SAN Contracts in the Thames Valley

Storage Area Network (SAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for SAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAN over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 127 134
Rank change year-on-year +34 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing SAN 44 18 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.68% 0.64% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.86% 4.03% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 10 14
10th Percentile £280 £309 £363
25th Percentile £334 £356 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% +6.95% +4.17%
75th Percentile £608 £550 -
90th Percentile - £558 £660
South East median daily rate £463 £363 £500
% change year-on-year +27.59% -27.50% +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £78.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £78.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -1.88% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

SAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 560 447 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.33% 15.91% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 274 347
10th Percentile £205 £300 £200
25th Percentile £335 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £467
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +4.39% +16.75%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £553
90th Percentile £638 £650 £642
South East median daily rate £484 £481 £450
% change year-on-year +0.72% +6.79% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 15 20
10th Percentile £17.36 £18.90 £12.23
25th Percentile £23.36 £22.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +288.24% -40.87%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.48 £81.22 £30.60
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +9.24% +144.19% -37.68%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAN in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SAN in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAN in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +10 31 £598 +64.83% 3
Buckinghamshire +37 13 £550 - 1
SAN
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) Azure
2 14 (31.82%) OCI
3 2 (4.55%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (40.91%) DHCP
1 18 (40.91%) DNS
2 14 (31.82%) Firewall
3 11 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (9.09%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (9.09%) MySQL
1 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 24 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (25.00%) Developer
2 11 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 10 (22.73%) Storage Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) Data Centre Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Break Fix Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Backend Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Server Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (6.82%) Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Analyst Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Architect
7 3 (6.82%) Developer Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) PowerShell Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Programmer
7 3 (6.82%) Python Programmer
7 3 (6.82%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 24 (54.55%) Data Centre
2 10 (22.73%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.09%) Fat Client
3 4 (9.09%) PKI
3 4 (9.09%) Thin Client
4 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 32 (72.73%) Linux
2 21 (47.73%) Windows
2 21 (47.73%) Windows Server 2019
3 18 (40.91%) Windows Server
4 17 (38.64%) Windows Server 2012
4 17 (38.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (34.09%) Ubuntu
6 14 (31.82%) Windows 10
6 14 (31.82%) Windows XP
7 11 (25.00%) Debian
8 10 (22.73%) Unix
9 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (65.91%) ITIL
2 20 (45.45%) Break/Fix
3 18 (40.91%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (40.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (38.64%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (31.82%) Converged Infrastructure
5 14 (31.82%) Performance Monitoring
5 14 (31.82%) Performance Tuning
5 14 (31.82%) Proactive Monitoring
5 14 (31.82%) Project Management
5 14 (31.82%) Server Management
5 14 (31.82%) Storage Management
6 11 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 11 (25.00%) Incident Management
7 10 (22.73%) Agile
8 9 (20.45%) Configuration Management
8 9 (20.45%) Data Engineering
8 9 (20.45%) Prototyping
8 9 (20.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 7 (15.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.91%) PowerShell
2 11 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (68.18%) Security Cleared
2 29 (65.91%) SC Cleared
3 20 (45.45%) DV Cleared
4 15 (34.09%) Degree
5 14 (31.82%) CCNA
5 14 (31.82%) CCNP
5 14 (31.82%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.55%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.73%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 18 (40.91%) VMware ESXi
3 16 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (31.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (40.91%) vCenter Server
1 18 (40.91%) WSUS
2 17 (38.64%) NetBackup
3 14 (31.82%) EMC NetWorker
3 14 (31.82%) SCCM
3 14 (31.82%) SCOM
4 4 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (9.09%) Ansible
4 4 (9.09%) Nessus
4 4 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (9.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (70.45%) VMware
2 28 (63.64%) Microsoft
3 24 (54.55%) HP
4 21 (47.73%) Dell
5 20 (45.45%) Red Hat
6 18 (40.91%) Oracle
6 18 (40.91%) Veeam
7 17 (38.64%) 3PAR
8 14 (31.82%) Cisco
8 14 (31.82%) EMC
8 14 (31.82%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (31.82%) Juniper
8 14 (31.82%) Palo Alto
8 14 (31.82%) Symantec
9 3 (6.82%) NetApp
9 3 (6.82%) Nimble Storage
9 3 (6.82%) Veritas
10 2 (4.55%) Remedy