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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 61 54 37
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -17
Permanent jobs citing SAN 5 2 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 1.272% 0.559% 2.473%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.717% 4.000% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 7
Average salary £33,815 £50,000 £37,062
Average salary % change year-on-year
-32.37% +34.91%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,800 £48,000 £31,400
10% offered a salary of more than £40,526 £52,000 £41,637
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
106 50 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 26.97% 13.97% 9.894%
Number of salaries quoted 100 43 28
Average salary £29,088 £32,250 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.80% +11.20%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £23,600 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £41,396 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
Leicestershire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leicester SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 14 (87.50%) VMware
2 13 (81.25%) HP
3 12 (75.00%) vSphere
4 10 (62.50%) NetApp
5 9 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (50.00%) Capacity Management
6 8 (50.00%) ITIL
6 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
7 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
8 6 (37.50%) SAP
8 6 (37.50%) MCP
8 6 (37.50%) Windows
9 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
10 3 (18.75%) Cisco
10 3 (18.75%) SQL
10 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (18.75%) Symantec
10 3 (18.75%) iSCSI
11 2 (12.50%) VCP4
11 2 (12.50%) XenApp
11 2 (12.50%) XenServer
11 2 (12.50%) XenDesktop
11 2 (12.50%) Dell
11 2 (12.50%) EMC
11 2 (12.50%) Citrix
11 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
11 2 (12.50%) IIS

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) IIS
3 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) iSCSI
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (6.250%) IP Telephony
3 1 (6.250%) WAN
3 1 (6.250%) MPLS
3 1 (6.250%) Unified Communications
3 1 (6.250%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (6.250%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (6.250%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Technical Support
3 1 (6.250%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (6.250%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Systems Developer
3 1 (6.250%) Team Leader
3 1 (6.250%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 1 (6.250%) Technical Team Leader
3 1 (6.250%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Support Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (12.50%) Linux
4 2 (12.50%) SUSE
5 1 (6.250%) Windows XP
5 1 (6.250%) Windows 7
5 1 (6.250%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 8 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (6.250%) Data Management
2 1 (6.250%) Business Development
2 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) VB
2 1 (6.250%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (37.50%) MCP
3 2 (12.50%) VCP4
4 1 (6.250%) MCITP
4 1 (6.250%) MCSE
4 1 (6.250%) CCNP
4 1 (6.250%) CCNA
4 1 (6.250%) CCA
4 1 (6.250%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (6.250%) CCEA
4 1 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.250%) NCDA
4 1 (6.250%) NCIE
4 1 (6.250%) CCAA
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) vSphere
2 9 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (12.50%) XenApp
4 2 (12.50%) XenServer
4 2 (12.50%) XenDesktop
5 1 (6.250%) VMware ESX
5 1 (6.250%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) NetBackup
1 1 (6.250%) Backup Exec
1 1 (6.250%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (6.250%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) VMware
2 13 (81.25%) HP
3 10 (62.50%) NetApp
4 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (37.50%) SAP
6 3 (18.75%) Cisco
6 3 (18.75%) Symantec
7 2 (12.50%) Dell
7 2 (12.50%) EMC
7 2 (12.50%) Citrix
7 2 (12.50%) Novell
8 1 (6.250%) CommVault
8 1 (6.250%) WatchGuard
8 1 (6.250%) Veeam
8 1 (6.250%) ProCurve