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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fibre Channel (FC)
Rank - 198 195
Permanent jobs citing Fibre Channel 0 13 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West - 0.231% 0.321%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 1.364% 1.825%
Number of salaries quoted 0 13 13
Average salary - £40,000 £21,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +90.47%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
907 953 1041
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 17.17% 16.90% 17.61%
Number of salaries quoted 775 781 860
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £21,375
10% offered a salary of more than £54,750 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Fibre Channel Jobs Demand Trend

Fibre Channel
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Fibre Channel across the South West region.

South West Fibre Channel Salary Trend

Fibre Channel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel.

1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) NFS
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
1 4 (66.67%) NAS
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Perl
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) Symantec
3 2 (33.33%) Remedy
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Replication
3 2 (33.33%) NetBackup
3 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 2 (33.33%) Ruby
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) QA
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) UNIX
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 2 (33.33%) iSCSI
4 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Fault Management
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) Veritas

Fibre Channel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
1 4 (66.67%) NAS
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) iSCSI
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 2 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Fault Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) Perl
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 2 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Symantec
1 2 (33.33%) Remedy
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas