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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 293 549
Rank change year-on-year -79 +256 -192
Permanent jobs citing SAN 732 1,234 940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 1.19% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.38% 7.72% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 647 691 762
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% +2.15%
75th Percentile £64,750 £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% +3.45%

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 13,606 15,993 21,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.77% 15.46% 13.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,496 8,163 11,830
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +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 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.64% +2.72%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -32 649 £50,000 +5.26% 123
UK excluding London -74 557 £44,000 +3.53% 95
Work from Home +13 286 £51,000 -2.86% 77
North of England -41 151 £42,500 +6.25% 19
London -18 138 £65,000 - 31
Midlands -3 135 £40,000 -23.81% 25
South East -13 100 £50,000 +20.48% 25
West Midlands -3 70 £38,000 -25.85% 15
South West -32 68 £51,500 +25.61% 12
Yorkshire +44 66 £44,000 +30.37% 7
East Midlands -6 64 £40,000 -23.81% 10
East of England +18 53 £43,500 -13.00% 8
North West -62 49 £51,364 +14.14% 9
North East +2 36 £32,500 -13.33% 3
Wales -10 30 £41,067 -8.74% 3
Scotland -119 18 £47,500 -13.64% 3
Northern Ireland -1 2 £65,000 +85.71% 2

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
1 170 (23.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 84 (11.48%) SharePoint
3 47 (6.42%) IIS
4 10 (1.37%) SAS
4 10 (1.37%) WordPress
5 6 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (0.82%) nginx
5 6 (0.82%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.68%) Apache
6 5 (0.68%) CMS
6 5 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (0.55%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
10 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
1 412 (56.28%) Azure
2 328 (44.81%) Microsoft 365
3 110 (15.03%) AWS
4 81 (11.07%) Entra ID
5 61 (8.33%) OneDrive
6 38 (5.19%) IaaS
7 33 (4.51%) SaaS
8 32 (4.37%) PaaS
9 30 (4.10%) GCP
10 28 (3.83%) Nutanix
11 17 (2.32%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (1.78%) OCI
13 11 (1.50%) Rubrik
14 7 (0.96%) Datadog
14 7 (0.96%) Power Automate
14 7 (0.96%) Slack
15 6 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (0.82%) Power Platform
16 5 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
16 5 (0.68%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 269 (36.75%) Firewall
2 193 (26.37%) DNS
3 178 (24.32%) NAS
4 161 (21.99%) DHCP
5 146 (19.95%) WAN
6 127 (17.35%) LAN
7 122 (16.67%) VPN
8 94 (12.84%) VLAN
9 58 (7.92%) TCP/IP
10 53 (7.24%) Wireless
11 52 (7.10%) iSCSI
12 41 (5.60%) SD-WAN
12 41 (5.60%) VoIP
13 39 (5.33%) Network Security
13 39 (5.33%) Wi-Fi
14 29 (3.96%) WLAN
15 28 (3.83%) Fibre Channel
16 22 (3.01%) Unified Communications
17 21 (2.87%) Internet
18 18 (2.46%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (16.80%) SQL Server
2 31 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (2.19%) 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 93 (12.70%) Finance
3 84 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (7.10%) Law
5 39 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
6 35 (4.78%) Legal
7 27 (3.69%) Public Sector
8 20 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.60%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.78%) Advertising
10 13 (1.78%) Billing
11 11 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.96%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.96%) Retail
13 6 (0.82%) Banking
13 6 (0.82%) Local Government
13 6 (0.82%) Police
14 5 (0.68%) Automotive
14 5 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 228 (31.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 118 (16.12%) Support Engineer
3 116 (15.85%) IT Engineer
4 110 (15.03%) Senior
5 70 (9.56%) IT Support
6 61 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 59 (8.06%) IT Support Engineer
8 58 (7.92%) 3rd Line Support
9 50 (6.83%) Storage Specialist
10 48 (6.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 46 (6.28%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 46 (6.28%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 45 (6.15%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 44 (6.01%) Administrator
14 39 (5.33%) Analyst
15 33 (4.51%) Lead
16 31 (4.23%) IBM Storage Specialist
16 31 (4.23%) SAN Specialist
16 31 (4.23%) SAN Storage Specialist
17 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 6 (0.82%) 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%) 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%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.14%) Web Services
8 1 (0.14%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 127 (17.35%) Data Centre
2 66 (9.02%) Replication
3 62 (8.47%) Driving Licence
4 44 (6.01%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (5.60%) Clustering
6 31 (4.23%) Management Information System
7 30 (4.10%) Enterprise Storage
8 25 (3.42%) PKI
8 25 (3.42%) Public Cloud
9 17 (2.32%) PMI
10 13 (1.78%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.50%) CCTV
11 11 (1.50%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.09%) CMDB
14 8 (1.09%) Fat Client
14 8 (1.09%) Thin Client
14 8 (1.09%) VAX
15 6 (0.82%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 475 (64.89%) Windows
2 349 (47.68%) Windows Server
3 221 (30.19%) Linux
4 72 (9.84%) Windows Server 2012
5 67 (9.15%) Windows 10
6 66 (9.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 65 (8.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (4.51%) Ubuntu
9 26 (3.55%) Unix
10 23 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 23 (3.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 21 (2.87%) SUSE
12 18 (2.46%) Windows 7
13 15 (2.05%) AIX
14 13 (1.78%) CentOS
14 13 (1.78%) VMS
14 13 (1.78%) Windows Server 2003
15 12 (1.64%) Windows XP
16 8 (1.09%) Mac OS
17 6 (0.82%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (39.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 173 (23.63%) ITIL
3 137 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (14.34%) Disaster Recovery
5 84 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
6 77 (10.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 75 (10.25%) Server Management
8 70 (9.56%) Storage Management
9 69 (9.43%) Migration
10 67 (9.15%) Project Management
11 65 (8.88%) Mentoring
12 62 (8.47%) Project Delivery
13 51 (6.97%) Customer Service
14 45 (6.15%) Agile
14 45 (6.15%) Incident Management
15 42 (5.74%) Proactive Monitoring
16 40 (5.46%) High Availability
17 39 (5.33%) Business Continuity
18 38 (5.19%) Performance Monitoring
19 36 (4.92%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 188 (25.68%) PowerShell
2 98 (13.39%) SQL
3 23 (3.14%) Bash
3 23 (3.14%) Python
4 6 (0.82%) C#
5 3 (0.41%) Java
5 3 (0.41%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
6 2 (0.27%) Perl
6 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.14%) AWK
7 1 (0.14%) Bourne shell
7 1 (0.14%) Korn
7 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 119 (16.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 100 (13.66%) Degree
3 95 (12.98%) Security Cleared
4 91 (12.43%) Cisco Certification
5 81 (11.07%) MCSE
6 73 (9.97%) CCNA
7 72 (9.84%) SC Cleared
8 61 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 34 (4.64%) DV Cleared
10 33 (4.51%) Azure Certification
11 29 (3.96%) CCNP
11 29 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (3.83%) MCSA
13 27 (3.69%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (2.46%) PMI Certification
15 17 (2.32%) MCP
16 13 (1.78%) A+ Certification
16 13 (1.78%) Citrix Certification
17 10 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 9 (1.23%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.61%) 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%) 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%) Accessibility
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
1 436 (59.56%) Active Directory
2 347 (47.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 211 (28.83%) Hyper-V
4 99 (13.52%) vSphere
5 72 (9.84%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (3.69%) Virtual Servers
7 22 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (2.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.91%) NFS
9 14 (1.91%) vCloud
9 14 (1.91%) XenApp
10 13 (1.78%) Terminal Services
11 10 (1.37%) Firmware
12 9 (1.23%) VMware NSX
13 7 (0.96%) SRDF
13 7 (0.96%) VMware Server
14 6 (0.82%) DFS Replication
14 6 (0.82%) Docker
14 6 (0.82%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.27%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 93 (12.70%) SCCM
2 77 (10.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 60 (8.20%) vCenter Server
4 33 (4.51%) SCOM
5 32 (4.37%) NetBackup
6 31 (4.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 29 (3.96%) Ansible
8 22 (3.01%) WSUS
8 22 (3.01%) ZABBIX
9 20 (2.73%) Backup Exec
10 17 (2.32%) Microsoft Clustering
10 17 (2.32%) Terraform
11 16 (2.19%) EMC NetWorker
12 15 (2.05%) Nagios
12 15 (2.05%) VxRail
13 12 (1.64%) Opsgenie
13 12 (1.64%) SmoothWall
14 11 (1.50%) vRealize
15 10 (1.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 10 (1.37%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 506 (69.13%) VMware
2 480 (65.57%) Microsoft
3 186 (25.41%) Veeam
4 134 (18.31%) Cisco
5 119 (16.26%) HP
6 118 (16.12%) Citrix
7 82 (11.20%) Dell
7 82 (11.20%) NetApp
8 59 (8.06%) IBM
9 48 (6.56%) EMC
10 42 (5.74%) Nimble Storage
11 37 (5.05%) Palo Alto
12 34 (4.64%) Aruba
13 33 (4.51%) 3PAR
14 30 (4.10%) Oracle
15 28 (3.83%) Commvault
15 28 (3.83%) SolarWinds
16 27 (3.69%) Mitel
17 26 (3.55%) Sophos
18 25 (3.42%) Red Hat