The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 22 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 Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank - 29 32
Contract jobs citing NAS 0 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire - 1.124% 1.736%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 6.383% 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £275 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -12.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +58.33%
All Communications & Networking
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
44 47 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 16.86% 17.60% 19.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 29 25
Average daily rate £360 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.76% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £220 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £525 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £30.00 £48.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% -37.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £12.00 £33.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.10 £35.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
NAS
Yorkshire

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire NAS Hourly Rate Trend

NAS
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 4 (100.00%) HP
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (75.00%) Veritas
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 3 (75.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) SUSE
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (25.00%) Symmetrix
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Brocade
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) MS Office
3 1 (25.00%) EMC

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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.

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Symmetrix DMX
1 1 (25.00%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Solaris
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Release Management
1 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
1 3 (75.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) HP
2 3 (75.00%) Veritas
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) Brocade
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) EMC