The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 82 71 78
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +7
Permanent jobs citing NAS 12 9 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.102% 0.946% 0.114%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.494% 4.018% 0.962%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 1
Average salary £32,500 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-35.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.65%
All Communications & Networking
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
267 224 104
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 24.52% 23.55% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 242 182 97
Average salary £50,000 £45,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.89% +1.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £32,500 £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%
NAS
East of England

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire NAS Jobs Demand Trend

NAS
Salary Trend

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

Bedfordshire NAS Salary Trend

NAS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Dunstable - 9 £29,000 -
Bedford -10 1 £32,500 -
NAS
East of England

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing NAS 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 NAS.

1 34 (87.18%) Windows
1 34 (87.18%) MS Exchange
1 34 (87.18%) Active Directory
2 33 (84.62%) VMware
3 32 (82.05%) SAN
4 31 (79.49%) Windows Server 2008
5 29 (74.36%) Exchange Server 2010
6 28 (71.79%) Microsoft
7 27 (69.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (69.23%) MCSE
7 27 (69.23%) SQL Server
8 26 (66.67%) Citrix
8 26 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
8 26 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
9 25 (64.10%) DNS
10 23 (58.97%) VMware Infrastructure
11 22 (56.41%) XenApp
11 22 (56.41%) Windows 7
11 22 (56.41%) HP
11 22 (56.41%) SQL Server 2005
12 21 (53.85%) DHCP
12 21 (53.85%) NFS
12 21 (53.85%) Hyper-V
12 21 (53.85%) MCITP
13 18 (46.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 17 (43.59%) Firewall
14 17 (43.59%) LANDesk
14 17 (43.59%) XenDesktop
15 16 (41.03%) XenServer
15 16 (41.03%) Office Communications Server

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing NAS 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 NAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.564%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 34 (87.18%) MS Exchange
2 29 (74.36%) Exchange Server 2010
3 26 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
4 16 (41.03%) Office Communications Server
4 16 (41.03%) Lync
5 1 (2.564%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.564%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (7.692%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.564%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 32 (82.05%) SAN
2 25 (64.10%) DNS
3 21 (53.85%) DHCP
4 17 (43.59%) Firewall
5 16 (41.03%) iSCSI
6 15 (38.46%) Network Security
7 8 (20.51%) TCP/IP
8 4 (10.26%) VLAN
9 3 (7.692%) LAN
9 3 (7.692%) WAN
10 1 (2.564%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (2.564%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (69.23%) SQL Server
2 26 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 22 (56.41%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 11 (28.21%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Wintel Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Analyst
3 7 (17.95%) Server Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (10.26%) Administrator
4 4 (10.26%) Server Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (10.26%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (7.692%) Wintel Server Engineer
6 2 (5.128%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.128%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) Wintel Support
7 1 (2.564%) Windows Server Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) Wintel Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Computer Science
2 1 (2.564%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 34 (87.18%) Windows
2 31 (79.49%) Windows Server 2008
3 22 (56.41%) Windows 7
4 14 (35.90%) Linux
5 12 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (12.82%) UNIX
7 2 (5.128%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.564%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) Network Load Balancing
2 13 (33.33%) ITIL
3 9 (23.08%) Change Management
4 4 (10.26%) Migration
5 2 (5.128%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (2.564%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (2.564%) Configuration Management
6 1 (2.564%) Project Management
6 1 (2.564%) CRM
6 1 (2.564%) Incident Management
6 1 (2.564%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) Shell Script
1 5 (12.82%) C-shell
1 5 (12.82%) Bash shell
2 1 (2.564%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (69.23%) Microsoft Certification
1 27 (69.23%) MCSE
2 21 (53.85%) MCITP
3 18 (46.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 12 (30.77%) MCP
5 11 (28.21%) MCTS
5 11 (28.21%) MCSA
5 11 (28.21%) Degree
6 9 (23.08%) CCA
6 9 (23.08%) Citrix Certification
7 8 (20.51%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (20.51%) CCNA
8 5 (12.82%) RHCE
8 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
8 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.564%) QA
System Software
1 34 (87.18%) Active Directory
2 23 (58.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (56.41%) XenApp
4 21 (53.85%) NFS
4 21 (53.85%) Hyper-V
5 17 (43.59%) XenDesktop
6 16 (41.03%) XenServer
7 14 (35.90%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (12.82%) VMware ESX
8 5 (12.82%) Samba
9 4 (10.26%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (7.692%) Terminal Server
11 2 (5.128%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (2.564%) ISA Server
12 1 (2.564%) vSphere
12 1 (2.564%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 16 (41.03%) WSUS
2 1 (2.564%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.564%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 33 (84.62%) VMware
2 28 (71.79%) Microsoft
3 26 (66.67%) Citrix
4 22 (56.41%) HP
5 17 (43.59%) LANDesk
6 14 (35.90%) EMC
6 14 (35.90%) CommVault
7 2 (5.128%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.564%) 3Com
8 1 (2.564%) Symantec
8 1 (2.564%) McAfee
8 1 (2.564%) Cisco
8 1 (2.564%) Oracle
8 1 (2.564%) VocaLink