Sheffield SAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Storage Area Network (SAN) skills within the Sheffield region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Storage Area Network (SAN)
Location Aberdeen Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hove Hull Ipswich Kent Kidlington Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	8
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	47	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.064 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	63.51 %	41.75 %
Daily rates quoted	2	12
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£458
Average daily rate	£300	£481
% change on same period last year	-37.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£504
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£395
% change on same period last year	-11.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.17	£26.11
Average hourly rate	£29.75	£27.07
% change on same period last year	+9.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.33	£28.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£31.44
% change on same period last year	-3.62 %
Communications & Networking Sheffield
Matching contract IT job ads	74	103
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.100 %	0.102 %
Daily rates quoted	11	28
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£296
Average daily rate	£333	£316
% change on same period last year	+5.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£341
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	47	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.59	£21.76
Average hourly rate	£26.84	£22.60
% change on same period last year	+18.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.08	£23.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£28.54
% change on same period last year	-9.93 %
SAN South Yorkshire

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SAN across the Sheffield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 50 (59.52 %) Solaris 2 40 (47.62 %) VERITAS 3 37 (44.05 %) EMC 4 34 (40.48 %) HPUX 5 33 (39.29 %) Sun 6 31 (36.90 %) UNIX 7 30 (35.71 %) Windows 7 30 (35.71 %) Linux 8 29 (34.52 %) HP 9 28 (33.33 %) Cisco 10 25 (29.76 %) NetBackup 11 24 (28.57 %) Brocade 12 23 (27.38 %) AIX 12 23 (27.38 %) Oracle 13 22 (26.19 %) Telecoms

14 21 (25.00 %) OpenView 15 17 (20.24 %) ITSM 16 16 (19.05 %) ITIL 17 15 (17.86 %) Change Management 17 15 (17.86 %) Oracle RAC 18 14 (16.67 %) Oracle 8/8i 18 14 (16.67 %) NFS 19 12 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 19 12 (14.29 %) MCSE 19 12 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 20 11 (13.10 %) Finance 21 10 (11.90 %) Windows Server 2003 22 9 (10.71 %) Middleware 22 9 (10.71 %) Back Office 23 8 (9.524 %) HP Data Protector

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 9 (10.71 %) Middleware 2 4 (4.762 %) OC4J 3 2 (2.381 %) WSRP 3 2 (2.381 %) JSR 168 3 2 (2.381 %) WebServices 3 2 (2.381 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 4 (4.762 %) Oracle Application Server 2 3 (3.571 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (3.571 %) Lotus Domino 2 3 (3.571 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 3 (3.571 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 4 (4.762 %) DNS 1 4 (4.762 %) Firewall 1 4 (4.762 %) FTP 1 4 (4.762 %) HTTP 1 4 (4.762 %) Network Security 2 3 (3.571 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (3.571 %) SSH 3 2 (2.381 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (1.190 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (16.67 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 4 (4.762 %) Oracle 10g 3 3 (3.571 %) SQL Server 3 3 (3.571 %) Informix	General 1 22 (26.19 %) Telecoms 2 11 (13.10 %) Finance 3 9 (10.71 %) Back Office 4 5 (5.952 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 37 (44.05 %) Support Engineer 2 13 (15.48 %) 3rd Line Support 3 10 (11.90 %) Support Analyst 3 10 (11.90 %) Analyst 4 9 (10.71 %) Administrator 4 9 (10.71 %) Storage Analyst 5 8 (9.524 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 6 7 (8.333 %) Storage Engineer 7 4 (4.762 %) Solaris Administrator 7 4 (4.762 %) UNIX Administrator 8 3 (3.571 %) Project Engineer 8 3 (3.571 %) Oracle Developer 8 3 (3.571 %) Systems Administrator 8 3 (3.571 %) Developer 8 3 (3.571 %) Server Support 8 3 (3.571 %) Solutions Designer 9 2 (2.381 %) 2nd Line Support 9 2 (2.381 %) Technical Support 9 2 (2.381 %) Support Technician 9 2 (2.381 %) Network Designer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (7.143 %) CLARiiON 2 4 (4.762 %) Symmetrix
Operating Systems 1 50 (59.52 %) Solaris 2 34 (40.48 %) HPUX 3 31 (36.90 %) UNIX 4 30 (35.71 %) Windows 4 30 (35.71 %) Linux 5 23 (27.38 %) AIX 6 12 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 7 10 (11.90 %) Windows Server 2003 8 3 (3.571 %) Windows NT 9 1 (1.190 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (20.24 %) ITSM 2 16 (19.05 %) ITIL 3 15 (17.86 %) Change Management 4 4 (4.762 %) Load Balancing 5 3 (3.571 %) Service Management 6 2 (2.381 %) Performance Management 7 1 (1.190 %) Network Design 7 1 (1.190 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (4.762 %) Korn 2 1 (1.190 %) C	Qualifications 1 12 (14.29 %) MCSE 1 12 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (3.571 %) SNIA Certification 3 2 (2.381 %) Sun Certification 3 2 (2.381 %) CCNP 3 2 (2.381 %) CCNA 3 2 (2.381 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (1.190 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (8.333 %) SLA	System Software 1 25 (29.76 %) NetBackup 2 15 (17.86 %) Oracle RAC 3 14 (16.67 %) NFS 4 4 (4.762 %) Oracle RMAN 5 2 (2.381 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 1 (1.190 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 1 (1.190 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 21 (25.00 %) OpenView 2 8 (9.524 %) HP Data Protector 3 3 (3.571 %) Legato 3 3 (3.571 %) OVPA	Vendors 1 40 (47.62 %) VERITAS 2 37 (44.05 %) EMC 3 33 (39.29 %) Sun 4 29 (34.52 %) HP 5 28 (33.33 %) Cisco 6 24 (28.57 %) Brocade 7 23 (27.38 %) Oracle 8 7 (8.333 %) Microsoft 9 6 (7.143 %) NetApp 9 6 (7.143 %) Intel 10 3 (3.571 %) Lotus 11 2 (2.381 %) CheckPoint 11 2 (2.381 %) VMware 12 1 (1.190 %) Symantec 12 1 (1.190 %) Citrix