The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 19 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 South West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 87 109 122
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +13
Contract jobs citing NAS 14 23 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.697% 0.736% 0.198%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.682% 5.111% 1.579%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 4
Average daily rate £425 £360 £431
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.05% -16.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £292 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £447 £375 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £366 £365 £390
% change year-on-year
+0.27% -6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
Average hourly rate £21.00 £23.69 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.34% -40.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £19.25
% change year-on-year
-24.65% +89.61%
All Communications & Networking
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
299 450 380
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.88% 14.39% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 217 164
Average daily rate £350 £375 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £265 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 42 52
Average hourly rate £21.25 £24.38 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.82% -15.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £20.00 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.70 £45.00 £41.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
NAS
England

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West NAS Jobs Demand Trend

NAS
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West NAS Daily Rate Trend

NAS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West NAS Hourly Rate Trend

NAS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the South West region over the 3 months to 19 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
Wiltshire +9 9 £425 +112.50% 5
Bristol +17 2 - - 3
Dorset -9 2 £425 +13.33% 1
NAS
England

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing NAS 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 NAS.

1 33 (97.06%) SAN
2 24 (70.59%) Oracle
2 24 (70.59%) VMware
3 23 (67.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (61.76%) WAN
5 20 (58.82%) VPN
5 20 (58.82%) LAN
6 16 (47.06%) Linux
7 15 (44.12%) Oracle EBS
7 15 (44.12%) Oracle EBS R12
8 14 (41.18%) Information Assurance
8 14 (41.18%) Oracle 10gAS
8 14 (41.18%) Oracle RAC
8 14 (41.18%) ITIL
8 14 (41.18%) Oracle 10g
9 12 (35.29%) Middleware
9 12 (35.29%) Oracle BI EE
10 11 (32.35%) Oracle Application Server
10 11 (32.35%) Oracle 11i
11 10 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (26.47%) ETL
12 9 (26.47%) Windows
12 9 (26.47%) PRINCE2
12 9 (26.47%) Informatica
12 9 (26.47%) BPEL
12 9 (26.47%) Oracle Linux
13 8 (23.53%) Configuration Management
13 8 (23.53%) Hyperion
14 7 (20.59%) Oracle Applications
14 7 (20.59%) Change Management

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing NAS 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 NAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (35.29%) Middleware
2 7 (20.59%) WebCenter
3 2 (5.882%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 14 (41.18%) Oracle 10gAS
2 11 (32.35%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (2.941%) Apache
3 1 (2.941%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.941%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.941%) ESB
Business Applications
1 15 (44.12%) Oracle EBS
1 15 (44.12%) Oracle EBS R12
2 11 (32.35%) Oracle 11i
3 7 (20.59%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (2.941%) AWD
Communications & Networking
1 33 (97.06%) SAN
2 21 (61.76%) WAN
3 20 (58.82%) VPN
3 20 (58.82%) LAN
4 2 (5.882%) Firewall
5 1 (2.941%) DHCP
5 1 (2.941%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.941%) DNS
5 1 (2.941%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (41.18%) Oracle 10g
2 12 (35.29%) Oracle BI EE
3 10 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (17.65%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (5.882%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (2.941%) Banking
2 1 (2.941%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Team Leader
1 18 (52.94%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 6 (17.65%) Consultant
3 5 (14.71%) Information Assurance Leader
4 3 (8.824%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (8.824%) Storage Consultant
4 3 (8.824%) Architect
4 3 (8.824%) DBA
5 2 (5.882%) Storage Architect
5 2 (5.882%) Oracle Team Leader
5 2 (5.882%) Backup Consultant
5 2 (5.882%) Technical Team Leader
5 2 (5.882%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (5.882%) Technical Manager
5 2 (5.882%) Oracle Applications DBA
6 1 (2.941%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.941%) Implementation Consultant
6 1 (2.941%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (2.941%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.941%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.882%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (5.882%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (47.06%) Linux
2 9 (26.47%) Windows
2 9 (26.47%) Oracle Linux
3 4 (11.76%) UNIX
4 2 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.941%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Information Assurance
1 14 (41.18%) ITIL
2 9 (26.47%) ETL
2 9 (26.47%) PRINCE2
2 9 (26.47%) BPEL
3 8 (23.53%) Configuration Management
4 7 (20.59%) Change Management
4 7 (20.59%) Release Management
5 4 (11.76%) Transition Management
5 4 (11.76%) ERP
6 3 (8.824%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (5.882%) Performance Management
7 2 (5.882%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (5.882%) Data Management
7 2 (5.882%) Migration
7 2 (5.882%) Scrum
8 1 (2.941%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (2.941%) Project Management
8 1 (2.941%) Security Management
8 1 (2.941%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.941%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (8.824%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.882%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 23 (67.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (41.18%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (5.882%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.941%) VMware Server
4 1 (2.941%) vSphere
4 1 (2.941%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (8.824%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 24 (70.59%) Oracle
1 24 (70.59%) VMware
2 9 (26.47%) Informatica
3 8 (23.53%) Hyperion
4 7 (20.59%) Siebel
5 5 (14.71%) HP
6 4 (11.76%) EMC
6 4 (11.76%) NetApp
7 2 (5.882%) Symantec
8 1 (2.941%) IBM
8 1 (2.941%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.941%) TIBCO
8 1 (2.941%) Hitachi
8 1 (2.941%) JBoss
8 1 (2.941%) FalconStor
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