SAN Contracts in Merseyside
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 21 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 Merseyside 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 30 20 22
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +2
Contract jobs citing SAN 3 14 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.382% 5.426% 4.032%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.08% 30.43% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 5
Average daily rate - £131 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -68.04%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £366 £348
% change year-on-year
-4.43% +5.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £21.86 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +6.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -3.70%
All Communications & Networking
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 13 46 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 5.991% 17.83% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 17
Average daily rate £375 £215 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+74.41% -25.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £140 £133
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £288 £389
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 3
Average hourly rate - £16.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +22.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SAN
North West

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside SAN Jobs Demand Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Merseyside SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 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
Liverpool +4 2 - -
SAN
North West

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) Dell
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 2 (33.33%) UNIX
3 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Brocade
3 2 (33.33%) AIX
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) MS Office
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) IBM
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) NetApp
4 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
4 1 (16.67%) Internet
4 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
4 1 (16.67%) GroupWise
4 1 (16.67%) MPLS
4 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Tru64
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) GroupWise
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) MPLS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) VoIP
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) ADSL
2 1 (16.67%) IP Telephony
2 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (16.67%) Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Storage Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) SAN Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Wintel Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
1 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
1 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) UNIX
3 2 (33.33%) AIX
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Security Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCP
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) XenApp
3 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
3 1 (16.67%) DFS Replication
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
1 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Brocade
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) Wyse
3 1 (16.67%) NETGEAR
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