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The table below looks at the demand for Storage Area Network (SAN) skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkStorage Area Network (SAN)
Location
3 months to
18 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank10682
Rank change on same period last yearDown-24
Matching permanent IT job ads161256
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.104 %0.114 %
As % of the category below10.14 %13.87 %
Salaries quoted107205
Average minimum salary£36,950£43,728
Average salary£39,845£45,140
% change on same period last year-11.73 %
Average maximum salary£42,739£46,551
UK excluding London average salary£42,184£43,221
% change on same period last year-2.39 %
South West IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
South West
Matching permanent IT job ads15871846
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.027 %0.823 %
Salaries quoted14061458
Average minimum salary£32,539£34,357
Average salary£35,121£37,575
% change on same period last year-6.53 %
Average maximum salary£37,702£40,792
UK excluding London average salary£37,839£38,392
% change on same period last year-1.43 %
SAN EnglandSAN
England

SAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SAN across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

South West SAN Demand Trend

SAN
Salary Trend

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

South West SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the South West region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
WiltshireUp+666£36,767-34.32 %
BristolDown-2638£36,536+0.42 %
GloucestershireDown-3524£35,429-16.41 %
SomersetDown-719£35,300-14.32 %
DorsetUp+187£41,333+33.33 %
DevonDown-203£20,667-32.24 %
CornwallNew entry-2£24,000-
SAN EnglandSAN
England

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the South West 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.

1128 (37.54 %)Active Directory
2120 (35.19 %)Windows
2120 (35.19 %)Microsoft
390 (26.39 %)VMware
483 (24.34 %)Citrix
582 (24.05 %)Firewall
676 (22.29 %)Windows Server 2003
774 (21.70 %)Clustering
873 (21.41 %)LAN
969 (20.23 %)WAN
1068 (19.94 %)HP
1167 (19.65 %)MS Exchange
1265 (19.06 %)Disaster Recovery
1362 (18.18 %)UNIX
1461 (17.89 %)Linux
1461 (17.89 %)Security Cleared
1558 (17.01 %)Load Balancing
1652 (15.25 %)Oracle
1745 (13.20 %)SQL
1844 (12.90 %)Cisco
1941 (12.02 %)AIX
2035 (10.26 %)Microsoft Certification
2134 (9.971 %)NetBackup
2233 (9.677 %)SQL Server
2233 (9.677 %)Exchange Server 2003
2328 (8.211 %)MCSE
2328 (8.211 %)IBM
2328 (8.211 %)DNS
2328 (8.211 %)SC Cleared
2427 (7.918 %)DHCP

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the South West 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.

South West IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
16 (1.760 %)Application Packaging
24 (1.173 %).NET
31 (0.293 %)WebServices
31 (0.293 %)WMI
South West IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
167 (19.65 %)MS Exchange
233 (9.677 %)Exchange Server 2003
325 (7.331 %)Exchange Server 2007
421 (6.158 %)IIS
517 (4.985 %)SharePoint
615 (4.399 %)Lotus Domino
78 (2.346 %)Exchange Server 2000
84 (1.173 %)Office Communications Server
92 (0.587 %)Lotus Notes
101 (0.293 %)Apache
101 (0.293 %)CMS
South West IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
121 (6.158 %)MS Excel
25 (1.466 %)MS Office
South West IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
14 (1.173 %)Oracle EBS
14 (1.173 %)SoftGrid
23 (0.880 %)Oracle 11i
South West IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
182 (24.05 %)Firewall
273 (21.41 %)LAN
369 (20.23 %)WAN
428 (8.211 %)DNS
527 (7.918 %)DHCP
625 (7.331 %)TCP/IP
625 (7.331 %)Network Security
722 (6.452 %)Intrusion Detection
815 (4.399 %)VPN
815 (4.399 %)MPLS
913 (3.812 %)SMS
1011 (3.226 %)Wireless
119 (2.639 %)VoIP
119 (2.639 %)iSCSI
125 (1.466 %)IPv6
125 (1.466 %)VLAN
133 (0.880 %)NetScreen
133 (0.880 %)Intranet
133 (0.880 %)Extranet
142 (0.587 %)ADSL
South West IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
133 (9.677 %)SQL Server
216 (4.692 %)SQL Server 2005
312 (3.519 %)Oracle 10g
48 (2.346 %)SQL Server 2000
57 (2.053 %)OLAP
65 (1.466 %)Oracle 9i
65 (1.466 %)OLTP
65 (1.466 %)Datawarehouse
72 (0.587 %)SQL Server Integration Services
72 (0.587 %)GIS
72 (0.587 %)VLDB
81 (0.293 %)Informix
81 (0.293 %)RDBMS
81 (0.293 %)Sybase IQ
81 (0.293 %)Sybase ASE
South West IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (0.293 %)ClearCase
South West IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
122 (6.452 %)Health
220 (5.865 %)Telecoms
319 (5.572 %)Pensions
418 (5.279 %)Finance
514 (4.106 %)Government
610 (2.933 %)Back Office
77 (2.053 %)Legal
84 (1.173 %)Manufacturing
84 (1.173 %)Law
92 (0.587 %)Marketing
92 (0.587 %)Insurance
92 (0.587 %)Education
92 (0.587 %)Electronics
92 (0.587 %)Financial Institution
101 (0.293 %)Aerospace
101 (0.293 %)Auditing
South West IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
142 (12.32 %)Analyst
241 (12.02 %)Team Leader
333 (9.677 %)Architect
430 (8.798 %)Support Analyst
526 (7.625 %)Support Engineer
526 (7.625 %)Administrator
618 (5.279 %)Storage Engineer
618 (5.279 %)Infrastructure Architect
717 (4.985 %)Infrastructure Engineer
816 (4.692 %)Systems Administrator
816 (4.692 %)Network Support
915 (4.399 %)Technical Architect
1014 (4.106 %)Consultant
1014 (4.106 %)DBA
1014 (4.106 %)Infrastructure Manager
1113 (3.812 %)Systems Support
1211 (3.226 %)SAN Engineer
1211 (3.226 %)Systems Manager
1211 (3.226 %)Network Engineer
1211 (3.226 %)Systems Engineer
South West IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
174 (21.70 %)Clustering
214 (4.106 %)iSeries
37 (2.053 %)PDA
46 (1.760 %)Replication
46 (1.760 %)Blackberry
53 (0.880 %)CLARiiON
53 (0.880 %)Celerra
62 (0.587 %)Statistics
62 (0.587 %)Computer Science
62 (0.587 %)Fat Client
62 (0.587 %)Video Conferencing
62 (0.587 %)Thin Client
71 (0.293 %)HACMP
71 (0.293 %)N-Tier
71 (0.293 %)Symmetrix
71 (0.293 %)EMC Centera
71 (0.293 %)Economics
71 (0.293 %)Wiki
71 (0.293 %)Mathematics
South West IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1120 (35.19 %)Windows
276 (22.29 %)Windows Server 2003
362 (18.18 %)UNIX
461 (17.89 %)Linux
541 (12.02 %)AIX
625 (7.331 %)HPUX
720 (5.865 %)Solaris
818 (5.279 %)Windows 2000 Server
818 (5.279 %)Windows XP
914 (4.106 %)Windows Server 2008
1013 (3.812 %)Windows Vista
1112 (3.519 %)Red Hat Linux
127 (2.053 %)Windows 2000
134 (1.173 %)Debian
143 (0.880 %)Windows NT
152 (0.587 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
152 (0.587 %)VMS
152 (0.587 %)OpenVMS
161 (0.293 %)zOS
161 (0.293 %)Fedora
South West IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
165 (19.06 %)Disaster Recovery
261 (17.89 %)Security Cleared
358 (17.01 %)Load Balancing
428 (8.211 %)SC Cleared
522 (6.452 %)Information Security
614 (4.106 %)ITIL
713 (3.812 %)Project Management
810 (2.933 %)Document Management
98 (2.346 %)DV Cleared
104 (1.173 %)E-business
113 (0.880 %)CRM
113 (0.880 %)Business Intelligence
113 (0.880 %)Migration
113 (0.880 %)Technical Architecture
113 (0.880 %)Enterprise Architecture
113 (0.880 %)Strategic Planning
122 (0.587 %)Problem Management
122 (0.587 %)Supply Chain Management
122 (0.587 %)Service Delivery
122 (0.587 %)Change Management
South West IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
145 (13.20 %)SQL
29 (2.639 %)C
38 (2.346 %)VBScript
38 (2.346 %)VB
44 (1.173 %)Transact-SQL
52 (0.587 %)Korn
52 (0.587 %)VB.NET
52 (0.587 %)C#
52 (0.587 %)Perl
52 (0.587 %)Shell Script
61 (0.293 %)PHP
South West IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
135 (10.26 %)Microsoft Certification
228 (8.211 %)MCSE
316 (4.692 %)Cisco Certification
316 (4.692 %)Degree
413 (3.812 %)CCNA
59 (2.639 %)MCP
67 (2.053 %)IBM Certification
76 (1.760 %)MCSA
84 (1.173 %)HNC
84 (1.173 %)HND
93 (0.880 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
101 (0.293 %)CCA
101 (0.293 %)Citrix Certification
101 (0.293 %)CCSP
101 (0.293 %)IBM AIX Certification
101 (0.293 %)RHCE
South West IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
116 (4.692 %)SLA
21 (0.293 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
South West IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1128 (37.54 %)Active Directory
234 (9.971 %)NetBackup
324 (7.038 %)VMware Infrastructure
421 (6.158 %)Backup Exec
518 (5.279 %)Terminal Services
615 (4.399 %)Oracle RAC
713 (3.812 %)Citrix Presentation Server
89 (2.639 %)NFS
89 (2.639 %)VMware ESX
96 (1.760 %)ISA Server
103 (0.880 %)Terminal Server
112 (0.587 %)MailMarshal
112 (0.587 %)Oracle RMAN
112 (0.587 %)MetaFrame
South West IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
115 (4.399 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
210 (2.933 %)MOM
37 (2.053 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
42 (0.587 %)Legato
42 (0.587 %)Tivoli
42 (0.587 %)ARCserve
51 (0.293 %)MIMEsweeper
51 (0.293 %)OpenView Configuration Management
51 (0.293 %)AutoSys
51 (0.293 %)OpenView
51 (0.293 %)SCCM
51 (0.293 %)SCOM
51 (0.293 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
South West IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1120 (35.19 %)Microsoft
290 (26.39 %)VMware
383 (24.34 %)Citrix
468 (19.94 %)HP
552 (15.25 %)Oracle
644 (12.90 %)Cisco
728 (8.211 %)IBM
821 (6.158 %)Symantec
919 (5.572 %)Intel
1018 (5.279 %)Brocade
1018 (5.279 %)EMC
1117 (4.985 %)NetApp
1210 (2.933 %)Red Hat
138 (2.346 %)VERITAS
138 (2.346 %)Sun
138 (2.346 %)Dell
146 (1.760 %)McAfee Security
155 (1.466 %)Juniper
164 (1.173 %)Altiris
173 (0.880 %)CheckPoint