The first table below looks at the demand for NCDA in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NCDA over the 3 months to 18 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 Qualifications currently tracked.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA)
Rank 524 574 578
Rank change year-on-year
+50 +4
Contract jobs citing NCDA 30 15 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.062% 0.026% 0.014%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.339% 0.150% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 7
Average daily rate £410 £400 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £400 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
8856 10006 9823
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.19% 17.23% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4727 5172 4786
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 501 521 685
Average hourly rate £22.25 £20.06 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.91% -10.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £40.70 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%

NCDA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NCDA within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

NCDA Jobs Demand Trend

NCDA
Daily Rate Trend

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

NCDA Daily Rate Trend

NCDA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NCDA within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

NCDA Daily Rate Histogram

NCDA
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 NCDA within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +21 22 £410 +2.50% 17
London +37 19 £410 +4.12% 3
City of London +10 4 £488 +34.48% 2
South East - 3 - - 6
South Wales - - - - 1
South West - - - - 1
Wales - - - - 1
West Midlands - - - -
East Midlands - - - - 1
Merseyside - - - -
Midlands - - - -
North West - - - - 6
Greenwich - - - -
East of England - - - -
Basingstoke - - - - 1
Birmingham - - - -
Blackburn - - - -
Bolton - - - -
Bracknell - - - -
Bromsgrove - - - -
Bury - - - -
Cambridge - - - -
Cardiff - - - - 1
Cheltenham - - - - 1
Coventry - - - -
Crawley - - - -
Derby - - - -
Gloucester - - - -
Kidderminster - - - -
Leeds - - - -

NCDA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing NCDA 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 NCDA.

1 45 (97.83%) NetApp
2 29 (63.04%) Data Management
3 28 (60.87%) Windows
4 26 (56.52%) SAN
5 24 (52.17%) EMC
5 24 (52.17%) NetBackup
6 22 (47.83%) Migration
6 22 (47.83%) EMC NetWorker
6 22 (47.83%) Data Migration
6 22 (47.83%) VB
6 22 (47.83%) Capacity Management
7 21 (45.65%) UNIX
7 21 (45.65%) Data Analysis
8 20 (43.48%) ITIL
8 20 (43.48%) NCIE
9 16 (34.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 14 (30.43%) Solaris
10 14 (30.43%) Veritas
10 14 (30.43%) Clustering
11 11 (23.91%) Cisco
12 10 (21.74%) IBM
12 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
12 10 (21.74%) HP
12 10 (21.74%) Backup Exec
13 9 (19.57%) VMware
13 9 (19.57%) Citrix
14 8 (17.39%) Symantec
14 8 (17.39%) vSphere
14 8 (17.39%) Hyper-V
15 7 (15.22%) HP ASE

NCDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing NCDA 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 NCDA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.174%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.174%) MS Exchange
1 1 (2.174%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (2.174%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 26 (56.52%) SAN
2 1 (2.174%) MPLS
2 1 (2.174%) Firewall
2 1 (2.174%) NAS
2 1 (2.174%) VPN
General
1 1 (2.174%) Finance
1 1 (2.174%) Automotive
1 1 (2.174%) Law
1 1 (2.174%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Consultant
2 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Storage Consultant
3 4 (8.696%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (6.522%) Storage Administrator
4 3 (6.522%) Administrator
5 2 (4.348%) Data Manager
6 1 (2.174%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (2.174%) EMC Engineer
6 1 (2.174%) Systems Manager
6 1 (2.174%) Backup Consultant
6 1 (2.174%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Clustering
2 7 (15.22%) HP StorageWorks
2 7 (15.22%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (6.522%) CLARiiON
3 3 (6.522%) Symmetrix
3 3 (6.522%) Celerra
3 3 (6.522%) Symmetrix DMX
4 1 (2.174%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.174%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.174%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.174%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (2.174%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.174%) Mobile Computing
4 1 (2.174%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 28 (60.87%) Windows
2 21 (45.65%) UNIX
3 14 (30.43%) Solaris
4 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) Data Management
2 22 (47.83%) Migration
2 22 (47.83%) Data Migration
2 22 (47.83%) Capacity Management
3 21 (45.65%) Data Analysis
4 20 (43.48%) ITIL
5 2 (4.348%) Service Management
5 2 (4.348%) Risk Management
6 1 (2.174%) Service Delivery
6 1 (2.174%) Supplier Management
6 1 (2.174%) Enterprise Data Management
6 1 (2.174%) Data Protection
6 1 (2.174%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) VB
2 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.174%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (43.48%) NCIE
2 7 (15.22%) HP ASE
2 7 (15.22%) HP MASE
3 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.174%) CCEE
4 1 (2.174%) CCIA
4 1 (2.174%) Microsoft Certified Master
4 1 (2.174%) CCIE
4 1 (2.174%) CCNP
4 1 (2.174%) CCA
4 1 (2.174%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (2.174%) CCEA
4 1 (2.174%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.174%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.174%) MCITP
4 1 (2.174%) Degree
System Software
1 16 (34.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 8 (17.39%) vSphere
2 8 (17.39%) Hyper-V
3 7 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (15.22%) XenServer
4 1 (2.174%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 24 (52.17%) NetBackup
2 22 (47.83%) EMC NetWorker
3 10 (21.74%) Backup Exec
4 7 (15.22%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 3 (6.522%) Legato
Vendors
1 45 (97.83%) NetApp
2 24 (52.17%) EMC
3 14 (30.43%) Veritas
4 11 (23.91%) Cisco
5 10 (21.74%) IBM
5 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
5 10 (21.74%) HP
6 9 (19.57%) Citrix
6 9 (19.57%) VMware
7 8 (17.39%) Symantec
8 7 (15.22%) 3PAR
8 7 (15.22%) Hitachi
9 3 (6.522%) Dell
9 3 (6.522%) Brocade
10 1 (2.174%) Oracle
10 1 (2.174%) Sun
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