The first table below looks at the demand for NAS 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 NAS 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
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 247 262 318
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +56
Contract jobs citing NAS 136 159 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.628% 0.590% 0.402%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.830% 4.305% 3.696%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 93 86
Average daily rate £414 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.43% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £286 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £590 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £375 £374
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +47.57%
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%
NAS
England

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London NAS Jobs Demand Trend

NAS
Daily Rate Trend

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

London NAS Daily Rate Trend

NAS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London NAS Daily Rate Histogram

NAS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London NAS Hourly Rate Trend

NAS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS 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 -4 27 £425 -5.55%
Greenwich - 2 £403 -
Docklands, London +1 1 £375 +7.14%
Canary Wharf - 1 £425 -
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
NAS
England

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 240 (83.33%) SAN
2 139 (48.26%) Windows
3 135 (46.88%) Linux
4 129 (44.79%) VMware
5 108 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 93 (32.29%) EMC
7 87 (30.21%) NetApp
8 84 (29.17%) UNIX
9 83 (28.82%) Red Hat
10 76 (26.39%) Perl
11 75 (26.04%) Active Directory
12 73 (25.35%) HP
13 72 (25.00%) Microsoft
14 71 (24.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 67 (23.26%) Windows Server 2003
16 66 (22.92%) Oracle
17 65 (22.57%) Clustering
18 63 (21.88%) Finance
18 63 (21.88%) Apache
19 62 (21.53%) Cisco
20 61 (21.18%) SQL Server
21 60 (20.83%) VMware ESX
21 60 (20.83%) Banking
22 58 (20.14%) Solaris
22 58 (20.14%) Veritas
23 53 (18.40%) Windows Server 2008
24 46 (15.97%) Citrix
25 45 (15.63%) Shell Script
26 43 (14.93%) Firewall
27 39 (13.54%) Migration

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 37 (12.85%) .NET
2 31 (10.76%) Middleware
3 25 (8.681%) Web Services
4 21 (7.292%) HTML
5 20 (6.944%) XML
6 19 (6.597%) WebSphere
7 17 (5.903%) ADSI
8 15 (5.208%) ASP.NET
8 15 (5.208%) SOAP
9 14 (4.861%) REST
9 14 (4.861%) J2EE
10 10 (3.472%) Ajax
10 10 (3.472%) Java EE
10 10 (3.472%) WSRP
10 10 (3.472%) JSR 168
10 10 (3.472%) HTML5
10 10 (3.472%) DHTML
10 10 (3.472%) Flash
11 9 (3.125%) XSLT
12 8 (2.778%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 63 (21.88%) Apache
2 35 (12.15%) MS Exchange
3 34 (11.81%) IIS
4 27 (9.375%) Tomcat
5 25 (8.681%) Exchange Server 2010
6 13 (4.514%) WebLogic
7 11 (3.819%) Exchange Server 2003
8 10 (3.472%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (3.472%) Amazon AWS
8 10 (3.472%) Lync
9 8 (2.778%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 7 (2.431%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (1.389%) WorkSite
11 4 (1.389%) Liferay
11 4 (1.389%) SharePoint
11 4 (1.389%) Lotus Notes
12 3 (1.042%) WebSphere MQ
12 3 (1.042%) GroupWise
12 3 (1.042%) OpenStack
12 3 (1.042%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 13 (4.514%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.347%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 10 (3.472%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 240 (83.33%) SAN
2 43 (14.93%) Firewall
3 33 (11.46%) DNS
4 24 (8.333%) iSCSI
5 23 (7.986%) SSL
6 22 (7.639%) DHCP
7 21 (7.292%) Network Security
8 19 (6.597%) TCP/IP
8 19 (6.597%) HTTP
9 17 (5.903%) Internet
10 16 (5.556%) FTP
11 15 (5.208%) LAN
11 15 (5.208%) WAN
12 14 (4.861%) RTSP
12 14 (4.861%) Fibre Channel
12 14 (4.861%) RTP
12 14 (4.861%) LDAP
13 13 (4.514%) VPN
14 12 (4.167%) Ethernet
15 9 (3.125%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (21.18%) SQL Server
2 28 (9.722%) MySQL
3 17 (5.903%) SQL Server 2005
4 16 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
5 14 (4.861%) CouchDB
5 14 (4.861%) Redis
5 14 (4.861%) MongoDB
5 14 (4.861%) NoSQL
6 13 (4.514%) RDBMS
7 11 (3.819%) Oracle 8/8i
8 4 (1.389%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.389%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.389%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (1.389%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.042%) SQL Server 2012
9 3 (1.042%) Oracle 11g
9 3 (1.042%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (0.694%) Big Data
10 2 (0.694%) Essbase
11 1 (0.347%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 16 (5.556%) Git (software)
1 16 (5.556%) Hudson
1 16 (5.556%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.167%) Maven
2 12 (4.167%) JIRA
2 12 (4.167%) Selenium
3 8 (2.778%) TeamCity
4 4 (1.389%) MSI
5 2 (0.694%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.347%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 63 (21.88%) Finance
2 60 (20.83%) Banking
3 36 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 10 (3.472%) Financial Institution
5 5 (1.736%) Retail
5 5 (1.736%) German Language
6 3 (1.042%) Publishing
6 3 (1.042%) Law
6 3 (1.042%) Retail Banking
7 2 (0.694%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (0.694%) Marketing
7 2 (0.694%) Dutch Language
7 2 (0.694%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.694%) Front Office
7 2 (0.694%) Back Office
8 1 (0.347%) Legal
8 1 (0.347%) French Language
Job Titles
1 39 (13.54%) Administrator
2 36 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
3 29 (10.07%) Architect
4 28 (9.722%) Systems Engineer
5 26 (9.028%) Linux Engineer
6 25 (8.681%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (7.986%) Systems Administrator
8 20 (6.944%) UNIX Engineer
9 19 (6.597%) Consultant
10 18 (6.250%) Wintel Engineer
10 18 (6.250%) Analyst
11 13 (4.514%) Infrastructure Architect
11 13 (4.514%) Storage Administrator
11 13 (4.514%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 11 (3.819%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 11 (3.819%) Linux Administrator
13 9 (3.125%) Server Engineer
14 8 (2.778%) Infrastructure Manager
14 8 (2.778%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (2.778%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 65 (22.57%) Clustering
2 22 (7.639%) CLARiiON
3 16 (5.556%) Hedge funds
4 14 (4.861%) Computer Science
5 12 (4.167%) Open Source
5 12 (4.167%) Replication
6 10 (3.472%) Taxonomies
6 10 (3.472%) Ontologies
6 10 (3.472%) Blackberry
7 7 (2.431%) EMC Centera
7 7 (2.431%) Symmetrix DMX
8 6 (2.083%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.736%) Firmware
9 5 (1.736%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.736%) Grid Computing
9 5 (1.736%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.736%) PaaS
10 4 (1.389%) Derivative
10 4 (1.389%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 4 (1.389%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 139 (48.26%) Windows
2 135 (46.88%) Linux
3 84 (29.17%) UNIX
4 71 (24.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (23.26%) Windows Server 2003
6 58 (20.14%) Solaris
7 53 (18.40%) Windows Server 2008
8 22 (7.639%) Windows 2000
9 19 (6.597%) Windows XP
10 17 (5.903%) HPUX
11 16 (5.556%) AIX
12 15 (5.208%) Windows NT
13 13 (4.514%) SUSE
14 10 (3.472%) Windows 7
15 8 (2.778%) CentOS
15 8 (2.778%) VMS
16 6 (2.083%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (1.042%) Windows 2000 Server
18 2 (0.694%) Ubuntu
18 2 (0.694%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (13.54%) Migration
2 33 (11.46%) Disaster Recovery
3 32 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 30 (10.42%) Capacity Planning
5 24 (8.333%) ITIL
6 23 (7.986%) Project Management
7 17 (5.903%) Configuration Management
7 17 (5.903%) SOA
8 16 (5.556%) Penetration Testing
8 16 (5.556%) High Availability
9 15 (5.208%) Benchmarking
10 10 (3.472%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (3.472%) Information Architecture
10 10 (3.472%) Business Continuity
10 10 (3.472%) DRM
10 10 (3.472%) Workflow
11 9 (3.125%) Change Management
11 9 (3.125%) Capacity Management
11 9 (3.125%) Complex Event Processing
11 9 (3.125%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 76 (26.39%) Perl
2 45 (15.63%) Shell Script
3 37 (12.85%) SQL
4 30 (10.42%) Java
5 19 (6.597%) JavaScript
6 18 (6.250%) Bash shell
7 17 (5.903%) PowerShell
8 14 (4.861%) PHP
9 12 (4.167%) VB
9 12 (4.167%) C#
9 12 (4.167%) Python
10 10 (3.472%) VB.NET
10 10 (3.472%) VBScript
11 4 (1.389%) Korn
11 4 (1.389%) C
12 2 (0.694%) C++
13 1 (0.347%) AWK
13 1 (0.347%) sed
13 1 (0.347%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (8.333%) Degree
2 14 (4.861%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.431%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.083%) RHCE
4 6 (2.083%) OCA
4 6 (2.083%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (1.736%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (1.389%) MCTS
6 4 (1.389%) MCITP
6 4 (1.389%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.389%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.042%) CCNA
7 3 (1.042%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.042%) ISEB
7 3 (1.042%) MCSE
7 3 (1.042%) Microsoft Certified Master
8 2 (0.694%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.694%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.347%) CCIE
9 1 (0.347%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.861%) SLA
2 6 (2.083%) QA
System Software
1 108 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 75 (26.04%) Active Directory
3 60 (20.83%) VMware ESX
4 36 (12.50%) vSphere
5 25 (8.681%) XenApp
6 24 (8.333%) Samba
7 22 (7.639%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 18 (6.250%) NFS
9 17 (5.903%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 10 (3.472%) Oracle RAC
10 10 (3.472%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 8 (2.778%) Hyper-V
11 8 (2.778%) SRDF
12 7 (2.431%) ProxySG
13 5 (1.736%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (1.389%) Squid
14 4 (1.389%) Xen
14 4 (1.389%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (1.389%) XenDesktop
14 4 (1.389%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 32 (11.11%) SCOM
2 27 (9.375%) NetBackup
3 23 (7.986%) Puppet
4 18 (6.250%) Nagios
5 17 (5.903%) Backup Exec
6 16 (5.556%) Legato
7 14 (4.861%) SCCM
8 11 (3.819%) ZABBIX
9 10 (3.472%) BMC Performance Manager
9 10 (3.472%) OpenView
9 10 (3.472%) BMC PATROL
10 9 (3.125%) Cobbler
10 9 (3.125%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
11 8 (2.778%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (1.736%) Tivoli
12 5 (1.736%) MAILsweeper
13 4 (1.389%) RepliStor
14 3 (1.042%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (1.042%) Cacti
14 3 (1.042%) OpenNMS
Vendors
1 129 (44.79%) VMware
2 93 (32.29%) EMC
3 87 (30.21%) NetApp
4 83 (28.82%) Red Hat
5 73 (25.35%) HP
6 72 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 66 (22.92%) Oracle
8 62 (21.53%) Cisco
9 58 (20.14%) Veritas
10 46 (15.97%) Citrix
11 32 (11.11%) IBM
12 29 (10.07%) BMC
13 28 (9.722%) Dell
14 26 (9.028%) Sun
14 26 (9.028%) Brocade
15 23 (7.986%) F5
16 19 (6.597%) Symantec
17 18 (6.250%) McAfee
18 17 (5.903%) Sophos
18 17 (5.903%) JBoss
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