South West SAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Storage Area Network (SAN) skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Storage Area Network (SAN)
Location Aberdeen Barnet Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bognor Regis Borehamwood Bournemouth Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Crawley Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Faversham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	61	74
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	81	93
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.107 %	0.099 %
As % of the category below	12.58 %	11.64 %
Daily rates quoted	33	27
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£354
Average daily rate	£341	£382
% change on same period last year	-10.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£388
% change on same period last year	-10.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£28.34	£14.00
% change on same period last year	+102.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.18	£14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.08	£33.17
% change on same period last year	-9.31 %
Communications & Networking South West
Matching contract IT job ads	644	799
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.849 %	0.848 %
Daily rates quoted	172	160
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£321
Average daily rate	£346	£337
% change on same period last year	+2.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	96	129
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.70	£24.31
Average hourly rate	£26.14	£26.11
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.57	£27.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
SAN England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SAN across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

SAN
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SAN within the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Wiltshire	+7	31	£325	-10.97 %
Bristol	+6	22	£361	-10.90 %
Dorset	-1	8	£376	+7.40 %
Somerset	+6	7	-	-
Gloucestershire	+6	6	£334	-39.24 %
Devon	+5	3	-	-

SAN England

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 47 (29.38 %) HP 2 43 (26.88 %) Windows 3 42 (26.25 %) VMware 4 40 (25.00 %) Cisco 5 37 (23.13 %) Security Cleared 6 30 (18.75 %) Active Directory 7 29 (18.13 %) EMC 8 27 (16.88 %) Firewall 9 25 (15.63 %) SC Cleared 10 23 (14.38 %) Microsoft 10 23 (14.38 %) Sun 10 23 (14.38 %) Unix 11 22 (13.75 %) Solaris 12 21 (13.13 %) Cisco Certification 12 21 (13.13 %) VMware ESX

13 20 (12.50 %) Government 14 19 (11.88 %) NetBackup 15 18 (11.25 %) Citrix 15 18 (11.25 %) DNS 15 18 (11.25 %) ITIL 16 17 (10.63 %) Windows Server 2003 17 16 (10.00 %) Oracle 17 16 (10.00 %) Brocade 18 15 (9.375 %) Linux 18 15 (9.375 %) IBM 19 13 (8.125 %) CCNA 19 13 (8.125 %) SQL 19 13 (8.125 %) VMware Infrastructure 19 13 (8.125 %) Exchange Server 2003 20 11 (6.875 %) SharePoint Server 2007

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 Development 1 8 (5.000 %) WebServices 2 3 (1.875 %) .NET 3 1 (0.625 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 13 (8.125 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 11 (6.875 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 11 (6.875 %) SharePoint 2 11 (6.875 %) MS Exchange 3 8 (5.000 %) IIS 4 5 (3.125 %) Apache 4 5 (3.125 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 4 (2.500 %) WebLogic 5 4 (2.500 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (1.250 %) Oracle Workflow 6 2 (1.250 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 1 (0.625 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 8 (5.000 %) MS Office 1 8 (5.000 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (0.625 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 27 (16.88 %) Firewall 2 18 (11.25 %) DNS 3 11 (6.875 %) DHCP 4 10 (6.250 %) TCP/IP 5 9 (5.625 %) VLAN 6 6 (3.750 %) Intrusion Detection 6 6 (3.750 %) Ethernet 6 6 (3.750 %) WAN 7 5 (3.125 %) WINS 8 3 (1.875 %) LAN 8 3 (1.875 %) VPN 9 2 (1.250 %) BIG-IP 9 2 (1.250 %) LLU 9 2 (1.250 %) iSCSI 10 1 (0.625 %) Network Security 10 1 (0.625 %) Wireless 10 1 (0.625 %) SMS 10 1 (0.625 %) VoIP 10 1 (0.625 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (4.375 %) SQL Server 2 3 (1.875 %) SQL Server 2005 2 3 (1.875 %) MySQL 3 2 (1.250 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 2 (1.250 %) VLDB 3 2 (1.250 %) OLAP 3 2 (1.250 %) OLTP 4 1 (0.625 %) RDBMS 4 1 (0.625 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (0.625 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 1 (0.625 %) Subversion	General 1 20 (12.50 %) Government 2 11 (6.875 %) Telecoms 3 3 (1.875 %) Finance 4 2 (1.250 %) Retail 4 2 (1.250 %) Music 5 1 (0.625 %) Education 5 1 (0.625 %) Law
Job Titles 1 31 (19.38 %) Administrator 2 28 (17.50 %) Consultant 3 20 (12.50 %) Storage Administrator 4 18 (11.25 %) Analyst 5 14 (8.750 %) Network Engineer 6 13 (8.125 %) SAN Engineer 7 11 (6.875 %) Infrastructure Engineer 8 10 (6.250 %) Storage Engineer 9 8 (5.000 %) Author 9 8 (5.000 %) Technical Author 10 7 (4.375 %) Network Consultant 10 7 (4.375 %) Systems Administrator 10 7 (4.375 %) Technical Consultant 11 6 (3.750 %) Architect 11 6 (3.750 %) Storage Consultant 12 5 (3.125 %) Senior Infrastructure Engineer 12 5 (3.125 %) Infrastructure Consultant 12 5 (3.125 %) SAN Administrator 12 5 (3.125 %) Systems Analyst 12 5 (3.125 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (5.625 %) Thin Client 1 9 (5.625 %) CLARiiON 1 9 (5.625 %) Fat Client 2 7 (4.375 %) Clustering 3 6 (3.750 %) Replication 4 5 (3.125 %) Symmetrix 5 3 (1.875 %) Celerra 6 1 (0.625 %) EPoS 6 1 (0.625 %) HACMP 6 1 (0.625 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 43 (26.88 %) Windows 2 23 (14.38 %) Unix 3 22 (13.75 %) Solaris 4 17 (10.63 %) Windows Server 2003 5 15 (9.375 %) Linux 6 11 (6.875 %) AIX 7 4 (2.500 %) Windows 2000 8 3 (1.875 %) HPUX 8 3 (1.875 %) MVS 9 1 (0.625 %) Windows NT 9 1 (0.625 %) Windows XP 9 1 (0.625 %) NetWare 9 1 (0.625 %) Tru64 9 1 (0.625 %) Fedora	Processes & Methodologies 1 37 (23.13 %) Security Cleared 2 25 (15.63 %) SC Cleared 3 18 (11.25 %) ITIL 4 8 (5.000 %) PRINCE2 4 8 (5.000 %) Network Design 5 7 (4.375 %) Requirements Analysis 6 6 (3.750 %) Technical Architecture 7 5 (3.125 %) Network Load Balancing 7 5 (3.125 %) Project Management 8 4 (2.500 %) Migration 8 4 (2.500 %) Change Management 8 4 (2.500 %) Disaster Recovery 8 4 (2.500 %) Performance Testing 8 4 (2.500 %) Data Protection 9 3 (1.875 %) Performance Management 9 3 (1.875 %) Enterprise Architecture 10 2 (1.250 %) Workflow 10 2 (1.250 %) Service Management 10 2 (1.250 %) E-Commerce 10 2 (1.250 %) PRINCE
Programming Languages 1 13 (8.125 %) SQL 2 11 (6.875 %) Perl 3 8 (5.000 %) Java 4 5 (3.125 %) Shell Script 5 4 (2.500 %) C 6 3 (1.875 %) JCL 7 2 (1.250 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (0.625 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 21 (13.13 %) Cisco Certification 2 13 (8.125 %) CCNA 3 9 (5.625 %) Microsoft Certification 3 9 (5.625 %) MCSE 4 8 (5.000 %) CCIE 5 4 (2.500 %) ITIL Certification 6 2 (1.250 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 2 (1.250 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 1 (0.625 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.250 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 30 (18.75 %) Active Directory 2 21 (13.13 %) VMware ESX 3 19 (11.88 %) NetBackup 4 13 (8.125 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 7 (4.375 %) Backup Exec 6 5 (3.125 %) NFS 7 4 (2.500 %) Terminal Services 7 4 (2.500 %) ISA Server 8 3 (1.875 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 1 (0.625 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management 1 9 (5.625 %) EMC Navisphere 2 6 (3.750 %) MOM 3 5 (3.125 %) Tivoli 3 5 (3.125 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 5 (3.125 %) SCOM 4 4 (2.500 %) Legato 4 4 (2.500 %) SCCM 5 2 (1.250 %) Netcool 6 1 (0.625 %) BMC PATROL 6 1 (0.625 %) RepliStor 6 1 (0.625 %) EMC NetWorker 6 1 (0.625 %) DiskXtender 6 1 (0.625 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 47 (29.38 %) HP 2 42 (26.25 %) VMware 3 40 (25.00 %) Cisco 4 29 (18.13 %) EMC 5 23 (14.38 %) Microsoft 5 23 (14.38 %) Sun 6 18 (11.25 %) Citrix 7 16 (10.00 %) Oracle 7 16 (10.00 %) Brocade 8 15 (9.375 %) IBM 9 11 (6.875 %) VERITAS 10 8 (5.000 %) Red Hat 10 8 (5.000 %) CheckPoint 11 7 (4.375 %) NetApp 12 5 (3.125 %) Symantec 12 5 (3.125 %) Remedy 13 4 (2.500 %) Juniper 14 3 (1.875 %) PeopleSoft 14 3 (1.875 %) Dell 15 2 (1.250 %) StorageTek