SAN Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SAN 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 SAN over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 47 65 34
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -31
Contract jobs citing SAN 18 14 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.145% 1.256% 4.972%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.045% 3.004% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 26
Average daily rate £330 £258 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.15% -39.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £220 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £299 £528
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £364 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.03% +3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -1.88%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 199 466 214
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.72% 41.79% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 110 73
Average daily rate £280 £285 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.75% -24.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £213 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 7
Average hourly rate £17.00 £15.58 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.14% -2.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £14.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
SAN
Berkshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 24 (77.42%) Windows
2 16 (51.61%) IBM
3 15 (48.39%) EMC
3 15 (48.39%) UNIX
4 14 (45.16%) SQL
4 14 (45.16%) VMware
4 14 (45.16%) Windows Server 2008
5 13 (41.94%) Clustering
5 13 (41.94%) TCP/IP
6 10 (32.26%) Active Directory
6 10 (32.26%) HP
6 10 (32.26%) Windows Server 2003
6 10 (32.26%) Linux
6 10 (32.26%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (32.26%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (29.03%) Finance
7 9 (29.03%) LAN
7 9 (29.03%) IIS
7 9 (29.03%) Oracle
7 9 (29.03%) DNS
8 7 (22.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 7 (22.58%) ITIL
8 7 (22.58%) CLARiiON
9 6 (19.35%) IBM HTTP Server
9 6 (19.35%) Tivoli
9 6 (19.35%) Web Services
9 6 (19.35%) .NET
9 6 (19.35%) Apache
9 6 (19.35%) Tomcat
9 6 (19.35%) Red Hat

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 6 (19.35%) Web Services
1 6 (19.35%) .NET
2 4 (12.90%) WebSphere
2 4 (12.90%) J2EE
3 3 (9.677%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 9 (29.03%) IIS
2 6 (19.35%) IBM HTTP Server
2 6 (19.35%) Apache
2 6 (19.35%) Tomcat
2 6 (19.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 4 (12.90%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (12.90%) WebLogic
4 2 (6.452%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (3.226%) Lotus Domino
5 1 (3.226%) MS Exchange
5 1 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (3.226%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (3.226%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (9.677%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.226%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 13 (41.94%) TCP/IP
2 9 (29.03%) LAN
2 9 (29.03%) DNS
3 6 (19.35%) HTTP
4 5 (16.13%) DHCP
5 4 (12.90%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (9.677%) NAS
6 3 (9.677%) LDAP
7 2 (6.452%) Firewall
7 2 (6.452%) SSL
7 2 (6.452%) VPN
7 2 (6.452%) WAN
8 1 (3.226%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (3.226%) ADSL
8 1 (3.226%) Ethernet
8 1 (3.226%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.452%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (6.452%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (6.452%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (3.226%) ClearCase
1 1 (3.226%) Subversion
General
1 9 (29.03%) Finance
2 5 (16.13%) Banking
3 2 (6.452%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.452%) Retail
3 2 (6.452%) Marketing
4 1 (3.226%) Games
4 1 (3.226%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Storage Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Support Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Consultant
3 4 (12.90%) UNIX Engineer
4 3 (9.677%) Storage Specialist
4 3 (9.677%) WebSphere Consultant
4 3 (9.677%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (6.452%) DBA
5 2 (6.452%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (6.452%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (6.452%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) 3rd Line Server Support
6 1 (3.226%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) SAN Storage Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) VMware Support Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) IBM Storage Specialist
6 1 (3.226%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) Clustering
2 7 (22.58%) CLARiiON
3 3 (9.677%) LPAR
3 3 (9.677%) DLPAR
3 3 (9.677%) HACMP
3 3 (9.677%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (9.677%) Symmetrix
3 3 (9.677%) EMC Centera
3 3 (9.677%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.226%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (77.42%) Windows
2 15 (48.39%) UNIX
3 14 (45.16%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (32.26%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (32.26%) Linux
5 6 (19.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (16.13%) Windows 7
7 4 (12.90%) AIX
8 3 (9.677%) Solaris
8 3 (9.677%) Windows XP
9 2 (6.452%) Windows 2000 Server
9 2 (6.452%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (22.58%) ITIL
3 4 (12.90%) Service Delivery
3 4 (12.90%) Workflow
3 4 (12.90%) Content Management
3 4 (12.90%) Problem Management
4 3 (9.677%) Business Continuity
5 2 (6.452%) Migration
5 2 (6.452%) Incident Management
5 2 (6.452%) Information Security
5 2 (6.452%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (6.452%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (6.452%) Capacity Management
6 1 (3.226%) Data Modelling
6 1 (3.226%) Project Management
6 1 (3.226%) Release Management
6 1 (3.226%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) SQL
2 3 (9.677%) Shell Script
3 2 (6.452%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.452%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (6.452%) OCP
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (3.226%) HNC
2 1 (3.226%) MCSE
2 1 (3.226%) MCDBA
2 1 (3.226%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.226%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.226%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Active Directory
1 10 (32.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (16.13%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (12.90%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 3 (9.677%) SRDF
4 3 (9.677%) NLBS
4 3 (9.677%) VMware ESX
5 2 (6.452%) VMware Server
5 2 (6.452%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (3.226%) vSphere
6 1 (3.226%) Veritas File System
6 1 (3.226%) NFS
6 1 (3.226%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 6 (19.35%) Tivoli
2 6 (19.35%) HP SIM
3 4 (12.90%) Foglight
4 2 (6.452%) NetBackup
4 2 (6.452%) MOM
5 1 (3.226%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (51.61%) IBM
2 15 (48.39%) EMC
3 14 (45.16%) VMware
4 10 (32.26%) HP
5 9 (29.03%) Oracle
6 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
7 5 (16.13%) Cisco
8 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
8 4 (12.90%) JBoss
9 3 (9.677%) Lotus
9 3 (9.677%) Citrix
9 3 (9.677%) Brocade
10 2 (6.452%) NetApp
10 2 (6.452%) SolarWinds
11 1 (3.226%) Sun
11 1 (3.226%) Dell
11 1 (3.226%) Veritas
11 1 (3.226%) Hitachi
11 1 (3.226%) Remedy
11 1 (3.226%) ReadSoft
Wintel Engineer - Reading - 6 Months
Reading, Berkshire
Austin Fraser are looking for a Wintel Engineer to join our Reading based client on an initial 6 month contract. The Wintel Engineer will be responsible for providing...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £330 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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