The first table below looks at the demand for the Storage Administrator role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Storage Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Administrator
Rank 490 520 497
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Administrator 51 45 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.110% 0.077% 0.143%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.119% 0.083% 0.155%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 67
Average daily rate £383 £375 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £248 £370
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £375 £388
% change year-on-year
-9.33% -3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £18.25 £23.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.65% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Storage Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Storage Administrator within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Storage Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Storage Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Storage Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Storage Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Storage Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Storage Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Storage Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Storage Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Storage Administrator
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 Storage Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +52 49 £391 +7.93%
London +40 24 £463 +85.10%
South East +17 8 £370 -12.99%
City of London +22 5 £383 -
East of England +18 4 £340 +6.25%
Cambridgeshire +12 4 £340 +6.25%
Cambridge +10 4 £340 +6.25%
North West +10 4 £350 -3.44%
North East +13 3 - -
Tyne and Wear +12 3 - -
Newcastle upon Tyne +5 3 - -
Buckinghamshire - 3 - -
Milton Keynes - 3 - -
Canary Wharf - 3 £525 -
South West +31 2 £275 -35.29%
Bristol +14 2 £275 -35.29%
Edinburgh +9 2 £360 -7.69%
Scotland -13 2 £360 -7.69%
Sheffield - 2 - -
South Yorkshire - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Surrey +12 1 - -
Cheshire +2 1 - -
East Midlands +1 1 - -
Hampshire -1 1 £370 -13.04%
West Midlands - 1 £275 -
Merseyside - 1 - -
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
Northampton - 1 - -
Liverpool - 1 - -

Storage Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Storage Administrator in their job title 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 with Storage Administrator in their job title.

1 59 (55.66%) EMC
2 54 (50.94%) SAN
3 40 (37.74%) NetApp
4 37 (34.91%) VMware
5 29 (27.36%) Windows
6 23 (21.70%) NAS
7 22 (20.75%) Cisco
8 20 (18.87%) SRDF
9 19 (17.92%) Migration
10 18 (16.98%) VMware ESX
10 18 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
11 17 (16.04%) IBM
12 16 (15.09%) Linux
13 15 (14.15%) Symmetrix DMX
14 14 (13.21%) HP
15 13 (12.26%) Solaris
15 13 (12.26%) EMC Centera
15 13 (12.26%) Brocade
16 12 (11.32%) CLARiiON
17 11 (10.38%) Replication
17 11 (10.38%) Mainframe
17 11 (10.38%) UNIX
17 11 (10.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 10 (9.434%) Banking
18 10 (9.434%) Data Migration
18 10 (9.434%) AIX
18 10 (9.434%) HPUX
18 10 (9.434%) Tivoli Storage Manager
18 10 (9.434%) Connectrix
18 10 (9.434%) Symmetrix

Storage Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Storage Administrator in their job title 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 with Storage Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.830%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.887%) MS Exchange
2 2 (1.887%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (0.943%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 54 (50.94%) SAN
2 23 (21.70%) NAS
3 10 (9.434%) Connectrix
4 2 (1.887%) HTTP
4 2 (1.887%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.943%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.887%) Big Data
2 1 (0.943%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (9.434%) Banking
2 7 (6.604%) Finance
2 7 (6.604%) Financial Institution
3 4 (3.774%) Investment Banking
4 3 (2.830%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.887%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.943%) French Language
6 1 (0.943%) German Language
6 1 (0.943%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.15%) Symmetrix DMX
2 13 (12.26%) EMC Centera
3 12 (11.32%) CLARiiON
4 11 (10.38%) Replication
4 11 (10.38%) Mainframe
5 10 (9.434%) Symmetrix
6 7 (6.604%) Clustering
7 2 (1.887%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.887%) SaaS
8 1 (0.943%) Celerra
8 1 (0.943%) Statistics
8 1 (0.943%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.943%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 29 (27.36%) Windows
2 16 (15.09%) Linux
3 13 (12.26%) Solaris
4 11 (10.38%) UNIX
5 10 (9.434%) AIX
5 10 (9.434%) HPUX
6 7 (6.604%) VMS
7 2 (1.887%) zOS
7 2 (1.887%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.943%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (17.92%) Migration
2 10 (9.434%) Data Migration
3 8 (7.547%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (6.604%) Change Management
5 6 (5.660%) ITIL
6 5 (4.717%) Problem Management
7 4 (3.774%) Business Continuity
8 3 (2.830%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (2.830%) High Availability
8 3 (2.830%) Project Management
8 3 (2.830%) Validation
8 3 (2.830%) Configuration Management
8 3 (2.830%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (1.887%) ERP
9 2 (1.887%) Service Management
9 2 (1.887%) Capacity Planning
9 2 (1.887%) Capacity Management
9 2 (1.887%) Incident Management
10 1 (0.943%) Data Protection
10 1 (0.943%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.660%) Korn
2 5 (4.717%) SQL
3 2 (1.887%) REXX
4 1 (0.943%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.943%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.943%) JCL
4 1 (0.943%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (10.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (5.660%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.717%) NCIE
4 4 (3.774%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.830%) NCDA
6 1 (0.943%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.943%) QA
System Software
1 20 (18.87%) SRDF
2 18 (16.98%) VMware ESX
2 18 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.491%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (0.943%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (0.943%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 10 (9.434%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 7 (6.604%) EMC NetWorker
2 7 (6.604%) EMC TimeFinder
3 5 (4.717%) NetBackup
3 5 (4.717%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.943%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 59 (55.66%) EMC
2 40 (37.74%) NetApp
3 37 (34.91%) VMware
4 22 (20.75%) Cisco
5 17 (16.04%) IBM
6 14 (13.21%) HP
7 13 (12.26%) Brocade
8 7 (6.604%) Symantec
9 5 (4.717%) Isilon
10 4 (3.774%) CommVault
10 4 (3.774%) 3PAR
11 2 (1.887%) Hitachi
11 2 (1.887%) Veritas
11 2 (1.887%) Sun
11 2 (1.887%) Fujitsu
12 1 (0.943%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.943%) Microsoft
12 1 (0.943%) Oracle
12 1 (0.943%) SAP
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: 21 May 2013
City of London
Storage Admin - Bank - London - Up to £550/day! Our Client, a Major Bank, are currently looking for a Storage Administrator to work in their London Office on a...
Orgtel
Rate: £400 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013