The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 19 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 Swindon 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 32 - 40
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SAN 12 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 3.429% - 0.275%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.91% - 1.449%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+6.15% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year
- +2.04%
All Communications & Networking
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
67 68 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 19.14% 20.12% 19.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 32 27
Average daily rate £428 £410 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.26% +6.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £225 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
Average hourly rate £26.50 - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
SAN
Wiltshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 21 (77.78%) VMware
2 20 (74.07%) NAS
3 19 (70.37%) Oracle
4 17 (62.96%) WAN
4 17 (62.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (59.26%) VPN
5 16 (59.26%) LAN
6 12 (44.44%) Oracle RAC
6 12 (44.44%) Information Assurance
6 12 (44.44%) Oracle EBS R12
6 12 (44.44%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (40.74%) Middleware
7 11 (40.74%) Linux
7 11 (40.74%) ITIL
7 11 (40.74%) Oracle 10g
7 11 (40.74%) Oracle BI EE
7 11 (40.74%) Oracle 10gAS
8 10 (37.04%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (33.33%) ETL
9 9 (33.33%) Oracle 11i
9 9 (33.33%) Informatica
10 8 (29.63%) Windows
10 8 (29.63%) Hyperion
10 8 (29.63%) BPEL
10 8 (29.63%) Oracle Application Server
10 8 (29.63%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (25.93%) WebCenter
11 7 (25.93%) PRINCE2
11 7 (25.93%) Siebel
11 7 (25.93%) Configuration Management

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 Development
1 11 (40.74%) Middleware
2 7 (25.93%) WebCenter
3 2 (7.407%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 11 (40.74%) Oracle 10gAS
2 8 (29.63%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (11.11%) MS Exchange
4 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (3.704%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 12 (44.44%) Oracle EBS R12
1 12 (44.44%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (33.33%) Oracle 11i
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (3.704%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 20 (74.07%) NAS
2 17 (62.96%) WAN
3 16 (59.26%) VPN
3 16 (59.26%) LAN
4 3 (11.11%) DNS
4 3 (11.11%) DHCP
5 1 (3.704%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) Oracle 10g
1 11 (40.74%) Oracle BI EE
2 10 (37.04%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.704%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (14.81%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Team Leader
1 14 (51.85%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 4 (14.81%) Information Assurance Leader
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (11.11%) DBA
4 2 (7.407%) Consultant
4 2 (7.407%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (7.407%) Oracle Applications DBA
4 2 (7.407%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.407%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (3.704%) Wintel Administrator
5 1 (3.704%) 3rd Line Server Support
5 1 (3.704%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
5 1 (3.704%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Data Migration Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.704%) Storage Consultant
5 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (3.704%) Storage Specialist
5 1 (3.704%) Windows Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.704%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.704%) Replication
2 1 (3.704%) Clustering
2 1 (3.704%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Linux
2 8 (29.63%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Oracle Linux
3 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (3.704%) Windows 2000
5 1 (3.704%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Information Assurance
2 11 (40.74%) ITIL
3 9 (33.33%) ETL
4 8 (29.63%) BPEL
5 7 (25.93%) PRINCE2
5 7 (25.93%) Configuration Management
6 6 (22.22%) Change Management
6 6 (22.22%) Release Management
7 4 (14.81%) Transition Management
8 3 (11.11%) Performance Management
8 3 (11.11%) ERP
8 3 (11.11%) Migration
9 2 (7.407%) Scrum
10 1 (3.704%) Data Protection
10 1 (3.704%) Technical Architecture
10 1 (3.704%) Business Intelligence
10 1 (3.704%) E-business
10 1 (3.704%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.704%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.704%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.407%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.704%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.704%) MCITP
2 1 (3.704%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.704%) MCP
System Software
1 17 (62.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (44.44%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
4 2 (7.407%) vSphere
4 2 (7.407%) XenApp
5 1 (3.704%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.704%) Xen
5 1 (3.704%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (7.407%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.704%) HP SIM
2 1 (3.704%) SCCM
2 1 (3.704%) SCOM
2 1 (3.704%) Backup Exec
2 1 (3.704%) WSUS
2 1 (3.704%) Legato
2 1 (3.704%) ZENworks
2 1 (3.704%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 21 (77.78%) VMware
2 19 (70.37%) Oracle
3 9 (33.33%) Informatica
4 8 (29.63%) Hyperion
5 7 (25.93%) Siebel
6 3 (11.11%) HP
6 3 (11.11%) EMC
7 2 (7.407%) Sophos
7 2 (7.407%) NetApp
7 2 (7.407%) Citrix
7 2 (7.407%) Microsoft
7 2 (7.407%) Dell
8 1 (3.704%) Cisco
8 1 (3.704%) IBM
8 1 (3.704%) Hitachi
8 1 (3.704%) Wyse
8 1 (3.704%) Novell
8 1 (3.704%) Symantec
8 1 (3.704%) McAfee