Manchester SAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Storage Area Network (SAN) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Storage Area Network (SAN)
Location Aberdeen Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bognor Regis Borehamwood Bournemouth Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Crawley Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	50
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	36	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.048 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	19.05 %	10.47 %
Daily rates quoted	10	4
Average minimum daily rate	£403	£255
Average daily rate	£416	£268
% change on same period last year	+55.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£428	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£394
% change on same period last year	-13.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.53	£27.45
Average hourly rate	£18.03	£27.58
% change on same period last year	-34.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.53	£27.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.61	£31.97
% change on same period last year	-7.37 %
Communications & Networking Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	189	172
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.252 %	0.174 %
Daily rates quoted	27	27
Average minimum daily rate	£465	£264
Average daily rate	£483	£278
% change on same period last year	+73.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£501	£293
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.92	£19.63
Average hourly rate	£31.52	£21.73
% change on same period last year	+45.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.11	£23.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
SAN North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SAN across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 22 (31.88 %) Windows 2 18 (26.09 %) UNIX 3 16 (23.19 %) Cisco 4 15 (21.74 %) EMC 4 15 (21.74 %) Migration 4 15 (21.74 %) VMware 5 14 (20.29 %) Finance 5 14 (20.29 %) Citrix 6 13 (18.84 %) AIX 6 13 (18.84 %) SQL 7 11 (15.94 %) LAN 7 11 (15.94 %) WAN 7 11 (15.94 %) Shell Script 8 10 (14.49 %) IIS 8 10 (14.49 %) QA

9 9 (13.04 %) Windows NT 9 9 (13.04 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 9 9 (13.04 %) Active Directory 10 8 (11.59 %) HP 10 8 (11.59 %) HACMP 11 7 (10.14 %) IBM 11 7 (10.14 %) Microsoft Certification 11 7 (10.14 %) Oracle 11 7 (10.14 %) PRINCE2 11 7 (10.14 %) Windows 2000 11 7 (10.14 %) MCSE 12 6 (8.696 %) ITIL 12 6 (8.696 %) Intel 12 6 (8.696 %) Tivoli 12 6 (8.696 %) Windows Server 2003

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 5 (7.246 %) COM+ 1 5 (7.246 %) DCOM	Application Platforms 1 10 (14.49 %) IIS 2 2 (2.899 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (1.449 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (1.449 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 1 (1.449 %) Exchange Server 2000
Communications & Networking 1 11 (15.94 %) WAN 1 11 (15.94 %) LAN 2 5 (7.246 %) POP3 2 5 (7.246 %) SMTP 3 4 (5.797 %) Kerberos 3 4 (5.797 %) SSH 3 4 (5.797 %) LDAP 4 3 (4.348 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (4.348 %) Firewall 5 2 (2.899 %) VPN 5 2 (2.899 %) Network Security 6 1 (1.449 %) Internet 6 1 (1.449 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (1.449 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (7.246 %) Oracle 10g 2 2 (2.899 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (2.899 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 2 (2.899 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 2 (2.899 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (2.899 %) SQL Server Integration Services 2 2 (2.899 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 2 2 (2.899 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.899 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (1.449 %) MySQL 3 1 (1.449 %) OLAP
General 1 14 (20.29 %) Finance 2 6 (8.696 %) Banking 3 3 (4.348 %) Insurance 4 2 (2.899 %) Back Office 5 1 (1.449 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.449 %) Government 5 1 (1.449 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 15 (21.74 %) Administrator 2 12 (17.39 %) Storage Administrator 3 10 (14.49 %) Technical Specialist 3 10 (14.49 %) Consultant 4 8 (11.59 %) Senior Storage Administrator 4 8 (11.59 %) UNIX Technical Specialist 4 8 (11.59 %) UNIX Specialist 5 7 (10.14 %) Infrastructure Specialist 6 6 (8.696 %) Server Engineer 6 6 (8.696 %) Storage Specialist 7 5 (7.246 %) Development Specialist 7 5 (7.246 %) Technical Support 7 5 (7.246 %) Server Specialist 7 5 (7.246 %) SAN Administrator 8 4 (5.797 %) SAN Specialist 8 4 (5.797 %) Senior Storage Specialist 9 3 (4.348 %) Storage Consultant 9 3 (4.348 %) Technical Support Consultant 9 3 (4.348 %) Applications Packager 9 3 (4.348 %) Project Leader
Miscellaneous 1 8 (11.59 %) HACMP 2 6 (8.696 %) Mainframe 3 3 (4.348 %) Firmware 4 2 (2.899 %) Clustering 5 1 (1.449 %) Video Conferencing 5 1 (1.449 %) CLARiiON 5 1 (1.449 %) NHS 5 1 (1.449 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 22 (31.88 %) Windows 2 18 (26.09 %) UNIX 3 13 (18.84 %) AIX 4 9 (13.04 %) Windows NT 5 7 (10.14 %) Windows 2000 6 6 (8.696 %) Windows Server 2003 7 5 (7.246 %) Linux 8 4 (5.797 %) Solaris 9 1 (1.449 %) HPUX 9 1 (1.449 %) Windows XP 9 1 (1.449 %) VMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (21.74 %) Migration 2 7 (10.14 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (8.696 %) ITIL 4 4 (5.797 %) GAP Analysis 5 3 (4.348 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (2.899 %) Software Engineering 6 2 (2.899 %) Project Management 6 2 (2.899 %) Service Management 6 2 (2.899 %) Change Management 6 2 (2.899 %) Disaster Recovery 7 1 (1.449 %) Risk Management 7 1 (1.449 %) Stakeholder Management	Programming Languages 1 13 (18.84 %) SQL 2 11 (15.94 %) Shell Script 3 5 (7.246 %) Perl 4 2 (2.899 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (1.449 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 7 (10.14 %) MCSE 1 7 (10.14 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (5.797 %) CCNP 2 4 (5.797 %) CCNA 2 4 (5.797 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (2.899 %) Degree 4 1 (1.449 %) MCP 4 1 (1.449 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (14.49 %) QA
System Software 1 9 (13.04 %) Active Directory 2 3 (4.348 %) Backup Exec 2 3 (4.348 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (2.899 %) MetaFrame 3 2 (2.899 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (1.449 %) ISA Server 4 1 (1.449 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 9 (13.04 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 6 (8.696 %) Tivoli 3 4 (5.797 %) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors 1 16 (23.19 %) Cisco 2 15 (21.74 %) EMC 2 15 (21.74 %) VMware 3 14 (20.29 %) Citrix 4 8 (11.59 %) HP 5 7 (10.14 %) IBM 5 7 (10.14 %) Oracle 6 6 (8.696 %) Intel 7 4 (5.797 %) Microsoft 7 4 (5.797 %) Sun 7 4 (5.797 %) Hitachi 8 3 (4.348 %) Altiris 9 2 (2.899 %) Siemens 9 2 (2.899 %) SunGard 9 2 (2.899 %) Red Hat 10 1 (1.449 %) Symantec 10 1 (1.449 %) Compaq 10 1 (1.449 %) VERITAS 10 1 (1.449 %) NetApp 10 1 (1.449 %) Brocade