The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Shropshire 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 Shropshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 26 26 30
Rank change year-on-year
0 +4
Permanent jobs citing SAN 9 8 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire 4.091% 4.938% 1.923%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.79% 15.38% 8.824%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 3
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Shropshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
57 52 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire 25.91% 32.10% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 23 35 31
Average salary £32,500 £30,500 £36,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.55% -17.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,700 £20,650 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
West Midlands

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Shropshire 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 Shropshire region.

Shropshire SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Shropshire SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Telford -7 7 £45,000 +38.46%
SAN
West Midlands

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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 10 (66.67%) Windows
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (60.00%) VMware
3 7 (46.67%) HP
4 6 (40.00%) SQL
5 5 (33.33%) ITIL
5 5 (33.33%) Citrix
5 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 5 (33.33%) Veritas
5 5 (33.33%) Degree
5 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (26.67%) EMC
6 4 (26.67%) Cisco
6 4 (26.67%) MS Exchange
6 4 (26.67%) Linux
6 4 (26.67%) Clustering
6 4 (26.67%) NetApp
7 3 (20.00%) Replication
7 3 (20.00%) ISA Server
7 3 (20.00%) Project Management
7 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
7 3 (20.00%) Altiris
7 3 (20.00%) Oracle
7 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
7 3 (20.00%) DNS
7 3 (20.00%) Dell
7 3 (20.00%) Hitachi

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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 Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) MS Exchange
2 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (13.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (13.33%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (6.667%) Apache
4 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
4 1 (6.667%) IIS
4 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (6.667%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Office
2 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
3 1 (6.667%) Firewall
3 1 (6.667%) VLAN
3 1 (6.667%) NAS
3 1 (6.667%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (6.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Subversion
1 1 (6.667%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Data Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Architect
2 2 (13.33%) UNIX Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Server Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Storage Specialist
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Administrator
3 1 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (6.667%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (6.667%) Consultant
3 1 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (6.667%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (6.667%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Senior Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Clustering
2 3 (20.00%) Replication
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (6.667%) Blackberry
3 1 (6.667%) HP Superdome
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (26.67%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) UNIX
3 2 (13.33%) HPUX
4 1 (6.667%) Ubuntu
4 1 (6.667%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) Capacity Management
3 2 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
4 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.667%) Load Balancing
4 1 (6.667%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) VB
4 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.667%) Java
4 1 (6.667%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) VCP5
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.667%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (6.667%) MCTS
3 1 (6.667%) MCITP
3 1 (6.667%) MCSE
3 1 (6.667%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.667%) CCA
3 1 (6.667%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (6.667%) CCEE
3 1 (6.667%) CCAA
3 1 (6.667%) CCIA
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (20.00%) ISA Server
3 3 (20.00%) XenApp
4 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (13.33%) vSphere
4 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (13.33%) Terminal Services
4 2 (13.33%) VMware ESX
5 1 (6.667%) Shibboleth
5 1 (6.667%) XenServer
5 1 (6.667%) XenDesktop
5 1 (6.667%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) HP Data Protector
2 2 (13.33%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (13.33%) SCCM
2 2 (13.33%) SCOM
3 1 (6.667%) ARCserve
3 1 (6.667%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) VMware
2 7 (46.67%) HP
3 5 (33.33%) Citrix
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) Veritas
4 4 (26.67%) EMC
4 4 (26.67%) Cisco
4 4 (26.67%) NetApp
5 3 (20.00%) Altiris
5 3 (20.00%) Oracle
5 3 (20.00%) Dell
5 3 (20.00%) Hitachi
6 1 (6.667%) Symantec
6 1 (6.667%) McAfee