The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 23 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 36 40 28
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -12
Permanent jobs citing SAN 24 12 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.979% 2.643% 5.072%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.75% 23.08% 25.93%
Number of salaries quoted 20 9 21
Average salary £32,500 £27,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.18% -15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,840 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £38,700 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
128 52 81
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 26.56% 11.45% 19.57%
Number of salaries quoted 117 46 72
Average salary £40,000 £27,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+45.45% -21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,000 £23,150
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
Tyne and Wear

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the Newcastle upon Tyne region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Newcastle upon Tyne SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 27 (69.23%) Cisco
2 23 (58.97%) Firewall
3 22 (56.41%) MS Excel
4 20 (51.28%) HP
5 19 (48.72%) VPN
6 18 (46.15%) DNS
6 18 (46.15%) DHCP
7 17 (43.59%) Microsoft
7 17 (43.59%) Linux
7 17 (43.59%) VMware
7 17 (43.59%) VLAN
7 17 (43.59%) Hyper-V
8 16 (41.03%) MS Visio
9 15 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
9 15 (38.46%) Fibre Channel
10 14 (35.90%) Capacity Planning
11 13 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (33.33%) VMware ESX
11 13 (33.33%) Windows
12 12 (30.77%) Solaris
12 12 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
13 11 (28.21%) TCP/IP
13 11 (28.21%) WAN
13 11 (28.21%) Windows Server 2008
14 10 (25.64%) Cisco PIX
14 10 (25.64%) XenServer
14 10 (25.64%) Network Management
14 10 (25.64%) Network Design
14 10 (25.64%) Cisco IOS
14 10 (25.64%) Oracle

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (10.26%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 10 (25.64%) MS Exchange
2 8 (20.51%) Apache
3 6 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2003
3 6 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (10.26%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (10.26%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.564%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 22 (56.41%) MS Excel
2 16 (41.03%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 23 (58.97%) Firewall
2 19 (48.72%) VPN
3 18 (46.15%) DNS
3 18 (46.15%) DHCP
4 17 (43.59%) VLAN
5 15 (38.46%) Fibre Channel
6 13 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (28.21%) TCP/IP
7 11 (28.21%) WAN
8 10 (25.64%) Cisco PIX
8 10 (25.64%) Cisco IOS
9 8 (20.51%) OSPF
9 8 (20.51%) BGP
9 8 (20.51%) NAS
10 7 (17.95%) LDAP
11 6 (15.38%) iSCSI
12 4 (10.26%) SMTP
13 3 (7.692%) IPsec
13 3 (7.692%) HSRP
14 2 (5.128%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) MySQL
2 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (12.82%) German Language
2 4 (10.26%) Italian Language
2 4 (10.26%) French Language
3 2 (5.128%) Finance
4 1 (2.564%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Systems Administrator
1 10 (25.64%) Support Engineer
1 10 (25.64%) Administrator
2 6 (15.38%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (12.82%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) SAN Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Network Support
4 4 (10.26%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.692%) Technical Support
5 3 (7.692%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 3 (7.692%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (7.692%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (7.692%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 2 (5.128%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.564%) Recruitment Consultant
7 1 (2.564%) Consultant
7 1 (2.564%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (2.564%) VMware Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Replication
1 4 (10.26%) Blackberry
2 2 (5.128%) Clustering
3 1 (2.564%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (2.564%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.564%) CLARiiON
3 1 (2.564%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 17 (43.59%) Linux
2 13 (33.33%) Windows
3 12 (30.77%) Solaris
3 12 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (28.21%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (20.51%) UNIX
5 8 (20.51%) CentOS
6 1 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Capacity Planning
2 10 (25.64%) Network Management
2 10 (25.64%) Network Design
3 8 (20.51%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (15.38%) Identity Management
4 6 (15.38%) Validation
5 4 (10.26%) Change Control
5 4 (10.26%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (7.692%) Time Management
7 2 (5.128%) Business Development
7 2 (5.128%) Performance Management
8 1 (2.564%) ITIL
8 1 (2.564%) Service Management
8 1 (2.564%) Capacity Management
8 1 (2.564%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (17.95%) Degree
3 6 (15.38%) CCNA
4 5 (12.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (10.26%) RHCE
5 4 (10.26%) MCSE
5 4 (10.26%) MCSA
6 2 (5.128%) Security Cleared
6 2 (5.128%) CCNP
7 1 (2.564%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.564%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) Hyper-V
2 15 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (33.33%) VMware ESX
4 10 (25.64%) XenServer
5 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
6 6 (15.38%) NFS
7 5 (12.82%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (10.26%) Forefront TMG
8 4 (10.26%) ISA Server
9 1 (2.564%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Nagios
2 4 (10.26%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.564%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 27 (69.23%) Cisco
2 20 (51.28%) HP
3 17 (43.59%) Microsoft
3 17 (43.59%) VMware
4 10 (25.64%) Oracle
4 10 (25.64%) Citrix
5 9 (23.08%) Red Hat
6 6 (15.38%) Symantec
7 4 (10.26%) Sophos
7 4 (10.26%) EMC
8 2 (5.128%) FalconStor
8 2 (5.128%) Hitachi
8 2 (5.128%) NetApp
8 2 (5.128%) Veritas
9 1 (2.564%) Lotus
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
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Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum Corporate Benefits incl. Health, Pension
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