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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 33 34 14
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -20
Permanent jobs citing SAN 4 5 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in High Wycombe 2.030% 2.203% 7.097%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.511% 9.434% 29.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 8
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% -11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
High Wycombe
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
47 53 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in High Wycombe 23.86% 23.35% 23.87%
Number of salaries quoted 42 39 29
Average salary £31,000 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.50% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £22,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £70,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
Buckinghamshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

High Wycombe 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 High Wycombe region.

High Wycombe SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the High Wycombe 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 15 (78.95%) MS Exchange
2 14 (73.68%) Microsoft
3 11 (57.89%) ITIL
4 10 (52.63%) Cisco
4 10 (52.63%) Firewall
5 9 (47.37%) Back Office
5 9 (47.37%) Internet
5 9 (47.37%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (47.37%) FTP
5 9 (47.37%) CCNP
5 9 (47.37%) CCNA
5 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
5 9 (47.37%) IIS
5 9 (47.37%) WSUS
5 9 (47.37%) Time Management
6 7 (36.84%) Altiris
6 7 (36.84%) SQL
6 7 (36.84%) Windows
6 7 (36.84%) Juniper
6 7 (36.84%) Websense
7 6 (31.58%) DHCP
7 6 (31.58%) VPN
7 6 (31.58%) DNS
7 6 (31.58%) Linux
7 6 (31.58%) UNIX
7 6 (31.58%) VLAN
7 6 (31.58%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (26.32%) CRM
8 5 (26.32%) ERP

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the High Wycombe 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 15 (78.95%) MS Exchange
2 9 (47.37%) IIS
3 6 (31.58%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) Firewall
2 9 (47.37%) Internet
2 9 (47.37%) FTP
3 6 (31.58%) DHCP
3 6 (31.58%) VPN
3 6 (31.58%) DNS
3 6 (31.58%) VLAN
4 5 (26.32%) WAN
5 3 (15.79%) NAS
5 3 (15.79%) iSCSI
6 2 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
7 1 (5.263%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 9 (47.37%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (47.37%) Server Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Support Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (21.05%) Administrator
3 4 (21.05%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) UNIX Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) HPUX Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) 3rd Line Technical Support
5 1 (5.263%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Technical Support
5 1 (5.263%) Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) HPUX Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) IT Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.263%) EqualLogic
2 1 (5.263%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
2 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 6 (31.58%) UNIX
3 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (15.79%) HPUX
5 3 (15.79%) Solaris
6 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) ITIL
2 9 (47.37%) Time Management
3 5 (26.32%) CRM
3 5 (26.32%) ERP
4 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.263%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.263%) BCP
5 1 (5.263%) Six Sigma
5 1 (5.263%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (47.37%) CCNP
1 9 (47.37%) CCNA
2 1 (5.263%) MCITP
2 1 (5.263%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (5.263%) Degree
2 1 (5.263%) MCSE
2 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.263%) vSphere
4 1 (5.263%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.263%) XenApp
4 1 (5.263%) Terminal Services
4 1 (5.263%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (5.263%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) WSUS
2 3 (15.79%) NetBackup
3 1 (5.263%) HP SIM
3 1 (5.263%) SCCM
3 1 (5.263%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (5.263%) Tivoli
3 1 (5.263%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Microsoft
2 10 (52.63%) Cisco
3 7 (36.84%) Altiris
3 7 (36.84%) Juniper
3 7 (36.84%) Websense
4 4 (21.05%) NetApp
5 3 (15.79%) Veritas
5 3 (15.79%) HP
5 3 (15.79%) EMC
5 3 (15.79%) Symantec
6 2 (10.53%) VMware
6 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
7 1 (5.263%) Veeam
7 1 (5.263%) WatchGuard
7 1 (5.263%) Citrix
7 1 (5.263%) Oracle