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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 88 73 83
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +10
Permanent jobs citing SAN 15 13 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.160% 1.243% 0.637%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.212% 6.633% 5.128%
Number of salaries quoted 12 13 4
Average salary £45,000 £38,000 £41,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.42% -7.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £27,500 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £47,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-1.23% +1.25%
All Communications & Networking
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
208 196 117
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 16.09% 18.74% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 160 162 93
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £61,000 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
Buckinghamshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Milton Keynes SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 43 (75.44%) Windows
2 37 (64.91%) Linux
3 31 (54.39%) Microsoft
4 29 (50.88%) VMware
5 26 (45.61%) Active Directory
5 26 (45.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (45.61%) SQL Server
6 22 (38.60%) IBM
7 20 (35.09%) MCSE
8 18 (31.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 17 (29.82%) UNIX
9 17 (29.82%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (28.07%) MS Exchange
10 16 (28.07%) MCITP
10 16 (28.07%) Windows Server 2008
11 15 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
11 15 (26.32%) ITIL
11 15 (26.32%) HP
12 14 (24.56%) DNS
12 14 (24.56%) MySQL
12 14 (24.56%) Oracle
13 13 (22.81%) SharePoint
13 13 (22.81%) Apache
13 13 (22.81%) Dell
13 13 (22.81%) Citrix
13 13 (22.81%) Degree
13 13 (22.81%) Hyper-V
13 13 (22.81%) SharePoint 2010
14 12 (21.05%) SQL Server 2008
14 12 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 6 (10.53%) WebSphere
2 5 (8.772%) Middleware
3 1 (1.754%) LAMP
3 1 (1.754%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 16 (28.07%) MS Exchange
2 13 (22.81%) SharePoint
2 13 (22.81%) Apache
2 13 (22.81%) SharePoint 2010
3 10 (17.54%) IIS
4 8 (14.04%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (8.772%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (3.509%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (3.509%) CICS
7 1 (1.754%) MQSeries
7 1 (1.754%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (1.754%) Lync
Applications
1 9 (15.79%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.509%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.509%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 14 (24.56%) DNS
2 12 (21.05%) Firewall
3 10 (17.54%) NAS
4 7 (12.28%) iSCSI
5 6 (10.53%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (10.53%) SNMP
6 5 (8.772%) Broadband
6 5 (8.772%) MPLS
6 5 (8.772%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (5.263%) Ethernet
8 2 (3.509%) Unified Communications
8 2 (3.509%) FCoE
8 2 (3.509%) LAN
8 2 (3.509%) WAN
9 1 (1.754%) DHCP
9 1 (1.754%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.754%) BIG-IP
9 1 (1.754%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (45.61%) SQL Server
2 14 (24.56%) MySQL
3 12 (21.05%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.754%) DB2
4 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (1.754%) OLTP
4 1 (1.754%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.754%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.754%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.754%) ProC
1 1 (1.754%) JMeter
General
1 6 (10.53%) Marketing
1 6 (10.53%) Banking
2 4 (7.018%) Finance
3 2 (3.509%) International Banking
3 2 (3.509%) Spanish Language
4 1 (1.754%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (36.84%) Analyst
2 12 (21.05%) Systems Administrator
2 12 (21.05%) Administrator
3 9 (15.79%) Architect
3 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 9 (15.79%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 9 (15.79%) UNIX Administrator
4 7 (12.28%) Server Analyst
4 7 (12.28%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (10.53%) Server Specialist
5 6 (10.53%) Support Specialist
5 6 (10.53%) Server Support
5 6 (10.53%) Server Support Specialist
6 5 (8.772%) Support Analyst
6 5 (8.772%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (8.772%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 4 (7.018%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.018%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.018%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (5.263%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Clustering
2 6 (10.53%) Computer Science
2 6 (10.53%) HACMP
3 5 (8.772%) Replication
3 5 (8.772%) Mainframe
4 3 (5.263%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.263%) EqualLogic
5 2 (3.509%) Celerra
5 2 (3.509%) CLARiiON
5 2 (3.509%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.754%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 43 (75.44%) Windows
2 37 (64.91%) Linux
3 17 (29.82%) UNIX
4 16 (28.07%) Windows Server 2008
5 12 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (19.30%) AIX
7 10 (17.54%) Solaris
8 5 (8.772%) VMS
9 1 (1.754%) Windows 2000
9 1 (1.754%) HPUX
9 1 (1.754%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.32%) ITIL
2 11 (19.30%) Capacity Management
3 8 (14.04%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (12.28%) Change Management
4 7 (12.28%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (10.53%) Online Marketing
6 5 (8.772%) Technical Architecture
7 4 (7.018%) Configuration Management
8 3 (5.263%) Project Management
8 3 (5.263%) Resource Management
8 3 (5.263%) Incident Management
8 3 (5.263%) Supplier Management
9 2 (3.509%) Performance Management
9 2 (3.509%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (3.509%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (3.509%) Migration
10 1 (1.754%) Data Modelling
10 1 (1.754%) PRINCE2
10 1 (1.754%) PRINCE
10 1 (1.754%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.79%) Shell Script
2 8 (14.04%) SQL
3 4 (7.018%) sed
3 4 (7.018%) AWK
3 4 (7.018%) Perl
4 1 (1.754%) C
4 1 (1.754%) PHP
4 1 (1.754%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (45.61%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (35.09%) MCSE
3 18 (31.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 17 (29.82%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (28.07%) MCITP
6 13 (22.81%) Degree
7 12 (21.05%) CCNA
8 6 (10.53%) MCSA
9 5 (8.772%) CCIE
10 2 (3.509%) MCTS
10 2 (3.509%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.754%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (1.754%) CCEA
11 1 (1.754%) CCEE
11 1 (1.754%) CCAA
11 1 (1.754%) CCIA
11 1 (1.754%) VCAP
11 1 (1.754%) VCP5
11 1 (1.754%) HP AIS
11 1 (1.754%) HP MASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) SLA
2 3 (5.263%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (45.61%) Active Directory
2 15 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (22.81%) Hyper-V
4 9 (15.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 7 (12.28%) XenDesktop
5 7 (12.28%) XenApp
6 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (7.018%) vSphere
7 4 (7.018%) XenServer
8 3 (5.263%) VMware ESX
8 3 (5.263%) Veritas File System
9 2 (3.509%) Forefront TMG
9 2 (3.509%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (3.509%) ISA Server
10 1 (1.754%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Cobbler
2 7 (12.28%) Backup Exec
3 6 (10.53%) WMI
4 5 (8.772%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 5 (8.772%) YUM
5 4 (7.018%) SCOM
6 3 (5.263%) NetBackup
7 2 (3.509%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (1.754%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (54.39%) Microsoft
2 29 (50.88%) VMware
3 22 (38.60%) IBM
4 15 (26.32%) HP
5 14 (24.56%) Oracle
6 13 (22.81%) Dell
6 13 (22.81%) Citrix
7 12 (21.05%) Symantec
8 11 (19.30%) Red Hat
8 11 (19.30%) Cisco
9 10 (17.54%) Veritas
10 7 (12.28%) NetApp
10 7 (12.28%) EMC
11 6 (10.53%) Juniper
12 5 (8.772%) Sun
13 3 (5.263%) Brocade
13 3 (5.263%) 3PAR
14 2 (3.509%) BMC
15 1 (1.754%) JBoss
15 1 (1.754%) SAP