The first table below looks at the demand for Fibre Channel skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Fibre Channel 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fibre Channel (FC)
Rank 113 120 124
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Fibre Channel 6 7 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.325% 0.343% 0.235%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.765% 1.867% 1.106%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 5
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
340 375 452
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 18.42% 18.36% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 263 311 399
Average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £30,850 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £52,950
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Fibre Channel
Cambridgeshire

Fibre Channel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Fibre Channel Jobs Demand Trend

Fibre Channel
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge Fibre Channel Salary Trend

Fibre Channel
Salary Histogram

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

Cambridge Fibre Channel Salary Histogram

Fibre Channel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel.

1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) SAN
3 6 (66.67%) iSCSI
3 6 (66.67%) UNIX
3 6 (66.67%) NAS
4 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
5 3 (33.33%) Degree
5 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
5 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (33.33%) Perl
5 3 (33.33%) LAN
5 3 (33.33%) WAN
5 3 (33.33%) HP
5 3 (33.33%) NFS
5 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 3 (33.33%) Cisco
5 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (22.22%) Internet
6 2 (22.22%) Symantec
6 2 (22.22%) NetApp
6 2 (22.22%) Veritas
6 2 (22.22%) Mac OS X
6 2 (22.22%) Apple
6 2 (22.22%) Python
6 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
6 2 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (22.22%) Online Games
6 2 (22.22%) Windows Storage Server
6 2 (22.22%) Biology

Fibre Channel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) COM
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) SAN
2 6 (66.67%) iSCSI
2 6 (66.67%) NAS
3 3 (33.33%) LAN
3 3 (33.33%) WAN
3 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (22.22%) Internet
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (11.11%) VLAN
5 1 (11.11%) SMTP
5 1 (11.11%) DHCP
5 1 (11.11%) FTP
5 1 (11.11%) IPv6
5 1 (11.11%) DNS
5 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
5 1 (11.11%) SNMP
General
1 2 (22.22%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Systems Administrator
1 8 (88.89%) Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) UNIX Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Storage Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Storage Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (22.22%) Online Games
3 2 (22.22%) Biology
4 1 (11.11%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) Windows
3 6 (66.67%) UNIX
4 2 (22.22%) Mac OS X
4 2 (22.22%) Debian
5 1 (11.11%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (11.11%) Scientific Linux
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) Information Security
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Workflow
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Data Management
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Bioinformatics
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) DNA
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (11.11%) XenServer
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Storage Server
1 2 (22.22%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) HP
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Symantec
2 2 (22.22%) NetApp
2 2 (22.22%) Veritas
2 2 (22.22%) Apple
2 2 (22.22%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) Isilon
3 1 (11.11%) EMC