The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 54 47 55
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +8
Permanent jobs citing SAN 37 25 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 3.229% 3.516% 4.279%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 14.62% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 37 25 40
Average salary £42,000 £50,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.00% +19.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,100 £35,000 £24,401
10% offered a salary of more than £69,800 £63,000 £47,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
259 171 211
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 22.60% 24.05% 19.63%
Number of salaries quoted 219 160 178
Average salary £40,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.71% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £24,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £51,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
South East

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the Kent region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 23 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
Tunbridge Wells +12 7 £45,000 -30.76%
West Malling - 4 £37,500 -
Tonbridge - 4 £45,000 -
Maidstone -3 1 £39,000 -17.89%
Canterbury - 1 £26,000 -
SAN
South East

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 50 (79.37%) Windows
2 48 (76.19%) VMware
3 35 (55.56%) Cisco
4 33 (52.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 32 (50.79%) HP
6 31 (49.21%) Windows Server 2008
7 30 (47.62%) Citrix
8 26 (41.27%) Microsoft
8 26 (41.27%) vSphere
9 25 (39.68%) Active Directory
9 25 (39.68%) MS Exchange
10 20 (31.75%) Windows Server 2003
11 17 (26.98%) Firewall
11 17 (26.98%) VMware ESX
11 17 (26.98%) IBM
11 17 (26.98%) ITIL
11 17 (26.98%) VMware ESXi
12 14 (22.22%) SQL Server
12 14 (22.22%) IIS
12 14 (22.22%) Linux
13 13 (20.63%) NAS
14 12 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2007
14 12 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2010
14 12 (19.05%) WAN
14 12 (19.05%) TCP/IP
15 11 (17.46%) UNIX
15 11 (17.46%) DNS
15 11 (17.46%) Hyper-V
15 11 (17.46%) Windows 2000 Server
16 10 (15.87%) SLA

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 4 (6.349%) .NET
2 2 (3.175%) Memcached
3 1 (1.587%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 25 (39.68%) MS Exchange
2 14 (22.22%) IIS
3 12 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2007
3 12 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2010
4 7 (11.11%) Apache
5 5 (7.937%) SharePoint
6 4 (6.349%) Lync
7 3 (4.762%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (3.175%) nginx
9 1 (1.587%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (1.587%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (1.587%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (7.937%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (26.98%) Firewall
2 13 (20.63%) NAS
3 12 (19.05%) WAN
3 12 (19.05%) TCP/IP
4 11 (17.46%) DNS
5 10 (15.87%) DHCP
5 10 (15.87%) LAN
6 7 (11.11%) iSCSI
6 7 (11.11%) VoIP
7 6 (9.524%) VPN
8 5 (7.937%) VLAN
9 4 (6.349%) MPLS
9 4 (6.349%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (6.349%) Unified Communications
10 3 (4.762%) Internet
11 2 (3.175%) VRRP
11 2 (3.175%) SSL
11 2 (3.175%) HTTP
11 2 (3.175%) SMTP
11 2 (3.175%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.11%) MySQL
3 2 (3.175%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.587%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.587%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.587%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.587%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 9 (14.29%) Advertising
2 7 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 6 (9.524%) Retail
4 4 (6.349%) Finance
5 1 (1.587%) Local Government
5 1 (1.587%) Legal
5 1 (1.587%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (31.75%) Support Engineer
2 13 (20.63%) Technical Engineer
3 12 (19.05%) Technical Support
4 11 (17.46%) Systems Engineer
4 11 (17.46%) Technical Support Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 6 (9.524%) Network Support
6 6 (9.524%) Administrator
7 5 (7.937%) Systems Administrator
7 5 (7.937%) Network Engineer
7 5 (7.937%) Network Support Engineer
8 4 (6.349%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 3 (4.762%) Applications Manager
9 3 (4.762%) Applications Support
9 3 (4.762%) Architect
9 3 (4.762%) Consultant
9 3 (4.762%) Support Manager
9 3 (4.762%) Applications Support Manager
10 2 (3.175%) Technical Specialist
10 2 (3.175%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) Clustering
2 5 (7.937%) iSeries
3 2 (3.175%) Blackberry
3 2 (3.175%) AS400
3 2 (3.175%) Open Source
4 1 (1.587%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.587%) EqualLogic
4 1 (1.587%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.587%) Replication
4 1 (1.587%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 50 (79.37%) Windows
2 31 (49.21%) Windows Server 2008
3 20 (31.75%) Windows Server 2003
4 14 (22.22%) Linux
5 11 (17.46%) UNIX
5 11 (17.46%) Windows 2000 Server
6 6 (9.524%) Solaris
7 5 (7.937%) AIX
7 5 (7.937%) HPUX
8 4 (6.349%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (6.349%) Mac OS
8 4 (6.349%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (4.762%) Ubuntu
9 3 (4.762%) CentOS
9 3 (4.762%) Debian
10 2 (3.175%) FreeBSD
10 2 (3.175%) VMS
10 2 (3.175%) OpenBSD
10 2 (3.175%) Windows 7
10 2 (3.175%) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.98%) ITIL
2 9 (14.29%) Project Management
3 7 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (7.937%) Security Management
5 4 (6.349%) E-Commerce
5 4 (6.349%) Fault Management
6 3 (4.762%) Performance Management
6 3 (4.762%) Capacity Management
6 3 (4.762%) Service Management
6 3 (4.762%) Service Delivery
6 3 (4.762%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (4.762%) Business Continuity
7 2 (3.175%) Configuration Management
7 2 (3.175%) Migration
7 2 (3.175%) Change Management
7 2 (3.175%) Risk Management
7 2 (3.175%) Change Control
7 2 (3.175%) Network Architecture
7 2 (3.175%) Network Design
7 2 (3.175%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.937%) SQL
2 4 (6.349%) Java
2 4 (6.349%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.175%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.175%) VB
3 2 (3.175%) Perl
3 2 (3.175%) PHP
4 1 (1.587%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.587%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (6.349%) MCSE
4 3 (4.762%) MCP
5 2 (3.175%) CCNA
5 2 (3.175%) MCSA
5 2 (3.175%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.175%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.175%) MCITP
5 2 (3.175%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.87%) SLA
2 5 (7.937%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.762%) QA
4 1 (1.587%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (52.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (41.27%) vSphere
3 25 (39.68%) Active Directory
4 17 (26.98%) VMware ESX
4 17 (26.98%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (17.46%) Hyper-V
6 9 (14.29%) XenApp
7 4 (6.349%) Terminal Services
7 4 (6.349%) XenDesktop
7 4 (6.349%) DFS Replication
8 2 (3.175%) NFS
8 2 (3.175%) Squid
9 1 (1.587%) Xen
9 1 (1.587%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 2 (3.175%) Legato
1 2 (3.175%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.587%) WSUS
2 1 (1.587%) Backup Exec
2 1 (1.587%) Nagios
Vendors
1 48 (76.19%) VMware
2 35 (55.56%) Cisco
3 32 (50.79%) HP
4 30 (47.62%) Citrix
5 26 (41.27%) Microsoft
6 17 (26.98%) IBM
7 5 (7.937%) WatchGuard
7 5 (7.937%) 3PAR
7 5 (7.937%) Dell
7 5 (7.937%) Juniper
7 5 (7.937%) Red Hat
8 3 (4.762%) CheckPoint
9 2 (3.175%) Apple
9 2 (3.175%) NetApp
9 2 (3.175%) Novell
9 2 (3.175%) Sun
9 2 (3.175%) MobileIron
9 2 (3.175%) ProCurve
9 2 (3.175%) Kerio
9 2 (3.175%) Google
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A global leading software solutions provider are hiring a strong Infrastructure / Systems Engineer with broad infrastructure skills covering Hyper-V, Windows, Networking, IIS and Security... This will involve: -...
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Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Gym
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You will need strong and advanced expertise and knowledge of Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V, Multi-site IIS / web farms including ARR, AD / Active Directory, Windows Networking, DNS,...
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My client a value added distributor of servers, data storage, network security, enterprise software, virtualisation and access infrastructure are currently in the market for Citrix Consultant - Citrix -CCEE -...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Car + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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