The first table below looks at the demand for iSCSI 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 iSCSI 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
iSCSI
Rank 361 346 429
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +83
Contract jobs citing iSCSI 23 64 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.101% 0.241% 0.044%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.813% 1.771% 0.398%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 34 1
Average daily rate £400 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% +8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £325 £390
% change year-on-year
-23.07% -16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £31.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -11.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year
- -33.82%
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2829 3614 3517
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.41% 13.59% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1745 2193 2020
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £220 £241
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 140 230
Average hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.44% +8.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £15.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
iSCSI
England

iSCSI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London iSCSI Jobs Demand Trend

iSCSI
Daily Rate Trend

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

London iSCSI Daily Rate Trend

iSCSI
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing iSCSI across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London iSCSI Daily Rate Histogram

iSCSI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London iSCSI Hourly Rate Trend

iSCSI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iSCSI within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London -8 5 £274 -31.50% 1
Kingston Upon Thames - 3 £375 -
Ruislip - - - -
Sidcup - - - -
Surbiton - - - -
Docklands, London - - - -
Ealing - - - -
Bromley - - - -
iSCSI
England

iSCSI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing iSCSI 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 iSCSI.

1 49 (87.50%) VMware
2 45 (80.36%) SAN
3 41 (73.21%) Windows
4 37 (66.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 36 (64.29%) HP
6 32 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
7 31 (55.36%) Active Directory
8 28 (50.00%) NAS
9 26 (46.43%) Microsoft
9 26 (46.43%) VMware ESX
10 25 (44.64%) Brocade
11 21 (37.50%) EMC
11 21 (37.50%) vSphere
12 19 (33.93%) Linux
13 18 (32.14%) Dell
13 18 (32.14%) DNS
14 16 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
15 14 (25.00%) NFS
16 13 (23.21%) NetApp
16 13 (23.21%) DHCP
17 12 (21.43%) Red Hat
17 12 (21.43%) Fibre Channel
18 11 (19.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 11 (19.64%) SSL
18 11 (19.64%) Cisco
18 11 (19.64%) MS Exchange
18 11 (19.64%) UNIX
19 10 (17.86%) ITIL
19 10 (17.86%) MySQL
19 10 (17.86%) VPN

iSCSI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing iSCSI 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 iSCSI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (7.143%) XML
2 1 (1.786%) COM
2 1 (1.786%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 11 (19.64%) MS Exchange
2 9 (16.07%) Exchange Server 2010
2 9 (16.07%) Apache
3 4 (7.143%) IIS
3 4 (7.143%) Tomcat
3 4 (7.143%) Liferay
4 3 (5.357%) SharePoint
5 2 (3.571%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.786%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 6 (10.71%) MS Excel
2 3 (5.357%) MS Visio
2 3 (5.357%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 45 (80.36%) SAN
2 28 (50.00%) NAS
3 18 (32.14%) DNS
4 13 (23.21%) DHCP
5 12 (21.43%) Fibre Channel
6 11 (19.64%) SSL
7 10 (17.86%) VPN
8 9 (16.07%) SNMP
8 9 (16.07%) SMTP
9 7 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (12.50%) Firewall
9 7 (12.50%) MPLS
9 7 (12.50%) BGP
10 6 (10.71%) Ethernet
10 6 (10.71%) HTTP
10 6 (10.71%) IP Telephony
10 6 (10.71%) EIGRP
10 6 (10.71%) MGCP
10 6 (10.71%) HSRP
10 6 (10.71%) FirePass
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) MySQL
2 4 (7.143%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (7.143%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (7.143%) Hudson
1 4 (7.143%) Jenkins
1 4 (7.143%) Git (software)
General
1 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
2 5 (8.929%) Finance
2 5 (8.929%) Banking
3 2 (3.571%) Investment Banking
3 2 (3.571%) Marketing
4 1 (1.786%) Games
4 1 (1.786%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (33.93%) Systems Engineer
2 12 (21.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Storage Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Technical Specialist
4 6 (10.71%) Administrator
5 5 (8.929%) Senior Storage Engineer
6 4 (7.143%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (7.143%) Wintel Engineer
7 3 (5.357%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 3 (5.357%) Exchange Engineer
7 3 (5.357%) Analyst
7 3 (5.357%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (5.357%) Network Support
8 2 (3.571%) SAN Engineer
8 2 (3.571%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (3.571%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.571%) Team Leader
8 2 (3.571%) SAN Storage Engineer
8 2 (3.571%) Backup Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) EqualLogic
2 5 (8.929%) Open Source
3 4 (7.143%) Clustering
4 3 (5.357%) Hedge funds
5 2 (3.571%) Blackberry
5 2 (3.571%) Replication
5 2 (3.571%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.786%) Online Games
6 1 (1.786%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.786%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 41 (73.21%) Windows
2 32 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 19 (33.93%) Linux
4 16 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (19.64%) UNIX
6 7 (12.50%) CentOS
7 5 (8.929%) Gentoo
7 5 (8.929%) Debian
7 5 (8.929%) Ubuntu
7 5 (8.929%) FreeBSD
8 3 (5.357%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (5.357%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (17.86%) ITIL
2 8 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (12.50%) Data Management
4 6 (10.71%) PRINCE2
4 6 (10.71%) Service Delivery
4 6 (10.71%) Software Deployment
5 4 (7.143%) B2B
5 4 (7.143%) Capacity Management
5 4 (7.143%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (5.357%) Time Management
6 3 (5.357%) Load Balancing
6 3 (5.357%) Change Management
6 3 (5.357%) Configuration Management
7 2 (3.571%) Problem Management
8 1 (1.786%) Performance Testing
8 1 (1.786%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (1.786%) Memory Management
8 1 (1.786%) Migration
8 1 (1.786%) Project Management
8 1 (1.786%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.86%) PowerShell
2 7 (12.50%) Bash shell
2 7 (12.50%) Perl
3 6 (10.71%) SQL
4 5 (8.929%) Shell Script
5 4 (7.143%) C#
5 4 (7.143%) VBScript
6 3 (5.357%) Ruby
7 2 (3.571%) PHP
8 1 (1.786%) sed
8 1 (1.786%) AWK
8 1 (1.786%) Korn
8 1 (1.786%) Java
8 1 (1.786%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 9 (16.07%) Degree
2 9 (16.07%) CCNA
2 9 (16.07%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (14.29%) MCSE
3 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (12.50%) RHCE
5 3 (5.357%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.357%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (66.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (55.36%) Active Directory
3 26 (46.43%) VMware ESX
4 21 (37.50%) vSphere
5 14 (25.00%) NFS
6 9 (16.07%) Postfix
7 7 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (7.143%) NDS
8 4 (7.143%) Squid
9 3 (5.357%) Hyper-V
9 3 (5.357%) XenApp
9 3 (5.357%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (5.357%) ProxySG
10 2 (3.571%) Terminal Services
10 2 (3.571%) Xen
11 1 (1.786%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 10 (17.86%) Nagios
2 8 (14.29%) Cacti
3 6 (10.71%) Puppet
3 6 (10.71%) Cisco CUCM
4 3 (5.357%) OpenNMS
5 2 (3.571%) NetBackup
5 2 (3.571%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 2 (3.571%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 2 (3.571%) SCCM
5 2 (3.571%) SCOM
5 2 (3.571%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.786%) Zenoss
6 1 (1.786%) Netcool
Vendors
1 49 (87.50%) VMware
2 36 (64.29%) HP
3 26 (46.43%) Microsoft
4 25 (44.64%) Brocade
5 21 (37.50%) EMC
6 18 (32.14%) Dell
7 13 (23.21%) NetApp
8 12 (21.43%) Red Hat
9 11 (19.64%) Cisco
10 7 (12.50%) F5
11 6 (10.71%) Altiris
11 6 (10.71%) Zeacom
12 5 (8.929%) Oracle
12 5 (8.929%) Hitachi
12 5 (8.929%) Juniper
13 4 (7.143%) Novell
13 4 (7.143%) Citrix
13 4 (7.143%) SAP
14 3 (5.357%) Finjan
14 3 (5.357%) Symantec
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