The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NAS 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 Scotland 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
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 108 100 107
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +7
Contract jobs citing NAS 10 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.410% 0.376% 0.145%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.937% 3.049% 1.527%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 3
Average daily rate £400 £371 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.74% +35.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £322 £313 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £390 £295
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £375 £374
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +47.57%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
254 328 262
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.41% 12.33% 9.482%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 134 75
Average daily rate £358 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £239 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £420 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 29 26
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% +44.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £22.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
NAS
UK

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland NAS Jobs Demand Trend

NAS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland NAS Daily Rate Trend

NAS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NAS across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland NAS Daily Rate Histogram

NAS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland NAS Hourly Rate Trend

NAS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Renfrewshire -3 6 £425 -
Edinburgh +6 2 £375 +11.11%
Aberdeen +2 1 £210 -
NAS
UK

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing NAS 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 NAS.

1 16 (94.12%) SAN
2 14 (82.35%) Windows
3 12 (70.59%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (58.82%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (52.94%) Solaris
5 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
6 8 (47.06%) AIX
7 7 (41.18%) Linux
7 7 (41.18%) DNS
8 6 (35.29%) Veritas
8 6 (35.29%) Tivoli
8 6 (35.29%) Netcool
8 6 (35.29%) OpenView Configuration Management
8 6 (35.29%) Configuration Management
8 6 (35.29%) DHCP
8 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
8 6 (35.29%) Windows XP
8 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
8 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (35.29%) Software Distribution
8 6 (35.29%) Migration
8 6 (35.29%) VMware
8 6 (35.29%) Clustering
9 5 (29.41%) UNIX
9 5 (29.41%) EMC
10 4 (23.53%) Cisco
10 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
10 4 (23.53%) VMware ESX
10 4 (23.53%) Brocade
11 3 (17.65%) Banking

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing NAS 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 NAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.882%) jQuery
1 1 (5.882%) Spring
1 1 (5.882%) Ajax
1 1 (5.882%) WebSphere
1 1 (5.882%) .NET Framework
1 1 (5.882%) JSTL
1 1 (5.882%) Spring MVC
1 1 (5.882%) HTML
1 1 (5.882%) .NET
1 1 (5.882%) J2EE
1 1 (5.882%) CSS
1 1 (5.882%) JDBC
1 1 (5.882%) JSP
1 1 (5.882%) XML
1 1 (5.882%) JAXB
1 1 (5.882%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Lotus Domino
2 1 (5.882%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.882%) IIS
2 1 (5.882%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Fireworks
1 1 (5.882%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 16 (94.12%) SAN
2 7 (41.18%) DNS
3 6 (35.29%) DHCP
3 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
4 3 (17.65%) Firewall
4 3 (17.65%) Wireless
4 3 (17.65%) WAN
5 2 (11.76%) LAN
5 2 (11.76%) VPN
5 2 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (11.76%) Connectrix
6 1 (5.882%) IPsec
6 1 (5.882%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (5.882%) HSRP
6 1 (5.882%) iSCSI
6 1 (5.882%) MPLS
6 1 (5.882%) BGP
6 1 (5.882%) EIGRP
6 1 (5.882%) WLAN
6 1 (5.882%) ADSL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Firebug
1 1 (5.882%) ClearQuest
1 1 (5.882%) ClearCase
1 1 (5.882%) JUnit
1 1 (5.882%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (17.65%) Banking
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.882%) Retail
3 1 (5.882%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.882%) Retail Banking
3 1 (5.882%) Marketing
3 1 (5.882%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 2 (11.76%) Network Support
2 1 (5.882%) Storage Consultant
2 1 (5.882%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (5.882%) Project Engineer
2 1 (5.882%) Project Manager
2 1 (5.882%) Consultant
2 1 (5.882%) Development Specialist
2 1 (5.882%) Network Engineer
2 1 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Clustering
2 3 (17.65%) Symmetrix
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (17.65%) Celerra
3 2 (11.76%) Hedge funds
3 2 (11.76%) Replication
3 2 (11.76%) EMC Centera
4 1 (5.882%) PKI
4 1 (5.882%) Symmetrix DMX
4 1 (5.882%) Smartcard
4 1 (5.882%) EPoS
4 1 (5.882%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 12 (70.59%) Windows Server 2003
3 10 (58.82%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (52.94%) Solaris
5 8 (47.06%) AIX
6 7 (41.18%) Linux
7 6 (35.29%) Windows XP
8 5 (29.41%) UNIX
9 2 (11.76%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Configuration Management
1 6 (35.29%) Software Distribution
1 6 (35.29%) Migration
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL
2 2 (11.76%) Change Management
2 2 (11.76%) Project Management
2 2 (11.76%) Network Management
3 1 (5.882%) Data Security
3 1 (5.882%) MVC
3 1 (5.882%) ITIL V3
3 1 (5.882%) Time Management
3 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.882%) Shell Script
1 1 (5.882%) Java
1 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.882%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.882%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.882%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) VMware ESX
3 3 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
4 2 (11.76%) NFS
4 2 (11.76%) Terminal Server
4 2 (11.76%) SRDF
5 1 (5.882%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Tivoli
1 6 (35.29%) Netcool
1 6 (35.29%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 3 (17.65%) NetBackup
3 2 (11.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (11.76%) EMC TimeFinder
3 2 (11.76%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (5.882%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) Veritas
2 6 (35.29%) VMware
3 5 (29.41%) EMC
4 4 (23.53%) Cisco
4 4 (23.53%) Brocade
5 3 (17.65%) IBM
5 3 (17.65%) Citrix
5 3 (17.65%) NetApp
6 2 (11.76%) Lotus
6 2 (11.76%) Symantec
7 1 (5.882%) Fortinet
7 1 (5.882%) SonicWALL
7 1 (5.882%) Advent
7 1 (5.882%) Red Hat
7 1 (5.882%) Intel
7 1 (5.882%) HP
7 1 (5.882%) Oracle
7 1 (5.882%) Sun