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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fibre Channel (FC)
Rank 217 221 206
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -15
Permanent jobs citing Fibre Channel 3 6 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 0.057% 0.100% 0.149%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.248% 0.500% 0.733%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 6
Average salary £26,000 £47,500 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-45.26% -29.62%
UK excluding London average salary £40,497 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+1.24% -
All Communications & Networking
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1208 1201 1092
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 22.90% 19.96% 20.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1007 1025 985
Average salary £41,250 £41,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+0.60% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £29,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Fibre Channel
South East

Fibre Channel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Fibre Channel Salary Trend

Fibre Channel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 19 (95.00%) SAN
2 17 (85.00%) iSCSI
3 16 (80.00%) NAS
3 16 (80.00%) VMware
4 14 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (55.00%) EMC
5 11 (55.00%) UNIX
5 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
6 9 (45.00%) CCNA
6 9 (45.00%) Windows
6 9 (45.00%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (45.00%) SCOM
7 8 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 8 (40.00%) HP SIM
7 8 (40.00%) VMware ESX
7 8 (40.00%) Cisco
7 8 (40.00%) Change Management
7 8 (40.00%) Linux
7 8 (40.00%) HP
8 7 (35.00%) Project Management
8 7 (35.00%) MCITP
9 6 (30.00%) vSphere
9 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (30.00%) SLA
9 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
9 6 (30.00%) ITIL
10 5 (25.00%) Solaris
10 5 (25.00%) VoIP
10 5 (25.00%) NFS
10 5 (25.00%) Firewall

Fibre Channel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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.

Application Development
1 3 (15.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (15.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (15.00%) JCAPS
1 3 (15.00%) GlassFish
2 2 (10.00%) Lync
2 2 (10.00%) Apache
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (95.00%) SAN
2 17 (85.00%) iSCSI
3 16 (80.00%) NAS
4 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
5 5 (25.00%) VoIP
5 5 (25.00%) Firewall
6 3 (15.00%) VLAN
7 2 (10.00%) Unified Communications
7 2 (10.00%) Internet
7 2 (10.00%) IPsec
7 2 (10.00%) FTP
7 2 (10.00%) HTTP
7 2 (10.00%) VPN
7 2 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle 9i
1 3 (15.00%) SQLPlus
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (10.00%) Advertising
2 1 (5.000%) Back Office
2 1 (5.000%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Storage Administrator
1 8 (40.00%) Administrator
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) Professional Services Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Technical Support
5 1 (5.000%) EMC Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) EMC Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (15.00%) CLARiiON
1 3 (15.00%) EMC Centera
1 3 (15.00%) Firmware
1 3 (15.00%) Celerra
1 3 (15.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.000%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) UNIX
2 9 (45.00%) Windows
3 8 (40.00%) Linux
4 5 (25.00%) Solaris
5 2 (10.00%) AIX
5 2 (10.00%) HPUX
6 1 (5.000%) SUSE
6 1 (5.000%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Change Management
2 7 (35.00%) Project Management
3 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (30.00%) ITIL
4 4 (20.00%) Change Control
4 4 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 3 (15.00%) SOA
5 3 (15.00%) ITSM
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (10.00%) Information Security
6 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (10.00%) Perl
2 2 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) CCNA
1 9 (45.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (35.00%) MCITP
4 4 (20.00%) VCP4
5 3 (15.00%) MCSE
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (15.00%) Degree
5 3 (15.00%) MCTS
6 2 (10.00%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (40.00%) VMware ESX
3 6 (30.00%) vSphere
4 5 (25.00%) NFS
5 3 (15.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 3 (15.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (15.00%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (10.00%) Terminal Server
7 1 (5.000%) Active Directory
7 1 (5.000%) Hyper-V
7 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) SCOM
2 8 (40.00%) HP SIM
3 5 (25.00%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (15.00%) Tivoli
4 3 (15.00%) AppManager
4 3 (15.00%) Data Guard
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle Statspack
4 3 (15.00%) NetBackup
5 2 (10.00%) Backup Exec
6 1 (5.000%) SCVMM
6 1 (5.000%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) VMware
2 11 (55.00%) EMC
2 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (40.00%) Cisco
3 8 (40.00%) HP
4 4 (20.00%) Oracle
5 3 (15.00%) Sun
6 2 (10.00%) Citrix
7 1 (5.000%) Dell
7 1 (5.000%) Veritas