The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Sunderland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 21 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 Sunderland 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank - 7 4
Contract jobs citing SAN 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sunderland - 5.556% 20.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 50.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £366 £348
% change year-on-year
-4.43% +5.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -3.70%
All Communications & Networking
Sunderland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sunderland 5.882% 11.11% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SAN
Tyne and Wear

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sunderland 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 Sunderland region.

Sunderland SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sunderland 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 2 (100.00%) Replication
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) EMC

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sunderland 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.

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) EMC