The first table below looks at the demand for SAN 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 SAN over the 3 months to 17 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 19 14 23
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +9
Contract jobs citing SAN 7 30 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 4.828% 11.63% 6.604%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.00% 33.71% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 2
Average daily rate £215 £260 £160
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.30% +62.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £330 £340
% change year-on-year
+4.54% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £18.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.90% +51.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £25.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year
+8.00% +2.04%
All Communications & Networking
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20 89 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 13.79% 34.50% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 39 10
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 £225 £169
10% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £413 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.54% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 2
Average hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £18.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% +106.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £25.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £44.50 £18.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
SAN
East of England

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Suffolk SAN Daily Rate Histogram

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 17 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
Ipswich - - - - 1
Stowmarket - - - -
SAN
East of England

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 13 (100.00%) NAS
2 12 (92.31%) LAN
2 12 (92.31%) WAN
2 12 (92.31%) Cisco
2 12 (92.31%) Firewall
3 10 (76.92%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (61.54%) CCNP
4 8 (61.54%) VoIP
4 8 (61.54%) WAAS
5 7 (53.85%) ITIL
5 7 (53.85%) CCDP
5 7 (53.85%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (46.15%) CCIP
6 6 (46.15%) PRINCE2
6 6 (46.15%) Windows
7 5 (38.46%) Brocade
7 5 (38.46%) PRINCE
8 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (30.77%) Wireless
8 4 (30.77%) VMware
9 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (23.08%) Degree
10 2 (15.38%) NHS
10 2 (15.38%) CCNA
11 1 (7.692%) Active Directory
11 1 (7.692%) CCIE
11 1 (7.692%) DNS
11 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
11 1 (7.692%) SQL
11 1 (7.692%) IIS

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 1 (7.692%) IIS
1 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) NAS
2 12 (92.31%) Firewall
2 12 (92.31%) LAN
2 12 (92.31%) WAN
3 8 (61.54%) VoIP
3 8 (61.54%) WAAS
4 4 (30.77%) Wireless
5 1 (7.692%) DNS
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Network Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Network Specialist
3 1 (7.692%) SAN Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Network Support
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) NHS
2 1 (7.692%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) ITIL
2 6 (46.15%) PRINCE2
3 5 (38.46%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (61.54%) CCNP
3 7 (53.85%) CCDP
3 7 (53.85%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (46.15%) CCIP
5 3 (23.08%) Degree
6 2 (15.38%) CCNA
7 1 (7.692%) CCIE
7 1 (7.692%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.692%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.692%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (7.692%) UAG
2 1 (7.692%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Cisco
2 5 (38.46%) Brocade
3 4 (30.77%) VMware
4 1 (7.692%) NetApp
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