The first part of the table below looks at the demand for NAS skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NAS over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category.

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank343365399
Rank change year-on-year
Up+22Up+34
Matching permanent IT job ads812693415
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.673 %0.565 %0.435 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category3.835 %3.591 %2.819 %
Number of salaries quoted597484323
Average salary£46,500£42,500£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.41 %-5.55 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,000£32,500£30,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£67,750£65,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£40,500£42,750
% change year-on-year
+4.93 %-5.26 %
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
211741929914719
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK17.56 %15.74 %15.42 %
Number of salaries quoted176421597812153
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£61,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %-

NAS
Demand Trend

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

NAS Demand Trend

NAS
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing NAS within the UK.

NAS Salary Trend

NAS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing NAS over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

NAS Salary Histogram

NAS
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-1723£47,500+11.76 %
LondonUp+34327£52,500+2.94 %
South EastDown-17183£46,500+9.41 %
SurreyUp+1091£45,000+4.65 %
City of LondonUp+4578£55,000+4.76 %
YorkshireUp+668£40,000+5.26 %
East of EnglandDown-955£42,500-
West YorkshireUp+645£35,000-
South WalesNew entry-44£36,000-
WalesNew entry-44£36,000-
BerkshireDown-3134£55,000+23.94 %
LeedsDown-1232£35,000-
North WestDown-931£39,500+25.39 %
West MidlandsDown-929£43,750+9.37 %
ScotlandUp+2527£30,000-17.24 %
StainesUp+1927£46,500+13.41 %
North YorkshireUp+121£43,750+8.02 %
HertfordshireDown-2120£49,000+3.15 %
CaerphillyNew entry-17--
ReadingDown-515£55,000-
EdinburghUp+2314£55,000+83.33 %
ManchesterDown-514£34,000+12.39 %
HampshireDown-213£49,000-2.00 %
WakefieldNew entry-13£40,000-
YorkDown-112--
CambridgeshireDown-412£42,500+32.81 %
CambridgeUp+811£42,500+44.52 %
HarrogateUp+511£45,000+11.11 %
East MidlandsDown-211£50,000+56.25 %
BedfordshireDown-110£50,000+11.11 %

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11403 (87.63 %)SAN
2902 (56.34 %)Windows
3861 (53.78 %)VMware
4613 (38.29 %)VMware Infrastructure
5608 (37.98 %)Linux
6567 (35.42 %)Microsoft
7447 (27.92 %)UNIX
8434 (27.11 %)Windows Server 2008
9415 (25.92 %)NetApp
10410 (25.61 %)Cisco
11402 (25.11 %)Citrix
12400 (24.98 %)Windows Server 2003
13398 (24.86 %)Active Directory
14392 (24.48 %)EMC
15357 (22.30 %)ITIL
16341 (21.30 %)Firewall
17321 (20.05 %)TCP/IP
18305 (19.05 %)HP
19300 (18.74 %)MS Exchange
20279 (17.43 %)VMware ESX
21276 (17.24 %)Finance
22258 (16.11 %)iSCSI
23255 (15.93 %)Solaris
24251 (15.68 %)NetBackup
25237 (14.80 %)vSphere
26232 (14.49 %)Red Hat
27231 (14.43 %)Clustering
28229 (14.30 %)DNS
29215 (13.43 %)Oracle
30211 (13.18 %)SQL

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
165 (4.060 %)Middleware
241 (2.561 %)CSS
340 (2.498 %)WebSphere
438 (2.374 %).NET
536 (2.249 %)LAMP
630 (1.874 %)Web Services
724 (1.499 %)XML
823 (1.437 %)HTML
922 (1.374 %)SOAP
922 (1.374 %)REST
1018 (1.124 %)ASP.NET
1117 (1.062 %)J2EE
1215 (0.937 %)XSLT
1312 (0.750 %)Software Packaging
1312 (0.750 %)SailPoint
1410 (0.625 %)ASP
157 (0.437 %)COM
166 (0.375 %)Symfony
175 (0.312 %)Oracle Fusion
175 (0.312 %)MAPI
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1300 (18.74 %)MS Exchange
2188 (11.74 %)Exchange Server 2007
3164 (10.24 %)Exchange Server 2010
4158 (9.869 %)Exchange Server 2003
5152 (9.494 %)Apache
6144 (8.994 %)IIS
7113 (7.058 %)SharePoint
862 (3.873 %)Tomcat
932 (1.999 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1026 (1.624 %)Lync
1125 (1.562 %)Office Communications Server
1224 (1.499 %)Amazon AWS
1316 (0.999 %)WebLogic
1413 (0.812 %)BizTalk Server
1511 (0.687 %)Exchange Server 2000
168 (0.500 %)SharePoint Server
168 (0.500 %)Lotus Notes
168 (0.500 %)SAS
176 (0.375 %)WebSphere MQ
176 (0.375 %)Exchange Server 5.5
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1150 (9.369 %)MS Excel
293 (5.809 %)MS Office
359 (3.685 %)MS Visio
412 (0.750 %)MS PowerPoint
54 (0.250 %)Final Cut Pro
54 (0.250 %)MS Project
62 (0.125 %)Photoshop
62 (0.125 %)Office 365
71 (0.062 %)Google Apps
71 (0.062 %)Maya
71 (0.062 %)Adobe Illustrator
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
118 (1.124 %)Oracle EBS R12
217 (1.062 %)Oracle 11i
217 (1.062 %)Oracle EBS
314 (0.874 %)CA Clarity
412 (0.750 %)3000 Xtra
510 (0.625 %)Prophet
65 (0.312 %)Oracle ERP
74 (0.250 %)Oracle Applications
74 (0.250 %)RMDS
74 (0.250 %)Remedy ITSM
83 (0.187 %)Oracle HRMS
83 (0.187 %)Oracle Financials
91 (0.062 %)Dynamics CRM
91 (0.062 %)Dynamics GP
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11403 (87.63 %)SAN
2341 (21.30 %)Firewall
3321 (20.05 %)TCP/IP
4258 (16.11 %)iSCSI
5229 (14.30 %)DNS
6155 (9.681 %)WAN
7154 (9.619 %)LAN
8138 (8.620 %)VPN
9131 (8.182 %)Fibre Channel
10125 (7.808 %)Internet
11121 (7.558 %)DHCP
1274 (4.622 %)VLAN
1369 (4.310 %)HTTP
1468 (4.247 %)SSL
1567 (4.185 %)LDAP
1661 (3.810 %)VoIP
1661 (3.810 %)Cisco PIX
1751 (3.186 %)MPLS
1850 (3.123 %)Cisco IOS
1948 (2.998 %)SMTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1202 (12.62 %)SQL Server
2101 (6.309 %)MySQL
352 (3.248 %)SQL Server 2008
446 (2.873 %)SQL Server 2005
524 (1.499 %)NoSQL
618 (1.124 %)Data Warehouse
717 (1.062 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
816 (0.999 %)SQL Server Integration Services
915 (0.937 %)RDBMS
1014 (0.874 %)Oracle 10g
1112 (0.750 %)InterSystems Cache
1210 (0.625 %)MS Access
1210 (0.625 %)SQL Server 2000
137 (0.437 %)Data Mining
137 (0.437 %)Oracle 8/8i
137 (0.437 %)Oracle BI EE
146 (0.375 %)Oracle 11g
146 (0.375 %)IDOL
155 (0.312 %)ETL
155 (0.312 %)SQL Server 7
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
125 (1.562 %)Subversion
222 (1.374 %)Git (software)
312 (0.750 %)ClearCase
48 (0.500 %)JIRA
56 (0.375 %)Maven
65 (0.312 %)Selenium
65 (0.312 %)Hudson
65 (0.312 %)LoadRunner
65 (0.312 %)ClearQuest
73 (0.187 %)Introscope
73 (0.187 %)WinRunner
73 (0.187 %)TestDirector
82 (0.125 %)Fiddler
91 (0.062 %)Ant
91 (0.062 %)PVCS
91 (0.062 %)CruiseControl
91 (0.062 %)Synon
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1276 (17.24 %)Finance
262 (3.873 %)Banking
356 (3.498 %)Telecoms
429 (1.811 %)Back Office
429 (1.811 %)Games
528 (1.749 %)Retail
624 (1.499 %)Front Office
624 (1.499 %)Investment Banking
720 (1.249 %)German Language
818 (1.124 %)Marketing
818 (1.124 %)Law
818 (1.124 %)Publishing
916 (0.999 %)Italian Language
1015 (0.937 %)French Language
1114 (0.874 %)Spanish Language
1213 (0.812 %)Hebrew Language
1312 (0.750 %)Advertising
1411 (0.687 %)Legal
1411 (0.687 %)Manufacturing
1510 (0.625 %)Electronics
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1255 (15.93 %)Administrator
2228 (14.24 %)Consultant
3186 (11.62 %)Systems Administrator
4157 (9.806 %)Architect
5150 (9.369 %)Analyst
6108 (6.746 %)Support Engineer
7106 (6.621 %)Storage Engineer
894 (5.871 %)Infrastructure Engineer
976 (4.747 %)Support Analyst
1074 (4.622 %)Systems Engineer
1170 (4.372 %)Virtualisation Consultant
1269 (4.310 %)Linux Administrator
1368 (4.247 %)Infrastructure Analyst
1465 (4.060 %)Linux Systems Administrator
1559 (3.685 %)Storage Specialist
1559 (3.685 %)Storage Consultant
1657 (3.560 %)Technical Consultant
1753 (3.310 %)Storage Administrator
1849 (3.061 %)UNIX Administrator
1849 (3.061 %)Technical Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1231 (14.43 %)Clustering
2177 (11.06 %)Replication
3147 (9.182 %)CLARiiON
4115 (7.183 %)Symmetrix
586 (5.372 %)Symmetrix DMX
684 (5.247 %)Enterprise Storage
775 (4.685 %)Computer Science
869 (4.310 %)Celerra
963 (3.935 %)Blackberry
1050 (3.123 %)Cloud Computing
1147 (2.936 %)Open Source
1239 (2.436 %)Client/Server
1336 (2.249 %)Management Information System
1434 (2.124 %)SaaS
1530 (1.874 %)Firmware
1627 (1.686 %)PaaS
1725 (1.562 %)EqualLogic
1824 (1.499 %)Hedge funds
1824 (1.499 %)PMI
1923 (1.437 %)HP StorageWorks
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1902 (56.34 %)Windows
2608 (37.98 %)Linux
3447 (27.92 %)UNIX
4434 (27.11 %)Windows Server 2008
5400 (24.98 %)Windows Server 2003
6255 (15.93 %)Solaris
7156 (9.744 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8106 (6.621 %)Windows XP
994 (5.871 %)AIX
1084 (5.247 %)Windows Vista
1182 (5.122 %)Windows 7
1263 (3.935 %)CentOS
1339 (2.436 %)Debian
1437 (2.311 %)Windows 2000 Server
1525 (1.562 %)Windows 2000
1620 (1.249 %)Ubuntu
1713 (0.812 %)HPUX
1812 (0.750 %)FreeBSD
198 (0.500 %)SUSE
206 (0.375 %)VxWorks
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1357 (22.30 %)ITIL
2141 (8.807 %)Disaster Recovery
3135 (8.432 %)Project Management
3135 (8.432 %)Load Balancing
494 (5.871 %)Capacity Planning
580 (4.997 %)High Availability
580 (4.997 %)Migration
675 (4.685 %)Service Delivery
769 (4.310 %)Configuration Management
861 (3.810 %)Business Continuity
959 (3.685 %)Capacity Management
1057 (3.560 %)Change Control
1156 (3.498 %)Project Planning
1156 (3.498 %)Workflow
1255 (3.435 %)Change Management
1352 (3.248 %)PRINCE2
1352 (3.248 %)Asset Management
1437 (2.311 %)Service Management
1536 (2.249 %)Performance Management
1536 (2.249 %)Problem Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1211 (13.18 %)SQL
2187 (11.68 %)Perl
3105 (6.558 %)Python
479 (4.934 %)Shell Script
578 (4.872 %)Ruby
668 (4.247 %)Bash shell
765 (4.060 %)C
863 (3.935 %)PHP
958 (3.623 %)Java
1046 (2.873 %)C++
1135 (2.186 %)PowerShell
1233 (2.061 %)VB
1325 (1.562 %)VBScript
1416 (0.999 %)T-SQL
1515 (0.937 %)TTCN
1611 (0.687 %)C#
179 (0.562 %)JavaScript
179 (0.562 %)Korn
185 (0.312 %)Embedded C
194 (0.250 %)AWK
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1202 (12.62 %)Microsoft Certification
2181 (11.31 %)MCSE
3178 (11.12 %)Degree
4163 (10.18 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5154 (9.619 %)Cisco Certification
6108 (6.746 %)Citrix Certification
792 (5.746 %)CCA
891 (5.684 %)MCITP
983 (5.184 %)CCNA
1048 (2.998 %)VTSP
1147 (2.936 %)MCP
1244 (2.748 %)CCSP
1340 (2.498 %)RHCE
1438 (2.374 %)ITIL Certification
1534 (2.124 %)CCNP
1631 (1.936 %)MCTS
1727 (1.686 %)MCSA
1727 (1.686 %)NCIE
1825 (1.562 %)PMI Certification
1924 (1.499 %)NCDA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1106 (6.621 %)SLA
251 (3.186 %)PCI DSS
323 (1.437 %)QA
418 (1.124 %)ISO/IEC 27001
516 (0.999 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
61 (0.062 %)ISO 9001
61 (0.062 %)JTAG
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1613 (38.29 %)VMware Infrastructure
2398 (24.86 %)Active Directory
3279 (17.43 %)VMware ESX
4237 (14.80 %)vSphere
5186 (11.62 %)XenApp
6182 (11.37 %)Hyper-V
7176 (10.99 %)NFS
8128 (7.995 %)XenDesktop
9123 (7.683 %)XenServer
10100 (6.246 %)VMware ESXi
1161 (3.810 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1259 (3.685 %)Xen
1346 (2.873 %)EMC RecoverPoint
1432 (1.999 %)Oracle RMAN
1432 (1.999 %)vCloud
1528 (1.749 %)Terminal Services
1626 (1.624 %)MetaFrame
1722 (1.374 %)Samba
1821 (1.312 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1920 (1.249 %)SRDF
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1251 (15.68 %)NetBackup
297 (6.059 %)Backup Exec
378 (4.872 %)vCenter
470 (4.372 %)SCCM
556 (3.498 %)SCOM
650 (3.123 %)Tivoli
741 (2.561 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
839 (2.436 %)Puppet
937 (2.311 %)Nagios
1029 (1.811 %)EMC NetWorker
1125 (1.562 %)HP Data Protector
1221 (1.312 %)EMC Navisphere
1320 (1.249 %)Cacti
1419 (1.187 %)Legato
1518 (1.124 %)MOM
1615 (0.937 %)EMC TimeFinder
1615 (0.937 %)HP SIM
1714 (0.874 %)Zenoss
1714 (0.874 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
1813 (0.812 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1861 (53.78 %)VMware
2567 (35.42 %)Microsoft
3415 (25.92 %)NetApp
4410 (25.61 %)Cisco
5402 (25.11 %)Citrix
6392 (24.48 %)EMC
7305 (19.05 %)HP
8232 (14.49 %)Red Hat
9215 (13.43 %)Oracle
10174 (10.87 %)Brocade
11169 (10.56 %)Symantec
12156 (9.744 %)IBM
13152 (9.494 %)Veritas
14108 (6.746 %)Sun
1590 (5.621 %)3PAR
1680 (4.997 %)Hitachi
1772 (4.497 %)CommVault
1864 (3.998 %)Dell
1946 (2.873 %)JBoss
2031 (1.936 %)AppSense