The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT jobs advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 23 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 South Wales region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 88 50 -
Rank change year-on-year
-38 -
Permanent jobs citing NAS 2 42 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 0.194% 4.290% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.913% 17.95% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 20 0
Average salary £29,000 £37,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.62% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.65%
All Communications & Networking
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
219 234 104
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 21.24% 23.90% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 206 197 97
Average salary £35,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.42% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,600 £27,000 £23,950
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
NAS
Wales

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales NAS Salary Trend

NAS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 23 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
Caerphilly -15 2 £29,000 -
NAS
Wales

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
3 2 (50.00%) MCITP
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
3 2 (50.00%) Office Communications Server
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Terminal Server
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Symantec
3 2 (50.00%) MCSE
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 7

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 (50.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (50.00%) Office Communications Server
2 2 (50.00%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) MCITP
1 2 (50.00%) MCSE
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (50.00%) Terminal Server
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Symantec
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) 3Com
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan
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Salary: Negotiable + Benefits
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Salary: £25000 - £33000 per annum + 23 days annual leave
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