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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 65 90 48
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -42
Permanent jobs citing SAN 81 61 155
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 3.286% 2.422% 4.595%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.74% 11.05% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 60 51 118
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,650 £37,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £53,050 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
636 552 825
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 25.80% 21.91% 24.46%
Number of salaries quoted 466 409 583
Average salary £42,000 £42,500 £42,450
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.17% +0.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
East of England

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Welwyn Garden City -13 17 £49,250 +15.88%
Watford +14 16 £50,000 +13.63%
Hemel Hempstead +10 11 £48,000 -4.00%
Hertford - 1 £24,000 -
Royston - 1 £32,500 -
St Albans - 1 - -
Broxbourne - 1 £30,500 -
SAN
East of England

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 87 (51.79%) VMware
2 84 (50.00%) Windows
3 62 (36.90%) UNIX
3 62 (36.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (36.31%) Linux
5 59 (35.12%) Active Directory
6 52 (30.95%) Red Hat
7 48 (28.57%) Citrix
7 48 (28.57%) MS Exchange
8 42 (25.00%) Xen
9 40 (23.81%) Microsoft
10 38 (22.62%) Perl
10 38 (22.62%) NAS
11 37 (22.02%) SQL
12 36 (21.43%) ITIL
13 35 (20.83%) SQL Server
13 35 (20.83%) Windows Server 2008
14 34 (20.24%) Disaster Recovery
15 33 (19.64%) MS Excel
16 31 (18.45%) LAN
16 31 (18.45%) Oracle
16 31 (18.45%) Exchange Server 2003
17 30 (17.86%) DNS
18 29 (17.26%) Cisco
18 29 (17.26%) E-Commerce
18 29 (17.26%) Firewall
18 29 (17.26%) Migration
18 29 (17.26%) Exchange Server 2010
19 28 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
19 28 (16.67%) IBM

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 10 (5.952%) WebSphere
2 8 (4.762%) Middleware
2 8 (4.762%) LAMP
3 3 (1.786%) ASP
3 3 (1.786%) XML
3 3 (1.786%) HTML
4 1 (0.595%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 48 (28.57%) MS Exchange
2 31 (18.45%) Exchange Server 2003
3 29 (17.26%) Exchange Server 2010
4 26 (15.48%) Exchange Server 2007
5 18 (10.71%) BizTalk Server
6 14 (8.333%) Apache
7 12 (7.143%) SharePoint
8 11 (6.548%) WebLogic
9 7 (4.167%) MQSeries
10 6 (3.571%) Moodle
10 6 (3.571%) nginx
10 6 (3.571%) Magento
10 6 (3.571%) WordPress
10 6 (3.571%) Tomcat
10 6 (3.571%) Joomla!
11 5 (2.976%) IIS
12 3 (1.786%) WebSphere Application Server
13 2 (1.190%) SharePoint 2010
14 1 (0.595%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.595%) Lync
Applications
1 33 (19.64%) MS Excel
2 14 (8.333%) MS Project
3 13 (7.738%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.786%) MS Office
5 1 (0.595%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 38 (22.62%) NAS
2 31 (18.45%) LAN
3 30 (17.86%) DNS
4 29 (17.26%) Firewall
5 18 (10.71%) WAN
5 18 (10.71%) Fibre Channel
6 17 (10.12%) TCP/IP
7 16 (9.524%) VoIP
8 15 (8.929%) Internet
9 14 (8.333%) VPN
10 11 (6.548%) iSCSI
11 9 (5.357%) SSH
11 9 (5.357%) FTP
12 8 (4.762%) POP3
12 8 (4.762%) SMTP
12 8 (4.762%) SSL
12 8 (4.762%) IMAP
13 4 (2.381%) HTTP
14 3 (1.786%) Wireless
14 3 (1.786%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.71%) DB2
3 14 (8.333%) MySQL
4 10 (5.952%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (5.952%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (5.952%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
5 7 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (2.381%) Oracle 8/8i
6 4 (2.381%) SQL Server 2000
7 3 (1.786%) DTS
7 3 (1.786%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 27 (16.07%) Finance
2 12 (7.143%) Retail
3 5 (2.976%) Marketing
4 4 (2.381%) Games
5 2 (1.190%) Law
6 1 (0.595%) Legal
6 1 (0.595%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (17.26%) Systems Engineer
2 28 (16.67%) Administrator
3 16 (9.524%) Architect
3 16 (9.524%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 14 (8.333%) Analyst
4 14 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
5 13 (7.738%) Infrastructure Architect
6 11 (6.548%) Storage Administrator
6 11 (6.548%) Support Engineer
6 11 (6.548%) Linux Administrator
6 11 (6.548%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 11 (6.548%) Consultant
6 11 (6.548%) IT Manager
7 10 (5.952%) DBA
8 9 (5.357%) SQL DBA
9 8 (4.762%) Web Administrator
9 8 (4.762%) Technical Analyst
9 8 (4.762%) Team Leader
10 7 (4.167%) Technical Architect
10 7 (4.167%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.48%) Replication
2 14 (8.333%) Clustering
3 4 (2.381%) Blackberry
4 3 (1.786%) HACMP
5 2 (1.190%) FMCG
5 2 (1.190%) SaaS
5 2 (1.190%) Celerra
5 2 (1.190%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.595%) CLARiiON
6 1 (0.595%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.595%) Firmware
6 1 (0.595%) HP StorageWorks
6 1 (0.595%) EqualLogic
6 1 (0.595%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.595%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.595%) iPhone
6 1 (0.595%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 84 (50.00%) Windows
2 62 (36.90%) UNIX
3 61 (36.31%) Linux
4 35 (20.83%) Windows Server 2008
5 28 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 22 (13.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (11.90%) Solaris
8 16 (9.524%) Windows XP
9 14 (8.333%) Windows 7
9 14 (8.333%) AIX
10 13 (7.738%) CentOS
11 6 (3.571%) Windows Vista
12 3 (1.786%) SUSE
12 3 (1.786%) OS/400
13 2 (1.190%) Android
13 2 (1.190%) HPUX
14 1 (0.595%) Debian
14 1 (0.595%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.595%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.595%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (21.43%) ITIL
2 34 (20.24%) Disaster Recovery
3 29 (17.26%) E-Commerce
3 29 (17.26%) Migration
4 19 (11.31%) PRINCE2
5 15 (8.929%) Load Balancing
6 14 (8.333%) Project Management
6 14 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
7 13 (7.738%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (7.143%) Capacity Planning
9 11 (6.548%) TOGAF
10 10 (5.952%) Test Management
10 10 (5.952%) Test Scripting
10 10 (5.952%) Business Continuity
11 9 (5.357%) Integration Testing
12 8 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (4.167%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (3.571%) Time Management
14 6 (3.571%) Risk Management
15 5 (2.976%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.62%) Perl
2 37 (22.02%) SQL
3 18 (10.71%) Bash shell
4 9 (5.357%) VB
4 9 (5.357%) PHP
5 4 (2.381%) C
6 3 (1.786%) Java
6 3 (1.786%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.786%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.595%) Ruby
7 1 (0.595%) Python
7 1 (0.595%) C++
7 1 (0.595%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (11.31%) MCITP
2 18 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (9.524%) MCSE
4 14 (8.333%) ISEB
4 14 (8.333%) MCP
4 14 (8.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 13 (7.738%) MCTS
6 10 (5.952%) Degree
7 6 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.976%) Citrix Certification
8 5 (2.976%) CCNA
8 5 (2.976%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 3 (1.786%) NCDA
9 3 (1.786%) CCEE
9 3 (1.786%) CCAA
9 3 (1.786%) CCIA
9 3 (1.786%) Security Cleared
10 2 (1.190%) NCIE
10 2 (1.190%) CCNP
10 2 (1.190%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.929%) PCI DSS
2 10 (5.952%) QA
3 8 (4.762%) SLA
4 1 (0.595%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 62 (36.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 59 (35.12%) Active Directory
3 42 (25.00%) Xen
4 21 (12.50%) vSphere
5 14 (8.333%) Hyper-V
6 12 (7.143%) VMware ESX
7 11 (6.548%) VMware Server
8 9 (5.357%) Sendmail
9 6 (3.571%) Varnish
9 6 (3.571%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (2.976%) XenApp
11 4 (2.381%) XenDesktop
12 3 (1.786%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (1.786%) NFS
12 3 (1.786%) PowerHA
13 2 (1.190%) ISA Server
14 1 (0.595%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.595%) Samba
14 1 (0.595%) Nmap
14 1 (0.595%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (13.10%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 13 (7.738%) HP Quality Center
3 11 (6.548%) Tivoli
4 9 (5.357%) NetBackup
4 9 (5.357%) Backup Exec
4 9 (5.357%) Nagios
5 7 (4.167%) Cacti
6 4 (2.381%) SCCM
7 2 (1.190%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (1.190%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 2 (1.190%) OpenView
7 2 (1.190%) WSUS
8 1 (0.595%) SCOM
8 1 (0.595%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.595%) Sysprep
8 1 (0.595%) HP SIM
8 1 (0.595%) Puppet
Vendors
1 87 (51.79%) VMware
2 52 (30.95%) Red Hat
3 48 (28.57%) Citrix
4 40 (23.81%) Microsoft
5 31 (18.45%) Oracle
6 29 (17.26%) Cisco
7 28 (16.67%) IBM
8 22 (13.10%) NetApp
9 21 (12.50%) HP
10 12 (7.143%) EMC
10 12 (7.143%) CheckPoint
10 12 (7.143%) Avaya
11 11 (6.548%) Remedy
12 9 (5.357%) Postini
12 9 (5.357%) CommVault
13 7 (4.167%) Sun
14 6 (3.571%) SAP
14 6 (3.571%) Brocade
15 5 (2.976%) Dell
16 4 (2.381%) Symantec
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Support projects throughout the project lifecycle, from feasibility to handover and operational support Skills Required: Microsoft Windows (2003, 2008), Red Hat Linux (RHEL) Virtualisation using Citrix Xen Microsoft...
Advanced Resource Managers
Salary: £55000.0000 - £60000.0000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Job Title: Infrastructure Designer (Technical Project Lead) Location: Welwyn Garden City Key Skills: Red Hat Linux, Citrix, SQL, Oracle, Storage (Local, SAN, NAS)A new opportunity has arisen...
Tesco
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 25 May 2013
Watford, South East
The role will require you to lead the storage and infrastructure backup team and manage their storage systems.Technical knowledge will include:- IBM Storage (V7000, DS, SVC)- Demonstrable...
Salary: £40000 - £52000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013