The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 23 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing NAS 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.593% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.077% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £38,750 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.65%
All Communications & Networking
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
65 21 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 19.29% 13.46% 7.143%
Number of salaries quoted 27 20 17
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,800 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,900 £42,500 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
NAS
Cheshire

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester NAS Salary Trend

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
2 5 (83.33%) IBM
2 5 (83.33%) HP
2 5 (83.33%) EMC
2 5 (83.33%) Financial Institution
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
3 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
3 4 (66.67%) Network Management
4 3 (50.00%) HTTP
4 3 (50.00%) UNIX
4 3 (50.00%) Linux
5 2 (33.33%) VBScript
5 2 (33.33%) AIX
5 2 (33.33%) Solaris
5 2 (33.33%) Sun
5 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (33.33%) Fedora
5 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (33.33%) CentOS
5 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (16.67%) Product Management
6 1 (16.67%) iPad
6 1 (16.67%) VMware Server
6 1 (16.67%) VMware
6 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 (16.67%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (50.00%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 5 (83.33%) Financial Institution
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Administrator
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Windows Administrator
3 2 (33.33%) UNIX Administrator
3 2 (33.33%) Server Administrator
3 2 (33.33%) Senior UNIX Administrator
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) UNIX
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) AIX
3 2 (33.33%) Solaris
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) Fedora
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) CentOS
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 4 (66.67%) Network Management
2 1 (16.67%) Product Management
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) VBScript
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Server
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) IBM
1 5 (83.33%) HP
1 5 (83.33%) EMC
2 2 (33.33%) Sun
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco