The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NAS 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 Nottingham 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
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank - 27 28
Contract jobs citing NAS 0 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham - 1.802% 0.424%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 16.67% 2.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £250
UK excluding London average daily rate £419 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +58.33%
All Communications & Networking
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
53 24 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 18.60% 10.81% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 13
Average daily rate £350 £238 £251
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+47.36% -5.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £205 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £423 £376
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
Average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +46.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £30.00 £13.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
NAS
Nottinghamshire

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham NAS Jobs Demand Trend

NAS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nottingham NAS Daily Rate Trend

NAS
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham region citing NAS 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 NAS.

1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Brocade
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham region citing NAS 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 NAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Storage Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Brocade