The first table below looks at the demand for SAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wolverhampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAN over the 3 months to 23 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 Wolverhampton region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SAN 5 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wolverhampton 7.937% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 41.67% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
Average salary £42,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Wolverhampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
12 7 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wolverhampton 19.05% 9.722% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 11
Average salary £37,500 £35,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.63% +29.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,400 £21,550 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £34,000 £56,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SAN
West Midlands

SAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wolverhampton SAN Jobs Demand Trend

SAN
Salary Trend

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

Wolverhampton SAN Salary Trend

SAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wolverhampton region citing SAN 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 SAN.

1 12 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (83.33%) Cisco
2 10 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 10 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 10 (83.33%) vSphere
3 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 8 (66.67%) VMware ESX
3 8 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 7 (58.33%) Firewall
4 7 (58.33%) MS Excel
4 7 (58.33%) HP
4 7 (58.33%) Citrix
5 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (50.00%) XenApp
5 6 (50.00%) XenServer
5 6 (50.00%) XenDesktop
6 5 (41.67%) CCEE
6 5 (41.67%) CCAA
6 5 (41.67%) Dell
6 5 (41.67%) Citrix Certification
6 5 (41.67%) McAfee
7 4 (33.33%) Symantec
7 4 (33.33%) MCITP
7 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
7 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (33.33%) NAS

SAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wolverhampton region citing SAN 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 SAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 12 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (8.333%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (8.333%) Lync
4 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
4 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 7 (58.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) NAS
2 4 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (33.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (8.333%) xDSL
3 1 (8.333%) Unified Communications
3 1 (8.333%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (8.333%) LAN
3 1 (8.333%) WLAN
3 1 (8.333%) WAN
3 1 (8.333%) DHCP
3 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.333%) DNS
3 1 (8.333%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MSI
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Consultant
1 5 (41.67%) Technical Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Pre Sales Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Sales Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Pre Sales Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (8.333%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) VMware Technical Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (8.333%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (33.33%) Windows 2000 Server
5 2 (16.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (8.333%) Change Control
2 1 (8.333%) Data Management
2 1 (8.333%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (41.67%) CCEE
2 5 (41.67%) CCAA
2 5 (41.67%) Citrix Certification
3 4 (33.33%) MCITP
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (25.00%) MCSE
4 3 (25.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (25.00%) MCTS
5 1 (8.333%) NCDA
5 1 (8.333%) NCIE
5 1 (8.333%) CCIA
5 1 (8.333%) CCA
5 1 (8.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 10 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (83.33%) vSphere
2 8 (66.67%) VMware ESX
3 6 (50.00%) XenApp
3 6 (50.00%) XenServer
3 6 (50.00%) XenDesktop
4 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (8.333%) Terminal Services
5 1 (8.333%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 3 (25.00%) ARCserve
2 2 (16.67%) SCOM
2 2 (16.67%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (8.333%) SCCM
3 1 (8.333%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (8.333%) NetBackup
3 1 (8.333%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (83.33%) Cisco
3 7 (58.33%) HP
3 7 (58.33%) Citrix
4 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (41.67%) Dell
5 5 (41.67%) McAfee
6 4 (33.33%) Symantec
7 3 (25.00%) Veritas
8 1 (8.333%) CommVault
8 1 (8.333%) NetApp