The first table below looks at the demand for Fibre Channel skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fibre Channel over the 3 months to 17 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 North West 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fibre Channel (FC)
Rank 113 131 125
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -6
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 4 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.174% 0.032% 0.227%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.370% 0.178% 1.461%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
Average daily rate £240 £275 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.72% +3.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £275 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £275 £286
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £350 £395
% change year-on-year
+3.57% -11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 -
All Communications & Networking
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
292 562 479
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 12.71% 17.75% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 229 247
Average daily rate £308 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.82% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £175 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £461 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 35 45
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.86 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.92% -39.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £14.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £30.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Fibre Channel Hourly Rate Trend

Fibre Channel
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fibre Channel within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Lancashire - 2 £228 -
Merseyside - 1 - -
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 8 (80.00%) IIS
2 8 (80.00%) VMware
2 8 (80.00%) MS Exchange
2 8 (80.00%) SAS
2 8 (80.00%) NFS
2 8 (80.00%) Cisco
2 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (80.00%) Citrix
2 8 (80.00%) Backup Exec
2 8 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 8 (80.00%) SCOM
2 8 (80.00%) iSCSI
2 8 (80.00%) XenDesktop
2 8 (80.00%) vSphere
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (80.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (30.00%) XenApp
4 2 (20.00%) NetBackup
4 2 (20.00%) UNIX
4 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (20.00%) SAN
4 2 (20.00%) NetApp
4 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Brocade
5 1 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Replication

Fibre Channel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 8 (80.00%) IIS
1 8 (80.00%) MS Exchange
1 8 (80.00%) SAS
1 8 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (20.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Service Manager
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 5 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 5 (50.00%) Technical Services Manager
1 5 (50.00%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Storage Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Storage Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (20.00%) UNIX
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) NFS
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (80.00%) Hyper-V
1 8 (80.00%) XenDesktop
1 8 (80.00%) vSphere
2 3 (30.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Backup Exec
1 8 (80.00%) SCOM
2 2 (20.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
1 8 (80.00%) Citrix
1 8 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Brocade
2 2 (20.00%) NetApp