SAN Jobs in the North West

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 186 236
Rank change year-on-year -54 +50 -63
Permanent jobs citing SAN 51 124 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.53% 1.55% 1.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.47% 7.65% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 45 69 74
10th Percentile £25,100 £32,200 £30,550
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,364 £45,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.14% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £48,000 £49,813
90th Percentile £76,250 £53,750 £54,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +2.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,141 1,620 1,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.77% 20.23% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 876 681 734
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,000 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +3.87% +0.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £74,375 £72,500 £72,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the North West

SAN
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for SAN in the North West

SAN
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SAN in the North West

SAN
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Manchester -2 34 £51,364 +12.27% 9
Cumbria -23 6 £35,000 -22.22%
Merseyside -6 5 £52,500 +5.00% 2
Cheshire -20 5 £35,000 -25.53%
Lancashire -10 1 £41,234 +68.30%
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 12 (23.53%) IIS
2 4 (7.84%) CloudStack
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (54.90%) Azure
2 25 (49.02%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (23.53%) AWS
3 12 (23.53%) GCP
4 3 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.96%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 24 (47.06%) Firewall
2 19 (37.25%) NAS
2 19 (37.25%) WAN
3 14 (27.45%) DHCP
3 14 (27.45%) DNS
4 12 (23.53%) iSCSI
4 12 (23.53%) SD-WAN
5 9 (17.65%) LAN
6 5 (9.80%) Network Security
6 5 (9.80%) SSL
6 5 (9.80%) VPN
7 4 (7.84%) VoIP
8 3 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (3.92%) IP Telephony
9 2 (3.92%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (1.96%) InfiniBand
10 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.84%) MySQL
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
General
1 23 (45.10%) Finance
2 19 (37.25%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure Manager
2 7 (13.73%) IT Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) Lead
2 7 (13.73%) Storage Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (9.80%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) IT Support
4 5 (9.80%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Network Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Senior
5 4 (7.84%) Data Centre Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) IBM Storage Specialist
5 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 4 (7.84%) SAN Specialist
5 4 (7.84%) SAN Storage Specialist
5 4 (7.84%) Storage Specialist
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) PMI
2 7 (13.73%) Data Centre
3 6 (11.76%) Driving Licence
3 6 (11.76%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.84%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.88%) PKI
6 2 (3.92%) CCTV
6 2 (3.92%) Life Science
6 2 (3.92%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.96%) IoT
7 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (49.02%) Linux
2 15 (29.41%) Windows
3 10 (19.61%) Windows Server
4 5 (9.80%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (3.92%) Unix
5 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (45.10%) Agile
2 18 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (35.29%) Server Management
3 17 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (27.45%) Project Management
5 13 (25.49%) Line Management
6 12 (23.53%) Capacity Planning
6 12 (23.53%) Storage Management
7 11 (21.57%) Mentoring
8 7 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (13.73%) Data Protection
9 6 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (9.80%) Antivirus Management
10 5 (9.80%) Application Virtualisation
10 5 (9.80%) Change Management
10 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Maintenance
10 5 (9.80%) Migration
11 4 (7.84%) Cloud Security
11 4 (7.84%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) SQL
2 1 (1.96%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) PMI Certification
2 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
3 7 (13.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (9.80%) CCNP
4 5 (9.80%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (9.80%) Citrix Certification
4 5 (9.80%) Degree
4 5 (9.80%) JNCIA
4 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.80%) VCAP
5 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.92%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (60.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (47.06%) Active Directory
3 7 (13.73%) Hyper-V
3 7 (13.73%) SRDF
4 3 (5.88%) vSphere
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.96%) Docker
6 1 (1.96%) Lustre
6 1 (1.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 12 (23.53%) Opsgenie
1 12 (23.53%) VxRail
1 12 (23.53%) ZABBIX
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (7.84%) cPanel
3 4 (7.84%) Plesk
4 1 (1.96%) Icinga
4 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.96%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 34 (66.67%) VMware
2 31 (60.78%) Microsoft
3 20 (39.22%) Cisco
4 15 (29.41%) NetApp
5 12 (23.53%) Dell
5 12 (23.53%) Fortinet
5 12 (23.53%) SolarWinds
6 8 (15.69%) Citrix
6 8 (15.69%) Veeam
7 7 (13.73%) Brocade
7 7 (13.73%) EMC
8 6 (11.76%) Sophos
9 5 (9.80%) ESET
9 5 (9.80%) IBM
10 3 (5.88%) HP
10 3 (5.88%) Juniper
11 2 (3.92%) Aruba
11 2 (3.92%) Meraki
11 2 (3.92%) Ruckus Wireless
11 2 (3.92%) Verint