The first table below looks at the demand for SRDF 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 SRDF over the 3 months to 22 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 System Software 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF)
Rank - 102 108
Contract jobs citing SRDF 0 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.112% 0.073%
As % of the System Software category - 1.554% 0.893%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
Average daily rate - £390 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +17.82%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £395 £371
% change year-on-year
+13.92% +6.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
176 193 224
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 7.103% 7.212% 8.178%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 95 62
Average daily rate £350 £312 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.26% +13.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £162 £182 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £417 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 20
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +47.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.00 £11.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.40 £35.00 £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
SRDF
UK

SRDF
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SRDF across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Scotland SRDF Jobs Demand Trend

SRDF
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland SRDF Daily Rate Trend

SRDF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing SRDF 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 SRDF.

1 10 (76.92%) SAN
1 10 (76.92%) Migration
2 9 (69.23%) Replication
3 7 (53.85%) EMC
3 7 (53.85%) Mainframe
4 5 (38.46%) UNIX
4 5 (38.46%) Windows
4 5 (38.46%) Finance
5 4 (30.77%) IBM
6 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
6 3 (23.08%) SQLPlus
6 3 (23.08%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (23.08%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
6 3 (23.08%) SQL
6 3 (23.08%) Oracle
6 3 (23.08%) WebLogic
6 3 (23.08%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (23.08%) LDAP
6 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
6 3 (23.08%) DNS
6 3 (23.08%) RDBMS
6 3 (23.08%) Oracle BI EE
6 3 (23.08%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (23.08%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (23.08%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (23.08%) Data Guard
7 2 (15.38%) NAS
7 2 (15.38%) Hedge funds
7 2 (15.38%) EMC NetWorker

SRDF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing SRDF 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 SRDF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) WebLogic
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) SAN
2 3 (23.08%) LDAP
2 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
3 2 (15.38%) NAS
3 2 (15.38%) Connectrix
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQLPlus
1 3 (23.08%) RDBMS
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle BI EE
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Storage Specialist
2 4 (30.77%) Storage Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Storage Specialist
2 4 (30.77%) Administrator
3 3 (23.08%) DBA
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle Applications DBA
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Storage Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Storage Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) EMC Storage Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Replication
2 7 (53.85%) Mainframe
3 2 (15.38%) Hedge funds
3 2 (15.38%) Celerra
3 2 (15.38%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (15.38%) Symmetrix
3 2 (15.38%) EMC Centera
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) UNIX
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) zOS
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (15.38%) AIX
2 2 (15.38%) HPUX
2 2 (15.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Migration
2 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
1 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle RAC
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (15.38%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Data Guard
2 2 (15.38%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (15.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (15.38%) EMC TimeFinder
2 2 (15.38%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) EMC
2 4 (30.77%) IBM
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle
4 2 (15.38%) Brocade
4 2 (15.38%) NetApp
4 2 (15.38%) Symantec