The first table below looks at the demand for iSCSI skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited iSCSI over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
iSCSI
Rank 484 466 519
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +53
Contract jobs citing iSCSI 50 120 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.106% 0.202% 0.111%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.728% 1.291% 0.862%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 57 23
Average daily rate £315 £310 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.61% -11.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £225 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £470 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £300 £400
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
Average hourly rate - £28.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year
- -24.24%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6869 9298 7776
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.58% 15.68% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3351 4212 3539
Average daily rate £350 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
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 £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 624 790
Average hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.85 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%

iSCSI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

iSCSI Jobs Demand Trend

iSCSI
Daily Rate Trend

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

iSCSI Daily Rate Trend

iSCSI
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing iSCSI within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

iSCSI Daily Rate Histogram

iSCSI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

iSCSI Hourly Rate Trend

iSCSI
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iSCSI within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 -7 48 £274 -15.69%
London -8 21 £388 +16.54%
Yorkshire - 10 £288 -
East of England +6 5 £225 -40.00%
City of London 0 5 £362 -21.72%
South East -3 5 £375 +7.14%
West Yorkshire - 5 £213 -
Essex - 4 £225 -
Milton Keynes +7 3 £425 -
Buckinghamshire +4 3 £425 -
North Yorkshire - 3 £363 -
York - 3 £363 -
Leeds - 3 £294 -
Derby +18 2 £315 -
Derbyshire +17 2 £315 -
Berkshire +15 2 £325 -
North West +6 2 £228 -2.15%
East Midlands +1 2 £315 -
Birmingham - 2 - -
Hull - 2 - -
Halifax - 2 £138 -
Maidenhead - 2 £325 -
Lancashire - 2 £228 -
Witham - 2 £225 -
West Midlands - 2 - -
East Yorkshire - 2 - -
North East +13 1 £225 -14.28%
Tyne and Wear +10 1 £225 -14.28%
Newcastle upon Tyne +8 1 £225 -14.28%
Scotland -16 1 £375 +44.23%

iSCSI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing iSCSI 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 iSCSI.

1 95 (89.62%) VMware
2 79 (74.53%) SAN
3 78 (73.58%) Windows
4 61 (57.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 59 (55.66%) HP
6 54 (50.94%) Active Directory
7 49 (46.23%) Microsoft
8 46 (43.40%) Windows Server 2003
9 44 (41.51%) Windows Server 2008
10 43 (40.57%) NAS
11 39 (36.79%) vSphere
12 38 (35.85%) Cisco
12 38 (35.85%) MS Exchange
13 35 (33.02%) Linux
13 35 (33.02%) EMC
14 34 (32.08%) NFS
14 34 (32.08%) VMware ESX
15 31 (29.25%) Brocade
16 30 (28.30%) DNS
17 29 (27.36%) Fibre Channel
18 27 (25.47%) NetApp
18 27 (25.47%) Dell
19 25 (23.58%) Exchange Server 2010
20 24 (22.64%) Red Hat
21 22 (20.75%) Citrix
21 22 (20.75%) DHCP
21 22 (20.75%) IIS
21 22 (20.75%) Hyper-V
22 21 (19.81%) SQL
22 21 (19.81%) Firewall

iSCSI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing iSCSI 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 iSCSI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (8.491%) XML
2 5 (4.717%) JDBC
3 4 (3.774%) ADSI
4 3 (2.830%) JMS
4 3 (2.830%) SOAP
5 2 (1.887%) Middleware
5 2 (1.887%) Memcached
6 1 (0.943%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.943%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.943%) COM
6 1 (0.943%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 38 (35.85%) MS Exchange
2 25 (23.58%) Exchange Server 2010
3 22 (20.75%) IIS
4 20 (18.87%) Apache
5 18 (16.98%) Exchange Server 2007
6 12 (11.32%) Tomcat
7 9 (8.491%) Exchange Server 2003
8 8 (7.547%) SAS
8 8 (7.547%) Liferay
8 8 (7.547%) Lync
9 5 (4.717%) SharePoint
10 4 (3.774%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 2 (1.887%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.943%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.943%) nginx
12 1 (0.943%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.943%) Amazon AWS
12 1 (0.943%) Office Communications Server
12 1 (0.943%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 7 (6.604%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.887%) MS Office
2 2 (1.887%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.887%) S-PLUS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (74.53%) SAN
2 43 (40.57%) NAS
3 30 (28.30%) DNS
4 29 (27.36%) Fibre Channel
5 22 (20.75%) DHCP
6 21 (19.81%) Firewall
7 18 (16.98%) SMTP
8 16 (15.09%) SSL
9 14 (13.21%) SNMP
10 13 (12.26%) HTTP
11 12 (11.32%) WAN
12 11 (10.38%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (10.38%) TCP/IP
13 10 (9.434%) MPLS
14 9 (8.491%) LDAP
15 8 (7.547%) VPN
15 8 (7.547%) IP Telephony
16 7 (6.604%) tcpdump
17 6 (5.660%) LAN
17 6 (5.660%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.09%) MySQL
2 15 (14.15%) SQL Server
3 10 (9.434%) SQL Server 2008
4 9 (8.491%) SQL Server 2005
5 8 (7.547%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (8.491%) Git (software)
2 8 (7.547%) Hudson
2 8 (7.547%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.943%) Maven
3 1 (0.943%) CruiseControl
General
1 10 (9.434%) Banking
2 6 (5.660%) Telecoms
2 6 (5.660%) Finance
3 2 (1.887%) Back Office
3 2 (1.887%) Marketing
3 2 (1.887%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (28.30%) Systems Engineer
2 16 (15.09%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 12 (11.32%) Storage Engineer
4 11 (10.38%) Administrator
5 10 (9.434%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (8.491%) Linux Administrator
7 7 (6.604%) Exchange Engineer
7 7 (6.604%) Analyst
8 6 (5.660%) Technical Specialist
8 6 (5.660%) Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (4.717%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (4.717%) Senior Storage Engineer
9 5 (4.717%) Technical Manager
9 5 (4.717%) Technical Services Manager
9 5 (4.717%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 5 (4.717%) Service Manager
9 5 (4.717%) Systems Administrator
10 4 (3.774%) Wintel Engineer
10 4 (3.774%) Migration Engineer
10 4 (3.774%) Backup Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.04%) Clustering
2 13 (12.26%) EqualLogic
3 8 (7.547%) Cryptography
4 6 (5.660%) Open Source
5 4 (3.774%) Blackberry
5 4 (3.774%) NHS
6 3 (2.830%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.830%) Fat Client
6 3 (2.830%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.830%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.887%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.943%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.943%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 78 (73.58%) Windows
2 46 (43.40%) Windows Server 2003
3 44 (41.51%) Windows Server 2008
4 35 (33.02%) Linux
5 18 (16.98%) UNIX
6 12 (11.32%) CentOS
7 11 (10.38%) Ubuntu
8 10 (9.434%) Debian
9 7 (6.604%) FreeBSD
10 6 (5.660%) Gentoo
11 5 (4.717%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (3.774%) Windows 7
13 2 (1.887%) Windows XP
13 2 (1.887%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.943%) Fedora
14 1 (0.943%) SUSE
14 1 (0.943%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.943%) HPUX
14 1 (0.943%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (14.15%) Disaster Recovery
1 15 (14.15%) ITIL
2 8 (7.547%) B2B
2 8 (7.547%) Data Management
3 6 (5.660%) PRINCE2
3 6 (5.660%) Service Delivery
3 6 (5.660%) Load Balancing
3 6 (5.660%) Migration
3 6 (5.660%) Software Deployment
4 5 (4.717%) Capacity Management
4 5 (4.717%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (4.717%) Memory Management
4 5 (4.717%) Time Management
4 5 (4.717%) Configuration Management
5 4 (3.774%) Network Load Balancing
5 4 (3.774%) Data Protection
6 3 (2.830%) TOGAF
7 2 (1.887%) Change Management
7 2 (1.887%) Service Management
7 2 (1.887%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.81%) SQL
2 17 (16.04%) PowerShell
3 12 (11.32%) Bash shell
4 11 (10.38%) Perl
5 9 (8.491%) Shell Script
6 8 (7.547%) VBScript
7 7 (6.604%) Java
8 5 (4.717%) sed
8 5 (4.717%) AWK
8 5 (4.717%) PHP
9 4 (3.774%) C#
10 3 (2.830%) Ruby
11 1 (0.943%) Korn
11 1 (0.943%) REXX
11 1 (0.943%) Tcl
11 1 (0.943%) VB
11 1 (0.943%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.943%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (17.92%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (15.09%) MCSE
2 16 (15.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (14.15%) CCNA
3 15 (14.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 10 (9.434%) Degree
5 8 (7.547%) RHCE
6 6 (5.660%) Security Cleared
7 5 (4.717%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.717%) MCITP
8 3 (2.830%) MCTS
8 3 (2.830%) ISEB
8 3 (2.830%) CCSP
8 3 (2.830%) CCNP
8 3 (2.830%) MCP
9 2 (1.887%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.887%) VCP4
10 1 (0.943%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.943%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.830%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (57.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 54 (50.94%) Active Directory
3 39 (36.79%) vSphere
4 34 (32.08%) NFS
4 34 (32.08%) VMware ESX
5 22 (20.75%) Hyper-V
6 14 (13.21%) Postfix
6 14 (13.21%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (11.32%) XenApp
8 10 (9.434%) XenDesktop
9 9 (8.491%) Squid
10 5 (4.717%) Nmap
10 5 (4.717%) NDS
11 3 (2.830%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 3 (2.830%) Xen
11 3 (2.830%) ISA Server
12 2 (1.887%) Terminal Services
12 2 (1.887%) XenServer
12 2 (1.887%) ProxySG
12 2 (1.887%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 18 (16.98%) Nagios
2 17 (16.04%) Backup Exec
3 14 (13.21%) Puppet
4 12 (11.32%) Cacti
4 12 (11.32%) SCOM
5 6 (5.660%) NetBackup
5 6 (5.660%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (2.830%) OpenNMS
6 3 (2.830%) SCCM
6 3 (2.830%) SCVMM
6 3 (2.830%) WSUS
6 3 (2.830%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (2.830%) OpenView
7 2 (1.887%) Norton AntiVirus
7 2 (1.887%) ARCserve
7 2 (1.887%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (1.887%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.887%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 2 (1.887%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 1 (0.943%) Splunk
Vendors
1 95 (89.62%) VMware
2 59 (55.66%) HP
3 49 (46.23%) Microsoft
4 38 (35.85%) Cisco
5 35 (33.02%) EMC
6 31 (29.25%) Brocade
7 27 (25.47%) NetApp
7 27 (25.47%) Dell
8 24 (22.64%) Red Hat
9 22 (20.75%) Citrix
10 16 (15.09%) Oracle
11 11 (10.38%) F5
12 8 (7.547%) SAP
13 6 (5.660%) Novell
13 6 (5.660%) Symantec
13 6 (5.660%) Hitachi
13 6 (5.660%) Juniper
13 6 (5.660%) Altiris
13 6 (5.660%) Zeacom
14 5 (4.717%) JBoss
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