The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Slough 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 Slough 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 36 28 26
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -2
Contract jobs citing SAN 2 1 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 0.830% 0.485% 3.086%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.444% 2.632% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 7
Average daily rate - £450 £232
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +93.96%
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £364 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.03% +3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -1.88%
All Communications & Networking
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
45 38 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 18.67% 18.45% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 31
Average daily rate £350 £300 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £225 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 13
Average hourly rate £17.75 £14.50 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.41% -54.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.59 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £162.50 £15.00 £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 Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Slough SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) Ericsson
1 2 (66.67%) Netcool
1 2 (66.67%) 3G
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
1 2 (66.67%) 2G
1 2 (66.67%) LTE
1 2 (66.67%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
2 1 (33.33%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) SMTP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) HP

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) 3G
1 2 (66.67%) 2G
1 2 (66.67%) LTE
1 2 (66.67%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) SMTP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Netcool
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Ericsson
2 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
2 1 (33.33%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) HP