Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 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.

LinkStorage Area Network (SAN)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank149109105
Rank change year-on-year
Down-40Down-4
Matching permanent IT job ads131016203822
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.525 %1.910 %1.873 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category10.69 %11.31 %11.19 %
Salaries quoted109313692982
Average salary£42,500£42,500£42,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,500£30,000£30,850
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£60,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
122521432934154
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK14.26 %16.90 %16.73 %
Salaries quoted101681202028461
Average salary£40,000£37,500£38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-1.310 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,500£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-

SAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SAN within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SAN Demand Trend

SAN
Salary Trend

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

SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 within the UK.

SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. 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-351235£42,500-
LondonDown-35534£47,000-
South EastDown-16297£42,500-5.55 %
City of LondonDown-54157£45,000-5.26 %
East of EnglandDown-13119£40,000-3.61 %
SurreyUp+44109£40,000-3.61 %
East MidlandsUp+3374£35,500-2.06 %
BerkshireDown-2968£47,500-
North WestDown-759£40,000+14.28 %
HertfordshireDown-3049£47,500+18.75 %
West MidlandsUp+643£33,500-4.28 %
South WestDown-3443£38,500-3.75 %
YorkshireDown-3842£24,500-25.75 %
ReadingUp+939£42,500-5.55 %
CambridgeshireUp+1237£32,500-
NorthamptonshireUp+2132£35,250+17.50 %
CambridgeUp+1132£32,500-
MiddlesexDown-229£50,000+13.63 %
WalesNo change026£32,500+8.33 %
West SussexDown-1726£52,500+16.66 %
ScotlandUp+725£31,000-31.11 %
NottinghamshireUp+1524£37,500-
South WalesUp+124£31,000+3.33 %
CheshireUp+2223£40,000+33.33 %
ManchesterDown-3323£32,500-7.14 %
HampshireUp+2021£35,000-10.25 %
NorthamptonUp+1520£35,000+16.66 %
NottinghamUp+2619£37,500+7.14 %
BirminghamUp+1119£33,500-25.55 %
South YorkshireDown-519£22,500-50.00 %

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11383 (51.72 %)Windows
21123 (42.00 %)VMware
3768 (28.72 %)Linux
4757 (28.31 %)UNIX
5705 (26.36 %)Active Directory
6643 (24.05 %)Windows Server 2003
7603 (22.55 %)Microsoft
8587 (21.95 %)Citrix
9577 (21.58 %)Cisco
10541 (20.23 %)NAS
11516 (19.30 %)Finance
12508 (19.00 %)VMware Infrastructure
13502 (18.77 %)SQL Server
14496 (18.55 %)SQL
15477 (17.84 %)Microsoft Certification
16475 (17.76 %)EMC
17455 (17.02 %)HP
18447 (16.72 %)MS Exchange
19420 (15.71 %)MCSE
20378 (14.14 %)Solaris
21368 (13.76 %)Firewall
22354 (13.24 %)Windows Server 2008
23348 (13.01 %)Oracle
24333 (12.45 %)TCP/IP
25332 (12.42 %)LAN
26305 (11.41 %)IIS
27297 (11.11 %)Red Hat Linux
28295 (11.03 %)IBM
29291 (10.88 %)Exchange Server 2003
30283 (10.58 %)ITIL

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
175 (2.805 %).NET
257 (2.132 %)Web Services
344 (1.645 %)XML
437 (1.384 %)Middleware
535 (1.309 %)J2EE
633 (1.234 %)WebSphere
730 (1.122 %)ASP.NET
826 (0.972 %)ASP
826 (0.972 %)LAMP
826 (0.972 %)Spring
922 (0.823 %)Java EE
1021 (0.785 %)Adobe Flex
1120 (0.748 %)Hibernate
1120 (0.748 %)EJB
1120 (0.748 %)JDBC
1120 (0.748 %)JMS
1218 (0.673 %)HTML
1315 (0.561 %)CSS
1315 (0.561 %)Application Packaging
1412 (0.449 %)AJAX
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1447 (16.72 %)MS Exchange
2305 (11.41 %)IIS
3291 (10.88 %)Exchange Server 2003
4236 (8.826 %)Exchange Server 2007
5142 (5.310 %)SharePoint
6133 (4.974 %)Apache
775 (2.805 %)Tomcat
842 (1.571 %)WebLogic
940 (1.496 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1039 (1.458 %)Exchange Server 2000
1132 (1.197 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1224 (0.898 %)SAS
1322 (0.823 %)BizTalk Server
1417 (0.636 %)Documentum
1515 (0.561 %)Lotus Domino
1614 (0.524 %)GroupWise
1713 (0.486 %)Lotus Notes
1812 (0.449 %)Resin
1910 (0.374 %)Drupal
207 (0.262 %)SharePoint Portal Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1251 (9.387 %)MS Excel
256 (2.094 %)MS Office
342 (1.571 %)MS Visio
416 (0.598 %)InfoPath
56 (0.224 %)MS Project
63 (0.112 %)MATLAB
71 (0.037 %)SPSS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
112 (0.449 %)Microsoft CRM
29 (0.337 %)Great Plains
29 (0.337 %)Dynamics CRM
35 (0.187 %)Oracle 11i
41 (0.037 %)Dynamics AX
41 (0.037 %)AWD
41 (0.037 %)Axapta
41 (0.037 %)Oracle EBS
41 (0.037 %)Oracle Applications
41 (0.037 %)MFGPRO
41 (0.037 %)RMDS
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1541 (20.23 %)NAS
2368 (13.76 %)Firewall
3333 (12.45 %)TCP/IP
4332 (12.42 %)LAN
5279 (10.43 %)WAN
6237 (8.863 %)DNS
7136 (5.086 %)VPN
8113 (4.226 %)DHCP
9100 (3.740 %)Internet
1091 (3.403 %)iSCSI
1188 (3.291 %)VLAN
1285 (3.179 %)VoIP
1346 (1.720 %)MPLS
1441 (1.533 %)SSL
1540 (1.496 %)LDAP
1638 (1.421 %)Network Security
1734 (1.272 %)Ethernet
1830 (1.122 %)SNMP
1927 (1.010 %)SMTP
2026 (0.972 %)FTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1502 (18.77 %)SQL Server
2196 (7.330 %)SQL Server 2005
3119 (4.450 %)MySQL
4117 (4.375 %)SQL Server 2000
577 (2.880 %)SQL Server 2008
662 (2.319 %)Oracle 10g
749 (1.832 %)Oracle 8/8i
844 (1.645 %)RDBMS
935 (1.309 %)Oracle 9i
1027 (1.010 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1122 (0.823 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1221 (0.785 %)Informix
1318 (0.673 %)Datawarehouse
1318 (0.673 %)DTS
1318 (0.673 %)DB2
1318 (0.673 %)OLAP
1417 (0.636 %)ETL
1417 (0.636 %)Oracle 11g
1516 (0.598 %)Oracle OLAP
168 (0.299 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
130 (1.122 %)Ant
220 (0.748 %)JUnit
220 (0.748 %)Log4j
318 (0.673 %)FlexUnit
416 (0.598 %)Subversion
510 (0.374 %)InstallShield
510 (0.374 %)AdminStudio
65 (0.187 %)ERwin
73 (0.112 %)Oracle Forms
81 (0.037 %)ClearCase
81 (0.037 %)WinRunner
81 (0.037 %)QuickTest Pro
81 (0.037 %)Rational Robot
81 (0.037 %)QARun
81 (0.037 %)WebLOAD
81 (0.037 %)Firebug
81 (0.037 %)Team Foundation Server
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1516 (19.30 %)Finance
2142 (5.310 %)Banking
3119 (4.450 %)Education
4116 (4.338 %)Pensions
573 (2.730 %)Insurance
669 (2.580 %)Health
756 (2.094 %)Games
853 (1.982 %)Investment Banking
952 (1.945 %)Government
1049 (1.832 %)Telecoms
1132 (1.197 %)Law
1224 (0.898 %)Marketing
1322 (0.823 %)Retail
1414 (0.524 %)Financial Institution
1512 (0.449 %)Manufacturing
1611 (0.411 %)Front Office
1710 (0.374 %)Publishing
189 (0.337 %)Back Office
198 (0.299 %)Legal
207 (0.262 %)Military
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1507 (18.96 %)Administrator
2359 (13.43 %)Analyst
3323 (12.08 %)Systems Administrator
4289 (10.81 %)Consultant
5260 (9.723 %)Architect
6157 (5.871 %)Support Engineer
7146 (5.460 %)Support Analyst
8131 (4.899 %)Infrastructure Engineer
9128 (4.787 %)UNIX Administrator
10121 (4.525 %)DBA
11111 (4.151 %)Systems Engineer
12100 (3.740 %)Infrastructure Architect
1397 (3.628 %)Linux Administrator
1494 (3.515 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
1494 (3.515 %)3rd Line Support
1592 (3.441 %)Server Support
1684 (3.141 %)Infrastructure Analyst
1782 (3.067 %)SQL DBA
1878 (2.917 %)Server Engineer
1977 (2.880 %)Linux Systems Administrator
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1256 (9.574 %)Clustering
2124 (4.637 %)Replication
3100 (3.740 %)CLARiiON
475 (2.805 %)Blackberry
544 (1.645 %)Symmetrix
544 (1.645 %)Symmetrix DMX
643 (1.608 %)Fat Client
643 (1.608 %)Thin Client
734 (1.272 %)Computer Science
832 (1.197 %)Open Source
931 (1.159 %)EMC Centera
1027 (1.010 %)French Language
1125 (0.935 %)Social Network
1224 (0.898 %)Client/Server
1224 (0.898 %)Mainframe
1323 (0.860 %)Statistics
1422 (0.823 %)EqualLogic
1521 (0.785 %)Cloud Computing
1617 (0.636 %)AS400
1716 (0.598 %)Celerra
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11383 (51.72 %)Windows
2768 (28.72 %)Linux
3757 (28.31 %)UNIX
4643 (24.05 %)Windows Server 2003
5378 (14.14 %)Solaris
6354 (13.24 %)Windows Server 2008
7297 (11.11 %)Red Hat Linux
8181 (6.769 %)AIX
9133 (4.974 %)Windows 2000
10115 (4.301 %)HPUX
11111 (4.151 %)Windows 2000 Server
1286 (3.216 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1380 (2.992 %)Windows XP
1447 (1.758 %)Windows Vista
1541 (1.533 %)Debian
1631 (1.159 %)SUSE
1725 (0.935 %)Ubuntu
1725 (0.935 %)CentOS
1812 (0.449 %)Windows 7
1911 (0.411 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1283 (10.58 %)ITIL
2196 (7.330 %)Disaster Recovery
3145 (5.423 %)Project Management
473 (2.730 %)Capacity Planning
572 (2.693 %)Change Management
667 (2.506 %)Load Balancing
763 (2.356 %)Scrum
857 (2.132 %)E-Commerce
953 (1.982 %)Service Delivery
1051 (1.907 %)PRINCE2
1150 (1.870 %)Migration
1248 (1.795 %)Technical Architecture
1345 (1.683 %)OO
1443 (1.608 %)TDD
1541 (1.533 %)SOA
1639 (1.458 %)Agile Software Development
1639 (1.458 %)Problem Management
1738 (1.421 %)CRM
1738 (1.421 %)MVC
1837 (1.384 %)Data Protection
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1496 (18.55 %)SQL
2204 (7.629 %)Perl
3163 (6.096 %)Shell Script
4120 (4.488 %)Java
5108 (4.039 %)C
6105 (3.927 %)PHP
754 (2.019 %)Bash shell
853 (1.982 %)C#
952 (1.945 %)VBScript
1045 (1.683 %)VB
1135 (1.309 %)C++
1135 (1.309 %)Python
1231 (1.159 %)T-SQL
1329 (1.085 %)Korn
1425 (0.935 %)ActionScript
1517 (0.636 %)JavaScript
1517 (0.636 %)PL/SQL
1517 (0.636 %)Ruby
1616 (0.598 %)PowerShell
1714 (0.524 %)AWK
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1477 (17.84 %)Microsoft Certification
2420 (15.71 %)MCSE
3196 (7.330 %)Degree
4148 (5.535 %)Cisco Certification
5128 (4.787 %)Security Cleared
6125 (4.675 %)CCNA
7124 (4.637 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8110 (4.114 %)MCSA
982 (3.067 %)Citrix Certification
1071 (2.655 %)MCP
1071 (2.655 %)MCITP
1170 (2.618 %)SC Cleared
1264 (2.393 %)MCTS
1354 (2.019 %)CCA
1443 (1.608 %)CCEA
1533 (1.234 %)RHCE
1628 (1.047 %)VCP4
1719 (0.711 %)ITIL Certification
1719 (0.711 %)CCNP
1818 (0.673 %)HP MASE
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
172 (2.693 %)SLA
221 (0.785 %)QA
314 (0.524 %)PCI DSS
411 (0.411 %)COBIT
59 (0.337 %)ISO27001
65 (0.187 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
73 (0.112 %)BS15000
82 (0.075 %)ISO17799
91 (0.037 %)ISO9000
91 (0.037 %)ISO9001
91 (0.037 %)GxP
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1705 (26.36 %)Active Directory
2508 (19.00 %)VMware Infrastructure
3228 (8.527 %)VMware ESX
4112 (4.188 %)NFS
587 (3.254 %)Citrix Presentation Server
670 (2.618 %)XenApp
763 (2.356 %)vSphere
861 (2.281 %)Hyper-V
954 (2.019 %)XenServer
1052 (1.945 %)Veritas Volume Manager
1148 (1.795 %)ISA Server
1246 (1.720 %)Xen
1345 (1.683 %)MetaFrame
1440 (1.496 %)Oracle RAC
1539 (1.458 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1635 (1.309 %)Terminal Services
1734 (1.272 %)Samba
1833 (1.234 %)Oracle RMAN
1929 (1.085 %)XenDesktop
2028 (1.047 %)Veritas File System
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1169 (6.320 %)NetBackup
2102 (3.815 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
394 (3.515 %)Tivoli
467 (2.506 %)Backup Exec
551 (1.907 %)EMC NetWorker
646 (1.720 %)WSUS
743 (1.608 %)Legato
838 (1.421 %)SCCM
931 (1.159 %)Nagios
1027 (1.010 %)MOM
1126 (0.972 %)SCOM
1222 (0.823 %)OpenView
1321 (0.785 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1420 (0.748 %)HP Data Protector
1420 (0.748 %)Data Guard
1516 (0.598 %)Norton AntiVirus
1612 (0.449 %)EMC Navisphere
1711 (0.411 %)Zenoss
1711 (0.411 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1810 (0.374 %)ZENworks
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11123 (42.00 %)VMware
2603 (22.55 %)Microsoft
3587 (21.95 %)Citrix
4577 (21.58 %)Cisco
5475 (17.76 %)EMC
6455 (17.02 %)HP
7348 (13.01 %)Oracle
8295 (11.03 %)IBM
9276 (10.32 %)Red Hat
10253 (9.461 %)Veritas
11248 (9.274 %)NetApp
12165 (6.171 %)Sun
13122 (4.562 %)Brocade
14108 (4.039 %)Symantec
1581 (3.029 %)Dell
1660 (2.244 %)Hitachi
1660 (2.244 %)JBoss
1757 (2.132 %)Juniper
1851 (1.907 %)Altiris
1948 (1.795 %)StorageTek