The first table below looks at the demand for Fibre Channel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fibre Channel 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 Reading 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
Fibre Channel (FC)
Rank 68 80 77
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -3
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.241% 0.094% 0.284%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.058% 0.225% 1.415%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £425 £318 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.85% -18.58%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £350 £395
% change year-on-year
+3.57% -11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 -
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
189 444 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.77% 41.73% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 103 71
Average daily rate £275 £275 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -22.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £136 £160 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 5
Average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.95 £14.50 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.15 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
Fibre Channel
Berkshire

Fibre Channel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Fibre Channel Jobs Demand Trend

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Fibre Channel Daily Rate Trend

Fibre Channel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel.

1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) Tivoli
2 3 (75.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (75.00%) HACMP
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) AIX
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) EMC
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) LPAR
2 3 (75.00%) DLPAR
3 2 (50.00%) CLARiiON
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) vSphere
4 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management

Fibre Channel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) HACMP
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
1 3 (75.00%) LPAR
1 3 (75.00%) DLPAR
2 2 (50.00%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
1 3 (75.00%) AIX
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (75.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
1 3 (75.00%) EMC
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco