Milton Keynes SAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Storage Area Network (SAN) skills within the Milton Keynes 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	32	28
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	47	50
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.063 %	0.051 %
As % of the category below	24.61 %	26.18 %
Daily rates quoted	13	10
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£374
Average daily rate	£343	£384
% change on same period last year	-10.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£394
% change on same period last year	-13.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.72	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£35.12	£43.50
% change on same period last year	-19.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.53	£47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.61	£31.97
% change on same period last year	-7.37 %
Communications & Networking Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	191	191
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.255 %	0.193 %
Daily rates quoted	56	32
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£305
Average daily rate	£340	£338
% change on same period last year	+0.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.99	£22.13
Average hourly rate	£26.35	£23.61
% change on same period last year	+11.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.70	£25.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
SAN Buckinghamshire

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 Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

SAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes 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 31 (58.49 %) Security Cleared 2 23 (43.40 %) Microsoft Certification 3 20 (37.74 %) HP 3 20 (37.74 %) SQL 3 20 (37.74 %) Clustering 4 19 (35.85 %) Transact-SQL 5 18 (33.96 %) SQL Server 5 18 (33.96 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 17 (32.08 %) ITIL 7 16 (30.19 %) MCSE 7 16 (30.19 %) ITSM 7 16 (30.19 %) SC Cleared 8 15 (28.30 %) OpenView 9 13 (24.53 %) Business Intelligence 9 13 (24.53 %) Cisco

9 13 (24.53 %) DTS 9 13 (24.53 %) Windows 9 13 (24.53 %) OLAP 10 12 (22.64 %) Windows NT 11 10 (18.87 %) CNE 11 10 (18.87 %) Novell Certification 11 10 (18.87 %) HP Data Protector 11 10 (18.87 %) OVOW 12 9 (16.98 %) Microsoft 12 9 (16.98 %) Government 13 8 (15.09 %) MCDBA 13 8 (15.09 %) Operations Management 14 6 (11.32 %) System Testing 14 6 (11.32 %) ISEB 14 6 (11.32 %) Active Directory

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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.

Applications 1 3 (5.660 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.660 %) DNS 2 1 (1.887 %) 3G 2 1 (1.887 %) DHCP 2 1 (1.887 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (33.96 %) SQL Server 1 18 (33.96 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 13 (24.53 %) OLAP 2 13 (24.53 %) DTS	Development Applications 1 4 (7.547 %) TestDirector
General 1 9 (16.98 %) Government 2 6 (11.32 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.887 %) Finance 3 1 (1.887 %) Education 3 1 (1.887 %) Legal 3 1 (1.887 %) Banking 3 1 (1.887 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 12 (22.64 %) Consultant 2 9 (16.98 %) Database Specialist 3 7 (13.21 %) SAN Consultant 4 5 (9.434 %) SAN Specialist 4 5 (9.434 %) SQL Database Developer 4 5 (9.434 %) Infrastructure Consultant 4 5 (9.434 %) Technical Lead 4 5 (9.434 %) DBA 4 5 (9.434 %) Database Developer 4 5 (9.434 %) SQL Developer 4 5 (9.434 %) SQL DBA 4 5 (9.434 %) Developer 5 4 (7.547 %) Storage Specialist 6 3 (5.660 %) Technical Support Analyst 6 3 (5.660 %) Technical Analyst 6 3 (5.660 %) Technical Manager 6 3 (5.660 %) Analyst 6 3 (5.660 %) Project Manager 6 3 (5.660 %) Technical Project Manager 6 3 (5.660 %) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 20 (37.74 %) Clustering 2 3 (5.660 %) Replication 3 1 (1.887 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 13 (24.53 %) Windows 2 12 (22.64 %) Windows NT 3 5 (9.434 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (7.547 %) Linux 5 3 (5.660 %) AIX 6 1 (1.887 %) Solaris 6 1 (1.887 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (1.887 %) FreeBSD 6 1 (1.887 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 31 (58.49 %) Security Cleared 2 17 (32.08 %) ITIL 3 16 (30.19 %) ITSM 3 16 (30.19 %) SC Cleared 4 13 (24.53 %) Business Intelligence 5 8 (15.09 %) Operations Management 6 6 (11.32 %) System Testing 7 3 (5.660 %) Project Planning 7 3 (5.660 %) Release Management 8 2 (3.774 %) Test Scripting 9 1 (1.887 %) Project Management 9 1 (1.887 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 20 (37.74 %) SQL 2 19 (35.85 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (1.887 %) C
Qualifications 1 23 (43.40 %) Microsoft Certification 2 16 (30.19 %) MCSE 3 10 (18.87 %) CNE 3 10 (18.87 %) Novell Certification 4 8 (15.09 %) MCDBA 5 6 (11.32 %) ISEB 6 5 (9.434 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 7 1 (1.887 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.660 %) QA
System Software 1 6 (11.32 %) Active Directory 2 5 (9.434 %) VMware ESX 2 5 (9.434 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (1.887 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 15 (28.30 %) OpenView 2 10 (18.87 %) OVOW 2 10 (18.87 %) HP Data Protector 3 6 (11.32 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 5 (9.434 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 20 (37.74 %) HP 2 13 (24.53 %) Cisco 3 9 (16.98 %) Microsoft 4 5 (9.434 %) Symantec 4 5 (9.434 %) VMware 5 4 (7.547 %) IBM 6 2 (3.774 %) Sun 7 1 (1.887 %) PlateSpin 7 1 (1.887 %) Citrix 7 1 (1.887 %) VERITAS