The first table below looks at the demand for iSCSI 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 iSCSI 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
iSCSI
Rank 236 243 213
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -30
Permanent jobs citing iSCSI 12 8 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.168% 0.113% 0.408%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.010% 0.769% 2.740%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 27
Average salary £38,750 £32,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.32% +9.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £29,250 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £42,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +26.86%
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%
iSCSI
England

iSCSI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West iSCSI Jobs Demand Trend

iSCSI
Salary Trend

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

North West iSCSI Salary Trend

iSCSI
Salary Histogram

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

North West iSCSI Salary Histogram

iSCSI
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing iSCSI 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 -12 9 £46,250 +58.11%
Cheshire +2 1 - -
Lancashire +2 1 £28,500 -12.30%
Merseyside - 1 £35,000 -
iSCSI
England

iSCSI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 17 (94.44%) VMware
2 16 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (83.33%) Fibre Channel
4 14 (77.78%) Windows
4 14 (77.78%) SAN
5 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
5 13 (72.22%) Active Directory
5 13 (72.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 13 (72.22%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (66.67%) UNIX
7 11 (61.11%) SQL Server
7 11 (61.11%) Clustering
8 10 (55.56%) ITIL
8 10 (55.56%) MS Exchange
9 9 (50.00%) Linux
9 9 (50.00%) Red Hat
9 9 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
9 9 (50.00%) High Availability
10 8 (44.44%) MS Excel
10 8 (44.44%) SQL
11 7 (38.89%) Web Services
11 7 (38.89%) SQL Server 2000
11 7 (38.89%) Symantec
12 6 (33.33%) NetApp
12 6 (33.33%) NFS
12 6 (33.33%) DNS
12 6 (33.33%) Hyper-V
12 6 (33.33%) NetBackup
12 6 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003

iSCSI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (38.89%) Web Services
2 5 (27.78%) .NET
2 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET
3 4 (22.22%) XML
3 4 (22.22%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (16.67%) XSLT
4 3 (16.67%) CGI
4 3 (16.67%) Ajax
4 3 (16.67%) JSP
4 3 (16.67%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 10 (55.56%) MS Exchange
2 9 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (22.22%) IIS
4 4 (22.22%) Apache
5 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
5 1 (5.556%) SAS
5 1 (5.556%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (5.556%) Lync
Applications
1 8 (44.44%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 15 (83.33%) Fibre Channel
2 14 (77.78%) SAN
3 6 (33.33%) DNS
4 4 (22.22%) WAN
4 4 (22.22%) NAS
5 3 (16.67%) LAN
5 3 (16.67%) Ethernet
6 2 (11.11%) DHCP
6 2 (11.11%) Firewall
7 1 (5.556%) VLAN
7 1 (5.556%) VoIP
7 1 (5.556%) WLAN
7 1 (5.556%) TCP/IP
7 1 (5.556%) VPN
7 1 (5.556%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) SQL Server
2 7 (38.89%) SQL Server 2000
3 4 (22.22%) MySQL
4 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Subversion
1 3 (16.67%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.556%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Storage Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) C++ Team Leader
4 2 (11.11%) Software Team Leader
4 2 (11.11%) Java Team Leader
4 2 (11.11%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.556%) SQL DBA
5 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Support Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) DBA
5 1 (5.556%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (61.11%) Clustering
2 3 (16.67%) Client/Server
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.556%) EqualLogic
4 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
4 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.556%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 13 (72.22%) Windows Server 2003
2 13 (72.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (66.67%) UNIX
4 9 (50.00%) Linux
5 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (22.22%) Windows 2000
7 1 (5.556%) Windows XP
7 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) ITIL
2 9 (50.00%) High Availability
3 5 (27.78%) Capacity Management
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Management
4 4 (22.22%) Network Load Balancing
4 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.556%) Supplier Management
6 1 (5.556%) Time Management
6 1 (5.556%) Database Tuning
6 1 (5.556%) Change Control
6 1 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (5.556%) Migration
6 1 (5.556%) Asset Management
6 1 (5.556%) Project Management
6 1 (5.556%) CRM
6 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce
6 1 (5.556%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) VB
2 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) Bash shell
3 3 (16.67%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) C
3 3 (16.67%) C++
3 3 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (5.556%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (22.22%) MCSE
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
2 1 (5.556%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (72.22%) Active Directory
3 6 (33.33%) NFS
3 6 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (11.11%) vSphere
5 1 (5.556%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) NetBackup
2 2 (11.11%) Backup Exec
2 2 (11.11%) SCOM
3 1 (5.556%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (5.556%) Nagios
3 1 (5.556%) WSUS
3 1 (5.556%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) VMware
2 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
3 9 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 7 (38.89%) Symantec
5 6 (33.33%) NetApp
6 2 (11.11%) HP
6 2 (11.11%) Dell
6 2 (11.11%) Citrix
7 1 (5.556%) Cisco
7 1 (5.556%) CheckPoint
7 1 (5.556%) WatchGuard
7 1 (5.556%) SonicWALL
7 1 (5.556%) F5
7 1 (5.556%) Fredhopper
7 1 (5.556%) Exinda
Wilmslow, North West
You must have proven experience with system management and in the following technologies: UNIX NetApp Storage Replication Technologies Storage Virtualisation iSCSi Backup Technologies - NetBackup / BackupExec The following are...
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Salary: £45000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 2 May 2013