Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SAN over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 311 553
Rank change year-on-year -54 +242 -203
Permanent jobs citing SAN 732 1,184 922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 1.13% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.39% 7.38% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 644 689 756
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,800 £33,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £39,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,625 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% +2.11% +3.26%
75th Percentile £64,500 £66,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.53% -5.56% +5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the UK

SAN
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAN.

Salary trend for SAN in the UK

SAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SAN in the UK

SAN
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -25 651 £50,000 +5.26% 129
UK excluding London -54 553 £44,000 +3.53% 107
Work from Home +28 283 £50,500 -3.81% 46
North of England -29 152 £42,500 +6.25% 18
London -9 142 £65,000 - 29
Midlands -7 136 £40,000 -20.00% 27
South East -1 97 £50,000 +20.48% 35
West Midlands -6 72 £38,000 -22.05% 22
South West +1 67 £51,500 +22.62% 11
Yorkshire +44 66 £44,000 +35.38% 7
East Midlands -1 63 £41,500 -20.95% 5
East of England +13 52 £43,500 -13.00% 9
North West -58 51 £51,364 +14.14% 9
North East +7 35 £32,500 -13.33% 2
Wales -5 30 £41,067 -8.74% 2
Scotland -112 17 £47,500 -13.64% 3
Northern Ireland +11 2 £65,000 +85.71% 3

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 171 (23.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 84 (11.48%) SharePoint
3 46 (6.28%) IIS
4 10 (1.37%) WordPress
5 9 (1.23%) SAS
6 6 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (0.82%) nginx
6 6 (0.82%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.68%) Apache
7 5 (0.68%) CMS
7 5 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.55%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 55 (7.51%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.41%) SPSS
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.14%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.14%) Misys Opics
1 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.14%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 422 (57.65%) Azure
2 334 (45.63%) Microsoft 365
3 112 (15.30%) AWS
4 84 (11.48%) Entra ID
5 60 (8.20%) OneDrive
6 40 (5.46%) IaaS
7 37 (5.05%) SaaS
8 35 (4.78%) PaaS
9 30 (4.10%) GCP
10 28 (3.83%) Nutanix
11 18 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (1.78%) OCI
13 12 (1.64%) Rubrik
14 10 (1.37%) Datadog
15 7 (0.96%) Power Automate
15 7 (0.96%) Slack
16 6 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
16 6 (0.82%) Power Platform
17 5 (0.68%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 276 (37.70%) Firewall
2 196 (26.78%) DNS
3 180 (24.59%) NAS
4 165 (22.54%) DHCP
5 145 (19.81%) WAN
6 127 (17.35%) LAN
7 125 (17.08%) VPN
8 97 (13.25%) VLAN
9 54 (7.38%) TCP/IP
10 53 (7.24%) Wireless
11 51 (6.97%) iSCSI
12 44 (6.01%) VoIP
13 42 (5.74%) Wi-Fi
14 40 (5.46%) SD-WAN
15 37 (5.05%) Network Security
16 29 (3.96%) WLAN
17 28 (3.83%) Fibre Channel
18 22 (3.01%) Internet
19 21 (2.87%) Unified Communications
20 18 (2.46%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (17.21%) SQL Server
2 32 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (2.46%) MySQL
4 7 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.82%) Power BI
6 3 (0.41%) Big Data
6 3 (0.41%) EDRMS
6 3 (0.41%) Redis
7 2 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.14%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (0.55%) JIRA
2 3 (0.41%) GitLab
2 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 261 (35.66%) Social Skills
2 96 (13.11%) Finance
3 84 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (6.97%) Law
5 39 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
6 36 (4.92%) Legal
7 26 (3.55%) Public Sector
8 21 (2.87%) Manufacturing
9 20 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.91%) Billing
12 13 (1.78%) Advertising
13 12 (1.64%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.96%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.96%) Retail
15 6 (0.82%) Banking
15 6 (0.82%) Local Government
15 6 (0.82%) Police
16 5 (0.68%) Automotive
16 5 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 229 (31.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 118 (16.12%) Support Engineer
3 117 (15.98%) IT Engineer
4 109 (14.89%) Senior
5 70 (9.56%) IT Support
6 59 (8.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 58 (7.92%) 3rd Line Support
7 58 (7.92%) IT Support Engineer
8 51 (6.97%) Storage Specialist
9 47 (6.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 46 (6.28%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 46 (6.28%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 45 (6.15%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 44 (6.01%) Administrator
13 41 (5.60%) Analyst
14 34 (4.64%) Lead
15 31 (4.23%) IBM Storage Specialist
15 31 (4.23%) SAN Specialist
15 31 (4.23%) SAN Storage Specialist
16 30 (4.10%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.32%) ARM Templates
2 16 (2.19%) LAMP
3 8 (1.09%) .NET
4 5 (0.68%) LDAP
5 4 (0.55%) EDI
5 4 (0.55%) EJB
6 3 (0.41%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.41%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.41%) CSS
6 3 (0.41%) HTML
6 3 (0.41%) jQuery
7 2 (0.27%) JSON
7 2 (0.27%) OAuth
7 2 (0.27%) SAML
7 2 (0.27%) ServiceStack
7 2 (0.27%) V-Ray
8 1 (0.14%) Flash
8 1 (0.14%) Middleware
8 1 (0.14%) Web Services
8 1 (0.14%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 129 (17.62%) Data Centre
2 68 (9.29%) Replication
3 60 (8.20%) Driving Licence
4 42 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (5.60%) Clustering
6 32 (4.37%) Management Information System
7 29 (3.96%) Enterprise Storage
8 26 (3.55%) Public Cloud
9 24 (3.28%) PKI
10 17 (2.32%) PMI
11 13 (1.78%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.78%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.50%) CCTV
13 10 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
15 8 (1.09%) CMDB
15 8 (1.09%) Fat Client
15 8 (1.09%) Thin Client
15 8 (1.09%) VAX
16 6 (0.82%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 476 (65.03%) Windows
2 353 (48.22%) Windows Server
3 219 (29.92%) Linux
4 76 (10.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 69 (9.43%) Windows 10
6 67 (9.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 65 (8.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 35 (4.78%) Ubuntu
9 24 (3.28%) Unix
10 23 (3.14%) SUSE
10 23 (3.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 21 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 18 (2.46%) Windows 7
13 15 (2.05%) AIX
14 13 (1.78%) CentOS
14 13 (1.78%) VMS
15 12 (1.64%) Windows Server 2003
15 12 (1.64%) Windows XP
16 10 (1.37%) Mac OS
17 6 (0.82%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (39.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 175 (23.91%) ITIL
3 141 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
4 106 (14.48%) Disaster Recovery
5 84 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
6 80 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 77 (10.52%) Server Management
8 70 (9.56%) Storage Management
9 68 (9.29%) Migration
9 68 (9.29%) Project Management
10 65 (8.88%) Mentoring
11 63 (8.61%) Project Delivery
12 52 (7.10%) Customer Service
13 45 (6.15%) Agile
13 45 (6.15%) Incident Management
13 45 (6.15%) Proactive Monitoring
14 39 (5.33%) High Availability
15 38 (5.19%) Business Continuity
15 38 (5.19%) Performance Monitoring
16 36 (4.92%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 189 (25.82%) PowerShell
2 98 (13.39%) SQL
3 25 (3.42%) Bash
4 24 (3.28%) Python
5 6 (0.82%) C#
6 3 (0.41%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.27%) Java
7 2 (0.27%) Perl
7 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.14%) AWK
8 1 (0.14%) Bourne shell
8 1 (0.14%) Korn
8 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (16.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 104 (14.21%) Degree
3 90 (12.30%) Cisco Certification
4 89 (12.16%) Security Cleared
5 82 (11.20%) MCSE
6 73 (9.97%) CCNA
7 68 (9.29%) SC Cleared
8 63 (8.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 35 (4.78%) Azure Certification
10 31 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (4.23%) DV Cleared
11 30 (4.10%) MCSA
12 28 (3.83%) CCNP
13 27 (3.69%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (2.46%) PMI Certification
15 16 (2.19%) MCP
16 14 (1.91%) A+ Certification
17 12 (1.64%) Citrix Certification
18 10 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 9 (1.23%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.74%) SLA
2 16 (2.19%) GDPR
3 8 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.09%) PMO
4 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.27%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.27%) ISO 31000
5 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (0.27%) NIST
5 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.14%) COBIT
6 1 (0.14%) GRC
6 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.14%) NCSC
6 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 443 (60.52%) Active Directory
2 347 (47.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 209 (28.55%) Hyper-V
4 99 (13.52%) vSphere
5 69 (9.43%) VMware ESXi
6 28 (3.83%) Virtual Servers
7 22 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (2.05%) vCloud
10 14 (1.91%) NFS
11 13 (1.78%) Terminal Services
11 13 (1.78%) XenApp
12 10 (1.37%) Firmware
13 9 (1.23%) VMware NSX
14 7 (0.96%) SRDF
14 7 (0.96%) VMware Server
15 6 (0.82%) DFS Replication
15 6 (0.82%) Docker
16 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 2 (0.27%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 95 (12.98%) SCCM
2 79 (10.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 58 (7.92%) vCenter Server
4 33 (4.51%) SCOM
5 32 (4.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 32 (4.37%) NetBackup
6 29 (3.96%) Ansible
7 23 (3.14%) WSUS
8 22 (3.01%) ZABBIX
9 19 (2.60%) Backup Exec
10 17 (2.32%) Microsoft Clustering
10 17 (2.32%) Terraform
11 16 (2.19%) EMC NetWorker
12 15 (2.05%) Nagios
13 14 (1.91%) VxRail
14 12 (1.64%) Opsgenie
14 12 (1.64%) SmoothWall
15 11 (1.50%) vRealize
16 10 (1.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 10 (1.37%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 506 (69.13%) VMware
2 485 (66.26%) Microsoft
3 190 (25.96%) Veeam
4 135 (18.44%) Cisco
5 122 (16.67%) HP
6 117 (15.98%) Citrix
7 83 (11.34%) NetApp
8 81 (11.07%) Dell
9 59 (8.06%) IBM
10 47 (6.42%) EMC
11 44 (6.01%) Nimble Storage
12 37 (5.05%) Palo Alto
13 34 (4.64%) 3PAR
13 34 (4.64%) Aruba
14 30 (4.10%) SolarWinds
15 29 (3.96%) Oracle
16 28 (3.83%) Commvault
16 28 (3.83%) Mitel
17 27 (3.69%) Sophos
18 24 (3.28%) Red Hat