SAN Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Storage Area Network (SAN) England / London
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	231	187	131
Rank change year-on-year	-44	-56
Contract jobs citing SAN	197	287	403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	0.96%	1.32%	1.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	8.78%	9.53%	12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted	124	217	276
Median daily rate	£450	£415	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+8.43%	+7.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£285	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£343
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted	7	0	19
Median hourly rate	£50.00	-	£22.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£18.48	£23.75	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-22.18%	-32.14%

SAN is in the communications and computer networking skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills.

Contract Communications & Computer Network Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	2244	3010	3113
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	10.98%	13.89%	13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted	1497	2047	2008
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£238	£245	£225
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£585	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£368	£345
% change year-on-year	+2.04%	+6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted	66	47	93
Median hourly rate	£24.93	£22.00	£18.86
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+13.31%	+16.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.78	£12.05	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£42.50	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£28.00	£32.50	£25.00
% change year-on-year	-13.84%	+30.00%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing SAN as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Communications & Networking category.

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SAN in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for SAN in London

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SAN in London over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SAN in London

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for SAN in London

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing SAN in London over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for SAN in London

SAN
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the London region over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-18	30	£475	+1.76%	12
New Malden	-	6	-	-	1
Brentford	-	2	£470	-	1
Canary Wharf	-	2	£615	-
Uxbridge	-6	1	-	-	1
Bromley	-	1	£325	-
Chessington	-	1	£425	-
Twickenham	-	1	£363	-
SAN England

SAN
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing SAN also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for SAN.

1	215 (58.58%)	Windows
2	198 (53.95%)	VMware
3	143 (38.96%)	Linux
4	132 (35.97%)	Windows Server
5	128 (34.88%)	Active Directory
6	120 (32.70%)	Firewall
7	118 (32.15%)	VMware Infrastructure
8	106 (28.88%)	Finance
9	99 (26.98%)	Microsoft
10	98 (26.70%)	Cisco
11	95 (25.89%)	Data Centre
12	89 (24.25%)	Windows Server 2012
13	85 (23.16%)	NAS
14	82 (22.34%)	Unix
15	81 (22.07%)	Windows Server 2008

16	80 (21.80%)	Solaris
16	80 (21.80%)	Migration
17	79 (21.53%)	PowerShell
18	78 (21.25%)	Citrix
19	76 (20.71%)	HP
20	75 (20.44%)	DNS
20	75 (20.44%)	Hyper-V
21	66 (17.98%)	SQL Server
22	63 (17.17%)	WAN
23	60 (16.35%)	LAN
23	60 (16.35%)	Banking
23	60 (16.35%)	DevOps
24	59 (16.08%)	SCCM
25	57 (15.53%)	NetApp
26	56 (15.26%)	DHCP

SAN
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	52 (14.17%)	MS Exchange
2	34 (9.26%)	Exchange Server 2013
3	26 (7.08%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	22 (5.99%)	Skype for Business
5	20 (5.45%)	SharePoint
6	13 (3.54%)	IIS
7	9 (2.45%)	Apache
8	7 (1.91%)	Oracle SOA Suite
8	7 (1.91%)	Tomcat
9	4 (1.09%)	Exchange Server 2007
9	4 (1.09%)	WebLogic
10	3 (0.82%)	OpenStack
10	3 (0.82%)	Oracle Workflow
10	3 (0.82%)	SharePoint 2010
10	3 (0.82%)	WebSphere
11	2 (0.54%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
11	2 (0.54%)	SAS
11	2 (0.54%)	SharePoint 2013
12	1 (0.27%)	Oracle Coherence
12	1 (0.27%)	Oracle HTTP Server

Applications
1	15 (4.09%)	Microsoft Office
2	8 (2.18%)	MS Visio
3	7 (1.91%)	Microsoft Excel
4	1 (0.27%)	Acrobat
4	1 (0.27%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	6 (1.63%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	5 (1.36%)	ION MarketView
3	4 (1.09%)	Dynamics AX
3	4 (1.09%)	Oracle Applications
3	4 (1.09%)	Oracle EBS
3	4 (1.09%)	Oracle EBS R12
4	2 (0.54%)	Dynamics CRM
5	1 (0.27%)	Maximo
5	1 (0.27%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	54 (14.71%)	Microsoft Azure
2	47 (12.81%)	Amazon AWS
3	42 (11.44%)	Office 365
4	15 (4.09%)	IaaS
5	9 (2.45%)	SaaS
6	7 (1.91%)	Mimecast
7	5 (1.36%)	Azure Active Directory
8	4 (1.09%)	PaaS
9	2 (0.54%)	Amazon EC2
9	2 (0.54%)	Cloud Computing
9	2 (0.54%)	IBM Cloud
10	1 (0.27%)	Amazon CloudWatch
10	1 (0.27%)	Amazon ELB
10	1 (0.27%)	Amazon Kinesis
10	1 (0.27%)	Amazon S3
10	1 (0.27%)	Amazon SQS
10	1 (0.27%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	1 (0.27%)	Dropbox
10	1 (0.27%)	Google Drive
10	1 (0.27%)	SoftLayer

Communications & Networking
1	120 (32.70%)	Firewall
2	85 (23.16%)	NAS
3	75 (20.44%)	DNS
4	63 (17.17%)	WAN
5	60 (16.35%)	LAN
6	56 (15.26%)	DHCP
7	42 (11.44%)	TCP/IP
8	39 (10.63%)	VPN
9	32 (8.72%)	iSCSI
10	23 (6.27%)	LDAP
11	20 (5.45%)	Fibre Channel
12	17 (4.63%)	Cisco ASA
12	17 (4.63%)	HTTP
13	15 (4.09%)	Internet
13	15 (4.09%)	Wireless
14	13 (3.54%)	Network Security
15	12 (3.27%)	SMTP
16	11 (3.00%)	VLAN
16	11 (3.00%)	VoIP
16	11 (3.00%)	VSAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	66 (17.98%)	SQL Server
2	31 (8.45%)	Oracle Database
3	17 (4.63%)	SQL Server 2012
4	8 (2.18%)	DB2
5	7 (1.91%)	SQL Server 2005
6	6 (1.63%)	Hadoop
6	6 (1.63%)	SQL Server 2008
6	6 (1.63%)	SQL Server 2016
7	5 (1.36%)	Big Data
7	5 (1.36%)	MySQL
8	4 (1.09%)	Oracle BI EE
8	4 (1.09%)	Oracle Database 11g
9	3 (0.82%)	Informix
9	3 (0.82%)	Microsoft Analysis Services
9	3 (0.82%)	MongoDB
9	3 (0.82%)	QlikView
9	3 (0.82%)	RDBMS
9	3 (0.82%)	Relational Database
9	3 (0.82%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
10	2 (0.54%)	MariaDB

Development Applications
1	4 (1.09%)	Jenkins
2	3 (0.82%)	Git (software)
3	1 (0.27%)	Eclipse
3	1 (0.27%)	GoCD

General
1	106 (28.88%)	Finance
2	60 (16.35%)	Banking
3	13 (3.54%)	Legal
3	13 (3.54%)	Telecoms
4	10 (2.72%)	Law
5	9 (2.45%)	Investment Banking
5	9 (2.45%)	Retail
6	8 (2.18%)	Manufacturing
7	7 (1.91%)	Marketing
7	7 (1.91%)	Publishing
8	6 (1.63%)	Electronics
8	6 (1.63%)	Front Office
9	4 (1.09%)	Back Office
9	4 (1.09%)	Billing
9	4 (1.09%)	Financial Institution
10	1 (0.27%)	French Language
10	1 (0.27%)	Mandarin Language
10	1 (0.27%)	Pharmaceutical
10	1 (0.27%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	58 (15.80%)	Infrastructure Engineer
2	46 (12.53%)	Administrator
3	45 (12.26%)	Analyst
4	36 (9.81%)	Unix Engineer
5	34 (9.26%)	Architect
6	29 (7.90%)	Systems Engineer
7	24 (6.54%)	3rd Line Engineer
8	20 (5.45%)	Linux Engineer
9	19 (5.18%)	Systems Administrator
10	18 (4.90%)	Infrastructure Analyst
10	18 (4.90%)	Linux Administrator
11	17 (4.63%)	Server Engineer
11	17 (4.63%)	Unix Systems Engineer
11	17 (4.63%)	VMware Engineer
12	16 (4.36%)	Support Analyst
12	16 (4.36%)	Windows Engineer
13	15 (4.09%)	Network Engineer
13	15 (4.09%)	Technical Architect
14	13 (3.54%)	Consultant
14	13 (3.54%)	Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	11 (3.00%)	Web Services
2	8 (2.18%)	Regular Expression
3	7 (1.91%)	Middleware
4	5 (1.36%)	LAMP
4	5 (1.36%)	Moose
5	3 (0.82%)	.NET
5	3 (0.82%)	ASP.NET
5	3 (0.82%)	EDI
5	3 (0.82%)	REST
5	3 (0.82%)	Sensu
5	3 (0.82%)	WAP
6	2 (0.54%)	Oracle GoldenGate
6	2 (0.54%)	RabbitMQ
7	1 (0.27%)	HTML
7	1 (0.27%)	libvirt
7	1 (0.27%)	Rendezvous
7	1 (0.27%)	Software Packaging
7	1 (0.27%)	WebSphere MQ
7	1 (0.27%)	XML
7	1 (0.27%)	XSLT

Miscellaneous
1	95 (25.89%)	Data Centre
2	47 (12.81%)	Clustering
3	28 (7.63%)	Replication
4	26 (7.08%)	Analytical Skills
5	14 (3.81%)	Management Information System
6	13 (3.54%)	Fixed Income
7	10 (2.72%)	Computer Science
7	10 (2.72%)	Enterprise Storage
8	9 (2.45%)	Private Cloud
9	6 (1.63%)	Derivative
9	6 (1.63%)	Greenfield Project
9	6 (1.63%)	Video Conferencing
10	5 (1.36%)	EMC VMAX
10	5 (1.36%)	Linux Command Line
10	5 (1.36%)	PKI
11	4 (1.09%)	EMC VNX
11	4 (1.09%)	Hedge funds
11	4 (1.09%)	Mainframe
11	4 (1.09%)	Public Cloud
12	3 (0.82%)	Blackberry

Operating Systems
1	215 (58.58%)	Windows
2	143 (38.96%)	Linux
3	132 (35.97%)	Windows Server
4	89 (24.25%)	Windows Server 2012
5	82 (22.34%)	Unix
6	81 (22.07%)	Windows Server 2008
7	80 (21.80%)	Solaris
8	55 (14.99%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	40 (10.90%)	AIX
10	36 (9.81%)	Windows Server 2003
11	27 (7.36%)	Windows 7
12	24 (6.54%)	Windows 10
13	15 (4.09%)	CentOS
14	13 (3.54%)	SUSE
15	8 (2.18%)	Data ONTAP
16	6 (1.63%)	VMS
17	5 (1.36%)	Windows 8
17	5 (1.36%)	Windows Vista
18	4 (1.09%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
19	3 (0.82%)	Oracle Linux

Processes & Methodologies
1	80 (21.80%)	Migration
2	60 (16.35%)	DevOps
3	48 (13.08%)	ITIL
4	36 (9.81%)	Disaster Recovery
5	21 (5.72%)	Performance Tuning
6	20 (5.45%)	Agile Software Development
6	20 (5.45%)	Project Management
7	19 (5.18%)	High Availability
7	19 (5.18%)	Virtual Environments
8	18 (4.90%)	Server Building
9	17 (4.63%)	Change Management
9	17 (4.63%)	Configuration Management
10	16 (4.36%)	Server Virtualisation
10	16 (4.36%)	Task Automation
11	14 (3.81%)	Network Management
11	14 (3.81%)	PRINCE2
12	13 (3.54%)	Capacity Planning
12	13 (3.54%)	Web Operations
13	12 (3.27%)	Load Balancing
14	11 (3.00%)	Network Design

Programming Languages
1	79 (21.53%)	PowerShell
2	50 (13.62%)	SQL
3	35 (9.54%)	Perl
4	28 (7.63%)	Bash Shell
5	27 (7.36%)	Shell Script
6	23 (6.27%)	Python
7	18 (4.90%)	Korn
8	14 (3.81%)	Java
9	12 (3.27%)	C#
10	5 (1.36%)	C
10	5 (1.36%)	T-SQL
11	4 (1.09%)	JavaScript
11	4 (1.09%)	Ruby
11	4 (1.09%)	VBScript
12	3 (0.82%)	VB.NET
13	1 (0.27%)	Apple Swift
13	1 (0.27%)	Objective-C
13	1 (0.27%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	48 (13.08%)	Security Cleared
2	36 (9.81%)	SC Cleared
3	34 (9.26%)	Cisco Certification
3	34 (9.26%)	Microsoft Certification
4	29 (7.90%)	MCSE
5	27 (7.36%)	CCNA
6	24 (6.54%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7	19 (5.18%)	CCNP
8	11 (3.00%)	Degree
9	8 (2.18%)	DV Cleared
10	7 (1.91%)	CCDA
10	7 (1.91%)	Citrix Certification
10	7 (1.91%)	JNCIA
10	7 (1.91%)	JNCIP
10	7 (1.91%)	JNCIS
11	6 (1.63%)	CCIE
11	6 (1.63%)	MCITP
11	6 (1.63%)	VCP6
12	5 (1.36%)	CCSP
12	5 (1.36%)	Computer Science Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	17 (4.63%)	SLA
2	7 (1.91%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	4 (1.09%)	PCI DSS
4	2 (0.54%)	QA
5	1 (0.27%)	BS25999
5	1 (0.27%)	COBIT
5	1 (0.27%)	GPG13
5	1 (0.27%)	ISO 9001
5	1 (0.27%)	PA-DSS
5	1 (0.27%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
5	1 (0.27%)	SAS 70

System Software
1	128 (34.88%)	Active Directory
2	118 (32.15%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	75 (20.44%)	Hyper-V
4	45 (12.26%)	VMware ESXi
5	34 (9.26%)	vSphere
6	28 (7.63%)	XenApp
7	25 (6.81%)	XenDesktop
8	22 (5.99%)	NFS
9	15 (4.09%)	Virtual Machines
10	9 (2.45%)	DFS Replication
10	9 (2.45%)	Virtual Servers
11	8 (2.18%)	Oracle RAC
11	8 (2.18%)	Veritas Cluster Server
11	8 (2.18%)	Veritas Volume Manager
12	7 (1.91%)	GPFS
12	7 (1.91%)	SRDF
13	5 (1.36%)	Terminal Services
13	5 (1.36%)	vCloud
14	4 (1.09%)	KVM
14	4 (1.09%)	VMware Server

Systems Management
1	59 (16.08%)	SCCM
2	54 (14.71%)	Puppet
3	37 (10.08%)	NetBackup
4	29 (7.90%)	vCenter Server
5	24 (6.54%)	SCOM
6	17 (4.63%)	Microsoft Clustering
7	16 (4.36%)	Opscode Chef
8	12 (3.27%)	Ansible
8	12 (3.27%)	Nagios
8	12 (3.27%)	Red Hat Satellite
8	12 (3.27%)	WMI
9	9 (2.45%)	Salt
10	8 (2.18%)	Norton AntiVirus
10	8 (2.18%)	Tivoli
11	7 (1.91%)	Backup Exec
11	7 (1.91%)	SCVMM
11	7 (1.91%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
12	6 (1.63%)	AirWatch
12	6 (1.63%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
13	5 (1.36%)	Oracle RMAN

Vendors
1	198 (53.95%)	VMware
2	99 (26.98%)	Microsoft
3	98 (26.70%)	Cisco
4	78 (21.25%)	Citrix
5	76 (20.71%)	HP
6	57 (15.53%)	NetApp
7	56 (15.26%)	Oracle
8	53 (14.44%)	EMC
8	53 (14.44%)	IBM
9	49 (13.35%)	Red Hat
10	25 (6.81%)	Dell
11	23 (6.27%)	Veritas
12	22 (5.99%)	Symantec
13	20 (5.45%)	3PAR
13	20 (5.45%)	Brocade
14	18 (4.90%)	CheckPoint
14	18 (4.90%)	Palo Alto
15	17 (4.63%)	Fortinet
16	15 (4.09%)	Juniper
17	14 (3.81%)	Sophos