The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Livingston 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 Livingston 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 7 9 5
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Contract jobs citing SAN 3 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Livingston 9.375% 4.545% 10.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 37.50% 11.76% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £380 £374 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.67% -4.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £368 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.68% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+0.93% +0.94%
All Communications & Networking
Livingston
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
8 17 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Livingston 25.00% 38.64% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 9
Average daily rate £380 £375 £403
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.33% -6.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £301 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £375 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
SAN
West Lothian

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Livingston 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 Livingston region.

Livingston SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Livingston 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 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) Migration

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Livingston 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.

Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Brocade