The first table below looks at the demand for Fibre Channel skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Fibre Channel over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fibre Channel (FC)
Rank 195 180 -
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -
Permanent jobs citing Fibre Channel 9 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.179% 0.110% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.033% 0.691% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 0
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,497 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+1.24% -
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
871 724 744
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.32% 15.88% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 708 594 586
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% -4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,050 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Fibre Channel across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

West Midlands Fibre Channel Jobs Demand Trend

Fibre Channel
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Fibre Channel across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Fibre Channel Salary Trend

Fibre Channel
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fibre Channel within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Warwickshire - 3 £45,000 -
Birmingham -21 2 £40,000 +23.07%
Coventry -26 1 £35,000 -30.00%
Wolverhampton - 1 £35,000 -
Worcestershire - 1 £35,000 -
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel.

1 26 (100.00%) Windows
1 26 (100.00%) SAN
1 26 (100.00%) VMware
1 26 (100.00%) iSCSI
2 21 (80.77%) Solaris
2 21 (80.77%) Linux
3 17 (65.38%) Active Directory
3 17 (65.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (61.54%) Windows Server 2008
4 16 (61.54%) vSphere
4 16 (61.54%) HP
4 16 (61.54%) Windows Server 2003
4 16 (61.54%) Firewall
4 16 (61.54%) MS Exchange
4 16 (61.54%) Cisco
4 16 (61.54%) Microsoft
5 12 (46.15%) IBM
5 12 (46.15%) DHCP
5 12 (46.15%) DNS
5 12 (46.15%) SQL
5 12 (46.15%) IIS
5 12 (46.15%) DataCore
5 12 (46.15%) VLAN
5 12 (46.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 9 (34.62%) UNIX
6 9 (34.62%) HPUX
6 9 (34.62%) Sun
6 9 (34.62%) Replication
6 9 (34.62%) NetBackup
6 9 (34.62%) Symantec

Fibre Channel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Fibre Channel 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 Fibre Channel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 16 (61.54%) MS Exchange
2 12 (46.15%) IIS
3 1 (3.846%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 26 (100.00%) SAN
1 26 (100.00%) iSCSI
2 16 (61.54%) Firewall
3 12 (46.15%) DHCP
3 12 (46.15%) DNS
3 12 (46.15%) VLAN
4 1 (3.846%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Senior Technical Analyst
1 9 (34.62%) Senior Analyst
1 9 (34.62%) Technical Analyst
1 9 (34.62%) Analyst
2 3 (11.54%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (7.692%) Sales Consultant
3 2 (7.692%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (7.692%) Consultant
3 2 (7.692%) Pre Sales Engineer
3 2 (7.692%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
3 2 (7.692%) Pre Sales Consultant
4 1 (3.846%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (3.846%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (3.846%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (3.846%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Replication
2 1 (3.846%) EqualLogic
2 1 (3.846%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Windows
2 21 (80.77%) Solaris
2 21 (80.77%) Linux
3 16 (61.54%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (61.54%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (34.62%) UNIX
4 9 (34.62%) HPUX
5 4 (15.38%) Windows 2000 Server
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Citrix Certification
1 4 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 4 (15.38%) CCEE
1 4 (15.38%) CCAA
2 1 (3.846%) MCITP
System Software
1 17 (65.38%) Active Directory
1 17 (65.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (61.54%) vSphere
3 12 (46.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 4 (15.38%) VMware ESX
4 4 (15.38%) XenApp
4 4 (15.38%) XenServer
4 4 (15.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.846%) SCCM
2 1 (3.846%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) VMware
2 16 (61.54%) HP
2 16 (61.54%) Cisco
2 16 (61.54%) Microsoft
3 12 (46.15%) IBM
3 12 (46.15%) DataCore
4 9 (34.62%) Sun
4 9 (34.62%) Symantec
5 5 (19.23%) Dell
6 4 (15.38%) Citrix
Birmingham, West Midlands
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Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Midlands
Netbackup... (HP-UX, SUN Solaris, Linux & Windows). Good understanding of Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and LTO technologies... Key Words: Senior Technical Analyst, Netbackup, HP-UX, SUN Solaris, Linux & Windows.
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum + Oncall + Bens
Posted: 24 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
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Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Car + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013