SAN Jobs in the North of England

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for SAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SAN over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 197 256
Rank change year-on-year -33 +59 -49
Permanent jobs citing SAN 152 278 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.87% 1.61% 1.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.02% 8.78% 7.63%
Number of salaries quoted 139 160 177
10th Percentile - £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,200 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £47,500 £50,400
90th Percentile £73,000 £53,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +0.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

SAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,164 3,165 2,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.39% 18.38% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,659 1,256 1,676
10th Percentile £25,975 £26,000 £26,625
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £60,625 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,573 £73,675
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the North of England

SAN
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAN in the North of England.

Salary trend for SAN in the North of England

SAN
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SAN in the North of England

SAN
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +44 65 £44,000 +35.38% 7
North West -70 50 £51,364 +14.14% 8
North East +6 37 £32,500 -13.33% 3
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (13.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (9.21%) IIS
3 12 (7.89%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.63%) CloudStack
5 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
Applications
1 17 (11.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 77 (50.66%) Azure
2 75 (49.34%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (13.16%) Entra ID
4 19 (12.50%) OneDrive
5 17 (11.18%) AWS
5 17 (11.18%) GCP
6 2 (1.32%) SaaS
7 1 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.66%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.66%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 58 (38.16%) NAS
2 49 (32.24%) Firewall
3 35 (23.03%) WAN
4 26 (17.11%) LAN
5 23 (15.13%) DHCP
5 23 (15.13%) DNS
6 17 (11.18%) VLAN
7 16 (10.53%) VPN
8 13 (8.55%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (7.89%) iSCSI
9 12 (7.89%) SD-WAN
10 11 (7.24%) SSL
11 8 (5.26%) WLAN
12 5 (3.29%) Internet
12 5 (3.29%) Network Security
12 5 (3.29%) TCP/IP
12 5 (3.29%) Unified Communications
13 4 (2.63%) Skype
14 2 (1.32%) Ethernet
14 2 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.32%) MySQL
General
1 64 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 29 (19.08%) Finance
3 21 (13.82%) Organisational Skills
4 15 (9.87%) Law
5 12 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.95%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Legal
9 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 46 (30.26%) IT Engineer
2 37 (24.34%) Support Engineer
3 33 (21.71%) IT Support
4 31 (20.39%) IT Support Engineer
5 27 (17.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 25 (16.45%) 3rd Line Support
7 24 (15.79%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 23 (15.13%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 20 (13.16%) 2nd Line Support
9 20 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 19 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 19 (12.50%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
10 19 (12.50%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
11 13 (8.55%) Network Engineer
12 12 (7.89%) Infrastructure Manager
12 12 (7.89%) Senior
13 11 (7.24%) Lead
14 8 (5.26%) SAN Specialist
14 8 (5.26%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.63%) LAMP
2 2 (1.32%) .NET
3 1 (0.66%) Web Services
3 1 (0.66%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.71%) Driving Licence
2 24 (15.79%) Enterprise Storage
3 16 (10.53%) Data Centre
4 12 (7.89%) PMI
5 8 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.26%) Replication
6 6 (3.95%) Cyberattack
7 5 (3.29%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.97%) PKI
9 2 (1.32%) CCTV
9 2 (1.32%) Life Science
9 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.66%) IoT
10 1 (0.66%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 77 (50.66%) Windows
2 58 (38.16%) Windows Server
3 45 (29.61%) Linux
4 11 (7.24%) Windows 10
5 9 (5.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (3.95%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (3.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.32%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.32%) Unix
8 2 (1.32%) VMS
9 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (30.26%) ITIL
2 36 (23.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 35 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (18.42%) Incident Management
4 28 (18.42%) Migration
5 26 (17.11%) Agile
5 26 (17.11%) Mentoring
6 25 (16.45%) Server Management
7 24 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
8 21 (13.82%) Desktop Virtualisation
8 21 (13.82%) Project Management
9 20 (13.16%) Storage Management
10 18 (11.84%) Line Management
11 17 (11.18%) Preventative Maintenance
12 16 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (7.89%) Capacity Planning
14 11 (7.24%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (7.24%) Time Management
15 9 (5.92%) Technical Leadership
16 8 (5.26%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.21%) SQL
2 11 (7.24%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.66%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (19.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (13.82%) Azure Certification
3 15 (9.87%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (9.21%) Security Cleared
5 12 (7.89%) PMI Certification
6 10 (6.58%) CCNA
7 9 (5.92%) JNCIA
8 8 (5.26%) Degree
9 7 (4.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (3.29%) CCNP
11 5 (3.29%) Citrix Certification
11 5 (3.29%) MCSA
11 5 (3.29%) SC Cleared
11 5 (3.29%) VCAP
12 4 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (2.63%) MCP
12 4 (2.63%) MCSE
13 2 (1.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.13%) SLA
2 2 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
System Software
1 96 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 48 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (21.05%) Hyper-V
4 26 (17.11%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (10.53%) vSphere
6 7 (4.61%) SRDF
7 6 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.66%) Docker
10 1 (0.66%) Lustre
10 1 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 21 (13.82%) vCenter Server
2 14 (9.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (9.21%) ZABBIX
3 12 (7.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (7.89%) Opsgenie
3 12 (7.89%) VxRail
4 5 (3.29%) FortiGate
4 5 (3.29%) Nagios
4 5 (3.29%) SCCM
5 4 (2.63%) Backup Exec
5 4 (2.63%) Cacti
5 4 (2.63%) cPanel
5 4 (2.63%) Plesk
5 4 (2.63%) SCOM
5 4 (2.63%) WSUS
6 1 (0.66%) Icinga
6 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.66%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.66%) SCVMM
6 1 (0.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 112 (73.68%) Microsoft
2 94 (61.84%) VMware
3 30 (19.74%) Veeam
4 28 (18.42%) Cisco
5 19 (12.50%) NetApp
6 18 (11.84%) SolarWinds
7 15 (9.87%) Citrix
8 14 (9.21%) IBM
9 13 (8.55%) Dell
10 12 (7.89%) Fortinet
11 8 (5.26%) EMC
12 7 (4.61%) Brocade
12 7 (4.61%) Juniper
12 7 (4.61%) Sophos
13 6 (3.95%) Epicor
13 6 (3.95%) ESET
14 5 (3.29%) CheckPoint
15 4 (2.63%) Aruba
15 4 (2.63%) Veritas
16 3 (1.97%) HP