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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 110 117 106
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -11
Permanent jobs citing NAS 22 16 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 1.045% 0.708% 0.430%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.868% 2.792% 2.198%
Number of salaries quoted 18 14 8
Average salary £75,000 £55,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.36% -
90% offered a salary of more than £37,350 £46,300 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,250
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +5.59%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
767 573 364
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 36.42% 25.37% 19.55%
Number of salaries quoted 617 462 298
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +4.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
NAS
Berkshire

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading NAS Salary Trend

NAS
Salary Histogram

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

Reading NAS Salary Histogram

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 26 (100.00%) SAN
2 16 (61.54%) SQL Server
3 15 (57.69%) Cisco
3 15 (57.69%) Microsoft
3 15 (57.69%) VMware
4 14 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (50.00%) Linux
6 12 (46.15%) MS Excel
7 11 (42.31%) Oracle
7 11 (42.31%) vSphere
8 10 (38.46%) vCloud
8 10 (38.46%) Windows
8 10 (38.46%) Juniper
9 8 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (26.92%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (23.08%) NetApp
11 6 (23.08%) Hyper-V
11 6 (23.08%) Project Planning
12 5 (19.23%) iSCSI
12 5 (19.23%) Firewall
12 5 (19.23%) Clustering
12 5 (19.23%) Citrix
13 4 (15.38%) Veritas
13 4 (15.38%) CCA
13 4 (15.38%) Citrix Certification
13 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
13 4 (15.38%) Windows 2000
13 4 (15.38%) AppSense
13 4 (15.38%) XenApp

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 Development
1 2 (7.692%) .NET
2 1 (3.846%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.846%) Web Services
2 1 (3.846%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.692%) IIS
2 1 (3.846%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.846%) LiveLink
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (46.15%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 26 (100.00%) SAN
2 5 (19.23%) iSCSI
2 5 (19.23%) Firewall
3 4 (15.38%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (15.38%) NetScaler
4 2 (7.692%) DHCP
4 2 (7.692%) TCP/IP
4 2 (7.692%) DNS
5 1 (3.846%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.846%) SNMP
5 1 (3.846%) LDAP
5 1 (3.846%) LAN
5 1 (3.846%) WLAN
5 1 (3.846%) WAN
5 1 (3.846%) BIG-IP
5 1 (3.846%) VLAN
5 1 (3.846%) Network Security
5 1 (3.846%) FCoE
5 1 (3.846%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.846%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.846%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 3 (11.54%) Spanish Language
2 2 (7.692%) Finance
3 1 (3.846%) Banking
3 1 (3.846%) German Language
3 1 (3.846%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Architect
1 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Architect
2 9 (34.62%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
2 9 (34.62%) Technical Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Consultant
3 5 (19.23%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Technical Support
4 4 (15.38%) Sales Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Pre Sales Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.692%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
5 2 (7.692%) Senior Sales Consultant
5 2 (7.692%) Junior Sales Consultant
5 2 (7.692%) Windows Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Backup Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (7.692%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Clustering
2 2 (7.692%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Linux
2 10 (38.46%) Windows
3 8 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (26.92%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (15.38%) Windows 2000
6 3 (11.54%) Solaris
7 2 (7.692%) Windows XP
8 1 (3.846%) UNIX
8 1 (3.846%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Project Planning
2 2 (7.692%) Software Deployment
2 2 (7.692%) ITIL
3 1 (3.846%) Project Management
3 1 (3.846%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (3.846%) Workflow
3 1 (3.846%) Validation
3 1 (3.846%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Perl
2 2 (7.692%) C
2 2 (7.692%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.846%) C++
3 1 (3.846%) Java
3 1 (3.846%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) CCA
1 4 (15.38%) Citrix Certification
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
1 4 (15.38%) CCEE
1 4 (15.38%) CCAA
1 4 (15.38%) CCIA
2 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.692%) NCDA
3 2 (7.692%) NCIE
4 1 (3.846%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.846%) MCITP
4 1 (3.846%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) QA
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (42.31%) vSphere
3 10 (38.46%) vCloud
4 6 (23.08%) Hyper-V
5 4 (15.38%) XenApp
5 4 (15.38%) XenServer
5 4 (15.38%) XenDesktop
5 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
6 1 (3.846%) ISA Server
6 1 (3.846%) VMware ESX
6 1 (3.846%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (7.692%) NetBackup
1 2 (7.692%) ServiceCenter
2 1 (3.846%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (3.846%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) Cisco
1 15 (57.69%) Microsoft
1 15 (57.69%) VMware
2 11 (42.31%) Oracle
3 10 (38.46%) Juniper
4 6 (23.08%) NetApp
5 5 (19.23%) Citrix
6 4 (15.38%) Veritas
6 4 (15.38%) AppSense
7 3 (11.54%) Symantec
7 3 (11.54%) HP
8 2 (7.692%) EMC
8 2 (7.692%) ADIC
8 2 (7.692%) Hitachi
8 2 (7.692%) StorageTek
8 2 (7.692%) Brocade
8 2 (7.692%) 3PAR
8 2 (7.692%) FalconStor
9 1 (3.846%) F5
9 1 (3.846%) Twitter