North East SAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Storage Area Network (SAN) skills within the North East 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	52	64
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	7	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	7.778 %	6.757 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£317
Average daily rate	£367	£317
% change on same period last year	+15.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£394
% change on same period last year	-13.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£16.50	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-58.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.61	£31.97
% change on same period last year	-7.37 %
Communications & Networking North East
Matching contract IT job ads	90	148
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.150 %
Daily rates quoted	23	32
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£298
Average daily rate	£297	£300
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£312	£302
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.18	£23.42
Average hourly rate	£24.43	£24.25
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.68	£25.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
SAN England

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 North East 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 North East region.

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

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

SAN
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	+7	5	£367	+15.78 %
Durham	-	1	-	-

SAN England

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 18 (62.07 %) Cisco 2 11 (37.93 %) EMC 3 10 (34.48 %) Windows 3 10 (34.48 %) SC Cleared 3 10 (34.48 %) Security Cleared 4 9 (31.03 %) Solaris 4 9 (31.03 %) NetApp 4 9 (31.03 %) UNIX 5 7 (24.14 %) SQL 6 6 (20.69 %) CLARiiON 6 6 (20.69 %) Brocade 7 5 (17.24 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 5 (17.24 %) VMware 7 5 (17.24 %) Government 7 5 (17.24 %) Perl

7 5 (17.24 %) MS Exchange 8 4 (13.79 %) Ethernet 8 4 (13.79 %) NFS 8 4 (13.79 %) Linux 8 4 (13.79 %) MS Project 8 4 (13.79 %) MS Office 8 4 (13.79 %) Microsoft 8 4 (13.79 %) TCP/IP 8 4 (13.79 %) DNS 8 4 (13.79 %) Validation 8 4 (13.79 %) Legato 8 4 (13.79 %) Shell Script 8 4 (13.79 %) iSCSI 8 4 (13.79 %) Data Protection 8 4 (13.79 %) EMC NetWorker

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 5 (17.24 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (3.448 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (3.448 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 4 (13.79 %) MS Project 1 4 (13.79 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.448 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 4 (13.79 %) Ethernet 1 4 (13.79 %) TCP/IP 1 4 (13.79 %) DNS 1 4 (13.79 %) iSCSI 2 1 (3.448 %) LAN 2 1 (3.448 %) WAN 2 1 (3.448 %) Internet 2 1 (3.448 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server
General 1 5 (17.24 %) Government	Job Titles 1 8 (27.59 %) Administrator 2 7 (24.14 %) Consultant 2 7 (24.14 %) Storage Engineer 3 6 (20.69 %) Storage Administrator 4 4 (13.79 %) Technical Consultant 4 4 (13.79 %) SAN Administrator 5 2 (6.897 %) Implementation Specialist 5 2 (6.897 %) SAN Engineer 6 1 (3.448 %) Infrastructure Analyst 6 1 (3.448 %) SAN Consultant 6 1 (3.448 %) Cisco Architect 6 1 (3.448 %) Support Technician 6 1 (3.448 %) 3rd Line Support 6 1 (3.448 %) Architect 6 1 (3.448 %) Analyst 6 1 (3.448 %) Technical Analyst 6 1 (3.448 %) Network Administrator 6 1 (3.448 %) Storage Consultant 6 1 (3.448 %) Security Architect
Miscellaneous 1 6 (20.69 %) CLARiiON 2 3 (10.34 %) IVR 3 2 (6.897 %) Celerra 4 1 (3.448 %) Symmetrix 4 1 (3.448 %) PKI 4 1 (3.448 %) Dutch Language 4 1 (3.448 %) French Language 4 1 (3.448 %) German Language	Operating Systems 1 10 (34.48 %) Windows 2 9 (31.03 %) UNIX 2 9 (31.03 %) Solaris 3 4 (13.79 %) Linux 4 3 (10.34 %) AIX 4 3 (10.34 %) HPUX 5 1 (3.448 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (3.448 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (34.48 %) SC Cleared 1 10 (34.48 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (13.79 %) Data Protection 2 4 (13.79 %) Validation 3 3 (10.34 %) Migration 4 1 (3.448 %) TOGAF 4 1 (3.448 %) Data Migration 4 1 (3.448 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 7 (24.14 %) SQL 2 5 (17.24 %) Perl 3 4 (13.79 %) Shell Script 4 1 (3.448 %) Korn 4 1 (3.448 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 1 (3.448 %) CCNA 1 1 (3.448 %) CISSP 1 1 (3.448 %) Cisco Certification	System Software 1 5 (17.24 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 4 (13.79 %) NFS 3 2 (6.897 %) NetBackup 4 1 (3.448 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 4 (13.79 %) Legato 1 4 (13.79 %) EMC NetWorker 2 2 (6.897 %) DiskXtender 3 1 (3.448 %) Tivoli 3 1 (3.448 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 18 (62.07 %) Cisco 2 11 (37.93 %) EMC 3 9 (31.03 %) NetApp 4 6 (20.69 %) Brocade 5 5 (17.24 %) VMware 6 4 (13.79 %) Microsoft 7 3 (10.34 %) HP 7 3 (10.34 %) CommVault 8 1 (3.448 %) Hitachi 8 1 (3.448 %) Nortel 8 1 (3.448 %) Juniper 8 1 (3.448 %) IBM 8 1 (3.448 %) Finjan 8 1 (3.448 %) Novell 8 1 (3.448 %) VERITAS 8 1 (3.448 %) CheckPoint