iSCSI
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for iSCSI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited iSCSI over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 630 810
Rank change year-on-year +79 +180 -182
Contract jobs citing iSCSI 28 70 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.12% 0.056%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.50% 0.95% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 33 35
10th Percentile £350 £385 £354
25th Percentile £363 £450 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £679 £588 £574
90th Percentile £889 £630 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £618 £525 £420
% change year-on-year +17.62% +25.00% -21.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £61.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +136.54% +13.97%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £61.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year - +136.54% +13.97%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

iSCSI 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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,652 7,386 9,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.98% 12.32% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,383 4,806 6,382
10th Percentile £205 £231 £228
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% +3.95% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £433
% change year-on-year - +9.70% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 486 366
10th Percentile £13.57 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.35 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +1.85%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £50.58
90th Percentile £67.40 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

iSCSI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing iSCSI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for iSCSI in the UK

iSCSI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing iSCSI.

Daily rate trend for iSCSI in the UK

iSCSI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing iSCSI over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for iSCSI in the UK

iSCSI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing iSCSI.

Hourly rate trend for iSCSI in the UK

iSCSI
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iSCSI within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
UK excluding London +42 21 £618 +17.62% 14
England +91 19 £388 -31.11% 13
South East +24 10 £375 -34.78% 6
Scotland +16 8 £637 +11.47%
London +98 6 £563 -3.85% 2
Work from Home +103 2 £413 -21.43% 5
West Midlands +31 2 £1,000 +173.97% 2
Midlands +28 2 £1,000 +173.97% 2
North of England +27 1 £300 -29.41%
North West - 1 £300 -

iSCSI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (25.00%) SAS
2 3 (10.71%) IIS
2 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.71%) WordPress
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
3 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
4 3 (10.71%) Cohesity
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.71%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (64.29%) SAN
2 16 (57.14%) Fibre Channel
3 12 (42.86%) DNS
3 12 (42.86%) Firewall
4 10 (35.71%) VLAN
5 8 (28.57%) VPN
6 7 (25.00%) DHCP
6 7 (25.00%) NAS
7 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
8 4 (14.29%) SSL
8 4 (14.29%) VoIP
8 4 (14.29%) Wireless
9 3 (10.71%) BGP
10 2 (7.14%) LAN
10 2 (7.14%) WAN
11 1 (3.57%) InfiniBand
11 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
11 1 (3.57%) MPLS
11 1 (3.57%) Network Security
11 1 (3.57%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) DB2
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Banking
3 4 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Local Government
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Virtualisation Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Python Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Developer
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) Flash
1 7 (25.00%) POSIX
2 4 (14.29%) LAMP
3 3 (10.71%) SAML
4 1 (3.57%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (3.57%) LDAP
4 1 (3.57%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Client/Server
1 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (17.86%) NVMe
2 3 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (10.71%) PKI
2 3 (10.71%) Replication
3 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (78.57%) Linux
2 16 (57.14%) Windows
3 15 (53.57%) Windows Server
4 12 (42.86%) Unix
5 6 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (14.29%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (10.71%) Ubuntu
7 3 (10.71%) VMS
7 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (28.57%) Storage Management
3 7 (25.00%) RBAC
3 7 (25.00%) SDLC
4 5 (17.86%) Capacity Management
4 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
4 5 (17.86%) High Availability
4 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (17.86%) Observability
4 5 (17.86%) Preventative Maintenance
4 5 (17.86%) Problem Management
5 4 (14.29%) Change Management
5 4 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 4 (14.29%) OO
5 4 (14.29%) Security Management
5 4 (14.29%) Server Building
5 4 (14.29%) Storage Virtualisation
5 4 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) Perl
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) MCSE
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (14.29%) CCNA
2 4 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.57%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) NFS
1 12 (42.86%) vSphere
2 7 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.29%) Docker
3 4 (14.29%) Firmware
3 4 (14.29%) GPFS
3 4 (14.29%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.57%) Ceph
4 1 (3.57%) iptables
4 1 (3.57%) KVM
4 1 (3.57%) Lustre
4 1 (3.57%) Samba
4 1 (3.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (14.29%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 3 (10.71%) SCCM
3 3 (10.71%) vRealize
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) Avamar
4 1 (3.57%) HAProxy
4 1 (3.57%) SELinux
4 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) VMware
2 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 6 (21.43%) Aruba
4 5 (17.86%) Google
5 4 (14.29%) Brocade
5 4 (14.29%) EMC
5 4 (14.29%) IBM
5 4 (14.29%) NetApp
5 4 (14.29%) Sybase
5 4 (14.29%) Veritas
6 3 (10.71%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
6 3 (10.71%) ProCurve
6 3 (10.71%) Synology
6 3 (10.71%) Veeam
6 3 (10.71%) Zerto
7 1 (3.57%) Citrix
7 1 (3.57%) Dell