SAN Contracts in the Thames Valley

Storage Area Network (SAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for SAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAN over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 127 132
Rank change year-on-year +32 +5 -11
Contract jobs citing SAN 48 17 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.82% 0.60% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.44% 3.82% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 10 14
10th Percentile £280 £309 £363
25th Percentile £381 £356 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% +6.95% +4.17%
75th Percentile £608 £550 -
90th Percentile - £558 £660
South East median daily rate £475 £363 £500
% change year-on-year +31.03% -27.50% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £78.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £78.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -1.88% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

SAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 569 445 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.52% 15.78% 17.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 273 345
10th Percentile £205 £300 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £466
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +4.57% +16.54%
75th Percentile £591 £573 £550
90th Percentile £639 £648 £638
South East median daily rate £488 £481 £450
% change year-on-year +1.44% +6.79% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 15 19
10th Percentile £17.36 £18.90 £12.21
25th Percentile £23.36 £22.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +288.24% -40.87%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.48 £81.22 £34.70
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +9.24% +144.19% -37.68%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAN in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SAN in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAN in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +7 31 £598 +64.83% 3
Buckinghamshire +33 15 £550 - 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £525 - 4
SAN
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.17%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) Azure
2 14 (29.17%) OCI
3 2 (4.17%) Azure Stack
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (37.50%) DHCP
1 18 (37.50%) DNS
2 16 (33.33%) Firewall
3 13 (27.08%) TCP/IP
4 4 (8.33%) NAS
5 2 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (4.17%) WAN
5 2 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) MySQL
1 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 26 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (27.08%) Developer
2 13 (27.08%) Python Developer
3 10 (20.83%) Storage Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Data Centre Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Break Fix Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Backend Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Server Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (6.25%) Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Analyst Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Linux Developer
7 3 (6.25%) PowerShell Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Programmer
7 3 (6.25%) Security Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 10 (20.83%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.33%) Fat Client
3 4 (8.33%) PKI
3 4 (8.33%) Thin Client
4 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (4.17%) CCTV
5 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 36 (75.00%) Linux
2 23 (47.92%) Windows
2 23 (47.92%) Windows Server 2019
3 19 (39.58%) Ubuntu
3 19 (39.58%) Windows Server 2012
4 18 (37.50%) Windows Server
5 17 (35.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (29.17%) Windows 10
6 14 (29.17%) Windows XP
7 13 (27.08%) Debian
8 10 (20.83%) Unix
9 5 (10.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (4.17%) Android
10 2 (4.17%) Mac OS
10 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (68.75%) ITIL
2 20 (41.67%) Break/Fix
3 19 (39.58%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (33.33%) Project Management
6 14 (29.17%) Converged Infrastructure
6 14 (29.17%) Performance Monitoring
6 14 (29.17%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (29.17%) Proactive Monitoring
6 14 (29.17%) Server Management
6 14 (29.17%) Storage Management
7 13 (27.08%) Data Modelling
8 12 (25.00%) Agile
9 11 (22.92%) Configuration Management
9 11 (22.92%) Data Engineering
9 11 (22.92%) Incident Management
9 11 (22.92%) Prototyping
9 11 (22.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 9 (18.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 13 (27.08%) Python
3 3 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 31 (64.58%) SC Cleared
3 22 (45.83%) DV Cleared
4 17 (35.42%) Degree
5 14 (29.17%) CCNA
5 14 (29.17%) CCNP
5 14 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.17%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.83%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (45.83%) Active Directory
2 18 (37.50%) VMware ESXi
3 16 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (29.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (37.50%) vCenter Server
1 18 (37.50%) WSUS
2 17 (35.42%) NetBackup
3 16 (33.33%) SCCM
4 14 (29.17%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (29.17%) SCOM
5 4 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (8.33%) Ansible
5 4 (8.33%) Nessus
5 4 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (8.33%) ZABBIX
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (4.17%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 35 (72.92%) VMware
2 30 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 26 (54.17%) HP
4 24 (50.00%) Red Hat
5 21 (43.75%) Dell
6 20 (41.67%) Veeam
7 18 (37.50%) Oracle
8 17 (35.42%) 3PAR
9 16 (33.33%) Cisco
10 14 (29.17%) EMC
10 14 (29.17%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (29.17%) Juniper
10 14 (29.17%) Palo Alto
10 14 (29.17%) Symantec
11 5 (10.42%) Nimble Storage
12 3 (6.25%) NetApp
12 3 (6.25%) Veritas
13 2 (4.17%) Aruba
13 2 (4.17%) Remedy
13 2 (4.17%) Sage