SAN Job Trends in the East of England

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring SAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 170 177
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing SAN 16 10 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.24% 0.29% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.96% 1.54% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 14 9 31
10th Percentile - £37,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +15.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £75,000 £55,000 £51,250
90th Percentile - £58,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +27.78% -5.26% -0.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 541 651 936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 8.08% 18.80% 15.20%
Number of salaries quoted 349 238 708
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £24,952
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.47%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

SAN job vacancy trend in the East of England

SAN
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SAN

SAN
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for SAN in the East of England

SAN
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Hertfordshire -10 15 £42,000 -25.33% 2
Essex - 1 £81,000 - 1
SAN
England

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Cohesity
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) IaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) DHCP
2 1 (6.25%) NAS
2 1 (6.25%) SNMP
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 8 (50.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) SAN Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Backup Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) NetApp Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
1 12 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (12.50%) CentOS
4 2 (12.50%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Server Building
2 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 2 (12.50%) Server Management
4 1 (6.25%) BCP
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (6.25%) Capacity Management
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
4 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
4 1 (6.25%) Migration
4 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.25%) Project Roadmap
4 1 (6.25%) SFIA
4 1 (6.25%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 10 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) WSUS
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) NetBackup
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.25%) SCCM
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) VMware
2 10 (62.50%) NetApp
3 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (18.75%) Veeam
5 1 (6.25%) Commvault
5 1 (6.25%) Fujitsu
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat