The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of NetApp products and/or services 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 NetApp over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Network Appliance Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NetApp
Rank 86 110 109
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -1
Contract jobs citing NetApp 32 22 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.373% 0.707% 0.557%
As % of the Vendors category 3.025% 1.360% 1.199%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 13
Average daily rate £288 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £266 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £452 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £400 £350
% change year-on-year
-15.00% +14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 £21.86 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.38% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.46 £30.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year
-38.46% +44.57%
All Vendors
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1058 1618 1418
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 45.39% 52.01% 46.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 736 683
Average daily rate £340 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £489 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 79 97
Average hourly rate £19.04 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.80% -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.84 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £29.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
NetApp
England

NetApp
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NetApp across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

North West NetApp Jobs Demand Trend

NetApp
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West NetApp Daily Rate Trend

NetApp
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NetApp across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West NetApp Daily Rate Histogram

NetApp
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West NetApp Hourly Rate Trend

NetApp
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetApp within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester +15 10 £250 -29.82%
Merseyside +7 8 £350 +20.48%
Cheshire -4 6 £345 -9.21%
Lancashire +11 5 £260 -42.22%
NetApp
England

NetApp
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing NetApp 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 NetApp.

1 27 (62.79%) Windows
2 20 (46.51%) VMware
3 16 (37.21%) Active Directory
3 16 (37.21%) Windows Server 2008
4 15 (34.88%) MS Exchange
5 13 (30.23%) vSphere
6 11 (25.58%) Cisco
6 11 (25.58%) SQL
7 10 (23.26%) ITIL
7 10 (23.26%) UNIX
7 10 (23.26%) Windows XP
7 10 (23.26%) SCCM
8 9 (20.93%) SCOM
8 9 (20.93%) Exchange Server 2010
8 9 (20.93%) Windows Server 2003
9 8 (18.60%) HP
9 8 (18.60%) SAN
9 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
10 7 (16.28%) Hyper-V
10 7 (16.28%) EMC
10 7 (16.28%) IBM
10 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
10 7 (16.28%) PRINCE2
10 7 (16.28%) Linux
10 7 (16.28%) Firewall
11 6 (13.95%) Oracle
11 6 (13.95%) XenApp
11 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
11 6 (13.95%) Exchange Server 2007
12 5 (11.63%) Brocade

NetApp
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing NetApp 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 NetApp. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (6.977%) XML
2 1 (2.326%) .NET
2 1 (2.326%) COM
2 1 (2.326%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 15 (34.88%) MS Exchange
2 9 (20.93%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (13.95%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (6.977%) SharePoint
4 3 (6.977%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (2.326%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (6.977%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) SAN
2 7 (16.28%) Firewall
3 3 (6.977%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.651%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.326%) Wireless
5 1 (2.326%) LAN
5 1 (2.326%) DHCP
5 1 (2.326%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.326%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.977%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (4.651%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.326%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (2.326%) Finance
1 1 (2.326%) Banking
1 1 (2.326%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Administrator
2 6 (13.95%) Technical Manager
3 5 (11.63%) Project Engineer
4 4 (9.302%) Solaris Administrator
4 4 (9.302%) Storage Administrator
4 4 (9.302%) Analyst
4 4 (9.302%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.977%) Consultant
5 3 (6.977%) Technical Project Manager
5 3 (6.977%) Storage Specialist
5 3 (6.977%) SAN Specialist
5 3 (6.977%) Storage Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) Technical Leader
6 2 (4.651%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (4.651%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (4.651%) Technical Support
6 2 (4.651%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (4.651%) Developer
6 2 (4.651%) Architect
7 1 (2.326%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.326%) Thin Client
1 1 (2.326%) Replication
1 1 (2.326%) Fat Client
1 1 (2.326%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (2.326%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 27 (62.79%) Windows
2 16 (37.21%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (23.26%) UNIX
3 10 (23.26%) Windows XP
4 9 (20.93%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (16.28%) Linux
6 4 (9.302%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (9.302%) Solaris
7 2 (4.651%) AIX
7 2 (4.651%) Tru64
8 1 (2.326%) Windows 8
8 1 (2.326%) Windows 7
8 1 (2.326%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.26%) ITIL
2 7 (16.28%) PRINCE2
3 5 (11.63%) Migration
4 4 (9.302%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (9.302%) Service Management
5 3 (6.977%) Configuration Management
5 3 (6.977%) Change Management
6 2 (4.651%) Capacity Management
7 1 (2.326%) Project Management
7 1 (2.326%) B2C
7 1 (2.326%) Logistics
7 1 (2.326%) TOGAF
7 1 (2.326%) Change Control
7 1 (2.326%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) SQL
2 3 (6.977%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.302%) CCNP
3 4 (9.302%) CCNA
3 4 (9.302%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.326%) RHCE
4 1 (2.326%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.326%) QA
System Software
1 16 (37.21%) Active Directory
2 13 (30.23%) vSphere
3 7 (16.28%) Hyper-V
4 6 (13.95%) XenApp
5 5 (11.63%) XenDesktop
6 4 (9.302%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (6.977%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (6.977%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (2.326%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (2.326%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) SCCM
2 9 (20.93%) SCOM
3 3 (6.977%) NetBackup
3 3 (6.977%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.326%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.326%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 20 (46.51%) VMware
2 11 (25.58%) Cisco
3 8 (18.60%) HP
4 7 (16.28%) EMC
4 7 (16.28%) IBM
4 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
5 6 (13.95%) Oracle
6 5 (11.63%) Brocade
7 4 (9.302%) Citrix
8 2 (4.651%) SAP
9 1 (2.326%) Hitachi
9 1 (2.326%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.326%) Lumension
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