The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 20 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 Suffolk 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 17 31 32
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +1
Contract jobs citing NAS 9 12 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 6.429% 4.819% 3.097%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 42.86% 13.64% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
Average daily rate £218 £413 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-47.27% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £366 £375 £390
% change year-on-year
-2.33% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £36.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £19.25
% change year-on-year
-24.65% +89.61%
All Communications & Networking
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21 88 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 15.00% 35.34% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 38 9
Average daily rate £220 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.30% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £250 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £413 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 1
Average hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% +100.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
NAS
East of England

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk NAS Daily Rate Trend

NAS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NAS across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Suffolk NAS Daily Rate Histogram

NAS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Suffolk NAS Hourly Rate Trend

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 13 (92.86%) LAN
1 13 (92.86%) Cisco
1 13 (92.86%) WAN
1 13 (92.86%) SAN
1 13 (92.86%) Firewall
2 10 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (64.29%) VoIP
3 9 (64.29%) WAAS
4 8 (57.14%) CCDP
4 8 (57.14%) CCNP
5 7 (50.00%) CCIP
5 7 (50.00%) ITIL
5 7 (50.00%) PRINCE2
5 7 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (42.86%) Windows
7 5 (35.71%) Wireless
7 5 (35.71%) Brocade
8 4 (28.57%) Degree
8 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (28.57%) VMware
8 4 (28.57%) PRINCE
9 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
10 2 (14.29%) NHS
10 2 (14.29%) CCNA
11 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
11 1 (7.143%) DNS
11 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
11 1 (7.143%) SQL
11 1 (7.143%) IIS
11 1 (7.143%) Firmware

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
1 1 (7.143%) IIS
1 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) LAN
1 13 (92.86%) WAN
1 13 (92.86%) SAN
1 13 (92.86%) Firewall
2 9 (64.29%) VoIP
2 9 (64.29%) WAAS
3 5 (35.71%) Wireless
4 1 (7.143%) DNS
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Network Specialist
3 1 (7.143%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Network Support
3 1 (7.143%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) SAN Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (7.143%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) ITIL
1 7 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 4 (28.57%) PRINCE
3 1 (7.143%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (57.14%) CCDP
2 8 (57.14%) CCNP
3 7 (50.00%) CCIP
3 7 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (28.57%) Degree
5 2 (14.29%) CCNA
6 1 (7.143%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.143%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.143%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (7.143%) UAG
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Cisco
2 5 (35.71%) Brocade
3 4 (28.57%) VMware
4 1 (7.143%) NetApp
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