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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 46 45 52
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +7
Permanent jobs citing SAN 21 9 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 3.777% 2.041% 2.439%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.63% 14.06% 23.73%
Number of salaries quoted 21 7 12
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £31,700 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £43,500 £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
107 64 59
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 19.24% 14.51% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 98 61 54
Average salary £32,500 £36,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.72% -2.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £23,950
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £44,550 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
South Wales

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cardiff SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 26 (81.25%) MS Exchange
2 25 (78.13%) Windows
3 23 (71.88%) MS Excel
3 23 (71.88%) Microsoft
4 22 (68.75%) Exchange Server 2010
5 19 (59.38%) Active Directory
6 18 (56.25%) VMware
6 18 (56.25%) Exchange Server 2007
7 17 (53.13%) Windows Server 2008
7 17 (53.13%) Windows Server 2003
8 16 (50.00%) Advertising
9 15 (46.88%) ITIL
9 15 (46.88%) SQL Server
10 14 (43.75%) SharePoint
10 14 (43.75%) Finance
11 13 (40.63%) Windows 2000
11 13 (40.63%) IIS
11 13 (40.63%) Incident Management
12 12 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
13 11 (34.38%) Cisco
14 10 (31.25%) Dell
15 7 (21.88%) Hyper-V
15 7 (21.88%) EqualLogic
16 6 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2003
16 6 (18.75%) HP
16 6 (18.75%) MS Project
16 6 (18.75%) LAN
16 6 (18.75%) WAN
16 6 (18.75%) Blackberry
16 6 (18.75%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 2 (6.250%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 26 (81.25%) MS Exchange
2 22 (68.75%) Exchange Server 2010
3 18 (56.25%) Exchange Server 2007
4 14 (43.75%) SharePoint
5 13 (40.63%) IIS
6 6 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2003
6 6 (18.75%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (6.250%) Office Communications Server
7 2 (6.250%) Lync
8 1 (3.125%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 23 (71.88%) MS Excel
2 6 (18.75%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) LAN
1 6 (18.75%) WAN
2 4 (12.50%) Wireless
2 4 (12.50%) Unified Communications
3 3 (9.375%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.250%) DNS
4 2 (6.250%) DHCP
4 2 (6.250%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (6.250%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (6.250%) Cisco PIX
4 2 (6.250%) NAS
5 1 (3.125%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.125%) Nortel Alteon
5 1 (3.125%) VPN
5 1 (3.125%) Firewall
5 1 (3.125%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (46.88%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (50.00%) Advertising
2 14 (43.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Data Centre Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Server Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Architect
4 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (6.250%) Backup Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Microsoft Specialist
5 1 (3.125%) Senior Microsoft Specialist
5 1 (3.125%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 1 (3.125%) VMware Specialist
5 1 (3.125%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Server Support Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.125%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) EqualLogic
2 6 (18.75%) Blackberry
3 2 (6.250%) Replication
3 2 (6.250%) iSeries
4 1 (3.125%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.125%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 25 (78.13%) Windows
2 17 (53.13%) Windows Server 2008
2 17 (53.13%) Windows Server 2003
3 13 (40.63%) Windows 2000
4 4 (12.50%) Linux
4 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.125%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.125%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.125%) Solaris
5 1 (3.125%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) ITIL
2 13 (40.63%) Incident Management
3 4 (12.50%) Migration
3 4 (12.50%) Communications Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.125%) SQL
1 1 (3.125%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 2 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (6.250%) MCSE
1 2 (6.250%) MCITP
2 1 (3.125%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 19 (59.38%) Active Directory
2 12 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (21.88%) Hyper-V
4 5 (15.63%) VMware ESX
5 2 (6.250%) ISA Server
6 1 (3.125%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) NetBackup
1 4 (12.50%) Backup Exec
2 3 (9.375%) SCCM
2 3 (9.375%) ARCserve
3 2 (6.250%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (6.250%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (71.88%) Microsoft
2 18 (56.25%) VMware
3 11 (34.38%) Cisco
4 10 (31.25%) Dell
5 6 (18.75%) HP
6 4 (12.50%) Symantec
6 4 (12.50%) Barracuda Networks
7 2 (6.250%) IBM
7 2 (6.250%) EMC
7 2 (6.250%) Nortel
7 2 (6.250%) Avaya
7 2 (6.250%) NetApp
7 2 (6.250%) Veritas
7 2 (6.250%) Red Hat
7 2 (6.250%) Brocade
8 1 (3.125%) Capita
8 1 (3.125%) Radware
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
If you are an Senior Microsoft Engineer and have the following experience: Administration and maintenance of diverse Microsoft environments; to include (but not limited to) Microsoft Windows 2000/...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £38000 - £44000 per annum + Pension, Health, 20% bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
If you are an Senior Microsoft Data Centre or MS Project Engineer and have the following experience: Administration and maintenance of diverse Microsoft environments; to include (but not...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £38000 - £43000 per annum + BONUS + Health, Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Cardiff £30-36k & Benefits IntaPeople are working very closely with a well known, local client that is currently seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join the team in...
Intapeople
Salary: £30000 - £36000 per annum + Pension, Good Holidays
Posted: 24 May 2013
RCN, Cardiff - Gate Office
Design and development of new systems and services for the RCN.Requirements of the Infrastructure Architect:You will ideally be a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist with excellent VMware...
Royal College of Nursing
Salary: £34,590 per annum
Posted: 25 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
VMware applications... VMware ESX 3.x/4.x/5.x, server. SAN Storage. Additional Skills: Linux RedHat 3/4/5/7. SUSE 10/11. Solaris 8/9/10...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Health, Pension + 20% Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013