The first table below looks at the demand for Fibre Channel skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fibre Channel 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 London 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
Fibre Channel (FC)
Rank 343 378 383
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +5
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 34 37 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.157% 0.137% 0.190%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.207% 1.002% 1.745%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 19
Average daily rate £360 £320 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -24.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £383
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £450 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
-3.70% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 -
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2816 3693 3382
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.00% 13.71% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1707 2249 1938
Average daily rate £400 £388 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 145 221
Average hourly rate £21.34 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.17% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.27 £14.90 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Fibre Channel Jobs Demand Trend

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Fibre Channel across the London region.

London Fibre Channel Daily Rate Trend

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fibre Channel across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Fibre Channel Daily Rate Histogram

Fibre Channel
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Fibre Channel Hourly Rate Trend

Fibre Channel
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fibre Channel within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +18 12 £400 +25.00%
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel.

1 31 (59.62%) SAN
2 24 (46.15%) Windows
3 23 (44.23%) VMware
4 22 (42.31%) Linux
5 20 (38.46%) UNIX
5 20 (38.46%) Cisco
6 18 (34.62%) Red Hat
7 17 (32.69%) HP
8 16 (30.77%) NetApp
9 15 (28.85%) VMware Infrastructure
9 15 (28.85%) vSphere
10 14 (26.92%) NAS
10 14 (26.92%) EMC
10 14 (26.92%) MySQL
11 13 (25.00%) Apache
11 13 (25.00%) Nagios
11 13 (25.00%) Brocade
12 12 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (21.15%) Windows Server 2003
14 10 (19.23%) Shell Script
14 10 (19.23%) DNS
14 10 (19.23%) iSCSI
14 10 (19.23%) Degree
15 9 (17.31%) Replication
16 8 (15.38%) Debian
16 8 (15.38%) Clustering
16 8 (15.38%) Load Balancing
16 8 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 8 (15.38%) Open Source
17 7 (13.46%) Zenoss

Fibre Channel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (7.692%) .NET
1 4 (7.692%) .NET Framework
2 3 (5.769%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.846%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 13 (25.00%) Apache
2 4 (7.692%) CloudStack
3 2 (3.846%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.923%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.923%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.923%) MS Exchange
4 1 (1.923%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 31 (59.62%) SAN
2 14 (26.92%) NAS
3 10 (19.23%) DNS
3 10 (19.23%) iSCSI
4 7 (13.46%) Firewall
5 6 (11.54%) SNMP
5 6 (11.54%) SMTP
5 6 (11.54%) Ethernet
5 6 (11.54%) BIG-IP
5 6 (11.54%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (9.615%) FCoE
7 4 (7.692%) ATM
7 4 (7.692%) SDH
7 4 (7.692%) DWDM
7 4 (7.692%) FWSM
8 3 (5.769%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (5.769%) DHCP
8 3 (5.769%) TCP/IP
9 2 (3.846%) NetScreen
10 1 (1.923%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.92%) MySQL
2 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (1.923%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.923%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (3.846%) LoadRunner
General
1 5 (9.615%) Finance
2 4 (7.692%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.769%) Music
3 3 (5.769%) French Language
3 3 (5.769%) Advertising
4 2 (3.846%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.923%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Storage Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 5 (9.615%) Consultant
5 4 (7.692%) Architect
5 4 (7.692%) Test Engineer
5 4 (7.692%) Storage Consultant
5 4 (7.692%) Commissioning Engineer
6 3 (5.769%) PPC Executive
6 3 (5.769%) PPC Manager
6 3 (5.769%) PPC Analyst
6 3 (5.769%) PPC Specialist
6 3 (5.769%) UNIX Specialist
6 3 (5.769%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (5.769%) .NET Developer
6 3 (5.769%) Developer
7 2 (3.846%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.846%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.846%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.846%) Network Operator
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Replication
2 8 (15.38%) Clustering
2 8 (15.38%) Open Source
3 6 (11.54%) CLARiiON
4 4 (7.692%) Firmware
5 3 (5.769%) Hedge funds
6 2 (3.846%) EMC Centera
6 2 (3.846%) Celerra
6 2 (3.846%) Mathematics
6 2 (3.846%) Physics
6 2 (3.846%) Computer Science
6 2 (3.846%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.846%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (1.923%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.923%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 24 (46.15%) Windows
2 22 (42.31%) Linux
3 20 (38.46%) UNIX
4 12 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (21.15%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (15.38%) Debian
6 8 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (11.54%) FreeBSD
7 6 (11.54%) Ubuntu
7 6 (11.54%) Gentoo
7 6 (11.54%) CentOS
8 2 (3.846%) HPUX
8 2 (3.846%) VMS
9 1 (1.923%) Slackware
9 1 (1.923%) SUSE
9 1 (1.923%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (15.38%) Load Balancing
2 6 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (9.615%) ITIL
4 3 (5.769%) High Availability
4 3 (5.769%) Web Development
4 3 (5.769%) Pay per click
4 3 (5.769%) TDD
4 3 (5.769%) MVC
4 3 (5.769%) E-Commerce
5 2 (3.846%) PRINCE2
5 2 (3.846%) Project Management
5 2 (3.846%) Migration
5 2 (3.846%) Service Delivery
5 2 (3.846%) Regression Testing
5 2 (3.846%) Data Management
5 2 (3.846%) TOGAF
5 2 (3.846%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (3.846%) Software Testing
5 2 (3.846%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (3.846%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) Shell Script
2 7 (13.46%) PHP
3 4 (7.692%) Perl
4 3 (5.769%) SQL
4 3 (5.769%) C#
5 2 (3.846%) Java
5 2 (3.846%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.923%) Bash shell
6 1 (1.923%) Korn
6 1 (1.923%) Ruby
6 1 (1.923%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (19.23%) Degree
2 7 (13.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (11.54%) RHCE
3 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 5 (9.615%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.846%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (3.846%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.923%) VCP4
6 1 (1.923%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.923%) QA
1 1 (1.923%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (28.85%) VMware Infrastructure
1 15 (28.85%) vSphere
2 7 (13.46%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (13.46%) VMware ESX
2 7 (13.46%) NFS
3 6 (11.54%) Postfix
4 5 (9.615%) Active Directory
5 4 (7.692%) Hyper-V
5 4 (7.692%) vCloud
6 2 (3.846%) NDS
6 2 (3.846%) XenApp
6 2 (3.846%) SRDF
7 1 (1.923%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (1.923%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.923%) Xen
7 1 (1.923%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (25.00%) Nagios
2 7 (13.46%) Zenoss
3 6 (11.54%) Cacti
4 2 (3.846%) EMC TimeFinder
4 2 (3.846%) EMC Navisphere
4 2 (3.846%) NetBackup
4 2 (3.846%) HP SIM
5 1 (1.923%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 1 (1.923%) SCCM
5 1 (1.923%) SCOM
5 1 (1.923%) SCVMM
5 1 (1.923%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (1.923%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.923%) OpenView
5 1 (1.923%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 23 (44.23%) VMware
2 20 (38.46%) Cisco
3 18 (34.62%) Red Hat
4 17 (32.69%) HP
5 16 (30.77%) NetApp
6 14 (26.92%) EMC
7 13 (25.00%) Brocade
8 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
8 7 (13.46%) Citrix
9 6 (11.54%) F5
10 4 (7.692%) Oracle
10 4 (7.692%) Hitachi
10 4 (7.692%) CheckPoint
10 4 (7.692%) Huawei
11 3 (5.769%) 3PAR
11 3 (5.769%) Google
11 3 (5.769%) Symantec
12 2 (3.846%) Novell
12 2 (3.846%) Informatica
12 2 (3.846%) Juniper
City of London
Cisco UCS Engineer (VMware, Red Hat, EMC) - Our client, a leading financial services company is looking for a Cisco UCS Engineer (VMware, Red Hat, EMC) to work onsite...
Salt
Rate: negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Knowledge and experience of PRINCE2 project management methodology... Key systems: Microsoft Windows desktop and server operating systems, Active Directory. Server, LAN/WAN switches, routers, firewalls; desktops, laptops, printers...
Oliver James Associates
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Microsoft Exchange 2010. *Microsoft SQL Server 2005/08/12. *Microsoft Sharepoint 2010. *Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager / LanDesk... *Brocade Fibre Channel Switches. *Blackberry Enterprise Server... *DNS, WINS, DHCP.
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £320 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013