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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 178 159 154
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -5
Permanent jobs citing NAS 14 14 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.342% 0.386% 0.405%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.422% 2.357% 2.941%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 11
Average salary £40,000 £34,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,200 £28,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,500 £33,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.65%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
578 594 544
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 14.11% 16.39% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 486 524 477
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £75,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
NAS
North West

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester NAS Salary Trend

NAS
Salary Histogram

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

Manchester NAS Salary Histogram

NAS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 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
Oldham - 1 - -
NAS
North West

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 25 (78.13%) SAN
2 24 (75.00%) VMware
3 20 (62.50%) Windows
4 19 (59.38%) MS Exchange
5 16 (50.00%) LAN
5 16 (50.00%) WAN
5 16 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 16 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (50.00%) Hyper-V
6 15 (46.88%) Windows Server 2008
6 15 (46.88%) MS Excel
7 14 (43.75%) SQL Server
7 14 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
8 12 (37.50%) SQL
9 11 (34.38%) Cisco
9 11 (34.38%) Active Directory
10 10 (31.25%) TCP/IP
10 10 (31.25%) Windows XP
10 10 (31.25%) VoIP
10 10 (31.25%) Exchange Server 2010
11 9 (28.13%) vSphere
11 9 (28.13%) ITIL
11 9 (28.13%) DNS
11 9 (28.13%) Internet
11 9 (28.13%) Finance
11 9 (28.13%) Firewall
12 8 (25.00%) DHCP
12 8 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (25.00%) CCNA
13 7 (21.88%) NetApp

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 5 (15.63%) ASP.NET
1 5 (15.63%) .NET
2 3 (9.375%) JSP
2 3 (9.375%) SOAP
2 3 (9.375%) Web Services
2 3 (9.375%) XML
2 3 (9.375%) XSLT
2 3 (9.375%) CGI
2 3 (9.375%) Ajax
3 1 (3.125%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 19 (59.38%) MS Exchange
2 10 (31.25%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (21.88%) SharePoint
4 6 (18.75%) IIS
5 5 (15.63%) Exchange Server 2000
5 5 (15.63%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (12.50%) Lync
7 3 (9.375%) Apache
8 1 (3.125%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 15 (46.88%) MS Excel
2 4 (12.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 25 (78.13%) SAN
2 16 (50.00%) LAN
2 16 (50.00%) WAN
3 10 (31.25%) TCP/IP
3 10 (31.25%) VoIP
4 9 (28.13%) DNS
4 9 (28.13%) Internet
4 9 (28.13%) Firewall
5 8 (25.00%) DHCP
6 5 (15.63%) Network Security
6 5 (15.63%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (15.63%) VPN
6 5 (15.63%) SSL
6 5 (15.63%) IPsec
7 4 (12.50%) SSH
7 4 (12.50%) iSCSI
8 3 (9.375%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (9.375%) SNMP
8 3 (9.375%) Ethernet
9 2 (6.250%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) SQL Server
2 6 (18.75%) MySQL
3 5 (15.63%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
4 4 (12.50%) SQL Server 2012
4 4 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (6.250%) Big Data
6 1 (3.125%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (9.375%) Git (software)
1 3 (9.375%) Subversion
General
1 9 (28.13%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.125%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Analyst
5 3 (9.375%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (9.375%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 3 (9.375%) Developer
5 3 (9.375%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.250%) C++ Team Leader
6 2 (6.250%) Senior Programmer
6 2 (6.250%) Server Analyst
6 2 (6.250%) Java Team Leader
6 2 (6.250%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.250%) Senior Analyst Programmer
6 2 (6.250%) Team Leader
6 2 (6.250%) Server Support Analyst
6 2 (6.250%) Sales Manager
6 2 (6.250%) Analyst Programmer
6 2 (6.250%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) SWIFT
1 5 (15.63%) Replication
2 3 (9.375%) Client/Server
3 2 (6.250%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.250%) Clustering
3 2 (6.250%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.125%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.125%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 20 (62.50%) Windows
2 15 (46.88%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (31.25%) Windows XP
5 6 (18.75%) Linux
6 5 (15.63%) Windows 2000 Server
6 5 (15.63%) AIX
7 4 (12.50%) UNIX
8 3 (9.375%) Windows NT
9 1 (3.125%) Windows Vista
9 1 (3.125%) Windows 7
9 1 (3.125%) Windows 8
9 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (3.125%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) ITIL
2 6 (18.75%) CRM
3 5 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (12.50%) Information Security
4 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (9.375%) Network Management
5 3 (9.375%) PRINCE2
5 3 (9.375%) Network Design
6 2 (6.250%) Software Engineering
6 2 (6.250%) Programme Management
6 2 (6.250%) ERP
6 2 (6.250%) Change Control
6 2 (6.250%) Integration Testing
6 2 (6.250%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (6.250%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (3.125%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (9.375%) Bash shell
2 3 (9.375%) C
2 3 (9.375%) C++
2 3 (9.375%) Java
2 3 (9.375%) Perl
2 3 (9.375%) Python
3 1 (3.125%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (25.00%) CCNA
2 6 (18.75%) Degree
3 5 (15.63%) MCSE
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (12.50%) CCNP
5 3 (9.375%) MCITP
5 3 (9.375%) MCP
5 3 (9.375%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (9.375%) MCTS
6 2 (6.250%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (6.250%) CCEE
6 2 (6.250%) CCIA
7 1 (3.125%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 16 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 16 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 11 (34.38%) Active Directory
3 9 (28.13%) vSphere
4 5 (15.63%) XenApp
4 5 (15.63%) XenServer
5 4 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
5 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (9.375%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (9.375%) Samba
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) WSUS
1 5 (15.63%) SCCM
1 5 (15.63%) SCOM
1 5 (15.63%) Tivoli
1 5 (15.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 4 (12.50%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (3.125%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 24 (75.00%) VMware
2 16 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (34.38%) Cisco
4 7 (21.88%) NetApp
4 7 (21.88%) Citrix
5 6 (18.75%) WatchGuard
6 5 (15.63%) Veeam
6 5 (15.63%) IBM
6 5 (15.63%) CheckPoint
6 5 (15.63%) Juniper
7 4 (12.50%) Symantec
8 1 (3.125%) Dell
8 1 (3.125%) EMC
8 1 (3.125%) Sophos
8 1 (3.125%) Sun
8 1 (3.125%) Oracle
8 1 (3.125%) AppSense
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