The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 30 46 63
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +17
Permanent jobs citing SAN 65 21 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 6.481% 3.107% 1.730%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 41.14% 26.58% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 60 19 5
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £48,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% -2.06%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
All Communications & Networking
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
158 79 147
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 15.75% 11.69% 16.96%
Number of salaries quoted 151 56 112
Average salary £43,000 £35,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.85% -17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £20,500 £29,700
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
Oxfordshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford SAN Jobs Demand Trend

SAN
Salary Trend

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

Oxford SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Oxford SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region citing SAN 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 SAN.

1 76 (63.87%) Windows
2 47 (39.50%) VMware
3 38 (31.93%) Linux
3 38 (31.93%) Cisco
4 35 (29.41%) Active Directory
5 34 (28.57%) Citrix
5 34 (28.57%) SQL
6 30 (25.21%) MS Exchange
7 29 (24.37%) Clustering
8 28 (23.53%) Windows Server 2008
9 27 (22.69%) UNIX
10 25 (21.01%) VMware Infrastructure
10 25 (21.01%) NAS
11 23 (19.33%) SQL Server
11 23 (19.33%) EMC
12 22 (18.49%) Windows Server 2003
13 20 (16.81%) Firewall
13 20 (16.81%) DNS
13 20 (16.81%) Capacity Planning
14 19 (15.97%) TCP/IP
15 18 (15.13%) Oracle
16 17 (14.29%) ITIL
16 17 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
17 16 (13.45%) IIS
17 16 (13.45%) NetApp
17 16 (13.45%) Cisco ASA
18 15 (12.61%) Microsoft
19 14 (11.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
19 14 (11.76%) Replication
19 14 (11.76%) Enterprise Storage

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region citing SAN 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 SAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (0.840%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 30 (25.21%) MS Exchange
2 16 (13.45%) IIS
3 14 (11.76%) Lync
4 12 (10.08%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (9.244%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (4.202%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (2.521%) Apache
7 3 (2.521%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.681%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.840%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 13 (10.92%) MS Office
2 9 (7.563%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 25 (21.01%) NAS
2 20 (16.81%) Firewall
2 20 (16.81%) DNS
3 19 (15.97%) TCP/IP
4 16 (13.45%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (10.08%) DHCP
5 12 (10.08%) iSCSI
6 11 (9.244%) VPN
6 11 (9.244%) VoIP
7 10 (8.403%) Fibre Channel
8 8 (6.723%) FCoE
9 6 (5.042%) Internet
10 5 (4.202%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (3.361%) PBX
12 3 (2.521%) LAN
12 3 (2.521%) WAN
13 2 (1.681%) MPLS
13 2 (1.681%) LDAP
13 2 (1.681%) VLAN
13 2 (1.681%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.33%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.92%) RDBMS
3 11 (9.244%) Oracle 11g
4 10 (8.403%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (8.403%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (8.403%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (5.042%) SQL Server 2008
6 5 (4.202%) SQL Server 2012
6 5 (4.202%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (3.361%) SQL Server 2005
8 3 (2.521%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (2.521%) MySQL
8 3 (2.521%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.840%) Oracle 9i
9 1 (0.840%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (1.681%) Subversion
General
1 3 (2.521%) Games
2 2 (1.681%) Back Office
3 1 (0.840%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (26.89%) Administrator
2 29 (24.37%) DBA
3 26 (21.85%) Systems Engineer
4 21 (17.65%) Support Engineer
5 16 (13.45%) Systems Administrator
6 15 (12.61%) Storage Engineer
7 13 (10.92%) Oracle DBA
8 12 (10.08%) SQL Server DBA
8 12 (10.08%) SQL DBA
9 11 (9.244%) Server Engineer
10 8 (6.723%) Infrastructure Manager
10 8 (6.723%) IT Manager
11 7 (5.882%) Server Administrator
11 7 (5.882%) Consultant
12 6 (5.042%) Senior Server Engineer
12 6 (5.042%) IT Support Engineer
12 6 (5.042%) IT Support
13 5 (4.202%) Linux Administrator
13 5 (4.202%) UNIX Engineer
13 5 (4.202%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 29 (24.37%) Clustering
2 14 (11.76%) Replication
2 14 (11.76%) Enterprise Storage
3 10 (8.403%) CLARiiON
4 9 (7.563%) Symmetrix
5 6 (5.042%) SaaS
6 5 (4.202%) Blackberry
7 4 (3.361%) Client/Server
7 4 (3.361%) Computer Science
8 3 (2.521%) Online Games
9 2 (1.681%) Online Gambling
9 2 (1.681%) Celerra
9 2 (1.681%) EqualLogic
10 1 (0.840%) IaaS
10 1 (0.840%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 76 (63.87%) Windows
2 38 (31.93%) Linux
3 28 (23.53%) Windows Server 2008
4 27 (22.69%) UNIX
5 22 (18.49%) Windows Server 2003
6 11 (9.244%) Solaris
7 6 (5.042%) VMS
7 6 (5.042%) AIX
7 6 (5.042%) HPUX
8 5 (4.202%) Windows XP
9 4 (3.361%) Windows 7
10 3 (2.521%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.840%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.840%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (16.81%) Capacity Planning
2 17 (14.29%) ITIL
2 17 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (9.244%) Enterprise Architecture
4 9 (7.563%) Investment Management
5 7 (5.882%) Project Management
5 7 (5.882%) Change Management
6 5 (4.202%) High Availability
6 5 (4.202%) Software Engineering
6 5 (4.202%) Service Management
6 5 (4.202%) Service Delivery
7 4 (3.361%) Network Load Balancing
7 4 (3.361%) Problem Management
7 4 (3.361%) Operations Management
7 4 (3.361%) Demand Management
8 3 (2.521%) Resource Management
8 3 (2.521%) Network Design
8 3 (2.521%) PRINCE2
8 3 (2.521%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (1.681%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 34 (28.57%) SQL
2 11 (9.244%) T-SQL
3 5 (4.202%) C
4 4 (3.361%) Python
4 4 (3.361%) Perl
4 4 (3.361%) Ruby
5 3 (2.521%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.681%) Bash shell
7 1 (0.840%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.840%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (7.563%) MCITP
1 9 (7.563%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (6.723%) CCNP
3 7 (5.882%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (3.361%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.361%) MCSE
4 4 (3.361%) Degree
5 3 (2.521%) VCAP
5 3 (2.521%) RHCE
6 2 (1.681%) CCNA
6 2 (1.681%) MCTS
6 2 (1.681%) NCDA
6 2 (1.681%) NCIE
7 1 (0.840%) VCDX
7 1 (0.840%) VCP5
7 1 (0.840%) CCEE
7 1 (0.840%) CCAA
7 1 (0.840%) CCIA
7 1 (0.840%) VCP4
7 1 (0.840%) HP AIS
System Software
1 35 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 25 (21.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (10.92%) Oracle RAC
4 12 (10.08%) vSphere
5 11 (9.244%) XenApp
5 11 (9.244%) NFS
6 10 (8.403%) Hyper-V
7 7 (5.882%) VMware ESX
8 6 (5.042%) Terminal Services
9 4 (3.361%) XenServer
9 4 (3.361%) Postfix
9 4 (3.361%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (2.521%) XenDesktop
11 2 (1.681%) Samba
12 1 (0.840%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.840%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.840%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 14 (11.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 13 (10.92%) SCCM
2 13 (10.92%) Data Guard
2 13 (10.92%) NetBackup
2 13 (10.92%) Backup Exec
3 8 (6.723%) WSUS
4 7 (5.882%) Puppet
5 4 (3.361%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.840%) SCOM
6 1 (0.840%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 47 (39.50%) VMware
2 38 (31.93%) Cisco
3 34 (28.57%) Citrix
4 23 (19.33%) EMC
5 18 (15.13%) Oracle
6 16 (13.45%) NetApp
7 15 (12.61%) Microsoft
8 13 (10.92%) Brocade
8 13 (10.92%) IBM
9 8 (6.723%) HP
9 8 (6.723%) Red Hat
9 8 (6.723%) Veeam
10 7 (5.882%) WatchGuard
11 6 (5.042%) Veritas
11 6 (5.042%) Barracuda Networks
12 5 (4.202%) Apple
12 5 (4.202%) BMC
13 4 (3.361%) McAfee
14 3 (2.521%) 3PAR
14 3 (2.521%) Dell
Oxford, South East
My Oxford based client is currently looking for an Infrastructure Systems Administrator to join their team on a permanent basis. You will be part of the team who...
Harvey Nash plc
Posted: 11 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Support Engineer, Systems Administrator, Windows, IIS, Hosted Applications, Oxford, to £45k + Excellent Benefits, including free on-site parking... * Commercial experience with IIS. * Experience of Clustering, Network Monitoring, SANs...
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Oxford, South East
Our client a technology centric and online focused organisation is currently looking for a talented Oracle DBA to join their Oxford based business.You will be required to...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £40000 - £46000 per annum
Posted: 10 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
An excitingopportunity has arisen for a SQL Server DBA to join my market-leading clientbased in Oxford. The SQL Server DBA will be working in an experienced andtalented...
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: From £30,000 to £45,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013