The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 47 37 -
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -
Permanent jobs citing SAN 4 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 1.183% 0.641% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.061% 4.545% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 0
Average salary £36,250 £24,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+51.04% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
66 22 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 19.53% 14.10% 7.143%
Number of salaries quoted 28 21 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 £26,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £42,500 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
Cheshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) IBM
2 7 (87.50%) HP
2 7 (87.50%) EMC
2 7 (87.50%) Financial Institution
2 7 (87.50%) Finance
3 6 (75.00%) NAS
4 5 (62.50%) HTTP
5 4 (50.00%) VBScript
5 4 (50.00%) Migration
5 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
5 4 (50.00%) Network Management
5 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (37.50%) UNIX
6 3 (37.50%) Linux
7 2 (25.00%) AIX
7 2 (25.00%) Solaris
7 2 (25.00%) Sun
7 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (25.00%) Fedora
7 2 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
7 2 (25.00%) CentOS
7 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (12.50%) Product Management
8 1 (12.50%) iPad
8 1 (12.50%) VMware Server
8 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) NAS
2 5 (62.50%) HTTP
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) VoIP
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 7 (87.50%) Financial Institution
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Administrator
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Administrator
3 3 (37.50%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Windows Administrator
4 2 (25.00%) UNIX Administrator
4 2 (25.00%) Server Administrator
4 2 (25.00%) Senior UNIX Administrator
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (37.50%) UNIX
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
4 2 (25.00%) AIX
4 2 (25.00%) Solaris
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (25.00%) Fedora
4 2 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 2 (25.00%) CentOS
4 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (12.50%) Product Management
2 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) VBScript
1 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Server
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) IBM
1 7 (87.50%) HP
1 7 (87.50%) EMC
2 2 (25.00%) Sun
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
Chester, North West
An expert level Database Administrator is required to join and lead a large production support team, for my household name client in Chester.
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013