Warwickshire SAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Storage Area Network (SAN) skills within the Warwickshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Storage Area Network (SAN)
Location Aberdeen Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hove Hull Ipswich Kent Kidlington Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	24
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	3	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	3.896 %	22.77 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£327
Average daily rate	-	£360
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£395
% change on same period last year	-11.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	11
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£44.64
Average hourly rate	-	£46.68
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£48.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£31.44
% change on same period last year	-3.62 %
Communications & Networking Warwickshire
Matching contract IT job ads	77	101
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.104 %	0.100 %
Daily rates quoted	14	10
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£199
Average daily rate	£369	£219
% change on same period last year	+68.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£240
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£341
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	57
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.61	£33.03
Average hourly rate	£34.48	£37.58
% change on same period last year	-8.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.35	£42.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£28.54
% change on same period last year	-9.93 %
SAN West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SAN across the Warwickshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SAN
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SAN across the Warwickshire region.

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SAN across the Warwickshire region.

SAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warwick	-11	1	-	-

SAN West Midlands

SAN
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region citing SAN 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 SAN.

1 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Solaris 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 1 2 (66.67 %) Sun 1 2 (66.67 %) Business Continuity 1 2 (66.67 %) iSCSI 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (33.33 %) Local Government 2 1 (33.33 %) EMC 2 1 (33.33 %) Government 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region citing SAN 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 SAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) iSCSI
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Government 1 1 (33.33 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Architect 2 1 (33.33 %) Technical Architect 2 1 (33.33 %) Consultant 2 1 (33.33 %) Solutions Architect 2 1 (33.33 %) SAN Consultant
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Business Continuity
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 1 2 (66.67 %) Sun 2 1 (33.33 %) EMC 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware