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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank - 78 102
Permanent jobs citing NAS 0 14 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh - 1.024% 0.189%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 8.092% 1.775%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 3
Average salary - £55,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +83.33%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.65%
All Communications & Networking
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
121 173 169
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 11.37% 12.66% 10.66%
Number of salaries quoted 65 106 112
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £63,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -46.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,250 £27,000 £28,350
10% offered a salary of more than £75,250 £77,500 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
NAS
Scotland

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh NAS Salary Trend

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 7 (100.00%) SAN
2 6 (85.71%) EMC
3 5 (71.43%) Windows
4 4 (57.14%) UNIX
4 4 (57.14%) Symmetrix
5 3 (42.86%) Celerra
5 3 (42.86%) NetApp
5 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
6 2 (28.57%) HP
6 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
6 2 (28.57%) DNS
6 2 (28.57%) Linux
6 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
6 2 (28.57%) LAN
6 2 (28.57%) WAN
6 2 (28.57%) DHCP
6 2 (28.57%) IIS
6 2 (28.57%) VBScript
6 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
6 2 (28.57%) Blackberry
6 2 (28.57%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (28.57%) ITSM
6 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
6 2 (28.57%) VMware
6 2 (28.57%) CLARiiON
6 2 (28.57%) Symmetrix DMX
6 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (14.29%) Brocade
7 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
7 1 (14.29%) EMC TimeFinder

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
1 2 (28.57%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Support Analyst
3 3 (42.86%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (28.57%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
5 1 (14.29%) Storage Specialist
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Support Analyst
5 1 (14.29%) Storage Analyst
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Analyst
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Symmetrix
2 3 (42.86%) Celerra
3 2 (28.57%) Blackberry
3 2 (28.57%) CLARiiON
3 2 (28.57%) Symmetrix DMX
4 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) UNIX
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) VBScript
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) EMC TimeFinder
1 1 (14.29%) Ionix
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) EMC
2 3 (42.86%) NetApp
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Brocade
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco