The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 19 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 Liverpool 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 20 22 18
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Contract jobs citing SAN 1 7 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 0.787% 3.867% 4.865%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% 28.00% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £263 £523
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -49.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+6.15% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £21.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year
- +2.04%
All Communications & Networking
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
9 25 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 7.087% 13.81% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 18
Average daily rate £400 £263 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.38% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £263 £133
10% offered a daily rate of more than £412 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
Average hourly rate £21.50 £16.50 £21.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.30% -24.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
SAN
Merseyside

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) IBM
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) HP
2 3 (60.00%) NetApp
2 3 (60.00%) Brocade
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) MPLS
3 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (40.00%) MS Office
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) AIX
3 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
4 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) VoIP
4 1 (20.00%) DB2
4 1 (20.00%) MCP
4 1 (20.00%) ADSL
4 1 (20.00%) ISDN
4 1 (20.00%) Sophos
4 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) MPLS
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (20.00%) ADSL
2 1 (20.00%) ISDN
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (20.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Storage Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) SAN Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (20.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) Tru64
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (20.00%) CentOS
4 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Security Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) MCP
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) XenApp
2 1 (20.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (20.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) IBM
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) HP
1 3 (60.00%) NetApp
1 3 (60.00%) Brocade
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Sophos
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Wyse
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) NETGEAR
Liverpool, North West
The successful candidates will have experience working with the following technologies: - VMware, V-Sphere - Storage experience, EMC, SAN - Cisco UCS Blade solutions - Active Directory - Citrix (Xen App desirable) -...
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Posted: 13 June 2013