The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 79 71 97
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +26
Permanent jobs citing SAN 6 24 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.559% 1.748% 0.525%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.918% 13.95% 4.969%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 8
Average salary £26,000 £35,000 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.71% +12.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
122 172 161
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 11.37% 12.53% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 67 107 106
Average salary £37,500 £34,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.29% -28.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £71,500 £77,500 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
Scotland

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 18 (72.00%) Windows
2 17 (68.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (56.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (56.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (48.00%) Telecoms
4 12 (48.00%) VMware
5 11 (44.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 11 (44.00%) MS Exchange
6 9 (36.00%) SQL Server
7 8 (32.00%) HP
7 8 (32.00%) DHCP
7 8 (32.00%) DNS
7 8 (32.00%) Finance
7 8 (32.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (28.00%) NAS
8 7 (28.00%) EMC
8 7 (28.00%) WAN
9 6 (24.00%) MCSE
9 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (24.00%) Symantec
9 6 (24.00%) Hyper-V
9 6 (24.00%) Exchange Server 2007
10 5 (20.00%) Degree
10 5 (20.00%) Operations Management
10 5 (20.00%) Clustering
10 5 (20.00%) Backup Exec
10 5 (20.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
10 5 (20.00%) VoIP
10 5 (20.00%) UNIX

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (12.00%) XML
2 2 (8.000%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 11 (44.00%) MS Exchange
2 6 (24.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 3 (12.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (12.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (12.00%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (8.000%) IIS
5 2 (8.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) DHCP
1 8 (32.00%) DNS
2 7 (28.00%) NAS
2 7 (28.00%) WAN
3 5 (20.00%) VoIP
4 4 (16.00%) LAN
5 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (8.000%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (12.00%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 12 (48.00%) Telecoms
2 8 (32.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.000%) Banking
3 2 (8.000%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.000%) Retail
4 1 (4.000%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Systems Support
2 6 (24.00%) Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 5 (20.00%) Systems Support Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 5 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) IT Operations Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (12.00%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (12.00%) Administrator
4 3 (12.00%) Operations Manager
5 2 (8.000%) Desktop Support
5 2 (8.000%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Server Support
5 2 (8.000%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Windows Server Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Senior Windows Server Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Clustering
2 4 (16.00%) Symmetrix
3 3 (12.00%) Celerra
3 3 (12.00%) EqualLogic
3 3 (12.00%) CLARiiON
4 2 (8.000%) Blackberry
4 2 (8.000%) Symmetrix DMX
5 1 (4.000%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Windows
2 14 (56.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (44.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (32.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (20.00%) UNIX
6 2 (8.000%) Linux
7 1 (4.000%) Windows 7
7 1 (4.000%) VMS
7 1 (4.000%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) Operations Management
2 3 (12.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (8.000%) RDF
3 2 (8.000%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (8.000%) ITSM
3 2 (8.000%) Configuration Management
4 1 (4.000%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.000%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (4.000%) Service Management
4 1 (4.000%) Change Management
4 1 (4.000%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (12.00%) C
1 3 (12.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.000%) VBScript
2 2 (8.000%) VB.NET
2 2 (8.000%) C#
3 1 (4.000%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) MCSE
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.000%) MCP
4 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.000%) HNC
System Software
1 14 (56.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (24.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (12.00%) vSphere
5 2 (8.000%) Terminal Server
6 1 (4.000%) Xen
6 1 (4.000%) XenDesktop
6 1 (4.000%) VMware ESX
6 1 (4.000%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Backup Exec
1 5 (20.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 4 (16.00%) SCCM
3 3 (12.00%) SCOM
4 1 (4.000%) EMC TimeFinder
4 1 (4.000%) SCVMM
4 1 (4.000%) Opalis
4 1 (4.000%) Ionix
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (48.00%) VMware
3 8 (32.00%) HP
4 7 (28.00%) EMC
5 6 (24.00%) Symantec
6 4 (16.00%) NetApp
7 3 (12.00%) Dell
8 2 (8.000%) Cisco
8 2 (8.000%) Brocade
9 1 (4.000%) Fujitsu
9 1 (4.000%) Red Hat
9 1 (4.000%) Citrix
9 1 (4.000%) Oracle