SAN Job Trends in the City of London

Storage Area Network (SAN)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 151 143
Rank change year-on-year +19 -8 +72
Permanent jobs citing SAN 4 11 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.18% 0.41% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.04% 2.69% 6.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 26
10th Percentile £71,375 £50,625 £49,750
25th Percentile £75,313 £55,000 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.07% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £90,313 £74,375 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,125 £88,750 £79,625
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -7.69% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

SAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 196 409 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.70% 15.41% 13.20%
Number of salaries quoted 151 234 340
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,125 £50,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +2.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,188 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £92,625
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -3.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAN job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAN

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SAN in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) nginx
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) NAS
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) VSAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) FPGA
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) CentOS
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Document Management
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft