The first table below looks at the demand for the Storage Specialist role 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 Storage Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Specialist
Rank 219 231 245
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Specialist 4 16 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.051% 0.158% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.170% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 5
Average daily rate £413 £375 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +87.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £339 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £483 £440 £302
UK excluding London average daily rate £372 £400 £302
% change year-on-year
-6.93% +32.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7243 9396 9678
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.69% 92.50% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3591 4212 4167
Average daily rate £350 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 721 805
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -9.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.03 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Storage Specialist
England

Storage Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Storage Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Storage Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Storage Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Storage Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Storage Specialist across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East Storage Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Storage Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Storage Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Storage Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Specialist within the South East region over the 3 months to 17 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
Berkshire +10 2 £500 +42.85%
Hampshire -10 2 £325 -19.75%
Storage Specialist
England

Storage Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Storage Specialist in their job title 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 with Storage Specialist in their job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Oracle
2 6 (54.55%) SAN
2 6 (54.55%) NetBackup
3 5 (45.45%) StorageTek
3 5 (45.45%) Cisco
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) Windows
4 4 (36.36%) EMC
4 4 (36.36%) NetApp
4 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
5 3 (27.27%) Brocade
5 3 (27.27%) IBM Mainframe
5 3 (27.27%) SRDF
5 3 (27.27%) vSphere
5 3 (27.27%) Hitachi
5 3 (27.27%) IBM
5 3 (27.27%) Linux
5 3 (27.27%) Flash
5 3 (27.27%) UNIX
5 3 (27.27%) Tivoli
5 3 (27.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
5 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (27.27%) Finance
5 3 (27.27%) VMware
5 3 (27.27%) CLARiiON
5 3 (27.27%) Symmetrix
5 3 (27.27%) EMC Centera
5 3 (27.27%) Business Continuity
5 3 (27.27%) Mainframe

Storage Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Storage Specialist in their job title 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 with Storage Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (27.27%) Flash
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) SAN
2 1 (9.091%) NAS
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Mainframe
1 3 (27.27%) CLARiiON
1 3 (27.27%) Symmetrix
1 3 (27.27%) EMC Centera
1 3 (27.27%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) UNIX
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (27.27%) Business Continuity
2 2 (18.18%) Information Security
2 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) SRDF
1 3 (27.27%) vSphere
2 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) NetBackup
2 3 (27.27%) Tivoli
2 3 (27.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco
2 5 (45.45%) StorageTek
3 4 (36.36%) NetApp
3 4 (36.36%) EMC
4 3 (27.27%) Hitachi
4 3 (27.27%) IBM
4 3 (27.27%) VMware
4 3 (27.27%) Brocade
5 2 (18.18%) Symantec
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) Sun
5 2 (18.18%) HP
5 2 (18.18%) SAP
Hampshire
The role will predominantly involve BAU support but there will be ad-hoc involvement in project roles and storage infrastructure design if the successful applicant has depth of...
Sanderson
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 13 May 2013