The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 44 80 55
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -25
Permanent jobs citing SAN 40 8 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 4.790% 0.856% 2.447%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.16% 4.706% 18.52%
Number of salaries quoted 37 8 15
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +37.93%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
189 170 81
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 22.63% 18.18% 13.21%
Number of salaries quoted 174 155 72
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
SAN
Hampshire

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

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

Southampton SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 52 (88.14%) Windows
2 50 (84.75%) VMware
3 46 (77.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (74.58%) Windows Server 2008
4 44 (74.58%) Firewall
5 43 (72.88%) Windows Server 2003
6 31 (52.54%) MS Exchange
7 30 (50.85%) Exchange Server 2010
8 28 (47.46%) TCP/IP
9 27 (45.76%) MCSE
9 27 (45.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (44.07%) Citrix
10 26 (44.07%) MCITP
11 25 (42.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 25 (42.37%) Citrix Certification
12 24 (40.68%) CCA
12 24 (40.68%) Windows Vista
13 22 (37.29%) Cisco
14 19 (32.20%) Clustering
15 17 (28.81%) Windows XP
15 17 (28.81%) SQL Server
16 15 (25.42%) SQL
16 15 (25.42%) Linux
16 15 (25.42%) Active Directory
16 15 (25.42%) Cisco IOS
17 13 (22.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 13 (22.03%) PCI DSS
18 12 (20.34%) iSCSI
19 11 (18.64%) Time Management
19 11 (18.64%) vSphere

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (3.390%) Web Services
1 2 (3.390%) SAML
2 1 (1.695%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 31 (52.54%) MS Exchange
2 30 (50.85%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (11.86%) IIS
4 5 (8.475%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (3.390%) Apache
5 2 (3.390%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.695%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (5.085%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.695%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 44 (74.58%) Firewall
2 28 (47.46%) TCP/IP
3 15 (25.42%) Cisco IOS
4 12 (20.34%) iSCSI
5 10 (16.95%) NAS
6 7 (11.86%) DNS
7 4 (6.780%) VPN
7 4 (6.780%) WAN
8 3 (5.085%) LAN
9 2 (3.390%) SMTP
9 2 (3.390%) DHCP
9 2 (3.390%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (3.390%) Network Security
9 2 (3.390%) IMAP
9 2 (3.390%) LDAP
10 1 (1.695%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (1.695%) VoIP
10 1 (1.695%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (28.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.780%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (5.085%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (1.695%) MySQL
4 1 (1.695%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.695%) Cognos Impromptu
4 1 (1.695%) SAP BW
General
1 2 (3.390%) Legal
1 2 (3.390%) French Language
2 1 (1.695%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (40.68%) IT Consultant
1 24 (40.68%) Consultant
1 24 (40.68%) Support Consultant
1 24 (40.68%) IT Support
2 19 (32.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (15.25%) Data Centre Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 4 (6.780%) Storage Specialist
5 4 (6.780%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 4 (6.780%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (5.085%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.390%) 3rd Line Support
7 2 (3.390%) IT Manager
7 2 (3.390%) Analyst
7 2 (3.390%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (3.390%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 1 (1.695%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 1 (1.695%) SAP Architect
8 1 (1.695%) Linux Administrator
8 1 (1.695%) Storage Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.20%) Clustering
2 2 (3.390%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.695%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.695%) Celerra
3 1 (1.695%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.695%) Thin Client
3 1 (1.695%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.695%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 52 (88.14%) Windows
2 44 (74.58%) Windows Server 2008
3 43 (72.88%) Windows Server 2003
4 24 (40.68%) Windows Vista
5 17 (28.81%) Windows XP
6 15 (25.42%) Linux
7 3 (5.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (5.085%) Windows 7
8 2 (3.390%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (3.390%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.695%) UNIX
9 1 (1.695%) AIX
9 1 (1.695%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.64%) Time Management
2 3 (5.085%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (3.390%) Identity Management
3 2 (3.390%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (3.390%) Data Protection
4 1 (1.695%) Test Strategy
4 1 (1.695%) Capacity Management
4 1 (1.695%) Problem Management
4 1 (1.695%) PRINCE2
4 1 (1.695%) CRM
4 1 (1.695%) Service Delivery
4 1 (1.695%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.42%) SQL
2 2 (3.390%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.695%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (45.76%) MCSE
1 27 (45.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (44.07%) MCITP
3 25 (42.37%) Citrix Certification
3 25 (42.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 24 (40.68%) CCA
5 3 (5.085%) Degree
6 1 (1.695%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.695%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.695%) MCSA
6 1 (1.695%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.695%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (22.03%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.695%) SLA
2 1 (1.695%) QA
System Software
1 46 (77.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (25.42%) Active Directory
3 11 (18.64%) vSphere
4 8 (13.56%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.085%) NFS
6 2 (3.390%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (3.390%) Shibboleth
6 2 (3.390%) Forefront TMG
6 2 (3.390%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.695%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.695%) Samba
7 1 (1.695%) Sendmail
7 1 (1.695%) XenApp
7 1 (1.695%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (6.780%) SCCM
1 4 (6.780%) SCOM
2 2 (3.390%) SCVMM
2 2 (3.390%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (3.390%) NetBackup
2 2 (3.390%) Backup Exec
3 1 (1.695%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 50 (84.75%) VMware
2 26 (44.07%) Citrix
3 22 (37.29%) Cisco
4 9 (15.25%) Dell
5 5 (8.475%) EMC
5 5 (8.475%) Microsoft
5 5 (8.475%) HP
6 3 (5.085%) Intel
6 3 (5.085%) Juniper
7 2 (3.390%) Veritas
7 2 (3.390%) Symantec
7 2 (3.390%) ProCurve
7 2 (3.390%) Veeam
7 2 (3.390%) Isilon
7 2 (3.390%) F5
7 2 (3.390%) IBM
8 1 (1.695%) SAP
8 1 (1.695%) Cognos
8 1 (1.695%) CommVault
8 1 (1.695%) Brocade
Southampton, Hampshire
PCI-DSS,ISO 27001) - Proficiency in the following areas: SQL Server, Windows XP/7, Windows Server 2003/2008, Networking, Windows and SQL Clustering, Cisco IOS, DELL Switch OS,...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £28000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
VMWare vSphere 4/5. *Network security appliance experience such as Cisco ASA, Forefront, Juniper or equivalent... *Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy. *Microsoft Exchange 2003/2010. *Microsoft Windows...
Ashdown IT
Salary: £30000 - £32000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
You will be working across a number of technologies including Windows, VMware, Citrix, networking and SAN solutions... You will have excellent knowledge of Windows Server (2003, 2008 & 2008R2),...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013