The first table below looks at the demand for Fibre Channel skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Fibre Channel over the 3 months to 17 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fibre Channel (FC)
Rank 229 241 228
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -13
Permanent jobs citing Fibre Channel 19 10 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.266% 0.142% 0.189%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.599% 0.962% 1.272%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 13
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £31,700 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,250 £47,500 £32,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,995 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.48% -
All Communications & Networking
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1188 1040 1022
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 16.66% 14.75% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 954 912 863
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Fibre Channel Jobs Demand Trend

Fibre Channel
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Fibre Channel across the North West region.

North West Fibre Channel Salary Trend

Fibre Channel
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Fibre Channel across the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West Fibre Channel Salary Histogram

Fibre Channel
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fibre Channel within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Manchester -13 11 £40,500 +11.72%
Lancashire +8 7 £36,250 +11.53%
Cheshire +5 2 - -
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel.

1 24 (77.42%) VMware
1 24 (77.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (64.52%) Microsoft
3 18 (58.06%) ITIL
4 16 (51.61%) Cisco
5 15 (48.39%) NFS
5 15 (48.39%) iSCSI
6 14 (45.16%) NetApp
7 13 (41.94%) SAN
7 13 (41.94%) UNIX
7 13 (41.94%) Windows
8 11 (35.48%) Windows Server 2003
8 11 (35.48%) Active Directory
8 11 (35.48%) Linux
8 11 (35.48%) Windows Server 2008
9 10 (32.26%) Clustering
9 10 (32.26%) Ethernet
9 10 (32.26%) SQL Server
10 9 (29.03%) MS Exchange
10 9 (29.03%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (29.03%) Red Hat
10 9 (29.03%) High Availability
11 8 (25.81%) Exchange Server 2010
12 7 (22.58%) MS Excel
12 7 (22.58%) LAN
12 7 (22.58%) WAN
12 7 (22.58%) Web Services
12 7 (22.58%) NetBackup
12 7 (22.58%) Legal
12 7 (22.58%) Disaster Recovery

Fibre Channel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (22.58%) Web Services
2 5 (16.13%) .NET
2 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET
3 4 (12.90%) XML
3 4 (12.90%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (9.677%) XSLT
4 3 (9.677%) CGI
4 3 (9.677%) Ajax
4 3 (9.677%) JSP
4 3 (9.677%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 9 (29.03%) MS Exchange
2 8 (25.81%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (16.13%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (12.90%) IIS
4 4 (12.90%) Apache
5 1 (3.226%) SAS
5 1 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 7 (22.58%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (48.39%) iSCSI
2 13 (41.94%) SAN
3 10 (32.26%) Ethernet
4 7 (22.58%) LAN
4 7 (22.58%) WAN
4 7 (22.58%) Firewall
4 7 (22.58%) VLAN
5 6 (19.35%) Cisco PIX
5 6 (19.35%) FCoE
5 6 (19.35%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (19.35%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (19.35%) Frame Relay
5 6 (19.35%) MPLS
6 5 (16.13%) DNS
7 4 (12.90%) NAS
8 1 (3.226%) Unified Communications
8 1 (3.226%) DHCP
8 1 (3.226%) TCP/IP
8 1 (3.226%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) SQL Server
2 6 (19.35%) SQL Server 2000
3 4 (12.90%) MySQL
4 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 3 (9.677%) Subversion
1 3 (9.677%) Git (software)
General
1 7 (22.58%) Legal
2 1 (3.226%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Analyst
2 12 (38.71%) Network Engineer
3 11 (35.48%) Systems Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) Technical Engineer
5 6 (19.35%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (19.35%) Technical Support
5 6 (19.35%) Support Engineer
5 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (19.35%) Technical Support Engineer
5 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (16.13%) Storage Analyst
7 4 (12.90%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 4 (12.90%) VMware Engineer
8 2 (6.452%) Java Team Leader
8 2 (6.452%) Software Team Leader
8 2 (6.452%) C++ Team Leader
8 2 (6.452%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (6.452%) Software Engineer
8 2 (6.452%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Clustering
2 3 (9.677%) Client/Server
3 2 (6.452%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.226%) Celerra
4 1 (3.226%) EqualLogic
4 1 (3.226%) Statistics
4 1 (3.226%) Firmware
4 1 (3.226%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.226%) Replication
4 1 (3.226%) CLARiiON
4 1 (3.226%) EMC Centera
Operating Systems
1 13 (41.94%) UNIX
1 13 (41.94%) Windows
2 11 (35.48%) Linux
2 11 (35.48%) Windows Server 2003
2 11 (35.48%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (12.90%) Windows 2000
5 1 (3.226%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (3.226%) AIX
5 1 (3.226%) HPUX
5 1 (3.226%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) ITIL
2 9 (29.03%) High Availability
3 7 (22.58%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (19.35%) Load Balancing
5 5 (16.13%) Capacity Management
6 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (12.90%) Network Load Balancing
6 4 (12.90%) Performance Management
6 4 (12.90%) Configuration Management
6 4 (12.90%) Service Delivery
7 2 (6.452%) Software Engineering
8 1 (3.226%) Supplier Management
8 1 (3.226%) Migration
8 1 (3.226%) Asset Management
8 1 (3.226%) Project Management
8 1 (3.226%) PRINCE2
8 1 (3.226%) E-Commerce
8 1 (3.226%) Database Tuning
8 1 (3.226%) Time Management
8 1 (3.226%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) SQL
2 5 (16.13%) VB
2 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.90%) C
4 3 (9.677%) C++
4 3 (9.677%) Java
4 3 (9.677%) Perl
4 3 (9.677%) Bash shell
4 3 (9.677%) Python
5 1 (3.226%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (19.35%) CCNP
2 6 (19.35%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (12.90%) MCSE
4 2 (6.452%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (6.452%) Degree
5 1 (3.226%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) SLA
2 1 (3.226%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (77.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (48.39%) NFS
3 11 (35.48%) Active Directory
4 5 (16.13%) Hyper-V
5 2 (6.452%) vSphere
6 1 (3.226%) XenApp
6 1 (3.226%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) NetBackup
2 2 (6.452%) Backup Exec
2 2 (6.452%) SCCM
3 1 (3.226%) SCOM
3 1 (3.226%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (3.226%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (77.42%) VMware
2 20 (64.52%) Microsoft
3 16 (51.61%) Cisco
4 14 (45.16%) NetApp
5 9 (29.03%) Red Hat
6 5 (16.13%) Symantec
7 2 (6.452%) Citrix
7 2 (6.452%) HP
8 1 (3.226%) Dell
8 1 (3.226%) EMC
8 1 (3.226%) CheckPoint
8 1 (3.226%) F5
8 1 (3.226%) Fredhopper
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