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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing NAS 9 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 3.644% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.68% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
Average salary £40,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.65%
All Communications & Networking
Solihull
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
38 26 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 15.38% 16.05% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 34 8 15
Average salary £40,000 £35,500 £17,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.67% +102.85%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
NAS
West Midlands

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull NAS Salary Trend

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) SAN
2 11 (84.62%) SQL Server
3 10 (76.92%) MS Exchange
3 10 (76.92%) VMware
3 10 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (76.92%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (69.23%) Project Management
4 9 (69.23%) Citrix
5 8 (61.54%) SharePoint
5 8 (61.54%) HP
5 8 (61.54%) Dell
5 8 (61.54%) SLA
5 8 (61.54%) Cisco
5 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
5 8 (61.54%) Application Packaging
5 8 (61.54%) SCCM
5 8 (61.54%) SharePoint 2010
5 8 (61.54%) Change Control
5 8 (61.54%) Firewall
5 8 (61.54%) Wireless
5 8 (61.54%) Clustering
5 8 (61.54%) MSI
6 7 (53.85%) Lync
6 7 (53.85%) SCOM
7 3 (23.08%) Banking
7 3 (23.08%) Zachman Framework
7 3 (23.08%) TOGAF
7 3 (23.08%) WebSphere
7 3 (23.08%) LAN

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 8 (61.54%) Application Packaging
2 3 (23.08%) WebSphere
2 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 10 (76.92%) MS Exchange
2 8 (61.54%) SharePoint
2 8 (61.54%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (53.85%) Lync
4 3 (23.08%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) SAN
2 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 8 (61.54%) Wireless
3 3 (23.08%) LAN
3 3 (23.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) MSI
General
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Consultant
1 8 (61.54%) Technical Consultant
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 7 (53.85%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (7.692%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (7.692%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (7.692%) Implementation Specialist
5 1 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (76.92%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (23.08%) UNIX
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Project Management
2 8 (61.54%) Change Control
3 3 (23.08%) Zachman Framework
3 3 (23.08%) TOGAF
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (15.38%) MCSE
1 2 (15.38%) MCTS
1 2 (15.38%) MCITP
1 2 (15.38%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (7.692%) CCEE
2 1 (7.692%) CCAA
2 1 (7.692%) CCIA
2 1 (7.692%) CCA
2 1 (7.692%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) VMware ESX
2 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
2 2 (15.38%) vSphere
3 1 (7.692%) XenApp
3 1 (7.692%) XenServer
3 1 (7.692%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) SCCM
2 7 (53.85%) SCOM
3 2 (15.38%) ARCserve
3 2 (15.38%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) VMware
2 9 (69.23%) Citrix
3 8 (61.54%) HP
3 8 (61.54%) Dell
3 8 (61.54%) Cisco
3 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
4 3 (23.08%) Oracle
5 2 (15.38%) Symantec
5 2 (15.38%) McAfee
5 2 (15.38%) Veritas
6 1 (7.692%) SAP