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This section looks at the demand for Storage Area Network (SAN) skills within the Portsmouth 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.

LinkStorage Area Network (SAN)
Location
3 months to 4 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank1525
Rank change on same period last yearUp+10
Matching contract IT job ads161
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.021 %0.001 %
As % of the category below28.57 %4.167 %
Daily rates quoted30
Average minimum daily rate£317-
Average daily rate£332-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate£347-
UK excluding London average daily rate£348£388
% change on same period last year-10.26 %
Hourly rates quoted10
Average minimum hourly rate£40.00-
Average hourly rate£50.00-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate£60.00-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.08£33.17
% change on same period last year-9.31 %
Communications & Networking PortsmouthCommunications & Networking
Portsmouth
Matching contract IT job ads5624
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.074 %0.025 %
Daily rates quoted62
Average minimum daily rate£315£250
Average daily rate£329£288
% change on same period last year+14.49 %
Average maximum daily rate£343£325
UK excluding London average daily rate£341£344
% change on same period last year-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted3214
Average minimum hourly rate£25.37£23.52
Average hourly rate£27.82£24.10
% change on same period last year+15.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate£30.28£24.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.58£28.53
% change on same period last year-10.35 %
SAN HampshireSAN
Hampshire

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 Portsmouth region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Portsmouth SAN Demand Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Portsmouth SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Portsmouth SAN Daily Rate Histogram

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Portsmouth SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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.

115 (65.22 %)Windows
115 (65.22 %)Citrix
214 (60.87 %)VMware
312 (52.17 %)EMC
410 (43.48 %)Active Directory
59 (39.13 %)Dell
67 (30.43 %)Windows Server 2003
76 (26.09 %)Citrix Presentation Server
85 (21.74 %)Replication
94 (17.39 %)CLARiiON
94 (17.39 %)Unix
94 (17.39 %)DNS
103 (13.04 %)NetBackup
103 (13.04 %)Operations Management
112 (8.696 %)VMware Infrastructure
112 (8.696 %)Fat Client
112 (8.696 %)Government
112 (8.696 %)Migration
112 (8.696 %)VMware ESX
112 (8.696 %)Mainframe
112 (8.696 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
112 (8.696 %)Tivoli
112 (8.696 %)Thin Client
112 (8.696 %)Terminal Server
112 (8.696 %)Citrix Certification
112 (8.696 %)CCEA
112 (8.696 %)MetaFrame
112 (8.696 %)Microsoft Certification
112 (8.696 %)IBM
112 (8.696 %)HP

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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
11 (4.348 %)WebSphere
Applications
11 (4.348 %)MS Excel
Communications & Networking
14 (17.39 %)DNS
General
12 (8.696 %)Government
Job Titles
112 (52.17 %)Administrator
25 (21.74 %)Citrix Administrator
34 (17.39 %)Storage Administrator
43 (13.04 %)Citrix Engineer
43 (13.04 %)Technical Engineer
43 (13.04 %)Server Engineer
43 (13.04 %)Systems Administrator
43 (13.04 %)Citrix Support
52 (8.696 %)Implementation Specialist
52 (8.696 %)Senior Implementation Specialist
52 (8.696 %)Server Support
52 (8.696 %)Support Engineer
52 (8.696 %)3rd Line Support
52 (8.696 %)Team Leader
52 (8.696 %)SAN Specialist
61 (4.348 %)Windows Server Engineer
61 (4.348 %)SAN Administrator
61 (4.348 %)Server Support Engineer
61 (4.348 %)Storage Specialist
61 (4.348 %)AIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
15 (21.74 %)Replication
24 (17.39 %)CLARiiON
32 (8.696 %)Client/Server
32 (8.696 %)Thin Client
32 (8.696 %)Mainframe
32 (8.696 %)Fat Client
41 (4.348 %)EMC Centera
Operating Systems
115 (65.22 %)Windows
27 (30.43 %)Windows Server 2003
34 (17.39 %)Unix
42 (8.696 %)AIX
51 (4.348 %)Solaris
51 (4.348 %)OpenVMS
51 (4.348 %)Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
13 (13.04 %)Operations Management
22 (8.696 %)Migration
31 (4.348 %)ITIL
31 (4.348 %)Data Migration
31 (4.348 %)Security Cleared
Programming Languages
11 (4.348 %)SQL
11 (4.348 %)Shell Script
11 (4.348 %)Korn
Qualifications
12 (8.696 %)MCSE
12 (8.696 %)Citrix Certification
12 (8.696 %)CCEA
12 (8.696 %)Microsoft Certification
System Software
110 (43.48 %)Active Directory
26 (26.09 %)Citrix Presentation Server
33 (13.04 %)NetBackup
42 (8.696 %)VMware Infrastructure
42 (8.696 %)MetaFrame
42 (8.696 %)Terminal Server
42 (8.696 %)VMware ESX
51 (4.348 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
51 (4.348 %)Backup Exec
Systems Management
12 (8.696 %)Tivoli
12 (8.696 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
115 (65.22 %)Citrix
214 (60.87 %)VMware
312 (52.17 %)EMC
49 (39.13 %)Dell
52 (8.696 %)IBM
52 (8.696 %)HP
61 (4.348 %)Cisco
61 (4.348 %)Microsoft
61 (4.348 %)Sun
61 (4.348 %)VERITAS
61 (4.348 %)Brocade
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