The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 52 66 58
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -8
Permanent jobs citing SAN 15 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 2.555% 0.172% 0.852%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.31% 1.887% 3.968%
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 3
Average salary £40,000 £50,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +53.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £50,000 £29,700
10% offered a salary of more than £51,550 £50,000 £37,300
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
98 53 126
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 16.70% 9.122% 21.47%
Number of salaries quoted 89 48 103
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £29,000 £25,800
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £62,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
West Midlands

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Tamworth - 3 £35,000 -
Cannock - 2 £35,000 -
Stafford - 1 £43,500 -
SAN
West Midlands

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 24 (92.31%) VMware
2 22 (84.62%) Windows
3 16 (61.54%) Active Directory
4 11 (42.31%) MS Exchange
5 10 (38.46%) LAN
5 10 (38.46%) DNS
5 10 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (34.62%) Cisco
7 8 (30.77%) WAN
7 8 (30.77%) DHCP
7 8 (30.77%) NetApp
8 7 (26.92%) Citrix
8 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
8 7 (26.92%) NAS
9 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (23.08%) LDAP
9 6 (23.08%) MPLS
10 5 (19.23%) Firewall
10 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (19.23%) SQL
10 5 (19.23%) MCSE
10 5 (19.23%) CCNA
10 5 (19.23%) Exchange Server 2007
11 4 (15.38%) Backup Exec
11 4 (15.38%) Finance
11 4 (15.38%) Validation
11 4 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (15.38%) MCITP
11 4 (15.38%) CMDB

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 (7.692%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 11 (42.31%) MS Exchange
2 5 (19.23%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (15.38%) Lotus Notes
4 3 (11.54%) IIS
4 3 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) MS Office
2 2 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) LAN
1 10 (38.46%) DNS
2 8 (30.77%) WAN
2 8 (30.77%) DHCP
3 7 (26.92%) NAS
4 6 (23.08%) LDAP
4 6 (23.08%) MPLS
5 5 (19.23%) Firewall
6 4 (15.38%) VPN
6 4 (15.38%) VoIP
7 3 (11.54%) Network Security
8 2 (7.692%) VLAN
8 2 (7.692%) IPsec
8 2 (7.692%) Kerberos
8 2 (7.692%) SNMP
8 2 (7.692%) TCP/IP
8 2 (7.692%) WLAN
9 1 (3.846%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.846%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (3.846%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 4 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (7.692%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Support Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Help Desk Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Storage Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) IT Support
3 4 (15.38%) Technical Support
3 4 (15.38%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (7.692%) Storage Systems Administrator
4 2 (7.692%) 3rd Line Technical Support
4 2 (7.692%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (7.692%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (7.692%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) CMDB
2 2 (7.692%) Fat Client
2 2 (7.692%) Thin Client
3 1 (3.846%) Replication
3 1 (3.846%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 22 (84.62%) Windows
2 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (15.38%) Windows 7
3 4 (15.38%) Windows XP
3 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (7.692%) Windows 8
4 2 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (15.38%) Validation
1 4 (15.38%) Performance Testing
1 4 (15.38%) Analytics
1 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
2 3 (11.54%) Project Management
2 3 (11.54%) PRINCE2
3 2 (7.692%) Software Deployment
3 2 (7.692%) E-Commerce
4 1 (3.846%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.846%) ITIL
4 1 (3.846%) Migration
4 1 (3.846%) TOGAF
4 1 (3.846%) Business Analysis
4 1 (3.846%) Project Planning
4 1 (3.846%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) VBScript
3 1 (3.846%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (19.23%) MCSE
1 5 (19.23%) CCNA
2 4 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (15.38%) MCITP
3 1 (3.846%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (3.846%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 10 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (11.54%) vSphere
4 3 (11.54%) XenApp
5 2 (7.692%) XenDesktop
5 2 (7.692%) Forefront TMG
5 2 (7.692%) ISA Server
6 1 (3.846%) Terminal Services
6 1 (3.846%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.846%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Backup Exec
2 1 (3.846%) WSUS
2 1 (3.846%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (92.31%) VMware
2 9 (34.62%) Cisco
3 8 (30.77%) NetApp
4 7 (26.92%) Citrix
5 4 (15.38%) EMC
5 4 (15.38%) Lotus
6 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
7 2 (7.692%) ProCurve
7 2 (7.692%) SonicWALL
7 2 (7.692%) IBM
7 2 (7.692%) HP
7 2 (7.692%) CheckPoint
7 2 (7.692%) Veritas
8 1 (3.846%) Hitachi
8 1 (3.846%) Brocade
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Experience and knowledge of EMC and Hitachi Data Storage (HDS) Strong background in SAN fabric design and management. Experience of multi site SAN environments. Strong understanding of Windows...
Assured Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £40k - 45k per year
Posted: 20 May 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
As part of the project management team you will also have an understanding of the software development lifecycle - ideally having exposure to web from an infrastructure point of...
Assured Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £50k - 60k per year
Posted: 23 May 2013