West Yorkshire SAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Storage Area Network (SAN) skills within the West Yorkshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Storage Area Network (SAN)
Location Aberdeen Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bognor Regis Borehamwood Bournemouth Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Crawley Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	70	66
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	25	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	11.96 %	10.60 %
Daily rates quoted	11	1
Average minimum daily rate	£255	£300
Average daily rate	£277	£325
% change on same period last year	-14.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£394
% change on same period last year	-13.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£13.00	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-65.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.00	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.61	£31.97
% change on same period last year	-7.37 %
Communications & Networking West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	209	283
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.279 %	0.286 %
Daily rates quoted	49	52
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£334
Average daily rate	£296	£340
% change on same period last year	-12.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.09	£26.40
Average hourly rate	£24.32	£28.00
% change on same period last year	-13.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.56	£29.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
SAN Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SAN
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Leeds	-8	17	£277	-14.68 %
Halifax	-12	3	-	-

SAN Yorkshire

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 22 (57.89 %) Windows 2 19 (50.00 %) Active Directory 3 16 (42.11 %) SQL Server 4 15 (39.47 %) Microsoft 5 14 (36.84 %) ITIL 6 13 (34.21 %) MS Exchange 6 13 (34.21 %) WAN 6 13 (34.21 %) Firewall 6 13 (34.21 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 12 (31.58 %) UNIX 8 11 (28.95 %) PRINCE2 8 11 (28.95 %) SQL 8 11 (28.95 %) VMware 8 11 (28.95 %) SQL Server 2005 8 11 (28.95 %) VMware Infrastructure

9 10 (26.32 %) VMware ESX 9 10 (26.32 %) Finance 9 10 (26.32 %) MPLS 9 10 (26.32 %) VPN 10 8 (21.05 %) Windows 2000 10 8 (21.05 %) MS Excel 10 8 (21.05 %) Internet 10 8 (21.05 %) SQL Server 2000 11 7 (18.42 %) Project Management 11 7 (18.42 %) Banking 12 6 (15.79 %) Law 12 6 (15.79 %) Linux 12 6 (15.79 %) Cisco 12 6 (15.79 %) Citrix 12 6 (15.79 %) Exchange Server 2000

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 2 (5.263 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 13 (34.21 %) MS Exchange 1 13 (34.21 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 6 (15.79 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 3 (7.895 %) WebLogic 4 2 (5.263 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (5.263 %) WebSphere MQ 5 1 (2.632 %) Apache 5 1 (2.632 %) Tomcat 5 1 (2.632 %) IIS
Applications 1 8 (21.05 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.632 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 13 (34.21 %) WAN 1 13 (34.21 %) Firewall 2 10 (26.32 %) MPLS 2 10 (26.32 %) VPN 3 8 (21.05 %) Internet 4 3 (7.895 %) DNS 4 3 (7.895 %) ATM 4 3 (7.895 %) LAN 5 2 (5.263 %) DHCP 5 2 (5.263 %) FTP 5 2 (5.263 %) RIP 5 2 (5.263 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (5.263 %) SSL 5 2 (5.263 %) LDAP 5 2 (5.263 %) OSPF 5 2 (5.263 %) Frame Relay 5 2 (5.263 %) iSCSI 6 1 (2.632 %) PBX 6 1 (2.632 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (42.11 %) SQL Server 2 11 (28.95 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (21.05 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (5.263 %) Oracle 10g 4 2 (5.263 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (2.632 %) Oracle 9i	General 1 10 (26.32 %) Finance 2 7 (18.42 %) Banking 3 6 (15.79 %) Law 4 3 (7.895 %) Telecoms 5 1 (2.632 %) Government
Job Titles 1 7 (18.42 %) Project Engineer 2 5 (13.16 %) Consultant 3 4 (10.53 %) Architect 3 4 (10.53 %) Support Engineer 3 4 (10.53 %) Technical Consultant 4 3 (7.895 %) DBA 4 3 (7.895 %) Server Support 5 2 (5.263 %) Project Manager 5 2 (5.263 %) Administrator 5 2 (5.263 %) Oracle DBA 5 2 (5.263 %) SQL Server DBA 5 2 (5.263 %) SQL DBA 5 2 (5.263 %) IT Support Engineer 5 2 (5.263 %) UNIX Engineer 5 2 (5.263 %) Infrastructure Architect 5 2 (5.263 %) Linux Engineer 5 2 (5.263 %) Infrastructure Designer 5 2 (5.263 %) Project Consultant 6 1 (2.632 %) Sun Engineer 6 1 (2.632 %) Server Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (10.53 %) Clustering 2 3 (7.895 %) Client/Server 3 1 (2.632 %) N-Tier 3 1 (2.632 %) Mainframe 3 1 (2.632 %) CLARiiON 3 1 (2.632 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 22 (57.89 %) Windows 2 12 (31.58 %) UNIX 3 8 (21.05 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (15.79 %) Linux 5 4 (10.53 %) Windows XP 5 4 (10.53 %) HPUX 5 4 (10.53 %) Solaris 5 4 (10.53 %) Windows Server 2003 6 3 (7.895 %) SUSE 7 1 (2.632 %) AIX 7 1 (2.632 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (36.84 %) ITIL 2 11 (28.95 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (18.42 %) Project Management 4 4 (10.53 %) Disaster Recovery 4 4 (10.53 %) Network Load Balancing 5 3 (7.895 %) Migration 6 2 (5.263 %) Security Management 6 2 (5.263 %) SOA 6 2 (5.263 %) Network Design 7 1 (2.632 %) Incident Management 7 1 (2.632 %) Requirements Analysis 7 1 (2.632 %) Problem Management 7 1 (2.632 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (2.632 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (2.632 %) CMMI 7 1 (2.632 %) TOGAF
Programming Languages 1 11 (28.95 %) SQL 2 1 (2.632 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 5 (13.16 %) Microsoft Certification 1 5 (13.16 %) MCSE 2 4 (10.53 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (5.263 %) CCNA 3 2 (5.263 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (2.632 %) CISSP 4 1 (2.632 %) PMP 4 1 (2.632 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (5.263 %) PCI DSS 2 1 (2.632 %) SLA	System Software 1 19 (50.00 %) Active Directory 2 11 (28.95 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 10 (26.32 %) VMware ESX 4 3 (7.895 %) Oracle RAC 5 2 (5.263 %) MetaFrame 5 2 (5.263 %) Terminal Services 6 1 (2.632 %) Backup Exec 6 1 (2.632 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 4 (10.53 %) OpenView 2 3 (7.895 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 2 (5.263 %) NNM 3 2 (5.263 %) OVOW 3 2 (5.263 %) OVIS 3 2 (5.263 %) OVPA 3 2 (5.263 %) HP Data Protector 3 2 (5.263 %) MOM 4 1 (2.632 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 15 (39.47 %) Microsoft 2 11 (28.95 %) VMware 3 6 (15.79 %) Cisco 3 6 (15.79 %) Citrix 4 5 (13.16 %) HP 4 5 (13.16 %) Oracle 5 4 (10.53 %) VERITAS 6 3 (7.895 %) IBM 6 3 (7.895 %) Sun 7 2 (5.263 %) EMC 7 2 (5.263 %) Lotus 8 1 (2.632 %) CheckPoint 8 1 (2.632 %) Remedy 8 1 (2.632 %) ESRI 8 1 (2.632 %) Avaya 8 1 (2.632 %) Juniper 8 1 (2.632 %) BEA 8 1 (2.632 %) Hitachi 8 1 (2.632 %) Siemens 8 1 (2.632 %) Dell