The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Preston region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 24 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 Preston region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank - 26 -
Permanent jobs citing SAN 0 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston - 3.252% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 66.67% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 0
Average salary - £40,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Preston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
9 6 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 7.438% 4.878% 17.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 8
Average salary £37,750 £35,000 £27,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.85% +29.62%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £20,800 £14,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £42,100
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
Lancashire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 3 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) WhatsUp Gold
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) HP SIM
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (66.67%) Lync
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 2 (66.67%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Lync
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (66.67%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (66.67%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Storage Systems Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) XenApp
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) WhatsUp Gold
1 2 (66.67%) HP SIM
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
Preston, Lancashire
Information Technology related degree, or equivalent proven knowledge in IT and Technology fields with associated qualifications such as CCNA, CCNP, VCP *Extensive knowledge of MS Windows 2000/XP,...
Reed Technology
Salary: £24000 - £31000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013