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This section looks at the demand for Storage Area Network (SAN) skills across the UK with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the last 3 months to 14 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkStorage Area Network (SAN)
Location
3 months to 14 May 2008Same period last year
Rank96107
Rank change on same period last yearUp+11
Matching permanent IT job ads41474109
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled2.035 %1.790 %
As % of the category below11.77 %10.98 %
Salaries quoted32543020
Average minimum salary£42,565£45,418
Average salary£45,607£48,960
% change on same period last year-6.84 %
Average maximum salary£48,648£52,501
UK excluding London average salary£42,651£45,585
% change on same period last year-6.43 %
Communications & Networking UKCommunications & Networking
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads3523737411
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled17.29 %16.30 %
Salaries quoted2939430015
Average minimum salary£37,757£38,766
Average salary£40,538£41,732
% change on same period last year-2.86 %
Average maximum salary£43,319£44,697
UK excluding London average salary£37,731£39,065
% change on same period last year-3.41 %

SAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing SAN across 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 ads citing SAN across the UK.

SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAN across the UK over the past 3 months.

SAN Salary Histogram

SAN
Top 30 Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1EnglandUp+93961£45,664-6.30 %
2LondonDown-61549£50,462-6.17 %
3South EastUp+201002£44,304-6.16 %
4South WestUp+31419£42,162-0.55 %
5City of LondonDown-20404£49,999-15.62 %
6BerkshireUp+55262£44,671-8.52 %
7East of EnglandDown-5242£40,628-11.03 %
8YorkshireUp+10222£40,059+17.29 %
9North WestDown-5221£46,615+0.45 %
10West MidlandsDown-28188£36,993-13.26 %
11SurreyDown-14182£43,355-11.50 %
12HampshireDown-15180£41,631-9.07 %
13DorsetUp+24160£50,634+11.58 %
14BournemouthUp+24139£51,625+5.30 %
15HertfordshireDown-13128£42,302-18.92 %
16East MidlandsUp+8112£37,888+2.45 %
17BuckinghamshireUp+1895£43,060+3.80 %
18WiltshireUp+4394£48,744+13.35 %
19ManchesterDown-2391£51,313-3.30 %
20BristolDown-189£36,401+2.02 %
21South YorkshireUp+3086£42,345+7.65 %
22West YorkshireDown-4185£39,380+14.65 %
23ReadingUp+981£40,764-13.29 %
23CheshireUp+2781£44,403+17.64 %
24OxfordshireDown-2060£40,692-10.77 %
24BirminghamDown-4460£37,574-15.42 %
25ScotlandUp+2259£35,788-6.42 %
26LeedsDown-5058£38,500+11.39 %
27BasingstokeDown-2157£45,973-16.41 %
28WalesUp+1955£38,644-12.84 %

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing SAN also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SAN.

13687 (46.57 %)Windows
23046 (38.47 %)Unix
31927 (24.34 %)Active Directory
41832 (23.14 %)Linux
51735 (21.91 %)VMware
61696 (21.42 %)EMC
71624 (20.51 %)Microsoft
81525 (19.26 %)HP
91480 (18.69 %)Cisco
101365 (17.24 %)Solaris
111297 (16.38 %)Finance
121259 (15.90 %)Citrix
131220 (15.41 %)SQL
141206 (15.23 %)Oracle
151134 (14.32 %)VERITAS
161128 (14.25 %)IBM
171097 (13.86 %)MS Exchange
181094 (13.82 %)Microsoft Certification
191076 (13.59 %)Clustering
201065 (13.45 %)SQL Server
21998 (12.61 %)Firewall
22996 (12.58 %)MCSE
23961 (12.14 %)TCP/IP
24940 (11.87 %)AIX
25920 (11.62 %)NetBackup
26916 (11.57 %)Exchange Server 2003
27905 (11.43 %)WAN
28874 (11.04 %)LAN
29849 (10.72 %)Windows Server 2003
30796 (10.05 %)Banking

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing SAN also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1127 (1.604 %)WebSphere
2104 (1.314 %).NET
386 (1.086 %)J2EE
485 (1.074 %)ASP
578 (0.985 %)Middleware
643 (0.543 %)WebServices
739 (0.493 %)XML
832 (0.404 %)CSS
925 (0.316 %)Application Packaging
1022 (0.278 %)HTML
1120 (0.253 %)WMI
1218 (0.227 %)ASP.NET
1312 (0.152 %)XML Schema
1312 (0.152 %)AJAX
1312 (0.152 %)SAP Basis
1410 (0.126 %)X-Windows
159 (0.114 %)SOAP
168 (0.101 %)LAMP
177 (0.088 %)DirectX
177 (0.088 %)ATL
Application Platforms
11097 (13.86 %)MS Exchange
2916 (11.57 %)Exchange Server 2003
3517 (6.530 %)IIS
4460 (5.810 %)Exchange Server 2000
5212 (2.678 %)Apache
6195 (2.463 %)SharePoint
7158 (1.996 %)Exchange Server 2007
8147 (1.857 %)Lotus Domino
9110 (1.389 %)WebLogic
10102 (1.288 %)Tomcat
1190 (1.137 %)Lotus Notes
1275 (0.947 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1361 (0.770 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1454 (0.682 %)JBoss
1553 (0.669 %)BizTalk Server
1646 (0.581 %)SAS
1733 (0.417 %)Resin
1831 (0.392 %)IBM HTTP Server
1922 (0.278 %)ColdFusion
2019 (0.240 %)GroupWise
Applications
1737 (9.309 %)MS Excel
2193 (2.438 %)MS Office
396 (1.213 %)MS Visio
417 (0.215 %)MS Project
511 (0.139 %)CA Clarity
67 (0.088 %)Quicktime
75 (0.063 %)MS PowerPoint
83 (0.038 %)DeltaView
92 (0.025 %)Acrobat
92 (0.025 %)AutoCAD
Business Applications
131 (0.392 %)Oracle 11i
221 (0.265 %)Navision
314 (0.177 %)Movex
314 (0.177 %)SAP Retail
413 (0.164 %)Oracle EBS
58 (0.101 %)Summit
67 (0.088 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
76 (0.076 %)SoftGrid
85 (0.063 %)Oracle Applications
85 (0.063 %)SAP ERP
85 (0.063 %)Dynamics AX
85 (0.063 %)e-Work
94 (0.051 %)Axapta
103 (0.038 %)SunGard Vivista
103 (0.038 %)MAXIMO
112 (0.025 %)Teamcenter
112 (0.025 %)PeopleSoft Financials
112 (0.025 %)Fidessa
112 (0.025 %)Microsoft CRM
121 (0.013 %)JDE OneWorld
Communications & Networking
1998 (12.61 %)Firewall
2961 (12.14 %)TCP/IP
3905 (11.43 %)WAN
4874 (11.04 %)LAN
5713 (9.006 %)DNS
6434 (5.482 %)DHCP
7402 (5.078 %)VPN
8279 (3.524 %)Internet
9193 (2.438 %)VoIP
10183 (2.311 %)WINS
11162 (2.046 %)MPLS
12136 (1.718 %)iSCSI
13134 (1.693 %)VLAN
14118 (1.490 %)Network Security
1591 (1.149 %)LDAP
1675 (0.947 %)IPsec
1774 (0.935 %)SMS
1873 (0.922 %)NetScreen
1969 (0.872 %)SMTP
2068 (0.859 %)HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
11065 (13.45 %)SQL Server
2278 (3.511 %)SQL Server 2000
3259 (3.271 %)SQL Server 2005
4152 (1.920 %)Oracle 10g
5123 (1.554 %)DB2
6121 (1.528 %)Oracle 8/8i
7119 (1.503 %)MySQL
8113 (1.427 %)Datawarehouse
9107 (1.352 %)RDBMS
10106 (1.339 %)DTS
1178 (0.985 %)SQL Server 7
1275 (0.947 %)Oracle 9i
1367 (0.846 %)OLAP
1453 (0.669 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1551 (0.644 %)Informix
1636 (0.455 %)ETL
1733 (0.417 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1832 (0.404 %)Crystal Reports
1832 (0.404 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1921 (0.265 %)BusinessObjects
Development Applications
111 (0.139 %)Oracle Forms
29 (0.114 %)Flash
29 (0.114 %)ClearCase
38 (0.101 %)MSI
38 (0.101 %)Subversion
45 (0.063 %)LoadRunner
53 (0.038 %)InstallShield
53 (0.038 %)VSS/SourceSafe
62 (0.025 %)Oracle APEX
71 (0.013 %)JIRA
71 (0.013 %)Visual Studio
71 (0.013 %)CruiseControl
71 (0.013 %)ClearQuest
General
11297 (16.38 %)Finance
2796 (10.05 %)Banking
3351 (4.433 %)Pensions
4312 (3.941 %)Health
5306 (3.865 %)Telecoms
6198 (2.501 %)Retail
7183 (2.311 %)Investment Banking
8160 (2.021 %)Government
9157 (1.983 %)Back Office
10155 (1.958 %)Law
11145 (1.832 %)Education
11145 (1.832 %)Insurance
12113 (1.427 %)Financial Institution
1378 (0.985 %)Legal
1451 (0.644 %)Games
1546 (0.581 %)Construction
1643 (0.543 %)Marketing
1735 (0.442 %)Front Office
1824 (0.303 %)Manufacturing
1824 (0.303 %)Local Government
Job Titles
11399 (17.67 %)Administrator
2869 (10.98 %)Analyst
3830 (10.48 %)Consultant
4791 (9.991 %)Systems Administrator
5790 (9.979 %)Architect
6492 (6.214 %)UNIX Administrator
7394 (4.977 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
8350 (4.421 %)Support Engineer
9341 (4.307 %)DBA
10335 (4.231 %)Project Manager
11328 (4.143 %)Support Analyst
12296 (3.739 %)Systems Engineer
13278 (3.511 %)Storage Engineer
14277 (3.499 %)Technical Consultant
15247 (3.120 %)Storage Consultant
16242 (3.057 %)Solutions Architect
17240 (3.031 %)Server Support
18224 (2.829 %)Infrastructure Manager
19215 (2.716 %)Network Engineer
20209 (2.640 %)Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
11076 (13.59 %)Clustering
2387 (4.888 %)CLARiiON
3308 (3.890 %)Replication
4276 (3.486 %)Mainframe
5263 (3.322 %)Symmetrix
6195 (2.463 %)Management Information System
7171 (2.160 %)Blackberry
8137 (1.730 %)HACMP
9136 (1.718 %)EMC Centera
1096 (1.213 %)Celerra
1176 (0.960 %)Asset Management
1274 (0.935 %)PMI
1371 (0.897 %)Thin Client
1371 (0.897 %)Fat Client
1454 (0.682 %)Computer Science
1454 (0.682 %)N-Tier
1551 (0.644 %)Client/Server
1646 (0.581 %)IVR
1725 (0.316 %)Firmware
1725 (0.316 %)AS400
Operating Systems
13687 (46.57 %)Windows
23046 (38.47 %)Unix
31832 (23.14 %)Linux
41365 (17.24 %)Solaris
5940 (11.87 %)AIX
6849 (10.72 %)Windows Server 2003
7707 (8.930 %)Windows 2000
8514 (6.492 %)HPUX
9411 (5.191 %)Windows NT
10156 (1.970 %)SUSE
11139 (1.756 %)Windows XP
1269 (0.872 %)Tru64
1353 (0.669 %)VMS
1449 (0.619 %)NetWare
1537 (0.467 %)OpenVMS
1627 (0.341 %)FreeBSD
1627 (0.341 %)Fedora
1725 (0.316 %)zOS
1812 (0.152 %)Debian
1911 (0.139 %)OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1743 (9.385 %)ITIL
2604 (7.629 %)Disaster Recovery
3446 (5.633 %)Project Management
4393 (4.964 %)PRINCE2
5377 (4.762 %)Migration
6274 (3.461 %)Load Balancing
7194 (2.450 %)Change Management
8183 (2.311 %)Service Management
9173 (2.185 %)Business Continuity
10145 (1.832 %)Data Management
11144 (1.819 %)Service Delivery
12122 (1.541 %)Stakeholder Management
13114 (1.440 %)Matrix Management
14104 (1.314 %)E-Commerce
1597 (1.225 %)Technical Architecture
1696 (1.213 %)Performance Management
1789 (1.124 %)Configuration Management
1885 (1.074 %)Content Management
1978 (0.985 %)Problem Management
2065 (0.821 %)Project Planning
Programming Languages
11220 (15.41 %)SQL
2450 (5.684 %)Perl
3441 (5.570 %)Shell Script
4171 (2.160 %)C
5162 (2.046 %)Java
6142 (1.794 %)VB
7121 (1.528 %)Korn
8105 (1.326 %)VBScript
990 (1.137 %)PHP
1075 (0.947 %)Transact-SQL
1174 (0.935 %)C++
1243 (0.543 %)C#
1243 (0.543 %)Ruby
1340 (0.505 %)AWK
1425 (0.316 %)PL/SQL
1521 (0.265 %)Python
1612 (0.152 %)JavaScript
1612 (0.152 %)JCL
1710 (0.126 %)REXX
1710 (0.126 %)Tcl
Qualifications
11094 (13.82 %)Microsoft Certification
2996 (12.58 %)MCSE
3456 (5.760 %)Cisco Certification
4406 (5.128 %)Degree
5295 (3.726 %)CCNA
6185 (2.337 %)MCP
7175 (2.210 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8162 (2.046 %)MCSA
9137 (1.730 %)PMI Certification
10129 (1.629 %)PMP
11127 (1.604 %)CCNP
1282 (1.036 %)Citrix Certification
1365 (0.821 %)Sun Certification
1462 (0.783 %)CCA
1560 (0.758 %)RHCE
1656 (0.707 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1742 (0.531 %)ITIL Certification
1742 (0.531 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1742 (0.531 %)IBM Certification
1742 (0.531 %)CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1195 (2.463 %)SLA
246 (0.581 %)QA
313 (0.164 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
411 (0.139 %)BS25999
56 (0.076 %)ISO27001
65 (0.063 %)COBIT
65 (0.063 %)BS7799
73 (0.038 %)JSP 440
82 (0.025 %)ISO9001
System Software
11927 (24.34 %)Active Directory
2920 (11.62 %)NetBackup
3319 (4.029 %)VMware ESX
4282 (3.562 %)NFS
5231 (2.918 %)Backup Exec
6198 (2.501 %)ISA Server
7127 (1.604 %)Citrix Presentation Server
8123 (1.554 %)Terminal Services
9115 (1.453 %)Oracle RAC
1080 (1.010 %)MetaFrame
1154 (0.682 %)VMware Server
1239 (0.493 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1336 (0.455 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1429 (0.366 %)Xen
1528 (0.354 %)Oracle RMAN
1624 (0.303 %)Samba
1624 (0.303 %)Terminal Server
1722 (0.278 %)VMware GSX
1820 (0.253 %)VMware Workstation
1913 (0.164 %)MailMarshal
Systems Management
1488 (6.164 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
2339 (4.282 %)Tivoli
3285 (3.600 %)MOM
4284 (3.587 %)Legato
5216 (2.728 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
6172 (2.173 %)EMC NetWorker
7169 (2.135 %)OpenView
874 (0.935 %)ARCserve
972 (0.909 %)EMC Navisphere
1061 (0.770 %)EMC TimeFinder
1061 (0.770 %)HP Data Protector
1160 (0.758 %)Norton AntiVirus
1254 (0.682 %)BMC PATROL
1340 (0.505 %)SCOM
1431 (0.392 %)WSUS
1530 (0.379 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
1628 (0.354 %)OpenView Configuration Management
1725 (0.316 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1824 (0.303 %)Unicenter
1921 (0.265 %)Nagios
Vendors
11735 (21.91 %)VMware
21696 (21.42 %)EMC
31624 (20.51 %)Microsoft
41525 (19.26 %)HP
51480 (18.69 %)Cisco
61259 (15.90 %)Citrix
71206 (15.23 %)Oracle
81134 (14.32 %)VERITAS
91128 (14.25 %)IBM
10762 (9.625 %)Sun
11580 (7.326 %)Red Hat
12505 (6.379 %)Brocade
13437 (5.520 %)NetApp
14294 (3.714 %)Symantec
15214 (2.703 %)Intel
16210 (2.653 %)Dell
17163 (2.059 %)Sybase
18125 (1.579 %)CommVault
18125 (1.579 %)Altiris
19116 (1.465 %)Compaq
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