The first table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 21 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing NAS 5 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 0.838% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.808% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
Average salary £42,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
All Communications & Networking
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
104 53 123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 17.42% 9.170% 21.73%
Number of salaries quoted 94 48 100
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,100 £27,350
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £62,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
NAS
West Midlands

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire NAS Salary Trend

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) EMC
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (50.00%) IIS
4 2 (33.33%) Web Services
4 2 (33.33%) VBScript
4 2 (33.33%) LDAP
4 2 (33.33%) WLAN
4 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) Kerberos
4 2 (33.33%) SNMP
4 2 (33.33%) NetApp
4 2 (33.33%) Veritas
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (33.33%) ISA Server
4 2 (33.33%) MPLS
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) IBM
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 2 (33.33%) Backup Exec
4 2 (33.33%) VLAN
4 2 (33.33%) Firewall
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) LDAP
2 2 (33.33%) WLAN
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 2 (33.33%) SNMP
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) VLAN
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Support
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) VBScript
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) ISA Server
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) EMC
3 2 (33.33%) NetApp
3 2 (33.33%) Veritas
3 2 (33.33%) IBM
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco