The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 17 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 Belfast region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 34 33 30
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -3
Permanent jobs citing SAN 11 6 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 4.472% 2.899% 3.352%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.92% 13.04% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 0
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
65 46 42
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 26.42% 22.22% 23.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25 21 7
Average salary £40,000 £30,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
SAN
County Antrim

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Belfast SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 9 (75.00%) Windows
1 9 (75.00%) VMware
1 9 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (66.67%) vSphere
2 8 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 8 (66.67%) Degree
2 8 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 8 (66.67%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) EMC
4 5 (41.67%) Citrix
4 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (41.67%) Oracle
5 4 (33.33%) MS Office
5 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 4 (33.33%) LAN
5 4 (33.33%) WAN
5 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 4 (33.33%) Network Security
5 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (33.33%) Validation
5 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) EqualLogic
5 4 (33.33%) 3PAR
5 4 (33.33%) Lync
5 4 (33.33%) Office 365
5 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (33.33%) Hyper-V

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (33.33%) Lync
3 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (8.333%) MS Exchange
3 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MS Office
1 4 (33.33%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) LAN
1 4 (33.33%) WAN
1 4 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (16.67%) NAS
General
1 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
1 1 (8.333%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Technical Design Authority
2 1 (8.333%) Consultant
2 1 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (8.333%) Administrator
2 1 (8.333%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 1 (8.333%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (8.333%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (8.333%) Storage Specialist
2 1 (8.333%) Virtualisation Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (33.33%) EqualLogic
3 1 (8.333%) CLARiiON
3 1 (8.333%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (16.67%) UNIX
5 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (33.33%) Validation
1 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (8.333%) Service Delivery
3 1 (8.333%) Time Management
3 1 (8.333%) Data Migration
3 1 (8.333%) Migration
3 1 (8.333%) TOGAF
3 1 (8.333%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.333%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (66.67%) vSphere
3 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 4 (33.33%) XenServer
3 4 (33.33%) XenDesktop
4 1 (8.333%) SRDF
4 1 (8.333%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) EMC
3 5 (41.67%) Citrix
3 5 (41.67%) Oracle
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (33.33%) 3PAR
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco
6 1 (8.333%) Brocade
6 1 (8.333%) Fujitsu
6 1 (8.333%) NetApp
6 1 (8.333%) StorageTek
6 1 (8.333%) Veritas
6 1 (8.333%) TIBCO
6 1 (8.333%) Symantec