The first table below looks at the demand for iSCSI skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited iSCSI over the 3 months to 23 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
iSCSI
Rank 53 64 72
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +8
Permanent jobs citing iSCSI 41 18 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 3.818% 1.889% 0.224%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.47% 7.826% 1.869%
Number of salaries quoted 40 13 2
Average salary £48,500 £45,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.77% +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £34,250
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +24.08%
All Communications & Networking
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
265 230 107
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 24.67% 24.13% 11.97%
Number of salaries quoted 240 186 100
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £34,383 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
iSCSI
East of England

iSCSI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire iSCSI Jobs Demand Trend

iSCSI
Salary Trend

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

Bedfordshire iSCSI Salary Trend

iSCSI
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing iSCSI across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Bedfordshire iSCSI Salary Histogram

iSCSI
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing iSCSI within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bedford - 11 £50,000 -
Luton +3 10 £50,000 +11.11%
Dunstable - 9 £29,000 -
iSCSI
East of England

iSCSI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing iSCSI 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 iSCSI.

1 81 (100.00%) Windows
2 80 (98.77%) VMware
3 63 (77.78%) VMware ESX
3 63 (77.78%) vSphere
4 58 (71.60%) IIS
5 57 (70.37%) Microsoft
6 54 (66.67%) TCP/IP
7 50 (61.73%) Linux
8 49 (60.49%) MySQL
8 49 (60.49%) SAN
8 49 (60.49%) SaaS
9 44 (54.32%) Apache
10 36 (44.44%) Cisco
10 36 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
11 35 (43.21%) Fibre Channel
12 32 (39.51%) Change Management
12 32 (39.51%) DNS
12 32 (39.51%) ITIL
12 32 (39.51%) DHCP
12 32 (39.51%) Problem Management
13 30 (37.04%) Service Management
14 29 (35.80%) SQL
14 29 (35.80%) Oracle
15 25 (30.86%) Windows Server 2008
16 22 (27.16%) HP
17 18 (22.22%) Supplier Management
17 18 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
18 17 (20.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 17 (20.99%) SQL Server
19 16 (19.75%) NFS

iSCSI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing iSCSI 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 iSCSI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (2.469%) COM
Application Platforms
1 58 (71.60%) IIS
2 44 (54.32%) Apache
3 16 (19.75%) MS Exchange
3 16 (19.75%) Lync
3 16 (19.75%) Exchange Server 2010
3 16 (19.75%) Exchange Server 2007
3 16 (19.75%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (1.235%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (8.642%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 54 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 49 (60.49%) SAN
3 35 (43.21%) Fibre Channel
4 32 (39.51%) DNS
4 32 (39.51%) DHCP
5 16 (19.75%) NAS
6 15 (18.52%) Network Security
6 15 (18.52%) Firewall
7 7 (8.642%) DMZ
8 5 (6.173%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (60.49%) MySQL
2 17 (20.99%) SQL Server
3 16 (19.75%) SQL Server 2005
3 16 (19.75%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 10 (12.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 38 (46.91%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (41.98%) Systems Engineer
3 20 (24.69%) Linux Administrator
3 20 (24.69%) Administrator
4 15 (18.52%) Wintel Engineer
4 15 (18.52%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 15 (18.52%) Systems Administrator
5 10 (12.35%) VMware Specialist
6 8 (9.877%) Server Engineer
6 8 (9.877%) VMware Engineer
7 6 (7.407%) Architect
7 6 (7.407%) VMware Architect
8 5 (6.173%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 3 (3.704%) Wintel Server Engineer
10 1 (1.235%) Wintel Support Engineer
10 1 (1.235%) Support Engineer
10 1 (1.235%) Wintel Support
10 1 (1.235%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 49 (60.49%) SaaS
2 12 (14.81%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.235%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 81 (100.00%) Windows
2 50 (61.73%) Linux
3 25 (30.86%) Windows Server 2008
4 16 (19.75%) Windows 7
5 13 (16.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (6.173%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.235%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (39.51%) Change Management
1 32 (39.51%) ITIL
1 32 (39.51%) Problem Management
2 30 (37.04%) Service Management
3 18 (22.22%) Supplier Management
3 18 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 16 (19.75%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (3.704%) Incident Management
6 2 (2.469%) Service Delivery
6 2 (2.469%) Change Control
7 1 (1.235%) Configuration Management
7 1 (1.235%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (1.235%) Business Continuity
7 1 (1.235%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 29 (35.80%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (20.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 12 (14.81%) Degree
3 10 (12.35%) MCITP
3 10 (12.35%) MCTS
3 10 (12.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (12.35%) MCP
3 10 (12.35%) MCSE
3 10 (12.35%) MCSA
4 9 (11.11%) CCA
4 9 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (1.235%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.235%) QA
2 1 (1.235%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (77.78%) VMware ESX
1 63 (77.78%) vSphere
2 36 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (19.75%) NFS
3 16 (19.75%) Active Directory
3 16 (19.75%) XenApp
3 16 (19.75%) XenDesktop
4 15 (18.52%) XenServer
4 15 (18.52%) Hyper-V
5 14 (17.28%) Microsoft App-V
6 11 (13.58%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (8.642%) VMFS
8 4 (4.938%) VMware Server
9 3 (3.704%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 16 (19.75%) WSUS
2 6 (7.407%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 80 (98.77%) VMware
2 57 (70.37%) Microsoft
3 36 (44.44%) Cisco
4 29 (35.80%) Oracle
5 22 (27.16%) HP
6 16 (19.75%) Red Hat
6 16 (19.75%) Citrix
6 16 (19.75%) LANDesk
7 14 (17.28%) EMC
7 14 (17.28%) CommVault
8 7 (8.642%) Dell
9 2 (2.469%) Salesforce.com
10 1 (1.235%) VocaLink
10 1 (1.235%) Nimsoft
Bedford, Bedfordshire
The right Red Hat Specialist / Linux Systems Engineer will have solid datacenter experience, working with Linux server (including Apache & MySQL), SAN (including FC & iSCSI switching) and TCP/IP...
Gregory James
Salary: £50000 to £55000 per annum - excellent benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
The right Linux Systems Administrator / Systems Engineer will have solid datacenter experience, working with Linux server (including Apache & MySQL), SAN (including FC & iSCSI switching) and TCP/IP networking.
Gregory James
Salary: £45000 to £52000 per annum - 10% annual bonus, pension, healthcare
Posted: 17 May 2013
Luton, South East
TCP/IP networking over Cisco Catalyst switches Storage Area Networks, including FC and iSCSI switching Desirable: Windows Server (up to 2008) including Microsoft Cluster Services, Microsoft IIS web...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Luton, South East
Essential: At least 5 years commercial Linux data centre experience Linux server (inc. Apache, mySQL) LAMP TCP/IP networking over Cisco Catalyst switches Storage Area Networks, including FC...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013