The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 22 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 Aberdeen region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 31 42 38
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -4
Permanent jobs citing SAN 16 9 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 4.624% 2.123% 0.755%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.09% 10.84% 4.444%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 1
Average salary £42,500 £30,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.66% -25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-1.23% +1.25%
All Communications & Networking
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
55 83 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 15.90% 19.58% 16.98%
Number of salaries quoted 36 71 40
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% -23.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £20,450 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £57,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
Scotland

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen SAN Jobs Demand Trend

SAN
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SAN across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Aberdeen SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing SAN 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SAN.

1 35 (94.59%) VMware
2 30 (81.08%) Windows
2 30 (81.08%) Citrix
3 27 (72.97%) Microsoft
4 26 (70.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 25 (67.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 21 (56.76%) Windows Server 2003
7 16 (43.24%) DNS
8 14 (37.84%) ITIL
8 14 (37.84%) Active Directory
9 12 (32.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (32.43%) Cisco
9 12 (32.43%) MS Exchange
9 12 (32.43%) Service Delivery
10 10 (27.03%) NAS
10 10 (27.03%) Capacity Planning
10 10 (27.03%) Capacity Management
10 10 (27.03%) MCSE
10 10 (27.03%) CCNA
10 10 (27.03%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (24.32%) CommVault
11 9 (24.32%) NetApp
11 9 (24.32%) IIS
11 9 (24.32%) Exchange Server 2010
11 9 (24.32%) SCCM
11 9 (24.32%) MCITP
12 8 (21.62%) WSUS
12 8 (21.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 8 (21.62%) Linux
12 8 (21.62%) Perl

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing SAN also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited SAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (5.405%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 12 (32.43%) MS Exchange
2 9 (24.32%) IIS
2 9 (24.32%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (21.62%) Site Server
4 6 (16.22%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (10.81%) Lync
6 2 (5.405%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (2.703%) SharePoint
7 1 (2.703%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.703%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (43.24%) DNS
2 10 (27.03%) NAS
3 8 (21.62%) DHCP
4 7 (18.92%) TCP/IP
5 5 (13.51%) LAN
5 5 (13.51%) WAN
6 4 (10.81%) NetScaler
7 2 (5.405%) Firewall
8 1 (2.703%) VPN
8 1 (2.703%) Internet
8 1 (2.703%) MPLS
8 1 (2.703%) BGP
8 1 (2.703%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (2.703%) Wireless
8 1 (2.703%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.703%) MS Access
2 1 (2.703%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.703%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (2.703%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 4 (10.81%) Finance
2 2 (5.405%) Back Office
3 1 (2.703%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.703%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (27.03%) Consultant
1 10 (27.03%) Technical Consultant
2 8 (21.62%) IT Consultant
3 7 (18.92%) Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 3 (8.108%) Administrator
5 3 (8.108%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.405%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (5.405%) IT Administrator
6 2 (5.405%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.405%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.405%) Architect
7 1 (2.703%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.703%) Programme Manager
7 1 (2.703%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.703%) Technical Design Authority
7 1 (2.703%) Technical Design Consultant
7 1 (2.703%) Technical Design Leader
7 1 (2.703%) Network Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Clustering
2 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (10.81%) Fat Client
2 4 (10.81%) Thin Client
3 2 (5.405%) CLARiiON
3 2 (5.405%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 30 (81.08%) Windows
2 26 (70.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 21 (56.76%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (21.62%) Linux
5 1 (2.703%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) ITIL
2 12 (32.43%) Service Delivery
3 10 (27.03%) Capacity Planning
3 10 (27.03%) Capacity Management
4 7 (18.92%) Performance Management
5 6 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (10.81%) Security Management
6 4 (10.81%) Load Balancing
7 3 (8.108%) Service Management
7 3 (8.108%) Change Control
7 3 (8.108%) Demand Management
8 2 (5.405%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (5.405%) Project Management
9 1 (2.703%) PRINCE2
9 1 (2.703%) Problem Management
9 1 (2.703%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) Perl
1 8 (21.62%) PHP
1 8 (21.62%) SQL
2 2 (5.405%) VB.NET
3 1 (2.703%) C#
3 1 (2.703%) VBA
3 1 (2.703%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (27.03%) MCSE
2 10 (27.03%) CCNA
2 10 (27.03%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (24.32%) MCITP
4 8 (21.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (18.92%) CCA
5 7 (18.92%) Citrix Certification
6 6 (16.22%) Degree
7 2 (5.405%) MCTS
7 2 (5.405%) CNE
7 2 (5.405%) Novell Certification
7 2 (5.405%) MCP
8 1 (2.703%) HND
8 1 (2.703%) CCNP
8 1 (2.703%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (2.703%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (2.703%) VCDX
8 1 (2.703%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (67.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (37.84%) Active Directory
3 6 (16.22%) vSphere
4 4 (10.81%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (8.108%) XenApp
6 2 (5.405%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.703%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) SCCM
2 8 (21.62%) WSUS
3 5 (13.51%) Backup Exec
4 3 (8.108%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.703%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 35 (94.59%) VMware
2 30 (81.08%) Citrix
3 27 (72.97%) Microsoft
4 12 (32.43%) Cisco
5 9 (24.32%) CommVault
5 9 (24.32%) NetApp
6 8 (21.62%) EMC
7 3 (8.108%) Dell
8 2 (5.405%) Brocade
8 2 (5.405%) Symantec
8 2 (5.405%) HP
9 1 (2.703%) Juniper
9 1 (2.703%) Aruba
9 1 (2.703%) Iron Mountain
9 1 (2.703%) Twitter
9 1 (2.703%) Blue Coat
Aberdeen, Scotland
Support and configure IT infrastructure, for example- high capacity/performance disk configurations and management as well as high-end workstation configuration ** Installation and operation of an effective backup...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 7 May 2013
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
You will also act as technical lead resolving a wide range of technical problems as and when they arise - specifically on the Cisco networking front (Bridges/Routers/Firewalls...
Coburg Banks IT
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
The role combines the programme management element of overseeing a portfolio of projects, with the hands-on delivery of each individual project... Based at the main Aberdeen site,...
RM Education
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + to 10% bonus
Posted: 13 May 2013