The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 22 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 Northampton region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 55 51 59
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +8
Permanent jobs citing NAS 1 5 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 0.254% 1.073% 0.648%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.250% 7.813% 4.110%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 1
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +6.06%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
All Communications & Networking
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
80 64 73
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 20.30% 13.73% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 71 60 66
Average salary £39,000 £28,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.84% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,650 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £38,907
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
NAS
Northamptonshire

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton NAS Jobs Demand Trend

NAS
Salary Trend

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

Northampton NAS Salary Trend

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton region citing NAS 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 NAS.

1 14 (77.78%) SAN
2 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 12 (66.67%) ITIL
2 12 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (66.67%) Degree
2 12 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (61.11%) Linux
4 10 (55.56%) VMware
5 8 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (44.44%) CCNA
5 8 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (38.89%) MCSE
6 7 (38.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (38.89%) MCITP
7 4 (22.22%) Law
7 4 (22.22%) Legal
7 4 (22.22%) Samba
7 4 (22.22%) Citrix
7 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
7 4 (22.22%) RHCE
7 4 (22.22%) ISO 9001
7 4 (22.22%) NFS
7 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
7 4 (22.22%) DNS
7 4 (22.22%) PRINCE2
7 4 (22.22%) UNIX
7 4 (22.22%) SQL

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton region citing NAS 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 NAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 12 (66.67%) MS Exchange
1 12 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 14 (77.78%) SAN
2 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 4 (22.22%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
4 1 (5.556%) Firewall
General
1 4 (22.22%) Law
1 4 (22.22%) Legal
2 2 (11.11%) French Language
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Analyst
2 7 (38.89%) Server Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (22.22%) Administrator
4 4 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (22.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (22.22%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Technical Support Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
1 4 (22.22%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 11 (61.11%) Linux
3 8 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (22.22%) UNIX
5 1 (5.556%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (22.22%) PRINCE2
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
1 4 (22.22%) C-shell
1 4 (22.22%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Degree
2 8 (44.44%) CCNA
2 8 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (38.89%) MCSE
3 7 (38.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (38.89%) MCITP
4 4 (22.22%) RHCE
5 1 (5.556%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ISO 9001
2 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) Samba
2 4 (22.22%) NFS
2 4 (22.22%) Xen
3 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.556%) ISA Server
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (55.56%) VMware
3 4 (22.22%) Citrix
4 1 (5.556%) Webroot
4 1 (5.556%) Cisco
4 1 (5.556%) EMC
4 1 (5.556%) Nokia
4 1 (5.556%) CheckPoint