The first table below looks at the demand for Connectrix skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Connectrix over the 3 months to 17 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.

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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
EMC Connectrix
Rank 520 569 586
Rank change year-on-year
+49 +17
Contract jobs citing Connectrix 10 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.022% 0.015% 0.003%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.147% 0.099% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6782 9103 7893
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.62% 15.62% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3331 4145 3588
Average daily rate £350 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 606 785
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%

Connectrix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Connectrix Jobs Demand Trend

Connectrix
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Connectrix within the UK.

Connectrix Daily Rate Trend

Connectrix
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Connectrix within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Connectrix Daily Rate Histogram

Connectrix
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Connectrix within the UK.

Connectrix Hourly Rate Trend

Connectrix
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Connectrix within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 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
England +51 10 £500 -
London +24 10 £500 -
Canary Wharf - 3 £525 -
City of London - 1 £350 -

Connectrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Connectrix 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 Connectrix.

1 13 (100.00%) EMC
1 13 (100.00%) SAN
2 12 (92.31%) Symmetrix
2 12 (92.31%) EMC Centera
3 11 (84.62%) Cisco
4 10 (76.92%) Windows
4 10 (76.92%) CLARiiON
4 10 (76.92%) Symmetrix DMX
5 9 (69.23%) SRDF
5 9 (69.23%) EMC TimeFinder
5 9 (69.23%) HPUX
5 9 (69.23%) Solaris
6 8 (61.54%) Linux
6 8 (61.54%) Financial Institution
6 8 (61.54%) Finance
7 7 (53.85%) VMS
8 5 (38.46%) NetApp
8 5 (38.46%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 3 (23.08%) UNIX
9 3 (23.08%) Tivoli
9 3 (23.08%) Brocade
10 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
10 2 (15.38%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (15.38%) Celerra
10 2 (15.38%) NAS
10 2 (15.38%) Hedge funds
10 2 (15.38%) Symantec
10 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (15.38%) NFS
10 2 (15.38%) AIX

Connectrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Connectrix 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 Connectrix. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (15.38%) NAS
3 1 (7.692%) Fibre Channel
General
1 8 (61.54%) Financial Institution
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Banking
2 1 (7.692%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Administrator
1 10 (76.92%) Storage Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) EMC Storage Administrator
3 1 (7.692%) EMC Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) EMC Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Symmetrix
1 12 (92.31%) EMC Centera
2 10 (76.92%) CLARiiON
2 10 (76.92%) Symmetrix DMX
3 2 (15.38%) Hedge funds
3 2 (15.38%) Replication
3 2 (15.38%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) HPUX
2 9 (69.23%) Solaris
3 8 (61.54%) Linux
4 7 (53.85%) VMS
5 3 (23.08%) UNIX
6 2 (15.38%) AIX
6 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) Migration
1 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
2 1 (7.692%) High Availability
2 1 (7.692%) BCP
2 1 (7.692%) Change Management
2 1 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) SRDF
2 2 (15.38%) NFS
3 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) EMC TimeFinder
2 5 (38.46%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (23.08%) Tivoli
4 2 (15.38%) NetBackup
4 2 (15.38%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) EMC
2 11 (84.62%) Cisco
3 5 (38.46%) NetApp
4 3 (23.08%) Brocade
5 2 (15.38%) IBM
5 2 (15.38%) Symantec
6 1 (7.692%) VMware
6 1 (7.692%) HP
London
Global financial institution requires a storage administrator for a contract position. You should have extensive hands on experience within a support function, preferably from within financial services.
Scope AT Ltd
Rate: negotiable
Posted: 7 May 2013