The first table below looks at the demand for SAN 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 SAN 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
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 91 94 96
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +2
Contract jobs citing SAN 464 551 633
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 2.142% 2.045% 2.037%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.48% 14.92% 18.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 358 400
Average daily rate £410 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £255 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £516 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £363 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 22
Average hourly rate £25.00 £23.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.69% +9.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.03 £17.60 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.40 £28.50 £40.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -1.88%
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%
SAN
England

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London SAN Daily Rate Histogram

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

London SAN Hourly Rate Histogram

SAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN 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 -15 120 £425 -
Docklands, London +8 8 £413 +17.85%
Uxbridge +12 7 £531 -
Canary Wharf +3 5 £500 -4.76%
Wembley - 4 £375 -
Brentford -7 2 - -
Greenwich - 2 £403 -
Hammersmith - 2 - -
Kingston Upon Thames 0 1 £375 -
Feltham -3 1 - -
Harrow - 1 £363 -
SAN
England

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 484 (54.57%) Windows
2 376 (42.39%) VMware
3 315 (35.51%) Linux
4 281 (31.68%) EMC
5 268 (30.21%) UNIX
6 248 (27.96%) HP
7 245 (27.62%) Active Directory
8 242 (27.28%) VMware Infrastructure
9 240 (27.06%) NAS
10 214 (24.13%) Finance
11 213 (24.01%) Windows Server 2008
12 197 (22.21%) Windows Server 2003
13 192 (21.65%) Cisco
14 190 (21.42%) Solaris
15 176 (19.84%) NetApp
16 172 (19.39%) Citrix
16 172 (19.39%) Microsoft
17 162 (18.26%) ITIL
18 158 (17.81%) Red Hat
19 149 (16.80%) MS Exchange
19 149 (16.80%) Banking
20 143 (16.12%) DNS
20 143 (16.12%) Oracle
21 142 (16.01%) Migration
22 130 (14.66%) Shell Script
22 130 (14.66%) Veritas
23 127 (14.32%) Clustering
23 127 (14.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
24 126 (14.21%) SQL
25 123 (13.87%) Firewall

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 Development
1 44 (4.961%) Middleware
2 41 (4.622%) .NET
3 26 (2.931%) HTML
4 25 (2.818%) XML
5 22 (2.480%) WebSphere
6 17 (1.917%) ASP.NET
6 17 (1.917%) ADSI
7 15 (1.691%) J2EE
7 15 (1.691%) SOAP
7 15 (1.691%) Web Services
8 14 (1.578%) LAMP
8 14 (1.578%) REST
9 12 (1.353%) Flash
9 12 (1.353%) HTML5
10 10 (1.127%) Ajax
10 10 (1.127%) DHTML
10 10 (1.127%) WSRP
10 10 (1.127%) JSR 168
10 10 (1.127%) Java EE
11 9 (1.015%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 149 (16.80%) MS Exchange
2 101 (11.39%) Exchange Server 2010
3 90 (10.15%) Apache
4 55 (6.201%) IIS
5 53 (5.975%) SharePoint
6 47 (5.299%) Exchange Server 2003
7 38 (4.284%) Exchange Server 2007
8 37 (4.171%) Tomcat
9 31 (3.495%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 14 (1.578%) Exchange Server 2013
11 13 (1.466%) WebLogic
12 10 (1.127%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 10 (1.127%) Lync
12 10 (1.127%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.127%) Amazon AWS
13 7 (0.789%) SharePoint 2010
13 7 (0.789%) Oracle Application Server
14 4 (0.451%) Lotus Notes
14 4 (0.451%) CloudStack
14 4 (0.451%) WorkSite
Applications
1 40 (4.510%) MS Excel
2 23 (2.593%) MS Office
3 6 (0.676%) MS Project
3 6 (0.676%) Office 365
4 5 (0.564%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.225%) InfoPath
5 2 (0.225%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (1.127%) RMDS
2 5 (0.564%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (0.451%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 3 (0.338%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.338%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.113%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.113%) FLEXCUBE
Communications & Networking
1 240 (27.06%) NAS
2 143 (16.12%) DNS
3 123 (13.87%) Firewall
4 94 (10.60%) LAN
5 93 (10.48%) DHCP
6 91 (10.26%) WAN
7 61 (6.877%) TCP/IP
8 55 (6.201%) VPN
9 42 (4.735%) iSCSI
10 39 (4.397%) LDAP
11 34 (3.833%) SSL
11 34 (3.833%) Internet
12 32 (3.608%) Cisco ASA
13 31 (3.495%) Fibre Channel
14 30 (3.382%) SMTP
15 28 (3.157%) Network Security
16 27 (3.044%) HTTP
17 23 (2.593%) MPLS
18 22 (2.480%) Ethernet
19 20 (2.255%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (12.40%) SQL Server
2 46 (5.186%) MySQL
3 34 (3.833%) SQL Server 2008
4 31 (3.495%) Oracle Exadata
5 23 (2.593%) SQL Server 2005
6 17 (1.917%) Oracle 8/8i
7 15 (1.691%) MongoDB
8 14 (1.578%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.578%) Redis
8 14 (1.578%) CouchDB
9 13 (1.466%) Oracle 11g
9 13 (1.466%) RDBMS
10 11 (1.240%) Oracle BI EE
11 8 (0.902%) Oracle 10g
12 5 (0.564%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.564%) SQL Server 2000
12 5 (0.564%) DTS
12 5 (0.564%) Informix
12 5 (0.564%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.451%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (1.804%) Jenkins
1 16 (1.804%) Hudson
1 16 (1.804%) Git (software)
2 14 (1.578%) Selenium
3 12 (1.353%) Maven
3 12 (1.353%) JIRA
4 6 (0.676%) MSI
5 3 (0.338%) Subversion
6 2 (0.225%) Bugzilla
6 2 (0.225%) WinRunner
6 2 (0.225%) QuickTest Pro
6 2 (0.225%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.225%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.113%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (0.113%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.113%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.113%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 214 (24.13%) Finance
2 149 (16.80%) Banking
3 92 (10.37%) Investment Banking
4 38 (4.284%) Financial Institution
5 23 (2.593%) Telecoms
5 23 (2.593%) Law
6 13 (1.466%) Back Office
7 12 (1.353%) Retail
8 8 (0.902%) Publishing
9 7 (0.789%) Front Office
9 7 (0.789%) Legal
10 6 (0.676%) Advertising
10 6 (0.676%) Marketing
11 5 (0.564%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.451%) German Language
13 3 (0.338%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.338%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.225%) Dutch Language
15 1 (0.113%) International Banking
15 1 (0.113%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 131 (14.77%) Administrator
2 89 (10.03%) Architect
3 85 (9.583%) Systems Administrator
4 79 (8.906%) Storage Engineer
5 66 (7.441%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 65 (7.328%) Analyst
7 59 (6.652%) Consultant
8 56 (6.313%) Systems Engineer
9 50 (5.637%) UNIX Systems Administrator
10 46 (5.186%) UNIX Administrator
11 45 (5.073%) UNIX Engineer
12 36 (4.059%) 3rd Line Support
12 36 (4.059%) Infrastructure Architect
12 36 (4.059%) Linux Engineer
13 34 (3.833%) Project Manager
14 32 (3.608%) Infrastructure Manager
15 26 (2.931%) Technical Architect
15 26 (2.931%) Infrastructure Analyst
16 24 (2.706%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 23 (2.593%) Storage Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 127 (14.32%) Clustering
2 59 (6.652%) CLARiiON
3 58 (6.539%) Symmetrix DMX
4 31 (3.495%) Replication
5 30 (3.382%) Blackberry
6 29 (3.269%) Open Source
6 29 (3.269%) Hedge funds
7 24 (2.706%) Symmetrix
8 23 (2.593%) EqualLogic
9 22 (2.480%) Celerra
9 22 (2.480%) Computer Science
9 22 (2.480%) Firmware
10 20 (2.255%) EMC Centera
10 20 (2.255%) Wiki
11 16 (1.804%) Equities
12 10 (1.127%) Taxonomies
12 10 (1.127%) Ontologies
12 10 (1.127%) Enterprise Storage
13 9 (1.015%) Market Risk
13 9 (1.015%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 484 (54.57%) Windows
2 315 (35.51%) Linux
3 268 (30.21%) UNIX
4 213 (24.01%) Windows Server 2008
5 197 (22.21%) Windows Server 2003
6 190 (21.42%) Solaris
7 127 (14.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 62 (6.990%) SUSE
9 58 (6.539%) AIX
10 42 (4.735%) Windows XP
11 37 (4.171%) Windows 2000
12 36 (4.059%) HPUX
13 32 (3.608%) Windows 7
14 19 (2.142%) Windows Server 2012
15 18 (2.029%) Windows NT
16 16 (1.804%) Mac OS X
17 15 (1.691%) VMS
18 13 (1.466%) CentOS
19 10 (1.127%) Windows 8
20 9 (1.015%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (18.26%) ITIL
2 142 (16.01%) Migration
3 68 (7.666%) Disaster Recovery
4 55 (6.201%) Change Management
5 50 (5.637%) Load Balancing
6 45 (5.073%) Project Management
7 43 (4.848%) High Availability
8 40 (4.510%) Capacity Management
9 38 (4.284%) Service Delivery
10 35 (3.946%) Problem Management
11 32 (3.608%) Data Migration
11 32 (3.608%) Capacity Planning
12 31 (3.495%) Data Management
13 28 (3.157%) RDF
14 26 (2.931%) PRINCE2
15 25 (2.818%) Data Analysis
15 25 (2.818%) Configuration Management
16 24 (2.706%) Technical Architecture
16 24 (2.706%) SOA
16 24 (2.706%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 130 (14.66%) Shell Script
2 126 (14.21%) SQL
3 119 (13.42%) Perl
4 50 (5.637%) PowerShell
5 49 (5.524%) VB
6 44 (4.961%) Java
7 33 (3.720%) Korn
8 28 (3.157%) Bash shell
8 28 (3.157%) PHP
9 27 (3.044%) C
10 23 (2.593%) Python
10 23 (2.593%) JavaScript
11 22 (2.480%) VBScript
12 19 (2.142%) C++
13 12 (1.353%) Ruby
14 11 (1.240%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.015%) C#
16 8 (0.902%) C-shell
17 4 (0.451%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.338%) sed
Qualifications
1 55 (6.201%) Microsoft Certification
2 53 (5.975%) Security Cleared
3 50 (5.637%) MCSE
4 46 (5.186%) Degree
5 43 (4.848%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (4.397%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 33 (3.720%) CCNA
7 33 (3.720%) DV Cleared
8 25 (2.818%) NCDA
9 24 (2.706%) Citrix Certification
10 21 (2.368%) MCITP
10 21 (2.368%) CCA
11 17 (1.917%) SC Cleared
12 14 (1.578%) CCNP
12 14 (1.578%) RHCE
13 13 (1.466%) CCEA
14 12 (1.353%) MCSA
15 9 (1.015%) VCP4
15 9 (1.015%) VCP5
15 9 (1.015%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.044%) QA
2 20 (2.255%) SLA
3 3 (0.338%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.338%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.225%) COBIT
5 1 (0.113%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 245 (27.62%) Active Directory
2 242 (27.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 109 (12.29%) VMware ESX
4 100 (11.27%) vSphere
5 71 (8.005%) XenApp
6 64 (7.215%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 59 (6.652%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 55 (6.201%) Hyper-V
9 48 (5.411%) XenDesktop
10 45 (5.073%) NFS
11 32 (3.608%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 25 (2.818%) Samba
13 24 (2.706%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 18 (2.029%) SRDF
15 15 (1.691%) Oracle RAC
16 14 (1.578%) VMware ESXi
17 12 (1.353%) XenServer
18 11 (1.240%) Microsoft App-V
19 9 (1.015%) Oracle RMAN
20 7 (0.789%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 92 (10.37%) NetBackup
2 65 (7.328%) Backup Exec
3 63 (7.103%) SCOM
4 54 (6.088%) SCCM
5 43 (4.848%) EMC NetWorker
6 35 (3.946%) Puppet
7 33 (3.720%) Legato
8 28 (3.157%) Tivoli
9 26 (2.931%) Nagios
10 25 (2.818%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 20 (2.255%) WSUS
12 19 (2.142%) HP SIM
13 17 (1.917%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
14 16 (1.804%) SCVMM
15 12 (1.353%) OpenView
16 11 (1.240%) ZABBIX
16 11 (1.240%) Cobbler
16 11 (1.240%) MOM
16 11 (1.240%) EMC TimeFinder
17 10 (1.127%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 376 (42.39%) VMware
2 281 (31.68%) EMC
3 248 (27.96%) HP
4 192 (21.65%) Cisco
5 176 (19.84%) NetApp
6 172 (19.39%) Citrix
6 172 (19.39%) Microsoft
7 158 (17.81%) Red Hat
8 143 (16.12%) Oracle
9 130 (14.66%) Veritas
10 89 (10.03%) IBM
11 87 (9.808%) Sun
12 79 (8.906%) Brocade
13 76 (8.568%) Dell
14 68 (7.666%) Symantec
15 42 (4.735%) Sybase
16 34 (3.833%) F5
17 28 (3.157%) SAP
18 25 (2.818%) BMC
19 24 (2.706%) Juniper
City of London
Key skills: Linux support, Linux build-out, Linux administration (ideally redhat) ideally with some Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2003 Server support experience. Other products include: VMWare, EMC San,...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 4 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
Keywords - Linux Administrator, Unix Administrator, Linux, Unix, Solaris, IIS, Web Systems Administrator, Puppet, Storage, SAN, SAN Switches, Scripting, Shell, Perl, Apache, tomcat, performance tuning, firewalls, routers, TCP/IP,...
Circle Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £370 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Wide experience in implementing SAN and distributed storage infrastructures with in-depth knowledge of EMC products such as vMAX (Essential) Experience with common application infrastructure deployment models for...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £450 - £500
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
This is an excellent opportunity to join a fast moving NHS organisation which is at the forefront of patient services. This role focuses on the aspect of how...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £375.00 per day
Posted: 1 May 2013
City, London
The ideal candidate must come from a strong infrastructure support background and have a solid service delivery grounding... Experience planning & driving the migration of day to day transactional...
Hays Finance Technology
Rate: £400.00 - £500.00 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
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
Solaris Systems Administrator- Server, Data centre, Solaris 10, KSH, Bash, Perl, ITIL. We currently require the services of a Solaris Systems Administrator to work for a well respected...
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Global financial institution requires a storage administrator for a contract position. You should have extensive hands on experience within a support function, preferably from within financial services.
Scope AT Ltd
Rate: negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
The successful candidate will have Proven Solution Design experience in addition to the following SAN, BLADE, EMC, Oracle database and Oracle Middleware application products... Or Oracle DBA's...
Aston Carter
Rate: market rate
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
ALL APPLICANTS MUST HAVE LLOYDS SYNDICATE EXPERIENCE.A leading Lloyds of London syndicate is seeking to offer an experienced IT Manager the opportunity to join their team and...
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £800 - £1200 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Linux, JBoss, TomCat, Apache, PHP, DNS) Monitoring (e.g... Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Hadoop & CouchDB) Security: Encryption; Network security; Network topology; System Hardening, Pen...
Bearing Partnership
Rate: From £450 to £480 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013