 47 49
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +2
Contract jobs citing SAN 33 21 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 4.430% 2.360% 1.278%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.75% 17.50% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 5
Average daily rate £308 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £110 £285 £191
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £340 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £368 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.68% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £16.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+0.93% +0.94%
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
176 120 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 23.62% 13.48% 9.425%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 57 21
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 £329 £350 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 12
Average hourly rate £34.75 £13.50 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+157.40% -31.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.00 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £30.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
SAN
West Yorkshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Leeds SAN Daily Rate Histogram

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 30 (78.95%) Windows
2 25 (65.79%) Microsoft
3 23 (60.53%) Cisco
4 21 (55.26%) Windows Server 2008
5 20 (52.63%) MS Exchange
6 19 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 18 (47.37%) SQL Server
8 17 (44.74%) NAS
9 15 (39.47%) Exchange Server 2003
9 15 (39.47%) LAN
9 15 (39.47%) WAN
10 14 (36.84%) Windows XP
10 14 (36.84%) MCSE
10 14 (36.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (31.58%) F5
12 9 (23.68%) MS Excel
12 9 (23.68%) SQL
12 9 (23.68%) VMware
13 7 (18.42%) NetApp
14 6 (15.79%) HP
14 6 (15.79%) Oracle
14 6 (15.79%) Linux
15 5 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
15 5 (13.16%) Windows 7
15 5 (13.16%) vSphere
15 5 (13.16%) Firewall
16 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
16 4 (10.53%) E-Commerce
16 4 (10.53%) ITIL
16 4 (10.53%) UNIX

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (5.263%) X-Windows
2 1 (2.632%) LAMP
2 1 (2.632%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 20 (52.63%) MS Exchange
2 15 (39.47%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (7.895%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (5.263%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (5.263%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.632%) Apache
5 1 (2.632%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (23.68%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.895%) MS Office
3 2 (5.263%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.632%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 17 (44.74%) NAS
2 15 (39.47%) LAN
2 15 (39.47%) WAN
3 5 (13.16%) Firewall
4 3 (7.895%) DHCP
4 3 (7.895%) TCP/IP
4 3 (7.895%) DNS
5 2 (5.263%) Internet
5 2 (5.263%) MPLS
5 2 (5.263%) VLAN
5 2 (5.263%) iSCSI
5 2 (5.263%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (2.632%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (2.632%) Network Security
6 1 (2.632%) FCoE
6 1 (2.632%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.632%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.632%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (47.37%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.895%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.632%) MySQL
General
1 2 (5.263%) Finance
1 2 (5.263%) Legal
2 1 (2.632%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Analyst
1 10 (26.32%) 3rd Line Support
2 9 (23.68%) Support Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) Messaging Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Messaging Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Architect
5 4 (10.53%) DBA
6 3 (7.895%) Administrator
6 3 (7.895%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (7.895%) Messaging Specialist
6 3 (7.895%) Microsoft Specialist
7 2 (5.263%) Customer Support Engineer
7 2 (5.263%) Linux Support
7 2 (5.263%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.263%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (5.263%) Network Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Customer Engineer
7 2 (5.263%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (5.263%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.632%) NHS
1 1 (2.632%) Replication
1 1 (2.632%) EMC Centera
1 1 (2.632%) Grid Computing
1 1 (2.632%) Beowulf
1 1 (2.632%) Celerra
1 1 (2.632%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (2.632%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 30 (78.95%) Windows
2 21 (55.26%) Windows Server 2008
3 19 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 14 (36.84%) Windows XP
5 6 (15.79%) Linux
6 5 (13.16%) Windows 7
7 4 (10.53%) UNIX
8 3 (7.895%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (5.263%) HPUX
9 2 (5.263%) Solaris
10 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (10.53%) ITIL
1 4 (10.53%) E-Commerce
2 3 (7.895%) CRM
3 2 (5.263%) Project Management
3 2 (5.263%) Load Balancing
3 2 (5.263%) Data Protection
4 1 (2.632%) Change Control
4 1 (2.632%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (2.632%) Migration
4 1 (2.632%) Asset Management
4 1 (2.632%) Supplier Management
4 1 (2.632%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (2.632%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (36.84%) MCSE
1 14 (36.84%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.263%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.263%) CCNP
3 2 (5.263%) CCNA
3 2 (5.263%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.632%) PMP
4 1 (2.632%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.632%) Degree
4 1 (2.632%) BC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (13.16%) vSphere
2 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.263%) VMware ESX
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 2 (5.263%) MOM
1 2 (5.263%) NetBackup
1 2 (5.263%) SCOM
2 1 (2.632%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.632%) SCCM
2 1 (2.632%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 25 (65.79%) Microsoft
2 23 (60.53%) Cisco
3 12 (31.58%) F5
4 9 (23.68%) VMware
5 7 (18.42%) NetApp
6 6 (15.79%) HP
6 6 (15.79%) Oracle
7 4 (10.53%) CheckPoint
8 3 (7.895%) EMC
8 3 (7.895%) IBM
9 2 (5.263%) Symantec
9 2 (5.263%) Red Hat
9 2 (5.263%) Apple
9 2 (5.263%) Veeam
10 1 (2.632%) Blue Coat
10 1 (2.632%) Brocade
10 1 (2.632%) SonicWALL
10 1 (2.632%) Barracuda Networks
10 1 (2.632%) StorageTek
10 1 (2.632%) McAfee
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