The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 23 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 Northamptonshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 22 40 30
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -10
Contract jobs citing SAN 8 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 3.175% 0.478% 0.722%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% 6.250% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £319 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.75% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £364 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.03% +3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -1.88%
All Communications & Networking
Northamptonshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
24 32 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 9.524% 7.656% 3.971%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 1
Average daily rate £300 £306 £125
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.96% +144.80%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Average hourly rate - £14.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -27.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
SAN
East Midlands

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire SAN Jobs Demand Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Northamptonshire SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Northamptonshire SAN Daily Rate Histogram

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Northamptonshire SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Northampton - 4 £225 -
SAN
East Midlands

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) LAN
3 3 (33.33%) DHCP
3 3 (33.33%) Linux
3 3 (33.33%) Apache
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) HP
3 3 (33.33%) Open Source
3 3 (33.33%) IaaS
3 3 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (22.22%) SaaS
4 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
4 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
4 2 (22.22%) MySQL
4 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) MS Office
4 2 (22.22%) UNIX
4 2 (22.22%) Windows XP

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Apache
2 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
2 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Office
2 1 (11.11%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) LAN
2 3 (33.33%) DHCP
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) DTS
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Designer
1 3 (33.33%) Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Server Support
3 1 (11.11%) Server Support Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Storage Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Server Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Server Support
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Open Source
1 3 (33.33%) IaaS
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (22.22%) UNIX
3 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Migration
1 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
2 1 (11.11%) Scrum
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) IBM
4 1 (11.11%) NetApp
4 1 (11.11%) Novell
4 1 (11.11%) EMC
4 1 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (11.11%) Brocade
4 1 (11.11%) hybris
4 1 (11.11%) 3PAR
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