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

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 49 38 37
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -1
Permanent jobs citing SAN 3 33 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 0.737% 6.509% 3.659%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.122% 49.25% 18.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2 33 12
Average salary £54,500 £47,500 £38,001
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.73% +24.99%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,100 £41,300 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £66,900 £55,000 £44,850
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
All Communications & Networking
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
49 67 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 12.04% 13.21% 19.82%
Number of salaries quoted 42 65 52
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £33,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
Merseyside

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

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

Liverpool SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) Citrix
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (66.67%) VMware ESX
4 3 (50.00%) NetApp
4 3 (50.00%) ITIL
4 3 (50.00%) vSphere
4 3 (50.00%) XenApp
4 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 2 (33.33%) ITIL V3
5 2 (33.33%) NCDA
5 2 (33.33%) NCIE
5 2 (33.33%) EMC
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco
5 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
5 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (16.67%) MCTS
6 1 (16.67%) MCITP
6 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
6 1 (16.67%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (16.67%) CLARiiON
6 1 (16.67%) Clustering
6 1 (16.67%) LAN

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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.

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Server Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Server Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Virtualisation Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CLARiiON
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) Celerra
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (16.67%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL V3
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (33.33%) NCDA
1 2 (33.33%) NCIE
2 1 (16.67%) VCAP
2 1 (16.67%) CCEE
2 1 (16.67%) CCIA
2 1 (16.67%) MCTS
2 1 (16.67%) MCITP
2 1 (16.67%) HP AIS
2 1 (16.67%) HP ASE
2 1 (16.67%) HP MASE
2 1 (16.67%) VCDX
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) CCDP
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) XenApp
2 3 (50.00%) vSphere
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (16.67%) XenServer
4 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
1 1 (16.67%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) Citrix
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (50.00%) NetApp
5 2 (33.33%) EMC
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco
6 1 (16.67%) Oracle
6 1 (16.67%) HP
6 1 (16.67%) Dell
6 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint