The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of NetApp products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NetApp over the 3 months to 21 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 Vendors for the South East 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Network Appliance Corporation.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NetApp
Rank 157 170 165
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -5
Contract jobs citing NetApp 63 76 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.795% 0.748% 0.858%
As % of the Vendors category 1.585% 1.505% 1.751%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 48 27
Average daily rate £425 £394 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.93% +1.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £239 £269
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £400 £350
% change year-on-year
-14.37% +14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
Average hourly rate - £41.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +102.43%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.46 £30.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year
-38.46% +44.57%
All Vendors
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3976 5051 5025
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 50.19% 49.72% 48.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1929 2203 1982
Average daily rate £350 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £220 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 387 407
Average hourly rate £19.63 £18.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.02% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.48 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £45.00 £40.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
NetApp
England

NetApp
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NetApp across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

South East NetApp Jobs Demand Trend

NetApp
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East NetApp Daily Rate Trend

NetApp
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NetApp across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East NetApp Daily Rate Histogram

NetApp
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East NetApp Hourly Rate Trend

NetApp
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetApp within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
West Sussex +16 16 £585 +72.05%
Berkshire +18 10 £378 +18.89%
Surrey +2 9 £381 -23.75%
Hampshire -17 8 £420 +52.72%
Buckinghamshire +4 7 £330 +27.53%
East Sussex - 6 £525 -
Middlesex +5 3 £375 -0.99%
NetApp
England

NetApp
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing NetApp 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 NetApp.

1 98 (75.97%) VMware
2 86 (66.67%) Windows
3 67 (51.94%) SAN
4 52 (40.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 51 (39.53%) Microsoft
6 48 (37.21%) HP
7 39 (30.23%) Windows Server 2008
8 38 (29.46%) Cisco
9 36 (27.91%) Clustering
10 35 (27.13%) Active Directory
11 30 (23.26%) ITIL
12 29 (22.48%) DNS
12 29 (22.48%) NAS
12 29 (22.48%) vSphere
13 28 (21.71%) Linux
13 28 (21.71%) Citrix
13 28 (21.71%) Windows Server 2003
14 27 (20.93%) SQL Server
15 26 (20.16%) Oracle
16 25 (19.38%) Firewall
17 24 (18.60%) DHCP
18 22 (17.05%) SQL
18 22 (17.05%) Migration
19 21 (16.28%) NetBackup
19 21 (16.28%) LAN
20 20 (15.50%) Apache
20 20 (15.50%) Symantec
20 20 (15.50%) XenApp
21 19 (14.73%) Project Management
21 19 (14.73%) SharePoint

NetApp
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing NetApp 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 NetApp. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (11.63%) WebSphere
2 4 (3.101%) JDBC
3 2 (1.550%) XML
3 2 (1.550%) Middleware
4 1 (0.775%) Web Services
4 1 (0.775%) COM
Application Platforms
1 20 (15.50%) Apache
2 19 (14.73%) SharePoint
3 12 (9.302%) SharePoint 2010
3 12 (9.302%) MS Exchange
4 11 (8.527%) Tomcat
5 10 (7.752%) Exchange Server 2010
6 8 (6.202%) OpenEdge
6 8 (6.202%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 6 (4.651%) IIS
8 4 (3.101%) Liferay
8 4 (3.101%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (2.326%) Exchange Server 2003
9 3 (2.326%) WebLogic
9 3 (2.326%) Lync
10 2 (1.550%) Lotus Notes
10 2 (1.550%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.775%) ESB
11 1 (0.775%) WebSphere MQ
11 1 (0.775%) Lotus Domino
11 1 (0.775%) MQSeries
Applications
1 14 (10.85%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.550%) MS Project
3 1 (0.775%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.775%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (6.202%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.775%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.775%) AWD
2 1 (0.775%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 67 (51.94%) SAN
2 29 (22.48%) DNS
2 29 (22.48%) NAS
3 25 (19.38%) Firewall
4 24 (18.60%) DHCP
5 21 (16.28%) LAN
6 19 (14.73%) TCP/IP
7 12 (9.302%) WAN
8 11 (8.527%) VPN
9 8 (6.202%) SNMP
10 7 (5.426%) iSCSI
10 7 (5.426%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (4.651%) VLAN
12 5 (3.876%) LDAP
13 4 (3.101%) tcpdump
13 4 (3.101%) OpenLDAP
13 4 (3.101%) NetScaler
13 4 (3.101%) SSL
13 4 (3.101%) SMTP
13 4 (3.101%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.93%) SQL Server
2 15 (11.63%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (10.08%) MySQL
4 5 (3.876%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (3.101%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.550%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.550%) OLTP
7 1 (0.775%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (0.775%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (3.101%) Git (software)
1 4 (3.101%) Hudson
1 4 (3.101%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.326%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.775%) WinRunner
3 1 (0.775%) TestDirector
General
1 12 (9.302%) Finance
2 10 (7.752%) Telecoms
3 6 (4.651%) Banking
4 3 (2.326%) Advertising
5 2 (1.550%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.550%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.775%) Military
6 1 (0.775%) Electronics
6 1 (0.775%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (17.83%) Analyst
2 20 (15.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 14 (10.85%) Administrator
4 13 (10.08%) Consultant
4 13 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (8.527%) Architect
6 9 (6.977%) Support Engineer
7 8 (6.202%) Desktop Support
7 8 (6.202%) Storage Administrator
8 6 (4.651%) Technical Consultant
9 5 (3.876%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 5 (3.876%) Storage Engineer
9 5 (3.876%) Virtualisation Consultant
9 5 (3.876%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.101%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.101%) Linux Administrator
10 4 (3.101%) Storage Specialist
10 4 (3.101%) Infrastructure Architect
11 3 (2.326%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 3 (2.326%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 36 (27.91%) Clustering
2 13 (10.08%) Blackberry
3 7 (5.426%) Fat Client
3 7 (5.426%) Thin Client
4 6 (4.651%) Mobile Computing
5 4 (3.101%) Cryptography
5 4 (3.101%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.326%) N-Tier
6 3 (2.326%) SaaS
7 2 (1.550%) Symmetrix DMX
7 2 (1.550%) EMC Centera
8 1 (0.775%) CESG
8 1 (0.775%) Statistics
8 1 (0.775%) DataPower
8 1 (0.775%) iSeries
8 1 (0.775%) Firmware
8 1 (0.775%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.775%) Open Source
8 1 (0.775%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 86 (66.67%) Windows
2 39 (30.23%) Windows Server 2008
3 28 (21.71%) Linux
3 28 (21.71%) Windows Server 2003
4 17 (13.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (10.85%) UNIX
5 14 (10.85%) Solaris
6 13 (10.08%) Windows 7
7 5 (3.876%) Windows XP
8 3 (2.326%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.775%) zOS
9 1 (0.775%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (23.26%) ITIL
2 22 (17.05%) Migration
3 19 (14.73%) Project Management
4 13 (10.08%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (6.977%) Release Management
5 9 (6.977%) Configuration Management
5 9 (6.977%) PRINCE2
6 7 (5.426%) Business Continuity
7 6 (4.651%) Software Distribution
8 5 (3.876%) Service Delivery
8 5 (3.876%) TOGAF
8 5 (3.876%) Time Management
8 5 (3.876%) Test Scripting
9 4 (3.101%) Memory Management
9 4 (3.101%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (3.101%) Load Balancing
9 4 (3.101%) Service Management
10 3 (2.326%) Regression Testing
10 3 (2.326%) Performance Management
10 3 (2.326%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.05%) SQL
2 9 (6.977%) PHP
3 8 (6.202%) Java
4 7 (5.426%) Perl
5 6 (4.651%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.876%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.876%) Bash shell
7 4 (3.101%) sed
7 4 (3.101%) AWK
8 1 (0.775%) Python
8 1 (0.775%) C
8 1 (0.775%) C++
8 1 (0.775%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (7.752%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (6.202%) MCSE
6 7 (5.426%) CCNP
7 4 (3.101%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 4 (3.101%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (2.326%) MCITP
8 3 (2.326%) NCDA
8 3 (2.326%) NCIE
9 2 (1.550%) CCNA
9 2 (1.550%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.775%) SCSA
10 1 (0.775%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.775%) CCDP
10 1 (0.775%) CCIE
10 1 (0.775%) RHCE
10 1 (0.775%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.550%) SLA
2 1 (0.775%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (40.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (27.13%) Active Directory
3 29 (22.48%) vSphere
4 20 (15.50%) XenApp
5 16 (12.40%) VMware ESX
6 15 (11.63%) Hyper-V
7 11 (8.527%) NFS
7 11 (8.527%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (6.977%) XenDesktop
9 8 (6.202%) VMware Workstation
10 7 (5.426%) XenServer
11 5 (3.876%) Forefront TMG
12 4 (3.101%) Postfix
12 4 (3.101%) Sendmail
12 4 (3.101%) Nmap
12 4 (3.101%) Squid
13 3 (2.326%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (1.550%) UAG
15 1 (0.775%) Xen
15 1 (0.775%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 21 (16.28%) NetBackup
2 17 (13.18%) HP SIM
3 14 (10.85%) WSUS
4 13 (10.08%) SCOM
5 12 (9.302%) SCCM
5 12 (9.302%) Backup Exec
6 5 (3.876%) Nagios
6 5 (3.876%) Puppet
7 3 (2.326%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.775%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.775%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.775%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 98 (75.97%) VMware
2 51 (39.53%) Microsoft
3 48 (37.21%) HP
4 38 (29.46%) Cisco
5 28 (21.71%) Citrix
6 26 (20.16%) Oracle
7 20 (15.50%) Symantec
8 18 (13.95%) Juniper
9 16 (12.40%) EMC
9 16 (12.40%) Red Hat
10 13 (10.08%) CheckPoint
10 13 (10.08%) ProCurve
11 9 (6.977%) Sun
12 8 (6.202%) F5
12 8 (6.202%) SAP
13 6 (4.651%) SolarWinds
13 6 (4.651%) JBoss
13 6 (4.651%) IBM
13 6 (4.651%) StorageTek
13 6 (4.651%) Altiris
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