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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 353 297
Rank change year-on-year -136 -56 +259
Permanent jobs citing SAN 201 643 989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.72% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.28% 5.30% 7.11%
Number of salaries quoted 145 561 605
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,900 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £61,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,886 £75,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% -2.02%

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 8,810 12,136 13,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.99% 13.56% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,706 8,540 7,030
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,813 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +49 60 £41,500 -15.09% 169
North of England -50 46 £51,500 +17.74% 124
London +30 42 £67,500 +3.85% 62
South West +57 24 £39,500 -21.00% 77
Yorkshire +18 23 £35,000 -22.22% 54
Midlands -27 18 £50,000 +25.00% 114
North West -31 13 £62,205 +21.11% 55
North East +21 10 £60,000 +84.62% 15
East of England +5 10 £51,500 +18.39% 90
West Midlands -1 9 £46,500 +22.37% 58
East Midlands -10 9 £50,000 +12.36% 49
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 67 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.97%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.98%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (3.48%) IIS
4 7 (3.48%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.99%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
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%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (0.50%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 19 (9.45%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.99%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (7.96%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 96 (47.76%) Azure
2 60 (29.85%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (17.91%) AWS
4 24 (11.94%) Entra ID
5 13 (6.47%) IaaS
6 12 (5.97%) GCP
7 6 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (2.99%) PaaS
7 6 (2.99%) SaaS
8 5 (2.49%) Cohesity
8 5 (2.49%) Nutanix
9 4 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.99%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.49%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.00%) GitHub
11 2 (1.00%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 82 (40.80%) Firewall
2 74 (36.82%) NAS
3 52 (25.87%) DNS
4 46 (22.89%) DHCP
5 30 (14.93%) VLAN
6 24 (11.94%) Wi-Fi
7 20 (9.95%) VPN
7 20 (9.95%) WAN
8 18 (8.96%) LAN
9 15 (7.46%) iSCSI
9 15 (7.46%) VoIP
9 15 (7.46%) VSAN
10 12 (5.97%) Remote Desktop
10 12 (5.97%) SMTP
11 11 (5.47%) TCP/IP
12 10 (4.98%) MPLS
12 10 (4.98%) Structured Cabling
13 9 (4.48%) PBX
14 8 (3.98%) FTP
14 8 (3.98%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (24.88%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.49%) DB2
4 5 (2.49%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.99%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.49%) MySQL
7 2 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.00%) Power BI
8 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
8 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 73 (36.32%) Social Skills
2 44 (21.89%) Finance
3 19 (9.45%) Manufacturing
4 16 (7.96%) Legal
5 14 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.98%) Advertising
7 7 (3.48%) Banking
7 7 (3.48%) Games
8 6 (2.99%) Law
8 6 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.99%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Billing
11 2 (1.00%) Local Government
11 2 (1.00%) Retail
12 1 (0.50%) French Language
12 1 (0.50%) German Language
12 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 60 (29.85%) Support Engineer
2 50 (24.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 34 (16.92%) IT Engineer
4 32 (15.92%) IT Support
5 29 (14.43%) Infrastructure Support
6 27 (13.43%) IT Support Engineer
7 24 (11.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 23 (11.44%) Senior
9 22 (10.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (8.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 18 (8.96%) 3rd Line Support
10 18 (8.96%) Analyst
11 15 (7.46%) Administrator
11 15 (7.46%) Coordinator
11 15 (7.46%) Help Desk Coordinator
12 13 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (5.97%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 10 (4.98%) Junior
15 9 (4.48%) Junior Analyst
15 9 (4.48%) Security Analyst
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 27 (13.43%) Clustering
1 27 (13.43%) Replication
2 17 (8.46%) Data Centre
3 16 (7.96%) Video Conferencing
4 14 (6.97%) CCTV
4 14 (6.97%) Hedge funds
5 10 (4.98%) Driving Licence
6 9 (4.48%) Blackberry
6 9 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.48%) PKI
6 9 (4.48%) Podcast
7 8 (3.98%) Private Cloud
7 8 (3.98%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.99%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.99%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.49%) Smartphone
11 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.00%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 155 (77.11%) Windows
2 81 (40.30%) Windows Server
3 49 (24.38%) Linux
4 33 (16.42%) Windows 10
5 18 (8.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (7.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (4.48%) Android
7 9 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (3.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (2.49%) Unix
10 4 (1.99%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
12 2 (1.00%) CentOS
12 2 (1.00%) Solaris
12 2 (1.00%) Ubuntu
12 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.50%) AIX
13 1 (0.50%) Debian
13 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (33.83%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (30.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 42 (20.90%) Disaster Recovery
4 40 (19.90%) High Availability
4 40 (19.90%) Virtual Environments
5 34 (16.92%) ITIL
6 30 (14.93%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (13.43%) Computer Science
8 23 (11.44%) Time Management
9 21 (10.45%) ERP
10 19 (9.45%) Agile
10 19 (9.45%) DevOps
10 19 (9.45%) Kalman Filter
11 18 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (7.96%) Customer Service
12 16 (7.96%) IT Strategy
13 15 (7.46%) Server Building
14 14 (6.97%) Mentoring
14 14 (6.97%) Migration
14 14 (6.97%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (34.33%) PowerShell
2 41 (20.40%) SQL
3 21 (10.45%) Python
4 6 (2.99%) Java
5 4 (1.99%) Bash
6 3 (1.49%) C#
7 2 (1.00%) Korn
8 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (32.34%) Degree
2 43 (21.39%) Security Cleared
3 26 (12.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (12.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (11.94%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (11.44%) DV Cleared
7 21 (10.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 20 (9.95%) CCNA
9 18 (8.96%) SC Cleared
10 15 (7.46%) Azure Certification
11 14 (6.97%) HND
12 11 (5.47%) CISSP
13 10 (4.98%) Network+ Certification
13 10 (4.98%) SANS
14 9 (4.48%) CEH
14 9 (4.48%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (4.48%) GCIA
14 9 (4.48%) GCIH
14 9 (4.48%) OSCP
15 7 (3.48%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.46%) SLA
2 14 (6.97%) GDPR
3 12 (5.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (4.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (4.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.00%) NIST
6 2 (1.00%) QA
7 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 119 (59.20%) Active Directory
2 109 (54.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (35.82%) Hyper-V
4 41 (20.40%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (11.94%) vSphere
6 20 (9.95%) Docker
7 8 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (2.99%) Terminal Services
8 6 (2.99%) VMware NSX
9 5 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.99%) KVM
11 2 (1.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
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%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 30 (14.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (10.95%) Ansible
3 21 (10.45%) Kubernetes
4 20 (9.95%) SCCM
5 17 (8.46%) Terraform
6 13 (6.47%) Puppet
7 10 (4.98%) WSUS
8 9 (4.48%) Progress Chef
9 8 (3.98%) vCenter Server
10 7 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (3.48%) vRealize
11 6 (2.99%) PowerCLI
11 6 (2.99%) vMotion
12 5 (2.49%) Grafana
13 3 (1.49%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (1.00%) Autotask
14 2 (1.00%) Failover Clustering
14 2 (1.00%) Istio
14 2 (1.00%) linkerd
14 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 146 (72.64%) Microsoft
2 139 (69.15%) VMware
3 53 (26.37%) Veeam
4 48 (23.88%) Cisco
5 23 (11.44%) HP
6 20 (9.95%) Dell
7 19 (9.45%) Citrix
8 17 (8.46%) NetApp
9 15 (7.46%) EMC
10 12 (5.97%) Google
11 11 (5.47%) Oracle
11 11 (5.47%) Red Hat
12 9 (4.48%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (3.98%) IBM
13 8 (3.98%) Sophos
14 7 (3.48%) Nimble Storage
15 6 (2.99%) Meraki
16 5 (2.49%) arcserve
16 5 (2.49%) McAfee
16 5 (2.49%) SonicWALL