The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 22 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 56 48 52
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +4
Permanent jobs citing SAN 4 37 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.866% 5.441% 3.319%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.882% 33.33% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 0 37 15
Average salary - £42,500 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +39.34%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-1.23% +1.25%
All Communications & Networking
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
68 111 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 14.72% 16.32% 17.26%
Number of salaries quoted 56 98 58
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +19.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £31,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside SAN Salary Trend

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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 22 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
Liverpool -15 1 - -
SAN
North West

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 20 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 20 (80.00%) VMware
2 17 (68.00%) Active Directory
3 16 (64.00%) Citrix
3 16 (64.00%) Windows
4 15 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 15 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 13 (52.00%) VMware ESX
5 13 (52.00%) vSphere
6 12 (48.00%) ITIL V3
6 12 (48.00%) ITIL
7 11 (44.00%) MS Exchange
7 11 (44.00%) Exchange Server 2010
8 10 (40.00%) XenApp
8 10 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 10 (40.00%) Blackberry
8 10 (40.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 9 (36.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 8 (32.00%) Exchange Server 2003
10 8 (32.00%) MS Excel
11 7 (28.00%) Project Management
12 6 (24.00%) Oracle
13 5 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (20.00%) UNIX
13 5 (20.00%) Retail
13 5 (20.00%) MCTS
13 5 (20.00%) MCITP
14 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
14 4 (16.00%) Release Management
14 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 Development
1 4 (16.00%) MapReduce
1 4 (16.00%) LAMP
1 4 (16.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 11 (44.00%) MS Exchange
1 11 (44.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 10 (40.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 8 (32.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 8 (32.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
1 3 (12.00%) SSL
1 3 (12.00%) WAN
1 3 (12.00%) DHCP
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.000%) Unified Communications
2 1 (4.000%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle 11g
General
1 5 (20.00%) Retail
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Law
2 4 (16.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Head of Architecture
2 4 (16.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (4.000%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 1 (4.000%) Server Engineer
4 1 (4.000%) Senior DBA
4 1 (4.000%) Senior Server Engineer
4 1 (4.000%) Administrator
4 1 (4.000%) Consultant
4 1 (4.000%) DBA
4 1 (4.000%) Service Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (4.000%) Virtualisation Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Blackberry
2 4 (16.00%) SaaS
3 1 (4.000%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.000%) CLARiiON
3 1 (4.000%) Clustering
3 1 (4.000%) EqualLogic
3 1 (4.000%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.000%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 16 (64.00%) Windows
2 15 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 15 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (20.00%) UNIX
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.000%) Windows XP
5 1 (4.000%) Linux
5 1 (4.000%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) ITIL V3
1 12 (48.00%) ITIL
2 7 (28.00%) Project Management
3 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (16.00%) Release Management
3 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
3 4 (16.00%) Time Management
3 4 (16.00%) Network Design
3 4 (16.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (16.00%) ETL
3 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (12.00%) Project Planning
4 3 (12.00%) WAN Optimisation
5 1 (4.000%) Service Delivery
5 1 (4.000%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Java
2 1 (4.000%) PL/SQL
2 1 (4.000%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) MCTS
1 5 (20.00%) MCITP
2 1 (4.000%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (4.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (4.000%) NCDA
2 1 (4.000%) NCIE
2 1 (4.000%) VCDX
2 1 (4.000%) CCEE
2 1 (4.000%) CCIA
2 1 (4.000%) VCAP
2 1 (4.000%) HP AIS
2 1 (4.000%) HP ASE
2 1 (4.000%) HP MASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (68.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (52.00%) VMware ESX
2 13 (52.00%) vSphere
3 10 (40.00%) XenApp
3 10 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (36.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (8.000%) UAG
7 1 (4.000%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (4.000%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (4.000%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (4.000%) XenServer
7 1 (4.000%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) WSUS
1 3 (12.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (4.000%) SCCM
2 1 (4.000%) SCOM
2 1 (4.000%) SCVMM
2 1 (4.000%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 20 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 20 (80.00%) VMware
2 16 (64.00%) Citrix
3 6 (24.00%) Oracle
4 4 (16.00%) Dell
5 3 (12.00%) Symantec
5 3 (12.00%) WatchGuard
5 3 (12.00%) SonicWALL
5 3 (12.00%) Exinda
6 2 (8.000%) HP
7 1 (4.000%) EMC
7 1 (4.000%) NetApp
7 1 (4.000%) Cisco