The first table below looks at the demand for NAS 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 NAS over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Rank 175 160 150
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -10
Permanent jobs citing NAS 24 30 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.477% 0.650% 0.516%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.762% 4.115% 2.838%
Number of salaries quoted 19 25 11
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £31,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £60,000 £52,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
869 729 740
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.28% 15.80% 18.17%
Number of salaries quoted 716 598 583
Average salary £37,500 £34,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.29% -6.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £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%
NAS
England

NAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands NAS Jobs Demand Trend

NAS
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands NAS Salary Trend

NAS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing NAS across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands NAS Salary Histogram

NAS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Solihull - 9 £40,000 -
Warwickshire +5 6 £37,500 -25.00%
Staffordshire - 5 £42,500 -
Birmingham -18 4 £43,750 +34.61%
Coventry -12 3 £42,500 -5.55%
Wolverhampton - 3 £42,500 -
Worcestershire - 3 £42,500 -
Shropshire -4 1 £45,000 +47.54%
NAS
England

NAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing NAS 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 NAS.

1 43 (97.73%) Windows
2 42 (95.45%) SAN
3 38 (86.36%) VMware
4 36 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (70.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 28 (63.64%) Microsoft
6 28 (63.64%) SharePoint
6 28 (63.64%) MS Exchange
7 26 (59.09%) Citrix
8 25 (56.82%) Active Directory
8 25 (56.82%) Firewall
9 21 (47.73%) Lync
10 18 (40.91%) Hyper-V
11 17 (38.64%) vSphere
12 16 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2010
12 16 (36.36%) Back Office
12 16 (36.36%) SQL
13 15 (34.09%) SQL Server
13 15 (34.09%) DHCP
13 15 (34.09%) DNS
14 14 (31.82%) Cisco
14 14 (31.82%) XenServer
14 14 (31.82%) XenDesktop
15 13 (29.55%) UAG
15 13 (29.55%) Office 365
15 13 (29.55%) Windows Server 2012
15 13 (29.55%) MS Office
16 12 (27.27%) Project Management
16 12 (27.27%) HP
16 12 (27.27%) Dell

NAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing NAS 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 NAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (20.45%) Application Packaging
2 7 (15.91%) .NET
3 5 (11.36%) WebSphere
3 5 (11.36%) J2EE
4 2 (4.545%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 28 (63.64%) SharePoint
1 28 (63.64%) MS Exchange
2 21 (47.73%) Lync
3 16 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2010
4 9 (20.45%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (15.91%) IIS
6 6 (13.64%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (11.36%) WebSphere MQ
8 3 (6.818%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (2.273%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (29.55%) Office 365
1 13 (29.55%) MS Office
2 5 (11.36%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 42 (95.45%) SAN
2 25 (56.82%) Firewall
3 15 (34.09%) DHCP
3 15 (34.09%) DNS
4 9 (20.45%) Wireless
5 7 (15.91%) LAN
5 7 (15.91%) WAN
6 5 (11.36%) iSCSI
7 2 (4.545%) MPLS
7 2 (4.545%) LDAP
7 2 (4.545%) WLAN
7 2 (4.545%) Kerberos
7 2 (4.545%) SNMP
7 2 (4.545%) Network Security
7 2 (4.545%) VLAN
8 1 (2.273%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.273%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) MSI
General
1 16 (36.36%) Back Office
2 6 (13.64%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (43.18%) Architect
2 10 (22.73%) Solutions Architect
2 10 (22.73%) Technical Architect
3 9 (20.45%) Consultant
3 9 (20.45%) Technical Consultant
3 9 (20.45%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 8 (18.18%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
4 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (9.091%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (6.818%) Senior Storage Engineer
7 3 (6.818%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.818%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 2 (4.545%) Virtualisation Specialist
8 2 (4.545%) Technical Support
8 2 (4.545%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.545%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.545%) Administrator
8 2 (4.545%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (2.273%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.273%) CLARiiON
2 1 (2.273%) Symmetrix
2 1 (2.273%) Firmware
2 1 (2.273%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (2.273%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (2.273%) SaaS
2 1 (2.273%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 43 (97.73%) Windows
2 31 (70.45%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (29.55%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (11.36%) UNIX
6 4 (9.091%) Linux
7 2 (4.545%) Windows 8
7 2 (4.545%) Solaris
8 1 (2.273%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) Project Management
2 9 (20.45%) Change Control
3 6 (13.64%) ITIL
3 6 (13.64%) Service Delivery
4 5 (11.36%) Zachman Framework
4 5 (11.36%) TOGAF
5 3 (6.818%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (6.818%) Performance Testing
5 3 (6.818%) Analytics
6 2 (4.545%) Software Deployment
6 2 (4.545%) Benchmarking
6 2 (4.545%) Network Design
6 2 (4.545%) Problem Management
7 1 (2.273%) Project Planning
7 1 (2.273%) Data Protection
7 1 (2.273%) Performance Management
7 1 (2.273%) Information Security
7 1 (2.273%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (2.273%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (4.545%) Java
2 2 (4.545%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (11.36%) MCSE
2 3 (6.818%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (6.818%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (6.818%) MCTS
2 3 (6.818%) MCITP
3 2 (4.545%) CCNP
3 2 (4.545%) CCNA
3 2 (4.545%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.545%) MCP
4 1 (2.273%) CCA
4 1 (2.273%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (2.273%) CCEE
4 1 (2.273%) CCAA
4 1 (2.273%) CCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) SLA
2 3 (6.818%) QA
System Software
1 36 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (56.82%) Active Directory
3 18 (40.91%) Hyper-V
4 17 (38.64%) vSphere
5 14 (31.82%) XenServer
5 14 (31.82%) XenDesktop
6 13 (29.55%) UAG
7 5 (11.36%) ISA Server
8 3 (6.818%) VMware ESX
9 1 (2.273%) XenApp
9 1 (2.273%) VMware Server
9 1 (2.273%) SRDF
9 1 (2.273%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 12 (27.27%) SCCM
2 9 (20.45%) SCOM
3 3 (6.818%) Backup Exec
3 3 (6.818%) ARCserve
3 3 (6.818%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (2.273%) EMC TimeFinder
Vendors
1 38 (86.36%) VMware
2 28 (63.64%) Microsoft
3 26 (59.09%) Citrix
4 14 (31.82%) Cisco
5 12 (27.27%) HP
5 12 (27.27%) Dell
6 7 (15.91%) IBM
7 6 (13.64%) EMC
8 5 (11.36%) Veritas
8 5 (11.36%) Oracle
9 3 (6.818%) Symantec
9 3 (6.818%) McAfee
9 3 (6.818%) NetApp
10 2 (4.545%) Riverbed
10 2 (4.545%) Sun
10 2 (4.545%) ProCurve
11 1 (2.273%) Fortinet
11 1 (2.273%) SAP
11 1 (2.273%) Avaya
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