The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Oxfordshire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 46 35 42
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +7
Contract jobs citing SAN 5 16 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 1.046% 2.832% 2.263%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.618% 23.19% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
Average daily rate £368 £363 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.37% +20.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £308 £156
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £418 £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+6.15% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
Average hourly rate - £16.50 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -37.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
All Communications & Networking
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
89 69 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 18.62% 12.21% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 21 36
Average daily rate £320 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £140 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 22
Average hourly rate £15.00 £16.25 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +12.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.35 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £16.50 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
SAN
South East

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Oxford -7 1 £275 -8.33% 3
Abingdon - - - - 2
Henley-on-Thames - - - -
Kidlington - - - - 1
SAN
South East

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 9 (90.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Citrix
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (40.00%) vSphere
3 3 (30.00%) vCloud
3 3 (30.00%) Firewall
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (20.00%) Dell
4 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 2 (20.00%) IIS
4 2 (20.00%) Web Services
4 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (20.00%) Debian
4 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (20.00%) Network Security
4 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (10.00%) XenApp
5 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
5 1 (10.00%) Wireless

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 2 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Administrator
1 6 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Network Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Debian
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (10.00%) Migration
1 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (10.00%) MCITP
1 1 (10.00%) MCSE
1 1 (10.00%) CCIE
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) vSphere
2 3 (30.00%) vCloud
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Citrix
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (20.00%) Dell
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle
5 1 (10.00%) EMC
5 1 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (10.00%) Apple
5 1 (10.00%) Symantec
5 1 (10.00%) Juniper
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
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