The first table below looks at the demand for NAS 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 NAS 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
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 90 93 89
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -4
Contract jobs citing NAS 22 17 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.183% 0.757% 0.754%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.120% 6.093% 7.179%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 8
Average daily rate £308 £300 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -24.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £275 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £324 £325 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-27.63% +47.57%
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%
NAS
England

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire NAS Jobs Demand Trend

NAS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire NAS Daily Rate Trend

NAS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Yorkshire NAS Daily Rate Histogram

NAS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire NAS Hourly Rate Trend

NAS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS 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
West Yorkshire +8 19 £308 +2.50%
North Yorkshire +2 3 £363 -
NAS
England

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 27 (90.00%) SAN
2 24 (80.00%) Windows
3 22 (73.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 20 (66.67%) Cisco
5 18 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 16 (53.33%) Microsoft
6 16 (53.33%) F5
7 15 (50.00%) SQL Server
7 15 (50.00%) LAN
7 15 (50.00%) WAN
8 14 (46.67%) MS Exchange
8 14 (46.67%) MCSE
8 14 (46.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (46.67%) Exchange Server 2003
9 13 (43.33%) Windows XP
10 11 (36.67%) Linux
10 11 (36.67%) VMware
11 9 (30.00%) HP
12 8 (26.67%) EMC
12 8 (26.67%) Red Hat
12 8 (26.67%) Oracle
13 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
14 6 (20.00%) Firewall
14 6 (20.00%) iSCSI
14 6 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
15 5 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
16 4 (13.33%) Clustering
16 4 (13.33%) Solaris
16 4 (13.33%) IIS
16 4 (13.33%) MS Visio

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (6.667%) X-Windows
2 1 (3.333%) .NET
2 1 (3.333%) J2EE
2 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.333%) Web Services
2 1 (3.333%) XML
2 1 (3.333%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 14 (46.67%) MS Exchange
1 14 (46.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (13.33%) IIS
2 4 (13.33%) Apache
3 3 (10.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (3.333%) WorkSite
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.333%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 27 (90.00%) SAN
2 15 (50.00%) LAN
2 15 (50.00%) WAN
3 6 (20.00%) Firewall
3 6 (20.00%) iSCSI
3 6 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (10.00%) BIG-IP
5 2 (6.667%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.667%) Internet
6 1 (3.333%) WAAS
6 1 (3.333%) FCoE
6 1 (3.333%) SMTP
6 1 (3.333%) VoIP
6 1 (3.333%) LDAP
6 1 (3.333%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (3.333%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) CruiseControl
1 1 (3.333%) Maven
General
1 2 (6.667%) Back Office
1 2 (6.667%) Legal
2 1 (3.333%) Retail
2 1 (3.333%) Finance
2 1 (3.333%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) Messaging Analyst
3 7 (23.33%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (16.67%) Messaging Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Support Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Build Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Specialist
6 3 (10.00%) Messaging Specialist
7 2 (6.667%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (6.667%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (6.667%) Administrator
7 2 (6.667%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (3.333%) Designer
8 1 (3.333%) VMware Specialist
8 1 (3.333%) Server Technician
8 1 (3.333%) 3rd Line Support Technician
8 1 (3.333%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Clustering
2 1 (3.333%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (3.333%) EqualLogic
2 1 (3.333%) NHS
2 1 (3.333%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.333%) CLARiiON
2 1 (3.333%) Symmetrix
2 1 (3.333%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 24 (80.00%) Windows
2 22 (73.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 18 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 13 (43.33%) Windows XP
5 11 (36.67%) Linux
6 4 (13.33%) Solaris
7 3 (10.00%) CentOS
7 3 (10.00%) HPUX
7 3 (10.00%) UNIX
7 3 (10.00%) Ubuntu
7 3 (10.00%) SUSE
7 3 (10.00%) Debian
8 2 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (10.00%) ITIL
2 2 (6.667%) Time Management
2 2 (6.667%) Data Protection
2 2 (6.667%) Load Balancing
2 2 (6.667%) Service Management
2 2 (6.667%) Migration
2 2 (6.667%) Project Management
2 2 (6.667%) Analytics
3 1 (3.333%) CRM
3 1 (3.333%) E-Commerce
3 1 (3.333%) Business Continuity
3 1 (3.333%) Asset Management
3 1 (3.333%) Document Management
3 1 (3.333%) Release Management
3 1 (3.333%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (3.333%) Incident Management
3 1 (3.333%) Business Analysis
3 1 (3.333%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.667%) SQL
2 1 (3.333%) VBScript
2 1 (3.333%) Java
2 1 (3.333%) Perl
2 1 (3.333%) PHP
2 1 (3.333%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) MCSE
1 14 (46.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.333%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.333%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.333%) PMP
2 1 (3.333%) CCNP
2 1 (3.333%) CCNA
2 1 (3.333%) MCSA
2 1 (3.333%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.333%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.333%) Degree
2 1 (3.333%) MCTS
2 1 (3.333%) MCITP
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (13.33%) vSphere
4 3 (10.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (6.667%) Xen
5 2 (6.667%) VMware ESX
5 2 (6.667%) NFS
6 1 (3.333%) XenApp
6 1 (3.333%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Cacti
1 3 (10.00%) Puppet
1 3 (10.00%) Nagios
1 3 (10.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (6.667%) Backup Exec
2 2 (6.667%) ARCserve
3 1 (3.333%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 20 (66.67%) Cisco
2 16 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (53.33%) F5
3 11 (36.67%) VMware
4 9 (30.00%) HP
5 8 (26.67%) EMC
5 8 (26.67%) Red Hat
5 8 (26.67%) Oracle
6 4 (13.33%) IBM
6 4 (13.33%) Citrix
6 4 (13.33%) NetApp
6 4 (13.33%) Juniper
7 3 (10.00%) Veritas
7 3 (10.00%) CheckPoint
8 1 (3.333%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.333%) Symantec
8 1 (3.333%) McAfee
8 1 (3.333%) Intel
8 1 (3.333%) Dell
8 1 (3.333%) Tangosol
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