The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 17 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 135 98 90
Rank change year-on-year
-37 -8
Permanent jobs citing NAS 12 31 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.457% 1.480% 1.480%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.637% 8.333% 8.710%
Number of salaries quoted 12 21 16
Average salary £28,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £16,400 £27,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £28,450 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,250
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +5.59%
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
455 372 310
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 17.31% 17.76% 17.00%
Number of salaries quoted 380 295 257
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
NAS
West Yorkshire

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds NAS Salary Trend

NAS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing NAS across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Leeds NAS Salary Histogram

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 48 (88.89%) SAN
2 41 (75.93%) Windows
3 40 (74.07%) UNIX
4 34 (62.96%) Linux
5 22 (40.74%) Microsoft
5 22 (40.74%) Active Directory
5 22 (40.74%) VMware
6 21 (38.89%) MS Exchange
7 20 (37.04%) EMC
8 19 (35.19%) CLARiiON
8 19 (35.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 18 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
10 16 (29.63%) Change Control
10 16 (29.63%) Citrix
10 16 (29.63%) SQL Server
11 15 (27.78%) SLA
11 15 (27.78%) VPN
11 15 (27.78%) Windows Server 2003
11 15 (27.78%) Blackberry
11 15 (27.78%) SQL Server 2008
11 15 (27.78%) Exchange Server 2007
11 15 (27.78%) Clustering
11 15 (27.78%) SQL Server 2005
12 14 (25.93%) Symantec
13 13 (24.07%) NetApp
13 13 (24.07%) E-Commerce
13 13 (24.07%) ITIL
14 12 (22.22%) XenApp
14 12 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
15 11 (20.37%) Cloud Computing

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 Development
1 6 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (1.852%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 21 (38.89%) MS Exchange
2 15 (27.78%) Exchange Server 2007
3 12 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
4 11 (20.37%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 6 (11.11%) Office Communications Server
6 5 (9.259%) IIS
6 5 (9.259%) Apache
6 5 (9.259%) SharePoint
7 4 (7.407%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (5.556%) Tomcat
8 3 (5.556%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.852%) Lync
Applications
1 10 (18.52%) MS Excel
2 5 (9.259%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 48 (88.89%) SAN
2 15 (27.78%) VPN
3 4 (7.407%) Internet
4 2 (3.704%) Unified Communications
4 2 (3.704%) DNS
5 1 (1.852%) SSL
5 1 (1.852%) DMZ
5 1 (1.852%) LAN
5 1 (1.852%) WAN
5 1 (1.852%) DHCP
5 1 (1.852%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.852%) IP Telephony
5 1 (1.852%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.63%) SQL Server
2 15 (27.78%) SQL Server 2005
2 15 (27.78%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (7.407%) MySQL
General
1 2 (3.704%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (37.04%) Storage Specialist
2 10 (18.52%) Analyst
2 10 (18.52%) Systems Administrator
2 10 (18.52%) Administrator
3 9 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 7 (12.96%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 4 (7.407%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (7.407%) Storage Systems Administrator
6 4 (7.407%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.407%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (5.556%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.556%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.556%) UNIX Engineer
7 3 (5.556%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.704%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (3.704%) Support Analyst Programmer
8 2 (3.704%) Junior Support Engineer
8 2 (3.704%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.19%) CLARiiON
2 15 (27.78%) Clustering
2 15 (27.78%) Blackberry
3 11 (20.37%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (7.407%) Thin Client
4 4 (7.407%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.852%) IaaS
5 1 (1.852%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.852%) Replication
5 1 (1.852%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 41 (75.93%) Windows
2 40 (74.07%) UNIX
3 34 (62.96%) Linux
4 19 (35.19%) Windows Server 2008
5 15 (27.78%) Windows Server 2003
6 9 (16.67%) CentOS
7 6 (11.11%) Ubuntu
8 3 (5.556%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (5.556%) Debian
9 1 (1.852%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.63%) Change Control
2 13 (24.07%) ITIL
2 13 (24.07%) E-Commerce
3 6 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 6 (11.11%) Problem Management
4 5 (9.259%) Project Management
5 1 (1.852%) Change Management
5 1 (1.852%) Migration
5 1 (1.852%) Programme Management
5 1 (1.852%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (1.852%) ERP
5 1 (1.852%) CRM
5 1 (1.852%) Data Protection
5 1 (1.852%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (1.852%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.407%) Perl
1 4 (7.407%) SQL
1 4 (7.407%) Bash shell
2 3 (5.556%) Java
2 3 (5.556%) Python
2 3 (5.556%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (3.704%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (3.704%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (3.704%) MCSE
1 2 (3.704%) MCSA
1 2 (3.704%) MCITP
2 1 (1.852%) NCDA
2 1 (1.852%) CCNA
2 1 (1.852%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (1.852%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (27.78%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (40.74%) Active Directory
2 18 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (22.22%) XenApp
4 5 (9.259%) vSphere
5 4 (7.407%) Terminal Server
5 4 (7.407%) VMware ESX
6 3 (5.556%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.852%) XenServer
7 1 (1.852%) Xen
7 1 (1.852%) NFS
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) WSUS
1 10 (18.52%) Norton AntiVirus
2 4 (7.407%) Backup Exec
2 4 (7.407%) SCCM
2 4 (7.407%) SCOM
2 4 (7.407%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (40.74%) Microsoft
1 22 (40.74%) VMware
2 20 (37.04%) EMC
3 16 (29.63%) Citrix
4 14 (25.93%) Symantec
5 13 (24.07%) NetApp
6 11 (20.37%) CommVault
7 10 (18.52%) Kaspersky
8 9 (16.67%) Red Hat
9 5 (9.259%) HP
10 4 (7.407%) Wyse
11 3 (5.556%) JBoss
12 2 (3.704%) Cisco
13 1 (1.852%) IBM
13 1 (1.852%) Dell
13 1 (1.852%) AppSense
13 1 (1.852%) F5
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Advanced PHP and Perl scripting ability... Good virtualisation and storage background; knowledge of Xen or Citrix XenServer, RAID, iSCSI and SAN/NAS solutions... Excellent knowledge of networking, protocols (...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £32000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013