The first table below looks at the demand for Fibre Channel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fibre Channel 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 Manchester 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
Fibre Channel (FC)
Rank - 83 71
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.077% 0.197%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.427% 1.786%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £344 £395
% change year-on-year
+5.45% -12.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 -
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
104 234 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 11.32% 17.93% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 87 34
Average daily rate £298 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.83% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £130 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £438 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +60.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £32.50 £17.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Fibre Channel
North West

Fibre Channel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Fibre Channel Jobs Demand Trend

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Fibre Channel Daily Rate Trend

Fibre Channel
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Fibre Channel Hourly Rate Trend

Fibre Channel
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SAS
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (100.00%) SCOM
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere

Fibre Channel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SAS
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Service Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Services Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 2 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) VMware