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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fibre Channel (FC)
Rank 121 127 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Permanent jobs citing Fibre Channel 2 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.111% 0.050% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.514% 0.397% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £32,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,497 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+1.24% -
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
389 252 297
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 21.62% 12.55% 17.99%
Number of salaries quoted 298 228 249
Average salary £30,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £25,400
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Fibre Channel
North West

Fibre Channel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Fibre Channel Salary Trend

Fibre Channel
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fibre Channel within the Cheshire 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
Chester -13 1 - -
Fibre Channel
North West

Fibre Channel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) EqualLogic
2 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (50.00%) Celerra
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) CLARiiON
2 1 (50.00%) EMC Centera
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL

Fibre Channel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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.

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Implementation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) EqualLogic
1 1 (50.00%) Celerra
1 1 (50.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (50.00%) EMC Centera
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) HPUX
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) EMC Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) NFS
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
Warrington, North West
Internet Access & Firewalling - Juniper/Cisco Router/Firewall, ADSL. - Branch site networks - WiFi, ADSL, iPad, iPhone - SAN - IBM Fibre Channel SAN - VMWare - Virtual Infrastructure and ESXi servers - Backup & Replication.
Jagger Talent Commercial Recruiters
Salary: £30,000 - £40,000 per year
Posted: 22 May 2013