SAN Job Trends in the East Midlands

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 115 101
Rank change year-on-year -14 -14 +18
Permanent jobs citing SAN 8 14 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.32% 0.63% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.12% 5.20% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 21
10th Percentile £39,700 - £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -17.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £47,500 £54,063 £57,500
90th Percentile - £57,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £46,160 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% +5.00% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 378 269 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.15% 12.20% 13.83%
Number of salaries quoted 185 93 210
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £24,725
25th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £38,750 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

SAN job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SAN
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SAN

SAN
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Leicestershire +6 7 £45,000 +9.09%
Derbyshire - 1 - -
SAN
England

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (75.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) iPaaS
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (75.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) DNS
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
1 7 (87.50%) VLAN
2 6 (75.00%) DHCP
2 6 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) NAS
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 6 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (75.00%) Law
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) IT Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) IT Support
2 5 (62.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) IT Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Clustering
1 6 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Email Filtering
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Information Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Network Design
3 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (75.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (75.00%) Veeam
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) VMware