The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 64 95 76
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -19
Permanent jobs citing SAN 211 147 139
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 4.041% 2.349% 2.707%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.91% 8.581% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 159 109 95
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +8.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £33,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £60,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-1.23% +1.25%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1634 1713 964
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 31.29% 27.37% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1243 1385 757
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £30,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
South East

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

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

Berkshire SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Reading +41 132 £38,500 -14.44%
Bracknell -24 26 £47,500 +3.26%
Maidenhead +29 19 £48,750 -11.36%
Newbury +10 7 £33,500 -
Slough 0 5 £47,500 +46.15%
Windsor - 3 £55,000 -
Wokingham +10 1 £60,000 +71.42%
SAN
South East

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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.

1 315 (75.00%) Windows
2 199 (47.38%) VMware
3 197 (46.90%) Clustering
4 160 (38.10%) Active Directory
5 157 (37.38%) Linux
6 155 (36.90%) VMware Infrastructure
7 139 (33.10%) SQL
8 133 (31.67%) UNIX
9 127 (30.24%) EMC
10 114 (27.14%) Microsoft
11 98 (23.33%) Windows Server 2008
12 95 (22.62%) NAS
13 94 (22.38%) Cisco
14 88 (20.95%) MS Exchange
15 83 (19.76%) SharePoint
16 81 (19.29%) HP
17 76 (18.10%) Citrix
17 76 (18.10%) German Language
18 75 (17.86%) Veritas
19 73 (17.38%) Windows Server 2003
19 73 (17.38%) Oracle
19 73 (17.38%) Security Cleared
20 72 (17.14%) vSphere
21 71 (16.90%) Solaris
22 67 (15.95%) Finance
23 66 (15.71%) SC Cleared
24 65 (15.48%) Telecoms
25 60 (14.29%) Replication
26 57 (13.57%) Retail
27 55 (13.10%) AIX

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 10 (2.381%) WebSphere
2 7 (1.667%) COM
3 5 (1.190%) SWT
4 3 (0.714%) X-Windows
4 3 (0.714%) Middleware
5 2 (0.476%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 2 (0.476%) .NET
5 2 (0.476%) CGI
6 1 (0.238%) J2EE
6 1 (0.238%) ASP
6 1 (0.238%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.238%) Web Services
6 1 (0.238%) LAMP
6 1 (0.238%) REST
Application Platforms
1 88 (20.95%) MS Exchange
2 83 (19.76%) SharePoint
3 39 (9.286%) Exchange Server 2010
4 35 (8.333%) Lotus Domino
5 22 (5.238%) Lync
6 21 (5.000%) Apache
6 21 (5.000%) Tomcat
6 21 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2003
7 12 (2.857%) IIS
8 11 (2.619%) Lotus Notes
9 9 (2.143%) WebSphere Application Server
9 9 (2.143%) IBM Connections
10 6 (1.429%) SharePoint 2010
10 6 (1.429%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 5 (1.190%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.714%) Exchange Server 2000
13 2 (0.476%) Exchange Server 2007
14 1 (0.238%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.238%) LiveLink
14 1 (0.238%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 40 (9.524%) MS Excel
2 16 (3.810%) MS Office
3 15 (3.571%) Office 365
4 1 (0.238%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.238%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 95 (22.62%) NAS
2 54 (12.86%) Firewall
3 51 (12.14%) WAN
4 50 (11.90%) DNS
4 50 (11.90%) LAN
5 46 (10.95%) DHCP
6 26 (6.190%) TCP/IP
7 20 (4.762%) VPN
8 19 (4.524%) Unified Communications
9 18 (4.286%) Fibre Channel
10 16 (3.810%) ADSL
10 16 (3.810%) Ethernet
10 16 (3.810%) Internet
11 12 (2.857%) iSCSI
11 12 (2.857%) VLAN
11 12 (2.857%) LDAP
12 10 (2.381%) Kerberos
13 9 (2.143%) OSPF
13 9 (2.143%) VRRP
13 9 (2.143%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (12.86%) SQL Server
2 27 (6.429%) DB2
3 24 (5.714%) SQL Server 2005
4 17 (4.048%) MySQL
5 15 (3.571%) IDOL
6 8 (1.905%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.667%) SQL Server 2008
8 4 (0.952%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.238%) SQL Server 2000
9 1 (0.238%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.238%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 15 (3.571%) LoadRunner
2 14 (3.333%) Subversion
3 9 (2.143%) Git (software)
4 5 (1.190%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 76 (18.10%) German Language
2 67 (15.95%) Finance
3 65 (15.48%) Telecoms
4 57 (13.57%) Retail
5 52 (12.38%) French Language
6 15 (3.571%) Back Office
7 13 (3.095%) Spanish Language
8 11 (2.619%) Russian Language
9 6 (1.429%) Italian Language
9 6 (1.429%) Banking
9 6 (1.429%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.190%) Advertising
11 4 (0.952%) Local Government
12 3 (0.714%) Marketing
13 2 (0.476%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.476%) Automotive
14 1 (0.238%) Law
14 1 (0.238%) Billing
Job Titles
1 145 (34.52%) Support Engineer
2 116 (27.62%) Technical Support
3 91 (21.67%) Technical Engineer
4 88 (20.95%) Technical Support Engineer
5 79 (18.81%) Administrator
6 76 (18.10%) Systems Administrator
7 44 (10.48%) Architect
7 44 (10.48%) Consultant
8 42 (10.00%) Technical Administrator
9 37 (8.810%) Storage Engineer
10 29 (6.905%) Solutions Architect
11 27 (6.429%) 3rd Line Support
12 24 (5.714%) Storage Support Engineer
12 24 (5.714%) Technical Consultant
12 24 (5.714%) Technical Architect
13 23 (5.476%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (4.524%) Support Specialist
14 19 (4.524%) Analyst
14 19 (4.524%) Technical Specialist
14 19 (4.524%) Technical Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 197 (46.90%) Clustering
2 60 (14.29%) Replication
3 33 (7.857%) CLARiiON
4 24 (5.714%) Symmetrix
5 15 (3.571%) PKI
6 11 (2.619%) Blackberry
7 9 (2.143%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (1.905%) EqualLogic
9 7 (1.667%) Celerra
9 7 (1.667%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.429%) Open Source
11 5 (1.190%) Informatics
11 5 (1.190%) Semantic Web
12 4 (0.952%) HACMP
13 3 (0.714%) LPAR
13 3 (0.714%) DLPAR
14 1 (0.238%) Thin Client
14 1 (0.238%) Mainframe
14 1 (0.238%) EMC Centera
14 1 (0.238%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 315 (75.00%) Windows
2 157 (37.38%) Linux
3 133 (31.67%) UNIX
4 98 (23.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 73 (17.38%) Windows Server 2003
6 71 (16.90%) Solaris
7 55 (13.10%) AIX
8 50 (11.90%) HPUX
9 48 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 37 (8.810%) Windows XP
11 36 (8.571%) SUSE
12 22 (5.238%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (3.095%) Windows 7
14 11 (2.619%) CentOS
15 8 (1.905%) Ubuntu
15 8 (1.905%) Debian
16 6 (1.429%) Windows 2000
17 3 (0.714%) Windows 8
18 1 (0.238%) MVS
18 1 (0.238%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (11.19%) Data Protection
2 45 (10.71%) ITIL
3 31 (7.381%) High Availability
4 23 (5.476%) Migration
4 23 (5.476%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (5.000%) Service Delivery
6 17 (4.048%) PRINCE2
6 17 (4.048%) Time Management
7 15 (3.571%) Performance Testing
8 14 (3.333%) Performance Management
9 13 (3.095%) Change Management
10 12 (2.857%) Project Management
11 11 (2.619%) Project Planning
11 11 (2.619%) Network Architecture
11 11 (2.619%) Change Control
12 9 (2.143%) Network Design
13 8 (1.905%) Infrastructure Management
13 8 (1.905%) Configuration Management
14 7 (1.667%) PRINCE
14 7 (1.667%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 139 (33.10%) SQL
2 38 (9.048%) Shell Script
3 34 (8.095%) C
4 24 (5.714%) PowerShell
4 24 (5.714%) Perl
5 17 (4.048%) Python
5 17 (4.048%) PHP
5 17 (4.048%) Ruby
6 14 (3.333%) Java
7 12 (2.857%) Bash shell
8 9 (2.143%) VB
9 7 (1.667%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.190%) C++
11 1 (0.238%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 73 (17.38%) Security Cleared
2 66 (15.71%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.333%) Degree
4 30 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (6.190%) MCSE
6 22 (5.238%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (4.286%) NCDA
7 18 (4.286%) NCIE
8 17 (4.048%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 17 (4.048%) MCITP
9 16 (3.810%) DV Cleared
10 15 (3.571%) Citrix Certification
11 14 (3.333%) CCNA
12 13 (3.095%) CCIA
13 12 (2.857%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (2.619%) CCNP
15 10 (2.381%) CCA
15 10 (2.381%) RHCE
16 9 (2.143%) MCSA
17 8 (1.905%) CCEE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.476%) SLA
2 8 (1.905%) QA
3 6 (1.429%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 160 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 155 (36.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (17.14%) vSphere
4 51 (12.14%) Hyper-V
5 43 (10.24%) VMware ESX
6 32 (7.619%) XenServer
6 32 (7.619%) XenDesktop
7 29 (6.905%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 25 (5.952%) VMware ESXi
9 23 (5.476%) UAG
9 23 (5.476%) SRDF
10 17 (4.048%) XenApp
11 12 (2.857%) vCloud
12 9 (2.143%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (2.143%) Citrix Presentation Server
13 6 (1.429%) Forefront TMG
13 6 (1.429%) Xen
14 5 (1.190%) NFS
15 3 (0.714%) ISA Server
16 1 (0.238%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 50 (11.90%) NetBackup
2 22 (5.238%) EMC TimeFinder
3 18 (4.286%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 16 (3.810%) Netcool
4 16 (3.810%) OpenView Configuration Management
5 12 (2.857%) Backup Exec
6 11 (2.619%) SCCM
6 11 (2.619%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 10 (2.381%) Puppet
7 10 (2.381%) Cacti
7 10 (2.381%) Nagios
8 9 (2.143%) WSUS
8 9 (2.143%) SCOM
9 7 (1.667%) Tivoli
10 4 (0.952%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 4 (0.952%) SCVMM
10 4 (0.952%) MIMEsweeper
11 3 (0.714%) ARCserve
12 2 (0.476%) ServiceCenter
13 1 (0.238%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 199 (47.38%) VMware
2 127 (30.24%) EMC
3 114 (27.14%) Microsoft
4 94 (22.38%) Cisco
5 81 (19.29%) HP
6 76 (18.10%) Citrix
7 75 (17.86%) Veritas
8 73 (17.38%) Oracle
9 54 (12.86%) Fujitsu
10 48 (11.43%) Red Hat
11 45 (10.71%) NetApp
11 45 (10.71%) Dell
12 43 (10.24%) Sun
13 38 (9.048%) Hitachi
14 32 (7.619%) Symantec
15 27 (6.429%) Sybase
15 27 (6.429%) IBM
16 24 (5.714%) StorageTek
17 19 (4.524%) Lotus
18 17 (4.048%) Juniper
Maidenhead, Berkshire
The successful candidate will have a great deal of experience working within a technical VMWare role with strong technical expertise on VSphere and vCenter as well as other...
TEKsystems
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Skills/Qualifications: HP Proliant Blade systems * HP Proliant DL/ML servers * Storage (NAS, SAN, MSL Tape Library's) * Networking fundamentals * Windows 2003/2008 * Linux (Redhat) * VMware ESXi * EMC...
Global Technology Solutions Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £22000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Maidenhead, Berkshire
The successful Storage Engineer will have a wide range of experience with storage vendors, including EMC, HDS, IBM and Netapp. You must have an excellent knowledge of both...
ComputAppoint
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
HP Proliant Blade systems * HP Proliant DL/ML servers * Storage (NAS, SAN, MSL Tape Library's) * Networking fundamentals * Windows 2003/2008 * Linux (Redhat) * VMware ESXi * EMC Networker back...
Polar Recruitment
Salary: £0000 - £9999 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Your storage expertise must be commendable with proficiency particularly SAN with iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols. A clustering exposure is also required for the role so you will...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Your storage expertise must be commendable with proficiency particularly SAN with iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols. A clustering exposure is also required for the role so you will...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Working with vendors like Dell, Microsoft, VMware and Cisco for troubleshooting and support issues... Windows servers with its associated services like WWW, Active Directories and Domains, Group policies,...
eGain Communications
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum plus excellent benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
UK (Slough)
Industry analyst Gartner has placed eGain in the leaders' quadrant for the last 5 years and we are expanding our team in EMEA to capitalise on our position...
eGain
Salary: : £30,000-£40,000 + excellent benefits (inc: Bonus, stock options, bupa, pension)
Posted: 22 May 2013
Berkshire
The successful Windows Engineer / Windows Administrator / Windows Architect will possess experience of working within an Enterprise Linux environment, covering the following technologies: *Extensive experience of Designing, Implementing & Supporting...
TEKsystems
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
Successful candidates must have experience Windows XP / 7 Desktops, Windows Server 2003 / 2008, Active Directory, MS Exchange 2003, Messaging Unified Communications and McAfee AV solutions. Experience within EMC...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: offer competitive package
Posted: 15 May 2013
Maidenhead, Berkshire
The successful candidate will have a great deal of experience working within a commercial technical storage role and as a result hold expert knowledge of SAN and NAS...
TEKsystems
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
Windows XP / 7 Desktops. Windows Server 2003 / 2008. Active Directory. MS Exchange 2003. Messaging Unified Communications. McAfee AV solutions. EMC Storage and SAN Technologies... Veritas Clustering. Any Web...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bracknell, Thames Valley
Windows XP / 7 Desktops. Windows Server 2003 / 2008. Active Directory. MS Exchange 2003. Messaging Unified Communications. McAfee AV solutions. EMC Storage and SAN Technologies... Veritas Clustering. Any Web...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
In addition to strong Wintel & Infrastructure skills you will also have skills in at least one of the following: - Solaris, HP UX, Windows, Citrix - VMware, VSphere, ESX VMware,...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 30000 - 45000 + excellent benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Slough, UK
Familiar with RAID levels, ISCSI and SAN technology - Database installation and configuration, preferably Microsoft SQL and Oracle - Operating system installation, configuration and management of Microsoft windows O/S...
eGain
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 22 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager... Microsoft Windows Server Administration/Support experience. VMWare. - Install, configure and support VMWare infrastructures including ESX Servers (VI3 / vSphere4) HP SAN EVA 8000 or IBM...
FT Select
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum plus oncall, overtime and benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Hold current NASAP, NCDA an advantage. Knowledge of Cisco UCS or HP and IBM Server products an advantage. Knowledge of competitive storage solutions such and HP & EMC an...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £70K Basic + Car Allowance + Fuel Card + £10K Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Technical Support Engineer is required for a worldwide household name. This company specialises within the technology sector and provide excellent training and career progression. The Technical Services team...
Coal IT Services
Salary: £35,000 per annum Plus Bens
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Technical Support Engineer is required for a worldwide household name. This company specialises within the technology sector and provide excellent training and career progression. The Technical Services team...
Coal IT Services
Salary: £35,000 per annum Plus Bens
Posted: 20 May 2013