North West SAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Storage Area Network (SAN) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Storage Area Network (SAN)
Location Aberdeen Barnet Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bognor Regis Borehamwood Bournemouth Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire 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 Faversham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	99
Rank change on same period last year	+43
Matching contract IT job ads	100	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.132 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	14.97 %	6.746 %
Daily rates quoted	36	7
Average minimum daily rate	£371	£296
Average daily rate	£395	£314
% change on same period last year	+25.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£419	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£388
% change on same period last year	-10.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.53	£26.48
Average hourly rate	£18.03	£27.51
% change on same period last year	-34.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.53	£28.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.08	£33.17
% change on same period last year	-9.31 %
Communications & Networking North West
Matching contract IT job ads	668	504
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.881 %	0.535 %
Daily rates quoted	135	83
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£284
Average daily rate	£389	£299
% change on same period last year	+30.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£412	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	77	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.62	£21.73
Average hourly rate	£26.65	£23.28
% change on same period last year	+14.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.67	£24.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
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 West 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 West region.

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the North West region over the 3 months to 4 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 West region.

SAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

SAN
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SAN within the North West region over the 3 months to 4 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
Manchester	-2	42	£397	+40.57 %
Cheshire	+13	41	£400	-
Lancashire	+10	6	£250	-
Merseyside	-7	5	£400	-20.00 %
Cumbria	-	4	-	-

SAN England

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 68 (44.16 %) Windows 2 46 (29.87 %) LAN 2 46 (29.87 %) WAN 3 40 (25.97 %) VMware 4 34 (22.08 %) Unix 4 34 (22.08 %) SQL 5 31 (20.13 %) Citrix 6 29 (18.83 %) Windows Server 2003 7 27 (17.53 %) Cisco 8 25 (16.23 %) Active Directory 8 25 (16.23 %) IIS 9 24 (15.58 %) Finance 10 23 (14.94 %) Windows NT 10 23 (14.94 %) HP 11 22 (14.29 %) Migration

12 21 (13.64 %) EMC 12 21 (13.64 %) Microsoft Certification 12 21 (13.64 %) MCSE 13 20 (12.99 %) TCP/IP 14 19 (12.34 %) IBM 15 18 (11.69 %) AIX 16 15 (9.740 %) PRINCE2 17 14 (9.091 %) Microsoft 18 13 (8.442 %) Cisco Certification 18 13 (8.442 %) CCNA 18 13 (8.442 %) Brocade 19 12 (7.792 %) Security Cleared 19 12 (7.792 %) Sun 19 12 (7.792 %) Windows 2000 19 12 (7.792 %) COM+

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 Development 1 12 (7.792 %) COM+ 1 12 (7.792 %) DCOM 2 2 (1.299 %) Middleware 3 1 (0.649 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 25 (16.23 %) IIS 2 3 (1.948 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (1.948 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (1.299 %) SharePoint 4 1 (0.649 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (0.649 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (0.649 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 4 (2.597 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 46 (29.87 %) WAN 1 46 (29.87 %) LAN 2 20 (12.99 %) TCP/IP 3 12 (7.792 %) POP3 3 12 (7.792 %) SMTP 4 6 (3.896 %) VPN 4 6 (3.896 %) WINS 4 6 (3.896 %) DNS 5 5 (3.247 %) Firewall 5 5 (3.247 %) DHCP 6 3 (1.948 %) LDAP 6 3 (1.948 %) SNMP 6 3 (1.948 %) Internet 6 3 (1.948 %) BGP 6 3 (1.948 %) EIGRP 6 3 (1.948 %) VLAN 6 3 (1.948 %) Network Security 7 2 (1.299 %) iSCSI 7 2 (1.299 %) SSH 7 2 (1.299 %) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (2.597 %) SQL Server 2 3 (1.948 %) Oracle 10g 2 3 (1.948 %) SQL Server 2000 2 3 (1.948 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (1.299 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 2 (1.299 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 2 (1.299 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 3 2 (1.299 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 2 (1.299 %) MySQL 3 2 (1.299 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (0.649 %) OLAP 4 1 (0.649 %) SQL Server 7	General 1 24 (15.58 %) Finance 2 11 (7.143 %) Government 3 9 (5.844 %) Banking 4 3 (1.948 %) Financial Institution 4 3 (1.948 %) Telecoms 5 2 (1.299 %) Insurance 5 2 (1.299 %) Back Office 6 1 (0.649 %) Education 6 1 (0.649 %) Retail 6 1 (0.649 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 24 (15.58 %) Consultant 1 24 (15.58 %) Infrastructure Specialist 2 23 (14.94 %) Administrator 3 16 (10.39 %) Storage Administrator 3 16 (10.39 %) Storage Specialist 4 11 (7.143 %) Server Engineer 5 10 (6.494 %) Technical Specialist 5 10 (6.494 %) Applications Packager 5 10 (6.494 %) Server Specialist 6 9 (5.844 %) Development Specialist 7 8 (5.195 %) Senior Storage Administrator 8 7 (4.545 %) Infrastructure Consultant 8 7 (4.545 %) Storage Consultant 8 7 (4.545 %) Network Engineer 8 7 (4.545 %) Architect 9 6 (3.896 %) 3rd Line Support 9 6 (3.896 %) UNIX Specialist 9 6 (3.896 %) UNIX Technical Specialist 9 6 (3.896 %) Senior Storage Specialist 10 5 (3.247 %) SAN Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 9 (5.844 %) Mainframe 2 7 (4.545 %) Replication 2 7 (4.545 %) HACMP 2 7 (4.545 %) Clustering 3 5 (3.247 %) CLARiiON 4 3 (1.948 %) Symmetrix 4 3 (1.948 %) EMC Centera 4 3 (1.948 %) Firmware 4 3 (1.948 %) Celerra 5 2 (1.299 %) IBM Mainframe 5 2 (1.299 %) Blackberry 6 1 (0.649 %) PMI 6 1 (0.649 %) Video Conferencing 6 1 (0.649 %) PKI 6 1 (0.649 %) Dutch Language
Operating Systems 1 68 (44.16 %) Windows 2 34 (22.08 %) Unix 3 29 (18.83 %) Windows Server 2003 4 23 (14.94 %) Windows NT 5 18 (11.69 %) AIX 6 12 (7.792 %) Solaris 6 12 (7.792 %) Windows 2000 7 11 (7.143 %) Linux 8 3 (1.948 %) HPUX 9 1 (0.649 %) Windows XP 9 1 (0.649 %) VMS 9 1 (0.649 %) Tru64	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (14.29 %) Migration 2 15 (9.740 %) PRINCE2 3 12 (7.792 %) Security Cleared 4 11 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 5 10 (6.494 %) ITIL 5 10 (6.494 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 8 (5.195 %) Project Management 7 6 (3.896 %) Disaster Recovery 8 5 (3.247 %) Change Management 9 4 (2.597 %) GAP Analysis 9 4 (2.597 %) Service Management 9 4 (2.597 %) BC Cleared 10 3 (1.948 %) Data Migration 11 2 (1.299 %) Software Engineering 11 2 (1.299 %) Stakeholder Management 11 2 (1.299 %) Data Management 11 2 (1.299 %) Service Delivery 12 1 (0.649 %) Risk Management 12 1 (0.649 %) TOGAF 12 1 (0.649 %) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages 1 34 (22.08 %) SQL 2 10 (6.494 %) Shell Script 3 4 (2.597 %) Perl 4 2 (1.299 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (0.649 %) VB 5 1 (0.649 %) C 5 1 (0.649 %) JavaScript 5 1 (0.649 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 21 (13.64 %) MCSE 1 21 (13.64 %) Microsoft Certification 2 13 (8.442 %) Cisco Certification 2 13 (8.442 %) CCNA 3 6 (3.896 %) CCNP 4 3 (1.948 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 3 (1.948 %) Degree 5 2 (1.299 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (0.649 %) MCP 6 1 (0.649 %) CCA 6 1 (0.649 %) Citrix Certification 6 1 (0.649 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (6.494 %) QA 2 1 (0.649 %) SLA	System Software 1 25 (16.23 %) Active Directory 2 11 (7.143 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 5 (3.247 %) NetBackup 4 4 (2.597 %) Backup Exec 4 4 (2.597 %) VMware ESX 5 3 (1.948 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 2 (1.299 %) VMware Workstation 6 2 (1.299 %) MetaFrame 7 1 (0.649 %) Terminal Server 7 1 (0.649 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 11 (7.143 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 6 (3.896 %) Tivoli 3 4 (2.597 %) OpenView 3 4 (2.597 %) EMC TimeFinder 4 3 (1.948 %) CiscoWorks 5 2 (1.299 %) Tivoli Monitoring 6 1 (0.649 %) MOM 6 1 (0.649 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 40 (25.97 %) VMware 2 31 (20.13 %) Citrix 3 27 (17.53 %) Cisco 4 23 (14.94 %) HP 5 21 (13.64 %) EMC 6 19 (12.34 %) IBM 7 14 (9.091 %) Microsoft 8 13 (8.442 %) Brocade 9 12 (7.792 %) Sun 9 12 (7.792 %) Oracle 10 11 (7.143 %) NetApp 10 11 (7.143 %) Altiris 11 10 (6.494 %) Dell 12 7 (4.545 %) Intel 12 7 (4.545 %) Hitachi 13 5 (3.247 %) VERITAS 14 4 (2.597 %) Red Hat 15 2 (1.299 %) Symantec 15 2 (1.299 %) Siemens 15 2 (1.299 %) Avaya