The first table below looks at the demand for SAN 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 SAN over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 32 48 23
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -25
Contract jobs citing SAN 9 10 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 2.332% 1.580% 6.517%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 15.87% 31.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 11
Average daily rate £301 £333 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.39% -16.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £259 £316 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £382 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £368 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.68% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+0.93% +0.94%
All Communications & Networking
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
54 63 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 13.99% 9.953% 20.90%
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 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
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 £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
SAN
South East

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex SAN Jobs Demand Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Sussex SAN Daily Rate Trend

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Sussex SAN Daily Rate Histogram

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Sussex SAN Hourly Rate Trend

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 West Sussex region over the 3 months to 17 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
Worthing -2 2 £335 +2.68%
Crawley - 2 £263 -
Gatwick - 1 - -
SAN
South East

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 26 (86.67%) VMware
2 22 (73.33%) Windows
3 20 (66.67%) Firewall
4 19 (63.33%) HP
5 17 (56.67%) NetApp
5 17 (56.67%) DNS
6 15 (50.00%) LAN
6 15 (50.00%) TCP/IP
6 15 (50.00%) Juniper
7 14 (46.67%) DHCP
8 13 (43.33%) Clustering
9 12 (40.00%) CheckPoint
9 12 (40.00%) WAN
10 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
10 11 (36.67%) Active Directory
10 11 (36.67%) ProCurve
11 10 (33.33%) WSUS
11 10 (33.33%) Backup Exec
11 10 (33.33%) Blackberry
11 10 (33.33%) ITIL
12 9 (30.00%) Cisco
12 9 (30.00%) Citrix
12 9 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
12 9 (30.00%) F5
13 8 (26.67%) HP SIM
13 8 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
13 8 (26.67%) XenApp
13 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (26.67%) MCSE
14 7 (23.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 Development
1 7 (23.33%) WebSphere
2 2 (6.667%) Web Services
2 2 (6.667%) .NET
3 1 (3.333%) COM
Application Platforms
1 7 (23.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 5 (16.67%) MS Exchange
3 3 (10.00%) IIS
4 2 (6.667%) Apache
4 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (6.667%) Zimbra
4 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) MS Office
1 2 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (66.67%) Firewall
2 17 (56.67%) DNS
3 15 (50.00%) LAN
3 15 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 14 (46.67%) DHCP
5 12 (40.00%) WAN
6 6 (20.00%) Wireless
7 5 (16.67%) VPN
8 4 (13.33%) DMZ
8 4 (13.33%) Network Security
9 3 (10.00%) Wireless Security
9 3 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (10.00%) VLAN
9 3 (10.00%) NetScaler
9 3 (10.00%) SNMP
10 2 (6.667%) ADSL
10 2 (6.667%) Broadband
10 2 (6.667%) SSL
10 2 (6.667%) IP Telephony
10 2 (6.667%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (6.667%) MySQL
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Analyst
2 13 (43.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Server Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (6.667%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Network Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) IT Support
6 1 (3.333%) Windows Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.333%) Windows Administrator
6 1 (3.333%) IT Administrator
6 1 (3.333%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (3.333%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.333%) Support Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.333%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Clustering
2 10 (33.33%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.333%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (73.33%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (10.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.667%) Solaris
4 2 (6.667%) Linux
5 1 (3.333%) Windows XP
5 1 (3.333%) Windows Vista
5 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (13.33%) Business Continuity
3 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (10.00%) Migration
4 3 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 3 (10.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (6.667%) Project Management
5 2 (6.667%) Change Management
5 2 (6.667%) Business Analysis
5 2 (6.667%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (6.667%) Load Balancing
5 2 (6.667%) Problem Management
5 2 (6.667%) Multithreading
5 2 (6.667%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (3.333%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) SQL
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) MCSE
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (16.67%) CCNP
4 3 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (10.00%) MCITP
5 1 (3.333%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.333%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.333%) CCNA
5 1 (3.333%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (26.67%) XenApp
3 8 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (16.67%) vSphere
5 3 (10.00%) NLBS
5 3 (10.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 2 (6.667%) VMware ESX
6 2 (6.667%) Hyper-V
6 2 (6.667%) Postfix
7 1 (3.333%) XenServer
7 1 (3.333%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (3.333%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Backup Exec
1 10 (33.33%) WSUS
2 8 (26.67%) HP SIM
3 6 (20.00%) NetBackup
4 3 (10.00%) SCOM
5 2 (6.667%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 26 (86.67%) VMware
2 19 (63.33%) HP
3 17 (56.67%) NetApp
4 15 (50.00%) Juniper
5 12 (40.00%) CheckPoint
6 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
6 11 (36.67%) ProCurve
7 9 (30.00%) Cisco
7 9 (30.00%) F5
7 9 (30.00%) Citrix
8 6 (20.00%) Symantec
9 4 (13.33%) Altiris
10 3 (10.00%) StorageTek
10 3 (10.00%) Dell
10 3 (10.00%) SolarWinds
10 3 (10.00%) LANDesk
11 2 (6.667%) EMC
11 2 (6.667%) Avaya
11 2 (6.667%) Sun
11 2 (6.667%) Oracle
West Sussex
System Centre Operations Manager (SCOM) VMWARE ESXi 4.0, 5.0, VSphere. Citrix XenApp 5.0, 6.0. Cisco Layer 2\CAT switching, ASA Firewall. HP Proliant Server,...
Smart Sourcing
Rate: £39,000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Crawley, West Sussex
Strong technical expertise covering a range of the following: - Desktop infrastructure technology (e.g.PCs, laptops - configuration and management) - Server infrastructure (e.g.hardware, OS) - Storage infrastructure (e...
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 14 May 2013