The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 114 129 106
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -23
Permanent jobs citing NAS 8 7 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.435% 0.324% 0.689%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.247% 2.612% 3.352%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 11
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £43,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% -2.29%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.65%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
356 268 358
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 19.35% 12.40% 20.55%
Number of salaries quoted 279 244 301
Average salary £32,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
NAS
North West

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire NAS Jobs Demand Trend

NAS
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire NAS Salary Trend

NAS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Warrington +14 6 £40,000 -5.88%
Chester - 1 £37,500 -
NAS
North West

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing NAS 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 NAS.

1 29 (96.67%) SAN
2 19 (63.33%) Linux
3 17 (56.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 15 (50.00%) Migration
5 14 (46.67%) AIX
6 12 (40.00%) Tivoli
6 12 (40.00%) EMC
6 12 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (36.67%) Project Management
7 11 (36.67%) IBM
7 11 (36.67%) Windows
8 8 (26.67%) Sun
9 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2003
9 7 (23.33%) CLARiiON
9 7 (23.33%) NetBackup
9 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (23.33%) Celerra
10 6 (20.00%) Brocade
10 6 (20.00%) Oracle
11 5 (16.67%) PRINCE2
11 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
11 5 (16.67%) HP
11 5 (16.67%) Citrix
11 5 (16.67%) Finance
11 5 (16.67%) VMware
11 5 (16.67%) Financial Institution
12 4 (13.33%) MCTS
12 4 (13.33%) MCITP
12 4 (13.33%) Incident Management
12 4 (13.33%) Network Management

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing NAS 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 NAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.333%) MS Exchange
1 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 29 (96.67%) SAN
2 3 (10.00%) HTTP
3 1 (3.333%) Firewall
3 1 (3.333%) Wireless
3 1 (3.333%) Intranet
3 1 (3.333%) Internet
3 1 (3.333%) LAN
3 1 (3.333%) WAN
3 1 (3.333%) Unified Communications
3 1 (3.333%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (3.333%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 5 (16.67%) Finance
1 5 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Storage Manager
2 5 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Administrator
2 5 (16.67%) Lead Systems Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Windows Administrator
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Senior UNIX Administrator
5 2 (6.667%) Storage Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Storage Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Storage Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Windows Administrator
5 2 (6.667%) Storage Support Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Server Administrator
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Support Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) UNIX Administrator
5 2 (6.667%) Support Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) CLARiiON
1 7 (23.33%) Celerra
2 1 (3.333%) EMC Centera
2 1 (3.333%) Replication
2 1 (3.333%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 19 (63.33%) Linux
2 14 (46.67%) AIX
3 11 (36.67%) Windows
4 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (13.33%) Windows NT
6 3 (10.00%) Solaris
6 3 (10.00%) UNIX
7 2 (6.667%) CentOS
7 2 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (6.667%) Fedora
8 1 (3.333%) HPUX
8 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Migration
2 12 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (36.67%) Project Management
4 5 (16.67%) PRINCE2
5 4 (13.33%) Incident Management
5 4 (13.33%) Network Management
5 4 (13.33%) Change Management
5 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 4 (13.33%) ITIL
6 1 (3.333%) Asset Management
6 1 (3.333%) Business Continuity
6 1 (3.333%) Product Management
6 1 (3.333%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.667%) PowerShell
1 2 (6.667%) VBScript
1 2 (6.667%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) MCTS
1 4 (13.33%) MCITP
1 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (13.33%) ITIL Certification
1 4 (13.33%) CCNA
1 4 (13.33%) MCP
1 4 (13.33%) MCSE
2 1 (3.333%) EMC Certification
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.333%) NFS
2 1 (3.333%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.333%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 1 (3.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (56.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 12 (40.00%) Tivoli
3 7 (23.33%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.333%) Backup Exec
4 1 (3.333%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.333%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) EMC
2 11 (36.67%) IBM
3 8 (26.67%) Sun
4 6 (20.00%) Brocade
4 6 (20.00%) Oracle
5 5 (16.67%) HP
5 5 (16.67%) Citrix
5 5 (16.67%) VMware
6 2 (6.667%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.667%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.667%) Cisco
7 1 (3.333%) Avaya
7 1 (3.333%) Panasonic
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