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 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.

Storage Area Network (SAN)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank101107133
Rank change year-on-year
Up+6Up+26
Matching permanent IT job ads308026711683
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.554 %2.178 %1.763 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category14.55 %13.84 %11.43 %
Number of salaries quoted253421371366
Average salary£45,000£42,500£42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,000£30,000£28,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£61,000£60,000£62,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,500£40,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+1.25 %-
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 %-

SAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 22 May 2012 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 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
EnglandUp+42859£45,000+5.88 %
LondonUp+381253£47,500-
South EastDown-12640£42,500+2.40 %
City of LondonUp+63354£50,500+1.00 %
SurreyUp+1244£42,500+2.40 %
East of EnglandNo change0226£45,000+5.88 %
North WestUp+46193£39,500+12.85 %
BerkshireDown-16144£45,000+8.43 %
YorkshireDown-15141£37,500-6.25 %
South WestDown-16138£45,000+28.57 %
West MidlandsNo change0114£35,500-5.33 %
West YorkshireDown-15105£35,000-6.66 %
East MidlandsDown-18105£35,000-17.64 %
ScotlandUp+5894£37,500-6.25 %
LeedsDown-381£35,000+7.69 %
ManchesterUp+3379£36,000+20.00 %
GloucestershireUp+2072£47,500+37.68 %
OxfordshireUp+4167£35,000-7.28 %
HertfordshireDown-4361£47,500+11.76 %
CambridgeshireUp+1260£39,500+12.85 %
ReadingUp+760£45,000+12.50 %
South WalesUp+2553£37,000+5.71 %
WalesUp+2553£37,000+5.71 %
HampshireDown-3650£40,000-2.82 %
BedfordshireUp+2449£52,500+20.00 %
DerbyUp+2846£27,500-38.88 %
DerbyshireUp+2746£27,500-27.63 %
BirminghamDown-1146£35,500-5.33 %
CheshireDown-444£35,000-12.50 %
MerseysideUp+237£42,500+39.34 %

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

13988 (62.94 %)Windows
23769 (59.49 %)VMware
32402 (37.91 %)Microsoft
42345 (37.01 %)VMware Infrastructure
52249 (35.50 %)Active Directory
61958 (30.90 %)Linux
71941 (30.63 %)Cisco
81878 (29.64 %)Windows Server 2008
91780 (28.09 %)Citrix
101638 (25.85 %)HP
111619 (25.55 %)Windows Server 2003
121586 (25.03 %)MS Exchange
131403 (22.14 %)NAS
141355 (21.39 %)UNIX
151285 (20.28 %)Firewall
161280 (20.20 %)SQL Server
171256 (19.82 %)SQL
181224 (19.32 %)ITIL
191166 (18.40 %)Finance
201159 (18.29 %)EMC
211120 (17.68 %)vSphere
221107 (17.47 %)MS Excel
231089 (17.19 %)NetApp
241087 (17.16 %)DNS
251072 (16.92 %)TCP/IP
261000 (15.78 %)Microsoft Certification
27949 (14.98 %)Oracle
28942 (14.87 %)VMware ESX
29896 (14.14 %)WAN
30884 (13.95 %)LAN

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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
1146 (2.304 %)Middleware
2145 (2.289 %)WebSphere
2145 (2.289 %).NET
3124 (1.957 %)J2EE
475 (1.184 %)Web Services
556 (0.884 %)ASP
652 (0.821 %)XML
746 (0.726 %)CSS
746 (0.726 %)LAMP
841 (0.647 %)Forefront TMG
937 (0.584 %)HTML
1028 (0.442 %)COM
1028 (0.442 %)Application Packaging
1127 (0.426 %)ASP.NET
1222 (0.347 %)SOAP
1222 (0.347 %)WSH
1222 (0.347 %)REST
1320 (0.316 %)XSLT
1418 (0.284 %)Software Packaging
1515 (0.237 %)Oracle Streams
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11586 (25.03 %)MS Exchange
2871 (13.75 %)Exchange Server 2010
3775 (12.23 %)Exchange Server 2007
4569 (8.980 %)IIS
5551 (8.696 %)SharePoint
6506 (7.986 %)Apache
7489 (7.718 %)Exchange Server 2003
8185 (2.920 %)Tomcat
9167 (2.636 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
10109 (1.720 %)WebLogic
1181 (1.278 %)Lync
1274 (1.168 %)BizTalk Server
1365 (1.026 %)SharePoint 2010
1448 (0.758 %)Office Communications Server
1532 (0.505 %)Lotus Notes
1631 (0.489 %)Lotus Domino
1730 (0.473 %)Oracle Coherence
1829 (0.458 %)WebSphere MQ
1927 (0.426 %)WebSphere Application Server
2024 (0.379 %)IBM HTTP Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11107 (17.47 %)MS Excel
2376 (5.934 %)MS Office
3132 (2.083 %)MS Visio
455 (0.868 %)MS PowerPoint
535 (0.552 %)Office 365
620 (0.316 %)MS Project
714 (0.221 %)Google Apps
85 (0.079 %)Spreadsheet
94 (0.063 %)Final Cut Pro
103 (0.047 %)InfoPath
111 (0.016 %)Photoshop
111 (0.016 %)Windchill
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
141 (0.647 %)Oracle EBS
226 (0.410 %)Oracle EBS R12
318 (0.284 %)Oracle 11i
417 (0.268 %)Oracle Applications
514 (0.221 %)Dynamics CRM
514 (0.221 %)CA Clarity
612 (0.189 %)assyst
710 (0.158 %)Prophet
88 (0.126 %)SoftGrid
96 (0.095 %)Dynamics AX
105 (0.079 %)Oracle ERP
105 (0.079 %)Oracle BRM
114 (0.063 %)3000 Xtra
114 (0.063 %)Remedy ITSM
114 (0.063 %)SAP ERP
114 (0.063 %)FLEXCUBE
114 (0.063 %)RMDS
123 (0.047 %)Oracle Financials
123 (0.047 %)Summit
123 (0.047 %)Oracle HRMS
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11403 (22.14 %)NAS
21285 (20.28 %)Firewall
31087 (17.16 %)DNS
41072 (16.92 %)TCP/IP
5896 (14.14 %)WAN
6884 (13.95 %)LAN
7713 (11.25 %)DHCP
8474 (7.481 %)VPN
9461 (7.276 %)iSCSI
10417 (6.581 %)Internet
11323 (5.098 %)Fibre Channel
12265 (4.182 %)VoIP
13253 (3.993 %)VLAN
14193 (3.046 %)Wireless
15185 (2.920 %)Network Security
16178 (2.809 %)HTTP
17165 (2.604 %)MPLS
18163 (2.573 %)SSL
18163 (2.573 %)LDAP
19155 (2.446 %)Cisco ASA
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11280 (20.20 %)SQL Server
2339 (5.350 %)SQL Server 2005
3335 (5.287 %)SQL Server 2008
4292 (4.609 %)MySQL
5142 (2.241 %)Oracle 11g
6107 (1.689 %)Oracle 8/8i
7103 (1.626 %)SQL Server 2000
8102 (1.610 %)SQL Server Integration Services
994 (1.484 %)Oracle 10g
1090 (1.420 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1175 (1.184 %)Data Warehouse
1258 (0.915 %)RDBMS
1350 (0.789 %)DB2
1443 (0.679 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1536 (0.568 %)MS Access
1630 (0.473 %)DTS
1630 (0.473 %)ETL
1724 (0.379 %)NoSQL
1823 (0.363 %)Oracle 9i
1920 (0.316 %)TOAD
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
149 (0.773 %)Subversion
227 (0.426 %)Team Foundation Server
324 (0.379 %)JIRA
422 (0.347 %)Git (software)
520 (0.316 %)WebLOAD
610 (0.158 %)ClearCase
79 (0.142 %)Maven
88 (0.126 %)LoadRunner
97 (0.110 %)Hudson
106 (0.095 %)Selenium
106 (0.095 %)TestDirector
115 (0.079 %)Synon
115 (0.079 %)VSS/SourceSafe
115 (0.079 %)Oracle Forms
124 (0.063 %)Visual Studio
124 (0.063 %)QuickTest Pro
124 (0.063 %)TeamCity
133 (0.047 %)Introscope
133 (0.047 %)WinRunner
142 (0.032 %)PVCS
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11166 (18.40 %)Finance
2374 (5.903 %)Banking
3229 (3.614 %)Telecoms
4156 (2.462 %)Retail
5112 (1.768 %)Back Office
6107 (1.689 %)Games
798 (1.547 %)Law
884 (1.326 %)Investment Banking
977 (1.215 %)Legal
1054 (0.852 %)German Language
1149 (0.773 %)Marketing
1243 (0.679 %)French Language
1340 (0.631 %)Manufacturing
1340 (0.631 %)Advertising
1436 (0.568 %)Italian Language
1534 (0.537 %)Spanish Language
1625 (0.395 %)International Banking
1724 (0.379 %)Pharmaceutical
1724 (0.379 %)Financial Institution
1823 (0.363 %)Publishing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1935 (14.76 %)Administrator
2827 (13.05 %)Analyst
3793 (12.52 %)Consultant
4601 (9.485 %)Systems Administrator
5506 (7.986 %)Support Engineer
6466 (7.355 %)Architect
7452 (7.134 %)Infrastructure Engineer
8396 (6.250 %)Systems Engineer
9356 (5.619 %)Support Analyst
10334 (5.271 %)3rd Line Support
11282 (4.451 %)DBA
12263 (4.151 %)Infrastructure Analyst
13235 (3.709 %)Technical Consultant
14230 (3.630 %)Storage Engineer
15210 (3.314 %)Technical Support
16200 (3.157 %)Infrastructure Manager
17196 (3.093 %)Linux Administrator
18182 (2.872 %)Project Manager
19173 (2.730 %)Virtualisation Consultant
20166 (2.620 %)UNIX Administrator
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1666 (10.51 %)Clustering
2406 (6.408 %)Replication
3339 (5.350 %)CLARiiON
4227 (3.583 %)Blackberry
5198 (3.125 %)Enterprise Storage
6158 (2.494 %)Symmetrix
7132 (2.083 %)Symmetrix DMX
8122 (1.926 %)Cloud Computing
9110 (1.736 %)SaaS
10109 (1.720 %)Fat Client
10109 (1.720 %)Thin Client
11107 (1.689 %)Management Information System
12102 (1.610 %)EqualLogic
1399 (1.563 %)Computer Science
1497 (1.531 %)Celerra
1585 (1.342 %)iSeries
1675 (1.184 %)Hedge funds
1765 (1.026 %)HP StorageWorks
1864 (1.010 %)Client/Server
1962 (0.979 %)Open Source
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13988 (62.94 %)Windows
21958 (30.90 %)Linux
31878 (29.64 %)Windows Server 2008
41619 (25.55 %)Windows Server 2003
51355 (21.39 %)UNIX
6788 (12.44 %)Solaris
7604 (9.533 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8374 (5.903 %)Windows 7
9326 (5.145 %)Windows XP
10315 (4.972 %)AIX
11233 (3.677 %)HPUX
12145 (2.289 %)Windows 2000 Server
13134 (2.115 %)Windows Vista
14108 (1.705 %)Windows 2000
15107 (1.689 %)Debian
1693 (1.468 %)CentOS
1759 (0.931 %)Ubuntu
1850 (0.789 %)SUSE
1941 (0.647 %)VMS
2020 (0.316 %)Windows NT
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11224 (19.32 %)ITIL
2532 (8.396 %)Disaster Recovery
3501 (7.907 %)Project Management
4366 (5.777 %)Service Delivery
5336 (5.303 %)Capacity Planning
6317 (5.003 %)Migration
7290 (4.577 %)Service Management
8270 (4.261 %)Capacity Management
9263 (4.151 %)Load Balancing
10229 (3.614 %)PRINCE2
11228 (3.598 %)Change Management
12223 (3.520 %)Business Continuity
13203 (3.204 %)Configuration Management
14162 (2.557 %)High Availability
15161 (2.541 %)E-Commerce
16154 (2.431 %)Problem Management
17146 (2.304 %)Performance Management
18121 (1.910 %)Change Control
19116 (1.831 %)Root Cause Analysis
20111 (1.752 %)Project Planning
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11256 (19.82 %)SQL
2413 (6.518 %)Perl
3295 (4.656 %)Shell Script
4213 (3.362 %)Java
5198 (3.125 %)PowerShell
6159 (2.509 %)VBScript
7154 (2.431 %)C
8149 (2.352 %)PHP
9140 (2.210 %)Bash shell
10137 (2.162 %)T-SQL
11125 (1.973 %)Python
1298 (1.547 %)VB
1298 (1.547 %)C#
1383 (1.310 %)Ruby
1482 (1.294 %)C++
1578 (1.231 %)PL/SQL
1669 (1.089 %)Korn
1729 (0.458 %)JavaScript
1825 (0.395 %)AWK
1913 (0.205 %)VBA
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11000 (15.78 %)Microsoft Certification
2808 (12.75 %)MCSE
3664 (10.48 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4610 (9.628 %)Cisco Certification
5553 (8.728 %)MCITP
6505 (7.970 %)Degree
7395 (6.234 %)CCNA
8331 (5.224 %)Citrix Certification
9283 (4.467 %)Security Cleared
10271 (4.277 %)CCA
11235 (3.709 %)MCSA
12213 (3.362 %)CCNP
13168 (2.652 %)MCP
14152 (2.399 %)SC Cleared
15116 (1.831 %)ITIL Certification
16115 (1.815 %)MCTS
17106 (1.673 %)DV Cleared
1894 (1.484 %)CCEE
1983 (1.310 %)RHCE
2080 (1.263 %)HP ASE
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1335 (5.287 %)SLA
269 (1.089 %)ISO/IEC 27001
363 (0.994 %)PCI DSS
458 (0.915 %)QA
533 (0.521 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
623 (0.363 %)COBIT
715 (0.237 %)ISO 9001
85 (0.079 %)ISO 9000
94 (0.063 %)MiFID
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12345 (37.01 %)VMware Infrastructure
22249 (35.50 %)Active Directory
31120 (17.68 %)vSphere
4942 (14.87 %)VMware ESX
5635 (10.02 %)Hyper-V
6610 (9.628 %)XenApp
7412 (6.503 %)XenDesktop
8365 (5.761 %)VMware ESXi
9274 (4.324 %)XenServer
10243 (3.835 %)NFS
11151 (2.383 %)Xen
12138 (2.178 %)Citrix Presentation Server
13126 (1.989 %)Terminal Services
14110 (1.736 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1597 (1.531 %)vCloud
1689 (1.405 %)Samba
1689 (1.405 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1787 (1.373 %)Oracle RAC
1879 (1.247 %)Oracle RMAN
1973 (1.152 %)ISA Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1627 (9.896 %)NetBackup
2332 (5.240 %)Backup Exec
2332 (5.240 %)SCOM
3305 (4.814 %)SCCM
4213 (3.362 %)vCenter
4213 (3.362 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
5203 (3.204 %)Tivoli
6178 (2.809 %)Nagios
7112 (1.768 %)EMC NetWorker
882 (1.294 %)Puppet
977 (1.215 %)WSUS
1064 (1.010 %)OpenView
1163 (0.994 %)HP SIM
1255 (0.868 %)Data Guard
1354 (0.852 %)HP Data Protector
1447 (0.742 %)Legato
1545 (0.710 %)SCVMM
1642 (0.663 %)Cacti
1740 (0.631 %)Norton AntiVirus
1835 (0.552 %)MOM
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13769 (59.49 %)VMware
22402 (37.91 %)Microsoft
31941 (30.63 %)Cisco
41780 (28.09 %)Citrix
51638 (25.85 %)HP
61159 (18.29 %)EMC
71089 (17.19 %)NetApp
8949 (14.98 %)Oracle
9832 (13.13 %)Red Hat
10573 (9.044 %)IBM
11547 (8.633 %)Symantec
12507 (8.002 %)Brocade
13413 (6.518 %)Veritas
14361 (5.698 %)Dell
15288 (4.545 %)Sun
16205 (3.235 %)Hitachi
17191 (3.015 %)3PAR
18176 (2.778 %)CheckPoint
19160 (2.525 %)Intel
20156 (2.462 %)JBoss