The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 22 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 87 72 96
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +24
Permanent jobs citing NAS 5 2 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.432% 0.275% 0.769%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.901% 1.130% 3.922%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 5
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £36,000 £39,100
10% offered a salary of more than £60,800 £44,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
All Communications & Networking
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
263 177 204
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 22.71% 24.31% 19.62%
Number of salaries quoted 223 166 172
Average salary £41,000 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £24,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £51,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
NAS
South East

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent NAS Salary Trend

NAS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing NAS across the Kent region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Kent NAS Salary Histogram

NAS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the Kent region over the 3 months to 22 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
Dover - 2 £32,500 -
West Malling - 1 £68,000 -
NAS
South East

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 13 (86.67%) SAN
2 12 (80.00%) Windows
3 9 (60.00%) Cisco
3 9 (60.00%) HP
3 9 (60.00%) VMware
4 7 (46.67%) Retail
4 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
4 7 (46.67%) MS Exchange
4 7 (46.67%) Linux
5 6 (40.00%) Citrix
6 5 (33.33%) Apache
6 5 (33.33%) MySQL
6 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
6 5 (33.33%) UNIX
6 5 (33.33%) VPN
6 5 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (33.33%) WatchGuard
6 5 (33.33%) Juniper
6 5 (33.33%) Firewall
6 5 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (33.33%) 3PAR
7 4 (26.67%) Mac OS
7 4 (26.67%) vSphere
7 4 (26.67%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (26.67%) Fault Management
7 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
8 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
8 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 7 (46.67%) MS Exchange
2 5 (33.33%) Apache
2 5 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (13.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (6.667%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) SAN
2 5 (33.33%) VPN
2 5 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (13.33%) Wireless
3 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) DHCP
3 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MySQL
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (46.67%) Retail
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (13.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 4 (26.67%) Administrator
1 4 (26.67%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Network Consultant
3 1 (6.667%) Technical Architect
3 1 (6.667%) Consultant
3 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (6.667%) Architect
3 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (6.667%) Technical Design Architect
3 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
3 1 (6.667%) Senior Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Linux
3 5 (33.33%) UNIX
4 4 (26.67%) Mac OS
5 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (13.33%) Mac OS X Server
7 1 (6.667%) Solaris
7 1 (6.667%) Ubuntu
7 1 (6.667%) Debian
7 1 (6.667%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (26.67%) Fault Management
2 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (13.33%) Software Deployment
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) vSphere
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) DFS Replication
3 2 (13.33%) VMware ESX
4 1 (6.667%) Xen
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Cisco
1 9 (60.00%) HP
1 9 (60.00%) VMware
2 6 (40.00%) Citrix
3 5 (33.33%) WatchGuard
3 5 (33.33%) Juniper
3 5 (33.33%) 3PAR
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (13.33%) ProCurve
6 2 (13.33%) MobileIron
6 2 (13.33%) Google
6 2 (13.33%) Sophos
6 2 (13.33%) Apple
6 2 (13.33%) Avaya
6 2 (13.33%) Kerio