The first table below looks at the demand for SAN 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 SAN 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 29 26 31
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +5
Contract jobs citing SAN 5 7 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 1.866% 2.745% 2.807%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.64% 15.22% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
Average daily rate £375 £238 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+57.89% -32.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £200 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £391 £433 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £368 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.68% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £37.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +74.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+0.93% +0.94%
All Communications & Networking
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
47 46 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 17.54% 18.04% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 28 25
Average daily rate £360 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.76% +30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £214 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £525 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 10
Average hourly rate £15.00 £30.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% -17.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.00 £24.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.25 £35.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
SAN
Yorkshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield - 3 £375 -
Doncaster - 2 £372 -
SAN
Yorkshire

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 7 (70.00%) HP
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) NAS
3 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (30.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 3 (30.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (30.00%) Brocade
3 3 (30.00%) SUSE
3 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) IBM
3 3 (30.00%) Citrix
3 3 (30.00%) NetApp
3 3 (30.00%) Veritas
3 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 3 (30.00%) Solaris
3 3 (30.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (20.00%) XenApp
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) NAS
2 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) iSCSI
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Storage Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Server Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Storage Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Solaris Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Wintel Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Wintel Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Server Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Wintel Support
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Storage Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (10.00%) Symmetrix
1 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (10.00%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Solaris
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) SUSE
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL
1 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (10.00%) Security Management
1 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (10.00%) Release Management
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle RAC
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (30.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (20.00%) XenApp
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) HP
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Brocade
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) IBM
2 3 (30.00%) Citrix
2 3 (30.00%) NetApp
2 3 (30.00%) Veritas
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) Websense
4 1 (10.00%) IronPort
4 1 (10.00%) AppSense
4 1 (10.00%) Blue Coat
4 1 (10.00%) EMC