The first table below looks at the demand for SRDF 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 SRDF over the 3 months to 17 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 System Software 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF)
Rank 360 386 415
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +29
Contract jobs citing SRDF 25 20 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.116% 0.075% 0.070%
As % of the System Software category 1.511% 0.966% 1.169%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 17
Average daily rate £475 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.76% -5.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £390 £371
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +5.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1654 2071 1882
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.660% 7.733% 6.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 1193 992
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £218 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 178 199
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
SRDF
England

SRDF
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SRDF across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

London SRDF Jobs Demand Trend

SRDF
Daily Rate Trend

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

London SRDF Daily Rate Trend

SRDF
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SRDF across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London SRDF Daily Rate Histogram

SRDF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London SRDF Hourly Rate Trend

SRDF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SRDF within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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 +13 3 £350 -24.32%
SRDF
England

SRDF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SRDF 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 SRDF.

1 29 (74.36%) Windows
2 23 (58.97%) Clustering
3 18 (46.15%) EMC
4 17 (43.59%) Finance
5 16 (41.03%) SAN
5 16 (41.03%) Veritas
6 15 (38.46%) ITIL
7 14 (35.90%) Solaris
7 14 (35.90%) Linux
7 14 (35.90%) Banking
8 12 (30.77%) VMS
9 11 (28.21%) Cisco
9 11 (28.21%) IBM
9 11 (28.21%) HP
9 11 (28.21%) VMware
9 11 (28.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 10 (25.64%) VMware Infrastructure
10 10 (25.64%) SCCM
10 10 (25.64%) SCOM
10 10 (25.64%) Incident Management
10 10 (25.64%) Altiris
10 10 (25.64%) Hyper-V
10 10 (25.64%) CLARiiON
10 10 (25.64%) EMC Centera
10 10 (25.64%) EMC TimeFinder
10 10 (25.64%) Windows Server 2003
10 10 (25.64%) Citrix
11 9 (23.08%) Dell
11 9 (23.08%) IIS
11 9 (23.08%) UNIX

SRDF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SRDF 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 SRDF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (12.82%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.564%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 9 (23.08%) IIS
2 5 (12.82%) Apache
2 5 (12.82%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.564%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (41.03%) SAN
2 7 (17.95%) Connectrix
2 7 (17.95%) NAS
3 5 (12.82%) Gigabit Ethernet
3 5 (12.82%) DHCP
3 5 (12.82%) Ethernet
3 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.128%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.692%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.128%) SQLPlus
2 2 (5.128%) Essbase
2 2 (5.128%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (5.128%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (2.564%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.564%) Sybase ASE
3 1 (2.564%) DTS
3 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 17 (43.59%) Finance
2 14 (35.90%) Banking
3 8 (20.51%) Financial Institution
4 3 (7.692%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.564%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Administrator
1 14 (35.90%) Storage Administrator
2 10 (25.64%) Analyst
2 10 (25.64%) Wintel Analyst
3 8 (20.51%) Consultant
4 7 (17.95%) Storage Consultant
4 7 (17.95%) Storage Specialist
5 6 (15.38%) Senior Storage Consultant
5 6 (15.38%) Senior Storage Specialist
5 6 (15.38%) Senior Storage Administrator
5 6 (15.38%) Senior Consultant
6 5 (12.82%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) DBA
8 2 (5.128%) SQL DBA
8 2 (5.128%) SAN Engineer
8 2 (5.128%) SAN Storage Engineer
8 2 (5.128%) Storage Engineer
9 1 (2.564%) Storage Systems Administrator
9 1 (2.564%) SAN Storage Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 23 (58.97%) Clustering
2 10 (25.64%) CLARiiON
2 10 (25.64%) EMC Centera
3 9 (23.08%) Symmetrix
3 9 (23.08%) Symmetrix DMX
4 3 (7.692%) Replication
5 2 (5.128%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.564%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (2.564%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 29 (74.36%) Windows
2 14 (35.90%) Solaris
2 14 (35.90%) Linux
3 12 (30.77%) VMS
4 11 (28.21%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (25.64%) Windows Server 2003
6 9 (23.08%) UNIX
7 8 (20.51%) HPUX
8 6 (15.38%) AIX
8 6 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) ITIL
2 10 (25.64%) Incident Management
3 9 (23.08%) Project Management
3 9 (23.08%) Change Management
3 9 (23.08%) Change Control
4 6 (15.38%) Validation
4 6 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (12.82%) Migration
6 3 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (7.692%) Performance Management
7 2 (5.128%) High Availability
8 1 (2.564%) Data Migration
8 1 (2.564%) Fund Management
8 1 (2.564%) Wealth Management
8 1 (2.564%) Problem Management
8 1 (2.564%) Business Continuity
8 1 (2.564%) Information Security
8 1 (2.564%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (2.564%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) VBScript
1 9 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 7 (17.95%) Shell Script
3 5 (12.82%) Bash shell
3 5 (12.82%) R
3 5 (12.82%) Python
3 5 (12.82%) Perl
4 4 (10.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) SLA
2 1 (2.564%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (25.64%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (25.64%) Hyper-V
2 9 (23.08%) XenServer
2 9 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (12.82%) Samba
3 5 (12.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 5 (12.82%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (5.128%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (2.564%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (2.564%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) EMC TimeFinder
1 10 (25.64%) SCCM
1 10 (25.64%) SCOM
2 5 (12.82%) Puppet
2 5 (12.82%) Cobbler
2 5 (12.82%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (5.128%) EMC Navisphere
4 1 (2.564%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.564%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) EMC
2 16 (41.03%) Veritas
3 11 (28.21%) VMware
3 11 (28.21%) HP
3 11 (28.21%) Cisco
3 11 (28.21%) IBM
4 10 (25.64%) Citrix
4 10 (25.64%) Altiris
5 9 (23.08%) Dell
6 8 (20.51%) Oracle
7 6 (15.38%) Red Hat
8 3 (7.692%) NetApp
9 2 (5.128%) 3PAR
10 1 (2.564%) Sybase
10 1 (2.564%) Microsoft
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: 7 May 2013