The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 18 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 86 83 63
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -20
Permanent jobs citing SAN 38 52 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.047% 2.439% 3.282%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.56% 19.33% 15.97%
Number of salaries quoted 25 49 52
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,300 £28,500 £33,650
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £58,500 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
360 269 357
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 19.40% 12.62% 20.55%
Number of salaries quoted 279 246 300
Average salary £30,500 £35,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.85% -10.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
North West

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Warrington +23 13 £38,000 -11.62% 3
Macclesfield 0 13 £45,000 +38.46%
Northwich - 4 £42,500 -
Chester -11 1 £37,500 +56.25%
SAN
North West

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 78 (62.90%) Linux
2 70 (56.45%) Windows
3 64 (51.61%) IBM
4 58 (46.77%) AIX
5 53 (42.74%) HP
6 51 (41.13%) Finance
7 47 (37.90%) VMware
8 43 (34.68%) Windows Server 2008
9 40 (32.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 39 (31.45%) EMC
11 37 (29.84%) Microsoft
12 35 (28.23%) Tivoli
13 33 (26.61%) Windows Server 2003
14 32 (25.81%) SQL Server
15 31 (25.00%) Cisco
15 31 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
16 30 (24.19%) Red Hat
16 30 (24.19%) SQL
17 29 (23.39%) NAS
17 29 (23.39%) WebSphere
17 29 (23.39%) High Availability
18 28 (22.58%) Replication
19 27 (21.77%) Clustering
19 27 (21.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20 26 (20.97%) Disaster Recovery
21 25 (20.16%) ITIL
21 25 (20.16%) UNIX
21 25 (20.16%) NetApp
22 24 (19.35%) Active Directory
22 24 (19.35%) MS Exchange

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 29 (23.39%) WebSphere
2 21 (16.94%) WebSphere MQ
Application Platforms
1 24 (19.35%) MS Exchange
2 19 (15.32%) Exchange Server 2010
3 17 (13.71%) SharePoint
4 16 (12.90%) IIS
5 12 (9.677%) Exchange Server 2003
6 9 (7.258%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (4.032%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.806%) Lync
Applications
1 17 (13.71%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.613%) MS Project
2 2 (1.613%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 29 (23.39%) NAS
2 15 (12.10%) Firewall
2 15 (12.10%) WAN
3 14 (11.29%) VoIP
4 8 (6.452%) DNS
4 8 (6.452%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (5.645%) LAN
6 6 (4.839%) DHCP
7 5 (4.032%) HTTP
8 4 (3.226%) PBX
8 4 (3.226%) WLAN
8 4 (3.226%) Wireless
9 2 (1.613%) Network Security
9 2 (1.613%) Unified Communications
9 2 (1.613%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.613%) VPN
10 1 (0.806%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.806%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 20 (16.13%) SQL Server 2008
3 16 (12.90%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (3.226%) SQL Server 2012
4 4 (3.226%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.613%) OLTP
5 2 (1.613%) DB2
5 2 (1.613%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (1.613%) JIRA
General
1 51 (41.13%) Finance
2 7 (5.645%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 36 (29.03%) Administrator
2 27 (21.77%) Consultant
2 27 (21.77%) Systems Administrator
3 23 (18.55%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 23 (18.55%) Linux Administrator
4 14 (11.29%) Storage Consultant
4 14 (11.29%) Senior Server Engineer
4 14 (11.29%) Server Engineer
5 13 (10.48%) Tivoli Consultant
5 13 (10.48%) Backup Consultant
6 11 (8.871%) Storage Manager
6 11 (8.871%) UNIX Administrator
7 10 (8.065%) Systems Engineer
7 10 (8.065%) Technical Consultant
8 9 (7.258%) Sales Consultant
8 9 (7.258%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (7.258%) UNIX Systems Administrator
8 9 (7.258%) Pre Sales Consultant
8 9 (7.258%) Technical Manager
9 8 (6.452%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.58%) Replication
2 27 (21.77%) Clustering
3 9 (7.258%) Celerra
4 8 (6.452%) CLARiiON
5 5 (4.032%) iSeries
6 4 (3.226%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (3.226%) Data Integration
6 4 (3.226%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.613%) AS400
8 1 (0.806%) Symmetrix
8 1 (0.806%) EMC Centera
8 1 (0.806%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.806%) Symmetrix DMX
8 1 (0.806%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 78 (62.90%) Linux
2 70 (56.45%) Windows
3 58 (46.77%) AIX
4 43 (34.68%) Windows Server 2008
5 33 (26.61%) Windows Server 2003
6 27 (21.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 25 (20.16%) UNIX
8 8 (6.452%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (4.839%) Windows XP
10 4 (3.226%) Windows NT
11 3 (2.419%) Solaris
12 2 (1.613%) Windows 7
12 2 (1.613%) Fedora
12 2 (1.613%) Windows 2000 Server
12 2 (1.613%) CentOS
13 1 (0.806%) HPUX
13 1 (0.806%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.39%) High Availability
2 26 (20.97%) Disaster Recovery
3 25 (20.16%) ITIL
4 21 (16.94%) Configuration Management
5 16 (12.90%) Migration
6 13 (10.48%) Project Management
7 12 (9.677%) Change Control
8 10 (8.065%) Capacity Management
9 9 (7.258%) Business Continuity
10 8 (6.452%) ITSM
10 8 (6.452%) Validation
10 8 (6.452%) Service Management
10 8 (6.452%) WAN Optimisation
11 7 (5.645%) Performance Management
11 7 (5.645%) PRINCE2
12 6 (4.839%) Waterfall
13 4 (3.226%) Network Management
13 4 (3.226%) Data Management
13 4 (3.226%) Incident Management
13 4 (3.226%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 30 (24.19%) SQL
2 21 (16.94%) C
2 21 (16.94%) Perl
2 21 (16.94%) PHP
3 4 (3.226%) VBScript
3 4 (3.226%) Shell Script
3 4 (3.226%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (13.71%) ITIL Certification
2 16 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (12.10%) MCSE
4 14 (11.29%) MCITP
5 11 (8.871%) MCP
6 8 (6.452%) Security Cleared
7 7 (5.645%) MCTS
8 4 (3.226%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (3.226%) HP APS
8 4 (3.226%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.226%) CCNA
9 2 (1.613%) EMC Certification
10 1 (0.806%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (0.806%) CCEA
10 1 (0.806%) VCDX
10 1 (0.806%) VCP4
10 1 (0.806%) VCAP
10 1 (0.806%) CCEE
10 1 (0.806%) CCAA
10 1 (0.806%) CCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.839%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (19.35%) Active Directory
3 15 (12.10%) vSphere
4 10 (8.065%) ISA Server
5 8 (6.452%) Xen
6 7 (5.645%) VMware ESX
7 5 (4.032%) XenApp
7 5 (4.032%) XenDesktop
8 4 (3.226%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.613%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.806%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.806%) XenServer
10 1 (0.806%) NFS
Systems Management
1 40 (32.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 35 (28.23%) Tivoli
3 16 (12.90%) EMC NetWorker
3 16 (12.90%) SCCM
4 9 (7.258%) NetBackup
5 7 (5.645%) SolarWinds Orion
6 5 (4.032%) MOM
6 5 (4.032%) Nagios
7 1 (0.806%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 64 (51.61%) IBM
2 53 (42.74%) HP
3 47 (37.90%) VMware
4 39 (31.45%) EMC
5 37 (29.84%) Microsoft
6 31 (25.00%) Cisco
7 30 (24.19%) Red Hat
8 25 (20.16%) NetApp
9 23 (18.55%) Oracle
10 21 (16.94%) Brocade
11 13 (10.48%) Citrix
12 9 (7.258%) Juniper
12 9 (7.258%) SolarWinds
13 8 (6.452%) FrontRange
13 8 (6.452%) Isilon
13 8 (6.452%) Riverbed
13 8 (6.452%) Lotus
13 8 (6.452%) Cognos
13 8 (6.452%) Sun
14 5 (4.032%) Avaya
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