SAN Jobs in England

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring SAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SAN over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 365 299
Rank change year-on-year -130 -66 +267
Permanent jobs citing SAN 201 635 920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.66% 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.18% 5.12% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 153 548 564
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,425 £29,300
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -0.36% -2.21%
75th Percentile £64,500 £61,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,886 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -4.04% -0.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,222 12,412 13,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.69% 12.86% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,959 8,535 6,882
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £27,750 £32,500 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,375 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £38,500 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year -18.95% -7.50% -2.19%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in England

SAN
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAN in England.

Salary trend for SAN in England

SAN
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Salary histogram for SAN in England

SAN
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the England region over the 6 months to 17 June 2025. 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
South East +62 66 £41,500 -17.00% 179
North of England -36 43 £47,500 +8.59% 123
London +22 36 £66,250 +1.92% 280
South West +59 25 £43,750 -12.50% 65
Yorkshire +33 23 £35,000 -22.22% 50
Midlands -26 23 £50,000 +25.00% 100
East Midlands -6 13 £48,000 +20.00% 47
North East +18 10 £60,000 +84.62% 11
West Midlands +13 10 £50,000 +33.33% 52
North West -22 10 £67,098 +30.63% 62
East of England -6 7 £50,000 +14.94% 87
SAN
UK

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 71 (35.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (8.96%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.98%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (3.48%) IIS
5 4 (1.99%) Skype for Business
6 3 (1.49%) Confluence
7 2 (1.00%) nginx
7 2 (1.00%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.00%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.00%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.50%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (0.50%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (8.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (8.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 102 (50.75%) Azure
2 64 (31.84%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (18.91%) AWS
4 24 (11.94%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.97%) GCP
6 10 (4.98%) IaaS
7 6 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.99%) Nutanix
8 4 (1.99%) SaaS
9 3 (1.49%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.49%) PaaS
9 3 (1.49%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.00%) Cohesity
10 2 (1.00%) GitHub
10 2 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 89 (44.28%) Firewall
2 70 (34.83%) NAS
3 45 (22.39%) DNS
4 36 (17.91%) DHCP
5 32 (15.92%) VLAN
6 27 (13.43%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (11.44%) WAN
8 21 (10.45%) iSCSI
9 20 (9.95%) LAN
10 17 (8.46%) VoIP
10 17 (8.46%) VPN
11 14 (6.97%) Remote Desktop
11 14 (6.97%) VSAN
12 10 (4.98%) MPLS
13 9 (4.48%) Fibre Channel
13 9 (4.48%) TCP/IP
14 8 (3.98%) Multicast
14 8 (3.98%) SNMP
15 5 (2.49%) IP Telephony
15 5 (2.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (26.37%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.99%) DB2
4 5 (2.49%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.49%) MySQL
5 4 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.99%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (2.99%) JIRA
2 5 (2.49%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.49%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.49%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.49%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (1.49%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.00%) Git
5 1 (0.50%) GitLab
5 1 (0.50%) Maven
5 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 74 (36.82%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.91%) Finance
3 20 (9.95%) Manufacturing
4 15 (7.46%) Legal
5 14 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.48%) Banking
6 7 (3.48%) Games
6 7 (3.48%) Law
7 6 (2.99%) Advertising
7 6 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.49%) Billing
8 5 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.49%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.99%) Local Government
10 3 (1.49%) Retail
11 1 (0.50%) French Language
11 1 (0.50%) German Language
11 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (29.85%) Support Engineer
2 52 (25.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 34 (16.92%) IT Engineer
4 33 (16.42%) IT Support
5 31 (15.42%) Infrastructure Support
6 27 (13.43%) IT Support Engineer
7 26 (12.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 26 (12.94%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 26 (12.94%) Senior
8 24 (11.94%) 3rd Line Support
9 20 (9.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 16 (7.96%) Analyst
11 15 (7.46%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 15 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (7.46%) Coordinator
11 15 (7.46%) Help Desk Coordinator
12 14 (6.97%) Administrator
13 10 (4.98%) Support Technician
14 8 (3.98%) 3rd Line Support Technician
14 8 (3.98%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.98%) Middleware
2 6 (2.99%) SAML
3 3 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.49%) LDAP
4 1 (0.50%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.50%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.50%) EDI
4 1 (0.50%) REST
4 1 (0.50%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.50%) SAP XI
4 1 (0.50%) Web Services
4 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.42%) Replication
2 29 (14.43%) Clustering
3 18 (8.96%) Data Centre
4 16 (7.96%) Video Conferencing
5 13 (6.47%) CCTV
6 11 (5.47%) Hedge funds
7 10 (4.98%) Driving Licence
8 9 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (4.48%) PKI
9 6 (2.99%) Blackberry
9 6 (2.99%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.99%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (2.99%) Podcast
9 6 (2.99%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.49%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.99%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.00%) Fibre Optics
12 2 (1.00%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 156 (77.61%) Windows
2 88 (43.78%) Windows Server
3 55 (27.36%) Linux
4 27 (13.43%) Windows 10
5 21 (10.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (7.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (6.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (3.48%) Unix
8 7 (3.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (2.49%) Apple iOS
9 5 (2.49%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.49%) Android
10 3 (1.49%) VMS
11 2 (1.00%) CentOS
11 2 (1.00%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (1.00%) Solaris
11 2 (1.00%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (31.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 44 (21.89%) Disaster Recovery
4 43 (21.39%) High Availability
5 40 (19.90%) Virtual Environments
6 39 (19.40%) ITIL
7 31 (15.42%) Cybersecurity
8 28 (13.93%) Computer Science
9 25 (12.44%) Agile
9 25 (12.44%) Time Management
10 22 (10.95%) ERP
10 22 (10.95%) Migration
11 20 (9.95%) DevOps
12 19 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (9.45%) Kalman Filter
13 17 (8.46%) Business Continuity
14 16 (7.96%) IT Strategy
15 15 (7.46%) Customer Service
16 14 (6.97%) Mentoring
16 14 (6.97%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 69 (34.33%) PowerShell
2 41 (20.40%) SQL
3 15 (7.46%) Python
4 6 (2.99%) Bash
4 6 (2.99%) Java
5 4 (1.99%) Korn
6 3 (1.49%) C#
7 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (29.85%) Degree
2 41 (20.40%) Security Cleared
3 24 (11.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (11.44%) DV Cleared
5 21 (10.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (9.95%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (9.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 17 (8.46%) SC Cleared
8 16 (7.96%) CCNA
9 15 (7.46%) Azure Certification
10 14 (6.97%) HND
11 9 (4.48%) CISSP
12 8 (3.98%) SANS
13 7 (3.48%) CCNP
13 7 (3.48%) CEH
14 6 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (2.99%) GCIA
14 6 (2.99%) GCIH
14 6 (2.99%) OSCP
15 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (6.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 13 (6.47%) GDPR
4 13 (6.47%) SLA
5 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.00%) NIST
5 2 (1.00%) QA
6 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 117 (58.21%) Active Directory
2 110 (54.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (36.32%) Hyper-V
4 36 (17.91%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (11.94%) vSphere
6 22 (10.95%) Docker
7 6 (2.99%) Terminal Services
7 6 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.49%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.99%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (1.49%) KVM
11 2 (1.00%) Firmware
11 2 (1.00%) NFS
11 2 (1.00%) PowerHA
11 2 (1.00%) SRDF
11 2 (1.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (1.00%) Xen
11 2 (1.00%) XenApp
12 1 (0.50%) ISA Server
12 1 (0.50%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 34 (16.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (11.44%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.44%) SCCM
3 22 (10.95%) Ansible
4 17 (8.46%) Terraform
5 13 (6.47%) Puppet
6 9 (4.48%) Progress Chef
6 9 (4.48%) vCenter Server
7 7 (3.48%) Grafana
7 7 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.48%) vRealize
8 6 (2.99%) PowerCLI
8 6 (2.99%) vMotion
9 5 (2.49%) Autotask
10 4 (1.99%) WSUS
11 3 (1.49%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.49%) SmoothWall
12 2 (1.00%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (1.00%) linkerd
12 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 149 (74.13%) Microsoft
2 139 (69.15%) VMware
3 46 (22.89%) Cisco
4 42 (20.90%) Veeam
5 26 (12.94%) HP
6 21 (10.45%) Dell
7 18 (8.96%) EMC
8 15 (7.46%) NetApp
8 15 (7.46%) Red Hat
9 14 (6.97%) Citrix
9 14 (6.97%) Oracle
10 12 (5.97%) Google
11 8 (3.98%) arcserve
11 8 (3.98%) IBM
11 8 (3.98%) Sophos
12 7 (3.48%) Nimble Storage
13 6 (2.99%) Aruba
13 6 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (2.99%) Datto
13 6 (2.99%) Splunk