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

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 47 38 19
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -19
Permanent jobs citing SAN 23 34 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 3.485% 4.028% 9.615%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.08% 28.57% 45.45%
Number of salaries quoted 18 30 66
Average salary £29,875 £27,250 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.63% -16.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,920 £31,600
10% offered a salary of more than £34,750 £36,150 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
All Communications & Networking
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
143 119 154
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 21.67% 14.10% 21.15%
Number of salaries quoted 123 101 135
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £26,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
England

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

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

North East SAN Salary Histogram

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 North East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Tyne and Wear -14 22 £29,875 +10.64% 3
SAN
England

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 (62.79%) Cisco
2 24 (55.81%) MS Excel
3 22 (51.16%) Firewall
4 21 (48.84%) HP
4 21 (48.84%) VMware
5 19 (44.19%) Hyper-V
5 19 (44.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (44.19%) DNS
5 19 (44.19%) DHCP
6 18 (41.86%) Microsoft
6 18 (41.86%) VPN
7 17 (39.53%) Linux
8 16 (37.21%) Windows
8 16 (37.21%) Fibre Channel
8 16 (37.21%) VMware ESX
8 16 (37.21%) VLAN
9 15 (34.88%) MS Visio
9 15 (34.88%) Windows Server 2003
10 14 (32.56%) Capacity Planning
11 13 (30.23%) Windows Server 2008
11 13 (30.23%) TCP/IP
12 12 (27.91%) MS Exchange
12 12 (27.91%) Solaris
12 12 (27.91%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (25.58%) NAS
13 11 (25.58%) UNIX
13 11 (25.58%) WAN
14 10 (23.26%) Oracle
14 10 (23.26%) Cisco PIX
14 10 (23.26%) Network Management

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 (9.302%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 12 (27.91%) MS Exchange
2 8 (18.60%) Exchange Server 2003
2 8 (18.60%) Exchange Server 2007
2 8 (18.60%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (16.28%) Apache
4 4 (9.302%) SharePoint
4 4 (9.302%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (2.326%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 24 (55.81%) MS Excel
2 15 (34.88%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 22 (51.16%) Firewall
2 19 (44.19%) DHCP
2 19 (44.19%) DNS
3 18 (41.86%) VPN
4 16 (37.21%) Fibre Channel
4 16 (37.21%) VLAN
5 13 (30.23%) TCP/IP
6 12 (27.91%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (25.58%) NAS
7 11 (25.58%) WAN
8 10 (23.26%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (23.26%) Cisco PIX
9 8 (18.60%) iSCSI
10 7 (16.28%) OSPF
10 7 (16.28%) BGP
10 7 (16.28%) LDAP
11 4 (9.302%) SMTP
12 2 (4.651%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (4.651%) IPsec
12 2 (4.651%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) MySQL
2 4 (9.302%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (13.95%) German Language
2 5 (11.63%) Italian Language
2 5 (11.63%) French Language
3 2 (4.651%) Finance
4 1 (2.326%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Support Engineer
2 9 (20.93%) Administrator
3 8 (18.60%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) SAN Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (9.302%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (9.302%) Technical Support Engineer
5 4 (9.302%) Network Engineer
5 4 (9.302%) Technical Support
5 4 (9.302%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (9.302%) Network Support
6 3 (6.977%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.977%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 2 (4.651%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.651%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (4.651%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (4.651%) Consultant
7 2 (4.651%) Recruitment Consultant
8 1 (2.326%) Network Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.302%) Blackberry
1 4 (9.302%) Replication
2 2 (4.651%) CLARiiON
2 2 (4.651%) Clustering
2 2 (4.651%) Celerra
2 2 (4.651%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (2.326%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 17 (39.53%) Linux
2 16 (37.21%) Windows
3 15 (34.88%) Windows Server 2003
4 13 (30.23%) Windows Server 2008
5 12 (27.91%) Solaris
6 11 (25.58%) UNIX
7 7 (16.28%) CentOS
8 1 (2.326%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) Capacity Planning
2 10 (23.26%) Network Management
2 10 (23.26%) Network Design
3 7 (16.28%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (13.95%) Validation
5 5 (11.63%) Identity Management
6 4 (9.302%) Change Control
6 4 (9.302%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (6.977%) Business Development
7 3 (6.977%) Time Management
8 2 (4.651%) Performance Management
8 2 (4.651%) ITIL
8 2 (4.651%) Service Management
9 1 (2.326%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.302%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (16.28%) Degree
2 6 (13.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (11.63%) CCNA
4 4 (9.302%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (9.302%) MCSE
4 4 (9.302%) MCSA
5 3 (6.977%) RHCE
6 2 (4.651%) CCNP
6 2 (4.651%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.326%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.326%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.93%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (44.19%) VMware Infrastructure
1 19 (44.19%) Hyper-V
2 16 (37.21%) VMware ESX
3 8 (18.60%) NFS
3 8 (18.60%) Active Directory
3 8 (18.60%) XenServer
4 6 (13.95%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (9.302%) ISA Server
5 4 (9.302%) Forefront TMG
6 2 (4.651%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Nagios
2 4 (9.302%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.326%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 27 (62.79%) Cisco
2 21 (48.84%) HP
2 21 (48.84%) VMware
3 18 (41.86%) Microsoft
4 10 (23.26%) Oracle
5 9 (20.93%) Symantec
6 8 (18.60%) Red Hat
6 8 (18.60%) Citrix
7 6 (13.95%) EMC
8 4 (9.302%) Sophos
9 3 (6.977%) Hitachi
9 3 (6.977%) NetApp
10 2 (4.651%) Veritas
10 2 (4.651%) FalconStor
11 1 (2.326%) Lotus
Newcastle, Staffordshire
Citrix, XenApp, XenDesktop CCA, VMware, vSphere, ESX, Veeam, Windows Server, SAN, Equallogic, TCP/IP, Exchange, AD... You will have proven skills in the support of both Citrix (XenApp,...
Millshill Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £20,000 to £25,000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Ability to diagnose faults and offer solutions across a broad range of IT and communication systems with an emphasis on Linux environments, Virtualisation and Cisco networking equipment *Design,...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + + Corporate benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
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