The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Somerset 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 30 - 32
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SAN 5 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.688% - 0.966%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.81% - 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £280 - £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+6.15% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
All Communications & Networking
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21 4 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 11.29% 2.410% 9.179%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 12
Average daily rate £290 £350 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.14% +70.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £324 £104
10% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £438 £382
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £9.75 - £12.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
SAN
South West

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bath - - - - 1
Templecombe - - - -
SAN
South West

SAN
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Workstation
3 2 (40.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (20.00%) Brocade
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Server
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) ProCurve
4 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) NetApp
4 1 (20.00%) StorageTek
4 1 (20.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) IBM
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Clustering
4 1 (20.00%) NetBackup

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Server Support
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (20.00%) AIX
2 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Workstation
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Server
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Brocade
3 1 (20.00%) ProCurve
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) StorageTek
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) IBM