The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 20 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 for the West Sussex region.

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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 42 52 34
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -18
Contract jobs citing NAS 1 4 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 0.265% 0.620% 4.338%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.818% 6.349% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
Average daily rate £243 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-39.37% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +58.33%
All Communications & Networking
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
55 63 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 14.55% 9.767% 21.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 32
Average daily rate £350 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £140 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 13
Average hourly rate £32.50 £19.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+64.55% -1.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
NAS
South East

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NAS across the West Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

West Sussex NAS Jobs Demand Trend

NAS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing NAS across the West Sussex region.

West Sussex NAS Daily Rate Trend

NAS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing NAS across the West Sussex region.

West Sussex NAS Hourly Rate Trend

NAS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 20 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
Crawley - 1 £243 -
NAS
South East

NAS
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing NAS 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 NAS.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing NAS 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 NAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware