The first table below looks at the demand for Fibre Channel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fibre Channel over the 3 months to 23 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 Yorkshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fibre Channel (FC)
Rank 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.376% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.265% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £288 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £338 £363
% change year-on-year
+7.40% -6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 -
All Communications & Networking
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
309 279 195
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 16.61% 12.42% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 140 82
Average daily rate £300 £280 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -16.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £194 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £404 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 35 32
Average hourly rate £16.50 £15.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -52.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £12.00 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £35.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Fibre Channel Jobs Demand Trend

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Fibre Channel across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Fibre Channel Daily Rate Trend

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fibre Channel across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Yorkshire Fibre Channel Daily Rate Histogram

Fibre Channel
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fibre Channel within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
North Yorkshire - 3 £363 -
West Yorkshire - 3 £175 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £375 -
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel.

1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) EMC
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
1 6 (85.71%) iSCSI
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (85.71%) NAS
2 5 (71.43%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (71.43%) HP
3 4 (57.14%) SAN
3 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 4 (57.14%) vSphere
4 3 (42.86%) Puppet
4 3 (42.86%) F5
4 3 (42.86%) CentOS
4 3 (42.86%) Cacti
4 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (42.86%) BIG-IP
4 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
4 3 (42.86%) Firewall
4 3 (42.86%) Juniper
4 3 (42.86%) Debian
4 3 (42.86%) Clustering
4 3 (42.86%) NetBackup
4 3 (42.86%) Apache
4 3 (42.86%) Tomcat
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco
4 3 (42.86%) Oracle
4 3 (42.86%) IIS
4 3 (42.86%) NetApp

Fibre Channel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) XML
1 1 (14.29%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache
1 3 (42.86%) Tomcat
1 3 (42.86%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) iSCSI
1 6 (85.71%) NAS
2 4 (57.14%) SAN
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (42.86%) BIG-IP
3 3 (42.86%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
5 1 (14.29%) FCoE
5 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) CruiseControl
General
1 2 (28.57%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Build Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) CentOS
3 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
3 3 (42.86%) Debian
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) UNIX
4 1 (14.29%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Service Management
1 2 (28.57%) Time Management
1 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (57.14%) vSphere
3 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (28.57%) NFS
4 2 (28.57%) Xen
4 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Puppet
1 3 (42.86%) Cacti
1 3 (42.86%) NetBackup
1 3 (42.86%) Nagios
2 2 (28.57%) ARCserve
2 2 (28.57%) Backup Exec
3 1 (14.29%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) EMC
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) HP
3 3 (42.86%) F5
3 3 (42.86%) Juniper
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 3 (42.86%) NetApp
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Citrix
5 1 (14.29%) Tangosol
5 1 (14.29%) IBM
5 1 (14.29%) Symantec
5 1 (14.29%) Intel
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