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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 618 795
Rank change year-on-year +69 +177 -126
Contract jobs citing iSCSI 22 69 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.12% 0.056%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.41% 0.97% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 36
10th Percentile £350 £381 £368
25th Percentile £359 £444 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% +10.26% -2.50%
75th Percentile £722 £585 £574
90th Percentile £972 £613 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -16.22% +2.78% -16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +142.31% +13.97%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £63.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year - +142.31% +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 5,394 7,081 9,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.67% 12.44% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,577 6,274
10th Percentile £205 £235 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 458 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.21 £50.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.65 £65.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -7.37%

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 18 May 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 18 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
UK excluding London +26 18 £388 -16.22% 10
England +85 17 £388 -26.19% 10
South East +30 10 £375 -10.45% 4
Scotland +21 5 £693 +21.37%
London +88 4 £563 -3.85% 2
Work from Home +90 2 £413 -21.43% 6
Midlands +23 2 £1,000 +173.97% 1
West Midlands +23 2 £1,000 +173.97% 1
North West - 1 £300 -
North of England - 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 (31.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (22.73%) SAS
3 3 (13.64%) IIS
3 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
3 3 (13.64%) WordPress
4 1 (4.55%) Apache
4 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) OpenShift
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (13.64%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (81.82%) SAN
2 13 (59.09%) Fibre Channel
3 10 (45.45%) DNS
3 10 (45.45%) VLAN
4 9 (40.91%) Firewall
5 8 (36.36%) VPN
6 7 (31.82%) DHCP
6 7 (31.82%) NAS
7 6 (27.27%) TCP/IP
8 4 (18.18%) SSL
8 4 (18.18%) VoIP
8 4 (18.18%) Wireless
9 2 (9.09%) LAN
9 2 (9.09%) WAN
10 1 (4.55%) InfiniBand
10 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
10 1 (4.55%) MPLS
10 1 (4.55%) Network Security
10 1 (4.55%) Spanning Tree
10 1 (4.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) DB2
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 15 (68.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Local Government
3 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Storage Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Virtualisation Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Python Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Network Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Flash
1 5 (22.73%) POSIX
2 4 (18.18%) LAMP
3 1 (4.55%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (4.55%) LDAP
3 1 (4.55%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (22.73%) NVMe
2 4 (18.18%) Client/Server
3 3 (13.64%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (13.64%) Replication
4 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (86.36%) Linux
2 10 (45.45%) Windows
3 9 (40.91%) Unix
3 9 (40.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (18.18%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (13.64%) Ubuntu
5 3 (13.64%) VMS
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (36.36%) Storage Management
3 5 (22.73%) Capacity Management
3 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
3 5 (22.73%) High Availability
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (22.73%) Observability
3 5 (22.73%) Preventative Maintenance
3 5 (22.73%) Problem Management
3 5 (22.73%) RBAC
3 5 (22.73%) SDLC
4 4 (18.18%) Change Management
4 4 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (18.18%) OO
4 4 (18.18%) Security Management
4 4 (18.18%) Storage Virtualisation
4 4 (18.18%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 3 (13.64%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (13.64%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Perl
1 6 (27.27%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) SQL
4 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) MCSE
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (18.18%) CCNA
2 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.55%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) vSphere
2 7 (31.82%) NFS
2 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 4 (18.18%) Docker
3 4 (18.18%) Firmware
3 4 (18.18%) GPFS
4 1 (4.55%) Ceph
4 1 (4.55%) iptables
4 1 (4.55%) KVM
4 1 (4.55%) Lustre
4 1 (4.55%) Samba
4 1 (4.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Terminal Services
4 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (18.18%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 3 (13.64%) SCCM
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Avamar
3 1 (4.55%) HAProxy
3 1 (4.55%) SELinux
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) VMware
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 4 (18.18%) Brocade
3 4 (18.18%) EMC
3 4 (18.18%) Google
3 4 (18.18%) IBM
3 4 (18.18%) NetApp
3 4 (18.18%) Sybase
3 4 (18.18%) Veritas
4 3 (13.64%) Aruba
4 3 (13.64%) Palo Alto
4 3 (13.64%) ProCurve
4 3 (13.64%) Synology
4 3 (13.64%) Veeam
4 3 (13.64%) Zerto
5 1 (4.55%) Citrix
5 1 (4.55%) Dell