The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales 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 South Wales 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 39 34 37
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +3
Contract jobs citing SAN 2 8 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 0.601% 1.995% 2.392%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.509% 11.76% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
Average daily rate £250 - £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £364 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.03% +3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £20.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +21.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -1.88%
All Communications & Networking
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
57 68 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 17.12% 16.96% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 32 41
Average daily rate £350 £298 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -8.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £123 £200 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 8
Average hourly rate £15.25 £15.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.61% +29.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £14.00 £9.14
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.65 £27.50 £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
SAN
Wales

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cardiff +2 1 £250 -
Newport -1 1 - -
SAN
Wales

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
1 3 (60.00%) Thin Client
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
1 3 (60.00%) Fat Client
2 2 (40.00%) Wireless
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (40.00%) MCSE
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (20.00%) MS Office
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) Cognos
3 1 (20.00%) Cognos Impromptu

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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%) MS Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Wireless
2 2 (40.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (20.00%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (20.00%) Cognos Impromptu
3 1 (20.00%) Ingres
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Thin Client
1 3 (60.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (20.00%) HACMP
2 1 (20.00%) LPAR
2 1 (20.00%) DLPAR
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) AIX
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Numerical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (40.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Cognos
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) Intel
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
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