The first table below looks at the demand for SNA 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 SNA over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA)
Rank 380 397 433
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +36
Contract jobs citing SNA 1 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.019% 0.003%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.035% 0.136% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £390 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +0.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £42.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £27.50 -
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2856 3668 3325
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.16% 13.66% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1745 2236 1921
Average daily rate £400 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £241 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 146 208
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £19.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% +16.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £37.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SNA
England

SNA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London SNA Jobs Demand Trend

SNA
Daily Rate Trend

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

London SNA Daily Rate Trend

SNA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London SNA Hourly Rate Trend

SNA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SNA within the London region over the 3 months to 20 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 +17 1 - -
SNA
England

SNA
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SNA 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 SNA.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) HP SIM
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel

SNA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade