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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the West Yorkshire region.

 Storage Area Network (SAN)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank515274
Rank change year-on-year
Up+1Up+22
Matching contract IT job ads18819
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire1.709 %0.922 %1.040 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category25.00 %11.76 %9.223 %
Daily rates quoted1212
Average daily rate£325£350£425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.280 %-17.64 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£287£350£365
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£364£350£485
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£375
% change year-on-year
--6.660 %
Hourly rates quoted413
Average hourly rate£12.00£26.00£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.84 %+30.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£26.00£19.20
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£26.90£26.00£46.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£30.00£30.50
% change year-on-year
-18.33 %-1.630 %
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
7268206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire6.838 %7.834 %11.28 %
Daily rates quoted29751
Average daily rate£325£250£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.00 %-16.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£285£218£240
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£380£420£425
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£325
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %+3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted7432
Average hourly rate£12.00£26.00£17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.84 %+52.94 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£18.50£12.20
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£20.25£39.00£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£24.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
+4.160 %-12.72 %
SAN YorkshireSAN
Yorkshire

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.

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.

West Yorkshire SAN Demand Trend

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.

West Yorkshire SAN Daily Rate Trend

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.

West Yorkshire SAN Hourly Rate Trend

SAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAN across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

West Yorkshire SAN Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
LeedsUp+1817£325-7.28 %
BradfordNew entry-1--
SAN YorkshireSAN
Yorkshire

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

119 (63.33 %)Windows
217 (56.67 %)Active Directory
315 (50.00 %)Windows XP
315 (50.00 %)TCP/IP
414 (46.67 %)DNS
414 (46.67 %)NAS
513 (43.33 %)VMware
513 (43.33 %)MS Exchange
513 (43.33 %)LAN
513 (43.33 %)NetApp
612 (40.00 %)Windows Server 2003
612 (40.00 %)Microsoft
612 (40.00 %)SharePoint
612 (40.00 %)VMware Infrastructure
711 (36.67 %)Firewall
711 (36.67 %)ITIL
810 (33.33 %)Exchange Server 2007
98 (26.67 %)WAN
107 (23.33 %)MS Office
116 (20.00 %)HPUX
125 (16.67 %)CRM
125 (16.67 %)UNIX
125 (16.67 %)HP
125 (16.67 %)ISA Server
125 (16.67 %)NHS
125 (16.67 %)Microsoft CRM
134 (13.33 %)Cisco
143 (10.00 %)Citrix Presentation Server
143 (10.00 %)Video Conferencing
143 (10.00 %)Exchange Server 2003

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (3.333 %)Middleware
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
113 (43.33 %)MS Exchange
212 (40.00 %)SharePoint
310 (33.33 %)Exchange Server 2007
43 (10.00 %)Exchange Server 2003
43 (10.00 %)SharePoint Server 2007
43 (10.00 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
51 (3.333 %)IIS
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
17 (23.33 %)MS Office
21 (3.333 %)MS PowerPoint
21 (3.333 %)MS Visio
21 (3.333 %)MS Project
21 (3.333 %)MS Excel
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
15 (16.67 %)Microsoft CRM
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
115 (50.00 %)TCP/IP
214 (46.67 %)DNS
214 (46.67 %)NAS
313 (43.33 %)LAN
411 (36.67 %)Firewall
58 (26.67 %)WAN
63 (10.00 %)DHCP
71 (3.333 %)Cisco ASA
71 (3.333 %)SNMP
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (6.667 %)Government
21 (3.333 %)Legal
21 (3.333 %)Finance
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
110 (33.33 %)3rd Line Support
28 (26.67 %)Server Support
37 (23.33 %)Consultant
46 (20.00 %)Desktop Support
54 (13.33 %)Support Engineer
63 (10.00 %)IT Support Engineer
63 (10.00 %)IT Support
72 (6.667 %)Architect
72 (6.667 %)Senior Consultant
72 (6.667 %)Support Consultant
72 (6.667 %)SAN Engineer
72 (6.667 %)Sun Engineer
72 (6.667 %)Infrastructure Consultant
72 (6.667 %)Infrastructure Architect
81 (3.333 %)Senior Technical Consultant
81 (3.333 %)Technical Support Manager
81 (3.333 %)Cisco Engineer
81 (3.333 %)Infrastructure Manager
81 (3.333 %)Technical Manager
81 (3.333 %)Support Manager
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
15 (16.67 %)NHS
23 (10.00 %)Video Conferencing
23 (10.00 %)Blackberry
32 (6.667 %)Firmware
32 (6.667 %)Clustering
41 (3.333 %)Symmetrix DMX
41 (3.333 %)Mainframe
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
119 (63.33 %)Windows
215 (50.00 %)Windows XP
312 (40.00 %)Windows Server 2003
46 (20.00 %)HPUX
55 (16.67 %)UNIX
63 (10.00 %)VMS
63 (10.00 %)Solaris
71 (3.333 %)Windows Server 2008
71 (3.333 %)AIX
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
111 (36.67 %)ITIL
25 (16.67 %)CRM
32 (6.667 %)Migration
41 (3.333 %)BCP
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13 (10.00 %)SQL
22 (6.667 %)C
22 (6.667 %)Shell Script
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13 (10.00 %)Degree
21 (3.333 %)Cisco Certification
21 (3.333 %)Microsoft Certification
21 (3.333 %)CCNA
21 (3.333 %)MCSE
21 (3.333 %)MCSA
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (3.333 %)SLA
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
117 (56.67 %)Active Directory
212 (40.00 %)VMware Infrastructure
35 (16.67 %)ISA Server
43 (10.00 %)Citrix Presentation Server
43 (10.00 %)XenApp
43 (10.00 %)XenDesktop
51 (3.333 %)VMware ESX
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (10.00 %)WSUS
13 (10.00 %)Backup Exec
13 (10.00 %)Norton AntiVirus
22 (6.667 %)ZENworks
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
113 (43.33 %)VMware
113 (43.33 %)NetApp
212 (40.00 %)Microsoft
35 (16.67 %)HP
44 (13.33 %)Cisco
53 (10.00 %)Altiris
53 (10.00 %)Citrix
53 (10.00 %)Avaya
53 (10.00 %)Symantec
53 (10.00 %)EMC
53 (10.00 %)Adobe
62 (6.667 %)Sun
71 (3.333 %)Hitachi
71 (3.333 %)Veritas
71 (3.333 %)IBM
71 (3.333 %)Intel
71 (3.333 %)Oracle