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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 37 21 21
Rank change year-on-year
-16 0
Permanent jobs citing SAN 11 14 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 4.661% 9.211% 6.500%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.56% 51.85% 39.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 3
Average salary £40,000 £35,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.67% +9.23%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Solihull
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
36 27 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 15.25% 17.76% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 32 7 14
Average salary £40,000 £35,500 £17,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.67% +102.85%
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +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 Solihull region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

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

Solihull SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 20 (90.91%) Windows
2 16 (72.73%) VMware
3 14 (63.64%) MS Exchange
3 14 (63.64%) SQL Server
4 13 (59.09%) Project Management
4 13 (59.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (59.09%) Windows Server 2008
5 12 (54.55%) NAS
5 12 (54.55%) Citrix
6 11 (50.00%) Cisco
6 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 11 (50.00%) HP
7 10 (45.45%) Dell
7 10 (45.45%) Clustering
8 8 (36.36%) Firewall
9 7 (31.82%) Wireless
9 7 (31.82%) MSI
9 7 (31.82%) Service Delivery
9 7 (31.82%) SLA
9 7 (31.82%) SharePoint
9 7 (31.82%) SharePoint 2010
9 7 (31.82%) Lync
9 7 (31.82%) Application Packaging
9 7 (31.82%) SCCM
9 7 (31.82%) SCOM
9 7 (31.82%) Change Control
10 6 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (27.27%) ITIL
10 6 (27.27%) WAN
10 6 (27.27%) Finance

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 7 (31.82%) Application Packaging
2 3 (13.64%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) J2EE
2 3 (13.64%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 14 (63.64%) MS Exchange
2 7 (31.82%) SharePoint
2 7 (31.82%) SharePoint 2010
2 7 (31.82%) Lync
3 6 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (13.64%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (13.64%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (13.64%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (13.64%) IIS
5 2 (9.091%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) NAS
2 8 (36.36%) Firewall
3 7 (31.82%) Wireless
4 6 (27.27%) WAN
5 4 (18.18%) iSCSI
6 3 (13.64%) LAN
7 1 (4.545%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) MSI
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 2 (9.091%) Automotive
4 1 (4.545%) Retail
4 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Consultant
1 8 (36.36%) Technical Consultant
2 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 7 (31.82%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Windows Support Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Technical Support Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Support Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Technical Support
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (9.091%) Administrator
4 2 (9.091%) Technical Specialist
4 2 (9.091%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (9.091%) IT Administrator
4 2 (9.091%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.545%) BizTalk Specialist
5 1 (4.545%) Storage Specialist
5 1 (4.545%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Clustering
2 1 (4.545%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (4.545%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 20 (90.91%) Windows
2 13 (59.09%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (18.18%) UNIX
5 2 (9.091%) Linux
6 1 (4.545%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Project Management
2 7 (31.82%) Service Delivery
2 7 (31.82%) Change Control
3 6 (27.27%) ITIL
4 4 (18.18%) TOGAF
5 3 (13.64%) Zachman Framework
5 3 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (9.091%) Network Load Balancing
6 2 (9.091%) PRINCE2
7 1 (4.545%) Migration
7 1 (4.545%) Time Management
7 1 (4.545%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.091%) SQL
1 2 (9.091%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 4 (18.18%) MCITP
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (9.091%) CCEE
3 2 (9.091%) CCAA
3 2 (9.091%) MCTS
3 2 (9.091%) Citrix Certification
3 2 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.091%) MCSE
3 2 (9.091%) CCNP
3 2 (9.091%) CCNA
4 1 (4.545%) CCA
4 1 (4.545%) CCIA
4 1 (4.545%) VCP5
4 1 (4.545%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (22.73%) vSphere
3 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
4 3 (13.64%) VMware ESX
4 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
5 2 (9.091%) XenApp
5 2 (9.091%) XenServer
5 2 (9.091%) XenDesktop
6 1 (4.545%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) SCCM
1 7 (31.82%) SCOM
2 3 (13.64%) ARCserve
2 3 (13.64%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (9.091%) Backup Exec
4 1 (4.545%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) VMware
2 12 (54.55%) Citrix
3 11 (50.00%) Cisco
3 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (50.00%) HP
4 10 (45.45%) Dell
5 6 (27.27%) Symantec
6 4 (18.18%) Oracle
7 3 (13.64%) McAfee
7 3 (13.64%) Veritas
8 1 (4.545%) Brocade
8 1 (4.545%) Fujitsu
8 1 (4.545%) SAP
8 1 (4.545%) NetApp
8 1 (4.545%) StorageTek
8 1 (4.545%) EMC