The first table below looks at the demand for the Storage Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Storage Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Consultant
Rank 370 394 403
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Consultant 17 24 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.077% 0.088% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.095% 0.106%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 13
Average daily rate £450 £406 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.76% -9.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £334 £338 £403
10% offered a daily rate of more than £565 £463 £540
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £406 £400
% change year-on-year
-16.30% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £41.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +50.90%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20276 25280 28359
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.19% 92.47% 92.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13665 16302 18233
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 629 676
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Storage Consultant
England

Storage Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Storage Consultant across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Storage Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Storage Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Storage Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Storage Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Storage Consultant across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Storage Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Storage Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Storage Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Storage Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Consultant within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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 +6 3 £525 +27.27%
Storage Consultant
England

Storage Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Storage Consultant in their job title 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 with Storage Consultant in their job title.

1 23 (39.66%) NetApp
2 21 (36.21%) SAN
3 16 (27.59%) VMware
3 16 (27.59%) Brocade
4 14 (24.14%) Security Cleared
4 14 (24.14%) Migration
4 14 (24.14%) EMC
4 14 (24.14%) Windows
5 11 (18.97%) HP
6 7 (12.07%) Clustering
6 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
6 7 (12.07%) DV Cleared
6 7 (12.07%) SRDF
7 6 (10.34%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (10.34%) NAS
7 6 (10.34%) Symmetrix DMX
7 6 (10.34%) CLARiiON
7 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
8 5 (8.621%) Active Directory
8 5 (8.621%) SQL
8 5 (8.621%) Cisco
8 5 (8.621%) Symmetrix
8 5 (8.621%) Programme Management
8 5 (8.621%) Service Management
8 5 (8.621%) 3PAR
9 4 (6.897%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (6.897%) Data Migration
9 4 (6.897%) VMware Infrastructure
9 4 (6.897%) Mercator
9 4 (6.897%) Symantec

Storage Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Storage Consultant in their job title 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 with Storage Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.172%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.448%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.724%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.724%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.724%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 21 (36.21%) SAN
2 6 (10.34%) NAS
3 4 (6.897%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (3.448%) Firewall
4 2 (3.448%) DNS
5 1 (1.724%) SMTP
5 1 (1.724%) DHCP
5 1 (1.724%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.724%) VPN
5 1 (1.724%) MPLS
5 1 (1.724%) VLAN
5 1 (1.724%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.724%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (3.448%) Finance
1 2 (3.448%) Banking
2 1 (1.724%) Investment Banking
2 1 (1.724%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.724%) Corporate Banking
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Clustering
2 6 (10.34%) Symmetrix DMX
2 6 (10.34%) CLARiiON
3 5 (8.621%) Symmetrix
4 3 (5.172%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.448%) Celerra
5 2 (3.448%) Replication
5 2 (3.448%) Firmware
6 1 (1.724%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.724%) Data Extraction
6 1 (1.724%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.724%) Open Source
6 1 (1.724%) EqualLogic
6 1 (1.724%) HP StorageWorks
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.14%) Windows
2 6 (10.34%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (6.897%) UNIX
4 2 (3.448%) HPUX
4 2 (3.448%) Solaris
5 1 (1.724%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.724%) Linux
5 1 (1.724%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.14%) Migration
2 5 (8.621%) Programme Management
2 5 (8.621%) Service Management
3 4 (6.897%) Data Migration
4 2 (3.448%) Data Management
4 2 (3.448%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (3.448%) Business Continuity
5 1 (1.724%) ITIL
5 1 (1.724%) Service Delivery
5 1 (1.724%) Operations Management
5 1 (1.724%) Load Balancing
5 1 (1.724%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (1.724%) Fund Management
5 1 (1.724%) Wealth Management
5 1 (1.724%) Data Protection
5 1 (1.724%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (1.724%) Capacity Management
5 1 (1.724%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.621%) SQL
2 1 (1.724%) Perl
2 1 (1.724%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
2 7 (12.07%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.172%) NCDA
3 3 (5.172%) NCIE
4 1 (1.724%) EMC Certification
4 1 (1.724%) HP ASE
4 1 (1.724%) HP MASE
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) SRDF
2 5 (8.621%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.897%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.448%) XenApp
4 2 (3.448%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.448%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (1.724%) XenServer
5 1 (1.724%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.724%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (6.897%) NetBackup
1 4 (6.897%) Backup Exec
2 2 (3.448%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (3.448%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (3.448%) Legato
3 1 (1.724%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.724%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (1.724%) EMC TimeFinder
3 1 (1.724%) SCOM
3 1 (1.724%) SCVMM
3 1 (1.724%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (39.66%) NetApp
2 16 (27.59%) VMware
2 16 (27.59%) Brocade
3 14 (24.14%) EMC
4 11 (18.97%) HP
5 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
6 5 (8.621%) Cisco
6 5 (8.621%) 3PAR
7 4 (6.897%) Mercator
7 4 (6.897%) Symantec
7 4 (6.897%) IBM
7 4 (6.897%) Citrix
8 3 (5.172%) Dell
9 2 (3.448%) Isilon
9 2 (3.448%) Hitachi
9 2 (3.448%) Sun
10 1 (1.724%) CommVault
10 1 (1.724%) Veritas
10 1 (1.724%) Oracle
10 1 (1.724%) Broadcom
West London
We are looking for experienced self-employed storage consultants (SAN, NAS, EMC, NetApp, HP, 3PAR etc.) for future assignments in 2013 with our clients in the IT channel.
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Rate: Competitive dayrates
Posted: 6 May 2013