England SAN Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Storage Area Network (SAN) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the last 3 months to 12 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Storage Area Network (SAN)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carnforth Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Conwy County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fife Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Lewisham Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Renfrewshire Ripon Romford Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swanley Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tilbury Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 12 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	95	105
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	4012	3753
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.934 %	1.668 %
As % of the category below	11.70 %	10.74 %
Salaries quoted	3167	2750
Average minimum salary	£42,669	£45,318
Average salary	£45,646	£48,726
% change on same period last year	-6.32 %
Average maximum salary	£48,622	£52,133
UK excluding London average salary	£42,642	£45,361
% change on same period last year	-5.99 %
Communications & Networking England
Matching permanent IT job ads	34292	34945
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	16.53 %	15.53 %
Salaries quoted	28856	28132
Average minimum salary	£37,706	£38,738
Average salary	£40,467	£41,674
% change on same period last year	-2.89 %
Average maximum salary	£43,227	£44,610
UK excluding London average salary	£37,694	£38,927
% change on same period last year	-3.16 %
SAN UK

SAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing SAN across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SAN
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing SAN across the England region.

SAN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the England region over the past 3 months.

SAN
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	London	-9	1570	£50,394	-6.40 %
2	South East	+18	1027	£44,300	-5.72 %
3	South West	+31	420	£42,070	-0.94 %
4	East of England	-3	247	£40,875	-10.37 %
5	North West	-12	222	£46,685	+0.50 %
6	Yorkshire	+5	219	£39,927	+16.70 %
7	West Midlands	-26	190	£36,819	-12.99 %
8	East Midlands	+7	110	£37,800	+2.08 %
9	Midlands	-1	49	£43,940	-3.97 %
10	North East	-9	2	£45,000	+8.00 %

SAN UK

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing SAN also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SAN.

1 3551 (47.43 %) Windows 2 2876 (38.41 %) Unix 3 1880 (25.11 %) Active Directory 4 1733 (23.15 %) Linux 5 1653 (22.08 %) VMware 6 1556 (20.78 %) EMC 7 1552 (20.73 %) Microsoft 8 1442 (19.26 %) HP 9 1429 (19.09 %) Cisco 10 1309 (17.48 %) Solaris 11 1254 (16.75 %) Finance 12 1207 (16.12 %) Citrix 13 1146 (15.31 %) SQL 14 1141 (15.24 %) Oracle 15 1068 (14.26 %) MS Exchange

16 1043 (13.93 %) Clustering 17 1041 (13.90 %) Microsoft Certification 17 1041 (13.90 %) VERITAS 18 1038 (13.86 %) IBM 19 1017 (13.58 %) SQL Server 20 993 (13.26 %) Firewall 21 947 (12.65 %) MCSE 22 930 (12.42 %) TCP/IP 23 908 (12.13 %) Exchange Server 2003 24 888 (11.86 %) WAN 25 875 (11.69 %) AIX 26 867 (11.58 %) LAN 27 864 (11.54 %) NetBackup 28 828 (11.06 %) Windows Server 2003 29 786 (10.50 %) Banking

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing SAN also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 116 (1.549 %) WebSphere 2 99 (1.322 %) .NET 3 85 (1.135 %) ASP 4 84 (1.122 %) J2EE 5 72 (0.962 %) Middleware 6 43 (0.574 %) WebServices 7 38 (0.508 %) XML 8 32 (0.427 %) CSS 9 25 (0.334 %) Application Packaging 10 22 (0.294 %) HTML 11 20 (0.267 %) WMI 12 18 (0.240 %) ASP.NET 13 12 (0.160 %) AJAX 14 11 (0.147 %) SAP Basis 14 11 (0.147 %) XML Schema 15 10 (0.134 %) X-Windows 16 9 (0.120 %) SOAP 17 8 (0.107 %) LAMP 18 7 (0.093 %) DirectX 18 7 (0.093 %) ATL	Application Platforms 1 1068 (14.26 %) MS Exchange 2 908 (12.13 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 508 (6.785 %) IIS 4 462 (6.171 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 204 (2.725 %) Apache 6 190 (2.538 %) SharePoint 7 156 (2.084 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 148 (1.977 %) Lotus Domino 9 110 (1.469 %) WebLogic 10 93 (1.242 %) Tomcat 11 85 (1.135 %) Lotus Notes 12 76 (1.015 %) Exchange Server 5.5 13 61 (0.815 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 14 51 (0.681 %) BizTalk Server 15 49 (0.654 %) JBoss 16 45 (0.601 %) SAS 17 31 (0.414 %) IBM HTTP Server 18 28 (0.374 %) Resin 19 21 (0.280 %) ColdFusion 20 19 (0.254 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 713 (9.523 %) MS Excel 2 192 (2.564 %) MS Office 3 90 (1.202 %) MS Visio 4 15 (0.200 %) MS Project 5 11 (0.147 %) CA Clarity 6 7 (0.093 %) Quicktime 7 5 (0.067 %) MS PowerPoint 8 3 (0.040 %) DeltaView 9 2 (0.027 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 31 (0.414 %) Oracle 11i 2 21 (0.280 %) Navision 3 14 (0.187 %) Movex 3 14 (0.187 %) SAP Retail 4 12 (0.160 %) Oracle EBS 5 8 (0.107 %) Summit 6 6 (0.080 %) ADP Wilco Gloss 6 6 (0.080 %) SoftGrid 7 5 (0.067 %) Oracle Applications 7 5 (0.067 %) SAP ERP 7 5 (0.067 %) Dynamics AX 8 4 (0.053 %) Axapta 9 3 (0.040 %) e-Work 9 3 (0.040 %) SunGard Vivista 9 3 (0.040 %) MAXIMO 10 2 (0.027 %) Teamcenter 10 2 (0.027 %) PeopleSoft Financials 10 2 (0.027 %) Fidessa 10 2 (0.027 %) Microsoft CRM 11 1 (0.013 %) JDE OneWorld
Communications & Networking 1 993 (13.26 %) Firewall 2 930 (12.42 %) TCP/IP 3 888 (11.86 %) WAN 4 867 (11.58 %) LAN 5 697 (9.309 %) DNS 6 430 (5.743 %) DHCP 7 395 (5.276 %) VPN 8 263 (3.513 %) Internet 9 192 (2.564 %) VoIP 10 176 (2.351 %) WINS 11 162 (2.164 %) MPLS 12 132 (1.763 %) VLAN 13 122 (1.629 %) iSCSI 14 112 (1.496 %) Network Security 15 83 (1.109 %) LDAP 16 76 (1.015 %) IPsec 17 73 (0.975 %) NetScreen 18 72 (0.962 %) SMS 19 69 (0.922 %) SMTP 20 68 (0.908 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1017 (13.58 %) SQL Server 2 273 (3.646 %) SQL Server 2000 3 254 (3.393 %) SQL Server 2005 4 140 (1.870 %) Oracle 10g 5 123 (1.643 %) DB2 6 117 (1.563 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 113 (1.509 %) MySQL 8 110 (1.469 %) Datawarehouse 9 108 (1.443 %) RDBMS 10 99 (1.322 %) DTS 11 76 (1.015 %) SQL Server 7 12 68 (0.908 %) Oracle 9i 13 64 (0.855 %) OLAP 14 51 (0.681 %) Informix 15 46 (0.614 %) SQL Server Integration Services 16 34 (0.454 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 17 33 (0.441 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 17 33 (0.441 %) ETL 18 31 (0.414 %) Crystal Reports 19 20 (0.267 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 11 (0.147 %) Oracle Forms 2 8 (0.107 %) Flash 2 8 (0.107 %) ClearCase 2 8 (0.107 %) MSI 2 8 (0.107 %) Subversion 3 5 (0.067 %) LoadRunner 4 3 (0.040 %) InstallShield 4 3 (0.040 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 2 (0.027 %) Oracle APEX 6 1 (0.013 %) CruiseControl 6 1 (0.013 %) JIRA 6 1 (0.013 %) ClearQuest	General 1 1254 (16.75 %) Finance 2 786 (10.50 %) Banking 3 340 (4.541 %) Pensions 4 302 (4.034 %) Telecoms 5 301 (4.020 %) Health 6 198 (2.645 %) Retail 7 181 (2.418 %) Investment Banking 8 152 (2.030 %) Law 8 152 (2.030 %) Back Office 9 144 (1.923 %) Government 10 142 (1.897 %) Education 11 139 (1.857 %) Insurance 12 107 (1.429 %) Financial Institution 13 75 (1.002 %) Legal 14 51 (0.681 %) Games 15 44 (0.588 %) Construction 16 39 (0.521 %) Marketing 17 35 (0.467 %) Front Office 18 23 (0.307 %) Local Government 19 21 (0.280 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 1359 (18.15 %) Administrator 2 835 (11.15 %) Analyst 3 774 (10.34 %) Systems Administrator 4 738 (9.857 %) Architect 5 646 (8.628 %) Consultant 6 476 (6.358 %) UNIX Administrator 7 380 (5.075 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 8 336 (4.488 %) Support Engineer 9 332 (4.434 %) Project Manager 10 317 (4.234 %) Support Analyst 10 317 (4.234 %) DBA 11 283 (3.780 %) Systems Engineer 12 262 (3.499 %) Storage Engineer 13 232 (3.099 %) Technical Consultant 14 231 (3.085 %) Server Support 15 228 (3.045 %) Solutions Architect 16 225 (3.005 %) Infrastructure Manager 17 214 (2.858 %) Network Engineer 18 206 (2.751 %) Infrastructure Engineer 19 203 (2.711 %) Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 1043 (13.93 %) Clustering 2 380 (5.075 %) CLARiiON 3 299 (3.994 %) Replication 4 271 (3.620 %) Mainframe 5 262 (3.499 %) Symmetrix 6 167 (2.231 %) Blackberry 7 161 (2.150 %) Management Information System 8 135 (1.803 %) EMC Centera 9 120 (1.603 %) HACMP 10 95 (1.269 %) Celerra 11 72 (0.962 %) PMI 12 71 (0.948 %) Thin Client 12 71 (0.948 %) Asset Management 12 71 (0.948 %) Fat Client 13 54 (0.721 %) N-Tier 14 51 (0.681 %) Computer Science 15 50 (0.668 %) Client/Server 16 46 (0.614 %) IVR 17 25 (0.334 %) AS400 17 25 (0.334 %) Derivative
Operating Systems 1 3551 (47.43 %) Windows 2 2876 (38.41 %) Unix 3 1733 (23.15 %) Linux 4 1309 (17.48 %) Solaris 5 875 (11.69 %) AIX 6 828 (11.06 %) Windows Server 2003 7 704 (9.403 %) Windows 2000 8 477 (6.371 %) HPUX 9 366 (4.888 %) Windows NT 10 155 (2.070 %) SUSE 11 130 (1.736 %) Windows XP 12 69 (0.922 %) Tru64 13 51 (0.681 %) VMS 14 47 (0.628 %) NetWare 15 37 (0.494 %) OpenVMS 16 27 (0.361 %) FreeBSD 16 27 (0.361 %) Fedora 17 25 (0.334 %) zOS 18 12 (0.160 %) Debian 19 11 (0.147 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 719 (9.603 %) ITIL 2 603 (8.054 %) Disaster Recovery 3 418 (5.583 %) Project Management 4 386 (5.156 %) PRINCE2 5 335 (4.474 %) Migration 6 277 (3.700 %) Load Balancing 7 188 (2.511 %) Change Management 8 181 (2.418 %) Service Management 9 168 (2.244 %) Business Continuity 10 129 (1.723 %) Data Management 11 126 (1.683 %) Service Delivery 12 120 (1.603 %) Stakeholder Management 13 111 (1.483 %) Matrix Management 14 104 (1.389 %) E-Commerce 15 97 (1.296 %) Technical Architecture 16 95 (1.269 %) Performance Management 17 89 (1.189 %) Configuration Management 18 86 (1.149 %) Content Management 19 75 (1.002 %) Problem Management 20 67 (0.895 %) Project Planning
Programming Languages 1 1146 (15.31 %) SQL 2 426 (5.690 %) Perl 3 423 (5.650 %) Shell Script 4 154 (2.057 %) C 5 144 (1.923 %) Java 6 142 (1.897 %) VB 7 107 (1.429 %) Korn 8 105 (1.402 %) VBScript 9 84 (1.122 %) PHP 10 73 (0.975 %) Transact-SQL 11 68 (0.908 %) C++ 12 42 (0.561 %) C# 13 39 (0.521 %) AWK 14 38 (0.508 %) Ruby 15 22 (0.294 %) PL/SQL 16 21 (0.280 %) Python 17 11 (0.147 %) JavaScript 17 11 (0.147 %) JCL 18 10 (0.134 %) REXX 18 10 (0.134 %) Tcl	Qualifications 1 1041 (13.90 %) Microsoft Certification 2 947 (12.65 %) MCSE 3 446 (5.957 %) Cisco Certification 4 350 (4.675 %) Degree 5 291 (3.887 %) CCNA 6 176 (2.351 %) MCP 7 165 (2.204 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 8 162 (2.164 %) MCSA 9 136 (1.816 %) PMI Certification 10 128 (1.710 %) PMP 11 122 (1.629 %) CCNP 12 77 (1.028 %) Citrix Certification 13 65 (0.868 %) Sun Certification 14 61 (0.815 %) RHCE 15 60 (0.801 %) CCA 16 55 (0.735 %) PRINCE2 Certification 17 43 (0.574 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 18 42 (0.561 %) IBM Certification 19 40 (0.534 %) SNIA Certification 19 40 (0.534 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 193 (2.578 %) SLA 2 46 (0.614 %) QA 3 13 (0.174 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 11 (0.147 %) BS25999 5 7 (0.093 %) ISO27001 6 5 (0.067 %) COBIT 7 4 (0.053 %) BS7799 7 4 (0.053 %) JSP 440 8 2 (0.027 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 1880 (25.11 %) Active Directory 2 864 (11.54 %) NetBackup 3 316 (4.221 %) VMware ESX 4 272 (3.633 %) NFS 5 222 (2.965 %) Backup Exec 6 198 (2.645 %) ISA Server 7 126 (1.683 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 116 (1.549 %) Terminal Services 9 112 (1.496 %) Oracle RAC 10 80 (1.069 %) MetaFrame 11 53 (0.708 %) VMware Server 12 36 (0.481 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 12 36 (0.481 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 13 23 (0.307 %) Samba 13 23 (0.307 %) Oracle RMAN 14 22 (0.294 %) VMware GSX 14 22 (0.294 %) Terminal Server 15 20 (0.267 %) VMware Workstation 16 15 (0.200 %) Xen 17 14 (0.187 %) MailMarshal
Systems Management 1 419 (5.596 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 309 (4.127 %) Tivoli 3 276 (3.686 %) MOM 4 221 (2.952 %) Legato 5 209 (2.792 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 166 (2.217 %) OpenView 7 158 (2.110 %) EMC NetWorker 8 67 (0.895 %) EMC Navisphere 9 61 (0.815 %) EMC TimeFinder 10 59 (0.788 %) Norton AntiVirus 11 58 (0.775 %) HP Data Protector 12 48 (0.641 %) ARCserve 13 47 (0.628 %) BMC PATROL 14 40 (0.534 %) SCOM 15 31 (0.414 %) WSUS 16 28 (0.374 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 16 28 (0.374 %) OpenView Configuration Management 17 24 (0.321 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 18 20 (0.267 %) Nagios 18 20 (0.267 %) MAILsweeper	Vendors 1 1653 (22.08 %) VMware 2 1556 (20.78 %) EMC 3 1552 (20.73 %) Microsoft 4 1442 (19.26 %) HP 5 1429 (19.09 %) Cisco 6 1207 (16.12 %) Citrix 7 1141 (15.24 %) Oracle 8 1041 (13.90 %) VERITAS 9 1038 (13.86 %) IBM 10 741 (9.897 %) Sun 11 567 (7.573 %) Red Hat 12 494 (6.598 %) Brocade 13 390 (5.209 %) NetApp 14 260 (3.473 %) Symantec 15 214 (2.858 %) Intel 16 211 (2.818 %) Dell 17 151 (2.017 %) Sybase 18 125 (1.670 %) Altiris 19 118 (1.576 %) Compaq 20 108 (1.443 %) CheckPoint