The first table below looks at the demand for SAN 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 SAN 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 31 23 15
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -8
Contract jobs citing SAN 5 9 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.748% 4.036% 5.957%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.259% 37.50% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
Average daily rate £233 £220 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.68% +4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £227 £205 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £312 £316 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £363 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -1.88%
All Communications & Networking
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
54 24 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 18.88% 10.76% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 11 14
Average daily rate £335 £238 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.05% -9.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £205 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £423 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
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 £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
SAN
Nottinghamshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nottingham SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 15 (83.33%) VMware
2 14 (77.78%) Windows
3 12 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (61.11%) SQL Server
5 10 (55.56%) SQL Server 2008
6 9 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 9 (50.00%) Citrix
6 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
6 9 (50.00%) HP
6 9 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 8 (44.44%) IBM
8 6 (33.33%) SQL
8 6 (33.33%) Linux
8 6 (33.33%) Windows 2000
8 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
9 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
9 4 (22.22%) MS Exchange
9 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
10 3 (16.67%) XenApp
10 3 (16.67%) Capacity Management
10 3 (16.67%) Cisco
10 3 (16.67%) Replication
10 3 (16.67%) Blackberry
10 3 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
11 2 (11.11%) Brocade
11 2 (11.11%) VMware ESX
11 2 (11.11%) LAN
11 2 (11.11%) AIX
11 2 (11.11%) UNIX

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 (5.556%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) MS Exchange
2 3 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.556%) IIS
3 1 (5.556%) Apache
3 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (5.556%) NAS
2 1 (5.556%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (5.556%) VoIP
2 1 (5.556%) WAN
2 1 (5.556%) DNS
2 1 (5.556%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) SQL Server
2 10 (55.56%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (5.556%) OLTP
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
1 1 (5.556%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Storage Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Wintel Server Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) SAN Storage Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) DBA
4 1 (5.556%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Administrator
4 1 (5.556%) SAN Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Storage Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Replication
1 3 (16.67%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.556%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 12 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (33.33%) Linux
4 6 (33.33%) Windows 2000
5 2 (11.11%) AIX
5 2 (11.11%) UNIX
5 2 (11.11%) Windows 7
6 1 (5.556%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) Capacity Management
1 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (5.556%) Service Delivery
2 1 (5.556%) Validation
2 1 (5.556%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.556%) MCSE
1 1 (5.556%) MCITP
1 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (16.67%) XenApp
4 2 (11.11%) VMware ESX
5 1 (5.556%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (5.556%) MetaFrame
5 1 (5.556%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Tivoli
1 2 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (5.556%) EMC Navisphere
2 1 (5.556%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) VMware
2 9 (50.00%) Citrix
2 9 (50.00%) HP
3 8 (44.44%) IBM
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 3 (16.67%) Cisco
6 2 (11.11%) Brocade
6 2 (11.11%) NetApp
7 1 (5.556%) Red Hat
7 1 (5.556%) EMC
7 1 (5.556%) Altiris
Nottingham, East Midlands
3rd /4th Line Support - Windows, Exchange, Active Directory, SQL , SAN, Vmware My prestigious client in Nottingham is looking for a 3rd Line Support Engineer on contract basis. Essential...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
3rd /4th Line Support - Windows, Exchange, Active Directory, SQL , SAN, Vmware... Essential skills are: Windows, Exchange, Active Directory, SQL , SAN, Vmware and other wintel related technologies. You must...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Nottingham Day Rate: £220 - £240 per day An Infrastructure Engineer Windows/Vmware/Citrix Engineer (3rd Line Support) is needed for a multinational organisation based in Nottingham... The Infrastructure...
Venturi
Rate: £220 - £240 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013