The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 39 39 53
Rank change year-on-year
0 +14
Permanent jobs citing SAN 21 23 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 4.526% 4.501% 1.269%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% 35.38% 9.091%
Number of salaries quoted 16 21 4
Average salary £39,250 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.14% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,750 £21,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
All Communications & Networking
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
105 65 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 22.63% 12.72% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 94 58 53
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.90%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
North West

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Blackpool - 10 £39,250 -
Preston 0 3 £27,500 -31.25%
Colne -1 1 - -
Burnley -6 1 £27,500 +10.00% 2
Blackburn - 1 £29,000 -
SAN
North West

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 31 (88.57%) Windows
2 20 (57.14%) VMware
3 19 (54.29%) Active Directory
4 18 (51.43%) SQL
5 16 (45.71%) Windows Server 2008
6 15 (42.86%) SQL Server
6 15 (42.86%) MS Exchange
6 15 (42.86%) Microsoft
7 13 (37.14%) VMware Infrastructure
8 12 (34.29%) Cisco
9 11 (31.43%) SQL Server 2008
9 11 (31.43%) Replication
9 11 (31.43%) SQL Server 2005
10 10 (28.57%) Clustering
10 10 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (28.57%) DTS
10 10 (28.57%) T-SQL
10 10 (28.57%) VLDB
10 10 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
11 8 (22.86%) WAN
12 7 (20.00%) LAN
12 7 (20.00%) TCP/IP
12 7 (20.00%) SCCM
12 7 (20.00%) NAS
13 6 (17.14%) PRINCE2
14 5 (14.29%) VoIP
14 5 (14.29%) MS Excel
14 5 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
14 5 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 (42.86%) MS Exchange
2 5 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (8.571%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (2.857%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 3 (8.571%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.571%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) WAN
2 7 (20.00%) LAN
2 7 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (20.00%) NAS
3 5 (14.29%) VoIP
4 4 (11.43%) DHCP
4 4 (11.43%) Firewall
4 4 (11.43%) Wireless
5 2 (5.714%) iSCSI
5 2 (5.714%) DNS
6 1 (2.857%) HTTPS
6 1 (2.857%) MPLS
6 1 (2.857%) WAAS
6 1 (2.857%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.857%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.857%) HTTP
6 1 (2.857%) SNMP
6 1 (2.857%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 11 (31.43%) SQL Server 2005
2 11 (31.43%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (28.57%) DTS
3 10 (28.57%) VLDB
4 1 (2.857%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.857%) MySQL
General
1 3 (8.571%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.714%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Administrator
2 10 (28.57%) DBA
2 10 (28.57%) SQL DBA
3 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.571%) Technical Consultant
5 3 (8.571%) Architect
5 3 (8.571%) Consultant
6 2 (5.714%) Analyst
6 2 (5.714%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.714%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.714%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Designer
6 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (5.714%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 2 (5.714%) Designer
6 2 (5.714%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (2.857%) Senior Architect
7 1 (2.857%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Replication
2 10 (28.57%) Clustering
3 4 (11.43%) CLARiiON
4 2 (5.714%) Celerra
4 2 (5.714%) NHS
5 1 (2.857%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.857%) iPhone
5 1 (2.857%) Symmetrix DMX
5 1 (2.857%) Symmetrix
5 1 (2.857%) EMC Centera
Operating Systems
1 31 (88.57%) Windows
2 16 (45.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (8.571%) Windows XP
4 3 (8.571%) Windows 7
4 3 (8.571%) Windows 2000
5 2 (5.714%) Windows NT
5 2 (5.714%) UNIX
5 2 (5.714%) Linux
6 1 (2.857%) AIX
6 1 (2.857%) HPUX
6 1 (2.857%) Solaris
6 1 (2.857%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (17.14%) PRINCE2
3 4 (11.43%) ITIL
4 3 (8.571%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (8.571%) CRM
4 3 (8.571%) Project Management
5 1 (2.857%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (2.857%) E-business
5 1 (2.857%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.857%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.857%) AWK
3 1 (2.857%) C
3 1 (2.857%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.571%) CCNP
2 3 (8.571%) CCNA
2 3 (8.571%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.571%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (5.714%) Degree
3 2 (5.714%) MCSE
3 2 (5.714%) EMC Certification
4 1 (2.857%) VCP4
4 1 (2.857%) VCP5
4 1 (2.857%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.857%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 19 (54.29%) Active Directory
2 13 (37.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (11.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.857%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (2.857%) vSphere
5 1 (2.857%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.857%) Terminal Services
5 1 (2.857%) ISA Server
5 1 (2.857%) VMware ESX
5 1 (2.857%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (2.857%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) SCCM
2 2 (5.714%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.857%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.857%) WSUS
3 1 (2.857%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (2.857%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) VMware
2 15 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 12 (34.29%) Cisco
4 4 (11.43%) HP
4 4 (11.43%) EMC
5 2 (5.714%) Juniper
5 2 (5.714%) NetApp
6 1 (2.857%) Apple
6 1 (2.857%) McAfee
6 1 (2.857%) Toshiba
6 1 (2.857%) Veeam
6 1 (2.857%) Citrix
6 1 (2.857%) Avaya
6 1 (2.857%) IBM
6 1 (2.857%) Sun
6 1 (2.857%) Compuware
Burnley, North West
You will also maintain and help develop Servers, make accurate backups to ensure disaster recovery ability, ensure operating systems and applications are kept up to date, administer the...
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Salary: £26000.00 - £28000.00 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
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