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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 35 50 59
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +9
Permanent jobs citing SAN 20 15 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 3.759% 2.419% 0.879%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.32% 14.85% 5.747%
Number of salaries quoted 18 15 1
Average salary £39,500 £28,000 £23,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.07% +21.73%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-1.23% +1.25%
All Communications & Networking
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
76 101 87
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 14.29% 16.29% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 71 96 70
Average salary £37,500 £33,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.63% -20.48%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £22,500 £28,900
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £67,000 £49,400
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
South Yorkshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Sheffield SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 19 (52.78%) VMware
2 16 (44.44%) UNIX
2 16 (44.44%) Linux
3 14 (38.89%) Solaris
3 14 (38.89%) Windows
4 13 (36.11%) SQL Server
4 13 (36.11%) MS Excel
5 11 (30.56%) Microsoft
6 10 (27.78%) Windows Server 2008
7 9 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 9 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
7 9 (25.00%) AIX
7 9 (25.00%) HPUX
8 8 (22.22%) SQL
9 7 (19.44%) MS Exchange
9 7 (19.44%) IBM
9 7 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
10 6 (16.67%) VMware ESX
10 6 (16.67%) Cisco
10 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
10 6 (16.67%) HP
10 6 (16.67%) Dell
10 6 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
10 6 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (16.67%) LAN
10 6 (16.67%) WAN
10 6 (16.67%) ITIL
11 5 (13.89%) C
11 5 (13.89%) SLA

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 (5.556%) CSS
1 2 (5.556%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (19.44%) MS Exchange
2 5 (13.89%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (11.11%) IIS
4 2 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 13 (36.11%) MS Excel
2 3 (8.333%) MS Office
3 1 (2.778%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.778%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) LAN
1 6 (16.67%) WAN
2 4 (11.11%) DNS
2 4 (11.11%) DHCP
3 3 (8.333%) Firewall
3 3 (8.333%) Network Security
4 2 (5.556%) Unified Communications
4 2 (5.556%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.778%) SNMP
5 1 (2.778%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.778%) NAS
5 1 (2.778%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (36.11%) SQL Server
2 9 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (13.89%) Oracle 8/8i
3 5 (13.89%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (13.89%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (2.778%) MySQL
4 1 (2.778%) RDBMS
General
1 5 (13.89%) Banking
2 1 (2.778%) Finance
2 1 (2.778%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.778%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Administrator
2 14 (38.89%) UNIX Administrator
3 11 (30.56%) DBA
4 6 (16.67%) SQL DBA
4 6 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Support Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Oracle DBA
5 5 (13.89%) Teradata DBA
6 3 (8.333%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (8.333%) IT Support
7 2 (5.556%) Web Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) Server Administrator
7 2 (5.556%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (5.556%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior Technical Consultant
7 2 (5.556%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (5.556%) Consultant
8 1 (2.778%) Network Engineer
8 1 (2.778%) Server Support
8 1 (2.778%) Systems Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (5.556%) iPhone
2 2 (5.556%) Smartphone
2 2 (5.556%) iPad
3 1 (2.778%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (44.44%) UNIX
1 16 (44.44%) Linux
2 14 (38.89%) Solaris
2 14 (38.89%) Windows
3 10 (27.78%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (25.00%) AIX
4 9 (25.00%) HPUX
5 6 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (8.333%) Windows XP
6 3 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.778%) Debian
7 1 (2.778%) Mac OS X
7 1 (2.778%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (16.67%) ITIL
2 4 (11.11%) Migration
3 2 (5.556%) Web Development
3 2 (5.556%) Business Development
3 2 (5.556%) Data Management
3 2 (5.556%) OOD
4 1 (2.778%) ERP
4 1 (2.778%) Service Management
4 1 (2.778%) Change Management
4 1 (2.778%) Performance Management
4 1 (2.778%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) SQL
2 5 (13.89%) C
3 2 (5.556%) Java
4 1 (2.778%) Perl
4 1 (2.778%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.778%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) OCP
2 5 (13.89%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.556%) NCDA
4 2 (5.556%) NCIE
4 2 (5.556%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.778%) MCP
5 1 (2.778%) MCTS
5 1 (2.778%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) SLA
1 5 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (16.67%) VMware ESX
2 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (13.89%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (8.333%) XenApp
4 3 (8.333%) vSphere
5 2 (5.556%) XenServer
5 2 (5.556%) XenDesktop
6 1 (2.778%) Terminal Services
6 1 (2.778%) Novell eDirectory
6 1 (2.778%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Data Guard
2 4 (11.11%) SCCM
3 3 (8.333%) Backup Exec
4 2 (5.556%) NetBackup
4 2 (5.556%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 1 (2.778%) Puppet
5 1 (2.778%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) VMware
2 11 (30.56%) Microsoft
3 7 (19.44%) IBM
4 6 (16.67%) Cisco
4 6 (16.67%) HP
4 6 (16.67%) Dell
5 5 (13.89%) Oracle
5 5 (13.89%) Citrix
6 4 (11.11%) CheckPoint
6 4 (11.11%) NetApp
7 2 (5.556%) CommVault
7 2 (5.556%) Symantec
8 1 (2.778%) Sophos
8 1 (2.778%) Novell
8 1 (2.778%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.778%) Apple
8 1 (2.778%) Juniper
8 1 (2.778%) Mitel
8 1 (2.778%) WatchGuard
8 1 (2.778%) SonicWALL