The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire 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 25 45 44
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -1
Contract jobs citing SAN 24 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 5.381% 1.582% 1.089%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 36.92% 8.197% 6.452%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 3 3
Average daily rate £425 £350 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £368 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.68% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £32.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +62.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £26.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+0.93% +0.94%
All Communications & Networking
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
65 122 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 14.57% 19.30% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 47 35
Average daily rate £424 £375 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.00% -2.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £263 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 15
Average hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.92% -3.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
SAN
South West

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire 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
Swindon +19 18 £440 +17.33%
Salisbury - 4 £375 -
SAN
South West

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 36 (75.00%) VMware
2 25 (52.08%) Oracle
2 25 (52.08%) NAS
3 23 (47.92%) WAN
4 22 (45.83%) LAN
4 22 (45.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (41.67%) Windows
6 19 (39.58%) VPN
7 18 (37.50%) ITIL
8 16 (33.33%) Linux
9 14 (29.17%) Information Assurance
10 13 (27.08%) Oracle EBS R12
10 13 (27.08%) Oracle 10g
10 13 (27.08%) Oracle RAC
10 13 (27.08%) Oracle EBS
11 12 (25.00%) Oracle 10gAS
11 12 (25.00%) Security Cleared
11 12 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
12 11 (22.92%) Oracle BI EE
12 11 (22.92%) SC Cleared
12 11 (22.92%) Active Directory
12 11 (22.92%) HP
12 11 (22.92%) Middleware
13 10 (20.83%) PRINCE2
13 10 (20.83%) Oracle 11i
13 10 (20.83%) Oracle Application Server
14 9 (18.75%) BPEL
14 9 (18.75%) Finance
14 9 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (18.75%) ETL

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 11 (22.92%) Middleware
2 6 (12.50%) WebCenter
3 2 (4.167%) SAML
3 2 (4.167%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 12 (25.00%) Oracle 10gAS
2 10 (20.83%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (6.250%) MS Exchange
3 3 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (4.167%) GlassFish
4 2 (4.167%) Apache
4 2 (4.167%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.083%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.083%) Exchange Server 2007
Business Applications
1 13 (27.08%) Oracle EBS
1 13 (27.08%) Oracle EBS R12
2 10 (20.83%) Oracle 11i
3 5 (10.42%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (2.083%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 25 (52.08%) NAS
2 23 (47.92%) WAN
3 22 (45.83%) LAN
4 19 (39.58%) VPN
5 6 (12.50%) DNS
5 6 (12.50%) DHCP
6 3 (6.250%) TCP/IP
7 2 (4.167%) SSL
7 2 (4.167%) LDAP
7 2 (4.167%) IPsec
8 1 (2.083%) Firewall
8 1 (2.083%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) Oracle 10g
2 11 (22.92%) Oracle BI EE
3 9 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (10.42%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (4.167%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.083%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (2.083%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 9 (18.75%) Finance
2 5 (10.42%) Military
3 1 (2.083%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Team Leader
1 17 (35.42%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 7 (14.58%) Architect
3 5 (10.42%) Support Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Information Assurance Leader
4 4 (8.333%) Technical Architect
5 3 (6.250%) DBA
5 3 (6.250%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.167%) Server Analyst
6 2 (4.167%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.167%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (4.167%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (4.167%) Administrator
6 2 (4.167%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.167%) Consultant
6 2 (4.167%) Storage Architect
6 2 (4.167%) Analyst
7 1 (2.083%) Wintel Administrator
7 1 (2.083%) Wintel Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.167%) Replication
2 2 (4.167%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.083%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.083%) Clustering
3 1 (2.083%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.083%) RMADS
Operating Systems
1 20 (41.67%) Windows
2 16 (33.33%) Linux
3 12 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (18.75%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (10.42%) UNIX
5 5 (10.42%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.083%) Windows 2000
6 1 (2.083%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (37.50%) ITIL
2 14 (29.17%) Information Assurance
3 10 (20.83%) PRINCE2
4 9 (18.75%) ETL
4 9 (18.75%) BPEL
5 8 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 7 (14.58%) Change Management
6 7 (14.58%) Release Management
6 7 (14.58%) Performance Management
7 6 (12.50%) Migration
8 4 (8.333%) Project Management
9 3 (6.250%) Service Delivery
9 3 (6.250%) ERP
9 3 (6.250%) PRINCE
10 2 (4.167%) Scrum
10 2 (4.167%) Data Management
10 2 (4.167%) TOGAF
10 2 (4.167%) Network Design
10 2 (4.167%) Technical Architecture
11 1 (2.083%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.250%) SQL
2 2 (4.167%) Java
2 2 (4.167%) Perl
2 2 (4.167%) PHP
3 1 (2.083%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.083%) VBScript
3 1 (2.083%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.083%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.333%) MCSE
5 3 (6.250%) CCNA
5 3 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.250%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.083%) MCP
6 1 (2.083%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.083%) MCITP
System Software
1 22 (45.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (27.08%) Oracle RAC
3 11 (22.92%) Active Directory
4 3 (6.250%) vSphere
5 2 (4.167%) XenApp
5 2 (4.167%) Xen
6 1 (2.083%) VMware ESX
6 1 (2.083%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (2.083%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (8.333%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.083%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.083%) WSUS
2 1 (2.083%) SCCM
2 1 (2.083%) SCOM
2 1 (2.083%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (2.083%) HP SIM
2 1 (2.083%) Legato
2 1 (2.083%) ARCserve
2 1 (2.083%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 36 (75.00%) VMware
2 25 (52.08%) Oracle
3 11 (22.92%) HP
4 8 (16.67%) Informatica
4 8 (16.67%) NetApp
5 7 (14.58%) Hyperion
5 7 (14.58%) Siebel
6 6 (12.50%) Cisco
7 5 (10.42%) EMC
8 3 (6.250%) Sophos
9 2 (4.167%) Citrix
9 2 (4.167%) McAfee
9 2 (4.167%) Red Hat
9 2 (4.167%) Dell
9 2 (4.167%) JBoss
9 2 (4.167%) Microsoft
10 1 (2.083%) IBM
10 1 (2.083%) SAP
10 1 (2.083%) Symantec
10 1 (2.083%) Hitachi
Swindon, Wiltshire
Austin Fraser are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to join our established client in Swindon. The Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for providing a mixture of BAU and...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £300 - £320 per day
Posted: 12 May 2013
Swindon, Wiltshire
Essential Requirements: o Multi-Site Active Directory / DNS / DHCP o Windows Server 2003 / 2008 o VMware (ESX / vSphere) o Microsoft SQL Server (2005 / 2008 / Reporting) o Citrix XenApp...
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Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 13 May 2013