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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 351 306
Rank change year-on-year -135 -45 +225
Permanent jobs citing SAN 207 637 996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.74% 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.50% 5.28% 7.12%
Number of salaries quoted 146 557 606
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,550 £30,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,425 £50,000 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +4.88% +0.36%
75th Percentile £58,750 £64,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,886 £75,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £49,625
% change year-on-year -3.16% -4.28% +3.39%

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 8,287 12,056 13,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.77% 13.94% 15.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,727 8,527 7,173
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% -4.29%

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 19 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 19 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
London +33 52 £65,000 - 100
South East +45 51 £41,500 -17.00% 66
North of England -57 46 £51,500 +21.18% 30
South West +62 23 £36,500 -27.00% 15
Yorkshire +20 23 £35,000 -20.45% 7
Midlands -34 21 £50,000 +25.00% 22
North West -41 14 £58,603 +14.09% 22
East of England 0 13 £52,000 +19.54% 19
East Midlands -27 12 £50,000 +19.05% 9
North East +14 9 £60,000 +84.62% 1
West Midlands -12 9 £37,500 -1.32% 13
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 (32.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.76%) SharePoint
3 13 (6.28%) Exchange Server 2013
4 11 (5.31%) Skype for Business
5 10 (4.83%) IIS
6 8 (3.86%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (1.45%) Confluence
8 2 (0.97%) nginx
8 2 (0.97%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.97%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.48%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (0.48%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.48%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 20 (9.66%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (3.86%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (7.25%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 94 (45.41%) Azure
2 58 (28.02%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (17.87%) AWS
4 24 (11.59%) Entra ID
5 16 (7.73%) IaaS
6 11 (5.31%) GCP
6 11 (5.31%) PaaS
6 11 (5.31%) SaaS
7 9 (4.35%) Cohesity
8 5 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.93%) Nutanix
9 4 (1.93%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.45%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.97%) GitHub
11 2 (0.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 80 (38.65%) Firewall
2 75 (36.23%) NAS
3 59 (28.50%) DNS
4 53 (25.60%) DHCP
5 33 (15.94%) VLAN
6 24 (11.59%) VPN
7 21 (10.14%) WAN
8 20 (9.66%) LAN
8 20 (9.66%) SMTP
8 20 (9.66%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (8.21%) VSAN
10 14 (6.76%) Structured Cabling
10 14 (6.76%) VoIP
11 13 (6.28%) PBX
12 12 (5.80%) Cisco IOS
12 12 (5.80%) FTP
12 12 (5.80%) IPv4
12 12 (5.80%) Remote Desktop
13 11 (5.31%) iSCSI
13 11 (5.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (22.71%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.42%) DB2
4 5 (2.42%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.93%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.45%) Power BI
7 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.48%) MySQL
8 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (2.42%) Jenkins
1 5 (2.42%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (1.93%) JIRA
3 3 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.97%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.97%) Git
4 2 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.97%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.97%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.48%) Maven
5 1 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 70 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 46 (22.22%) Finance
3 19 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.70%) Manufacturing
5 16 (7.73%) Legal
6 15 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.35%) Advertising
7 9 (4.35%) Law
8 7 (3.38%) Banking
8 7 (3.38%) Games
8 7 (3.38%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.93%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.97%) Local Government
12 1 (0.48%) Billing
12 1 (0.48%) French Language
12 1 (0.48%) German Language
12 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.48%) Polish Language
12 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (26.09%) Support Engineer
2 50 (24.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (13.53%) IT Engineer
4 27 (13.04%) Senior
5 26 (12.56%) IT Support
6 24 (11.59%) Infrastructure Support
7 22 (10.63%) IT Support Engineer
8 20 (9.66%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 19 (9.18%) Analyst
10 18 (8.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 18 (8.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (7.73%) 3rd Line Support
12 15 (7.25%) Administrator
13 14 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (6.76%) Coordinator
13 14 (6.76%) Help Desk Coordinator
14 11 (5.31%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 10 (4.83%) Consultant
15 10 (4.83%) Junior
16 9 (4.35%) Junior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.86%) Middleware
2 4 (1.93%) LDAP
2 4 (1.93%) SAML
3 2 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.48%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.48%) EDI
4 1 (0.48%) REST
4 1 (0.48%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.48%) SAP XI
4 1 (0.48%) Web Services
4 1 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.49%) Clustering
2 27 (13.04%) Replication
3 17 (8.21%) Data Centre
4 14 (6.76%) Hedge funds
4 14 (6.76%) Video Conferencing
5 13 (6.28%) CCTV
5 13 (6.28%) Public Cloud
6 12 (5.80%) Private Cloud
7 11 (5.31%) Blackberry
8 9 (4.35%) Driving Licence
8 9 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (4.35%) Podcast
9 7 (3.38%) PKI
10 6 (2.90%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.45%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.45%) Smartphone
12 2 (0.97%) Fibre Optics
12 2 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 158 (76.33%) Windows
2 83 (40.10%) Windows Server
3 44 (21.26%) Linux
4 37 (17.87%) Windows 10
5 18 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (8.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (6.76%) Android
8 8 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (3.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.93%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.45%) Unix
10 3 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.97%) CentOS
11 2 (0.97%) Solaris
11 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.48%) AIX
12 1 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.48%) Debian
12 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (28.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 45 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
4 41 (19.81%) High Availability
5 37 (17.87%) Virtual Environments
6 30 (14.49%) ITIL
7 29 (14.01%) Cybersecurity
8 24 (11.59%) Computer Science
9 21 (10.14%) Time Management
10 20 (9.66%) ERP
11 18 (8.70%) DevOps
12 17 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (8.21%) IT Strategy
12 17 (8.21%) Kalman Filter
13 16 (7.73%) Patch Management
14 15 (7.25%) Agile
14 15 (7.25%) Customer Service
15 14 (6.76%) Incident Management
15 14 (6.76%) ITSM
15 14 (6.76%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 42 (20.29%) SQL
3 24 (11.59%) Python
4 5 (2.42%) Java
5 3 (1.45%) Bash
6 2 (0.97%) C#
7 1 (0.48%) Korn
7 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (30.92%) Degree
2 45 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 27 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (11.59%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 22 (10.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 20 (9.66%) CCNA
7 20 (9.66%) SC Cleared
8 14 (6.76%) Network+ Certification
9 13 (6.28%) Azure Certification
10 12 (5.80%) HND
11 11 (5.31%) CISSP
12 10 (4.83%) SANS
13 9 (4.35%) CEH
13 9 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
13 9 (4.35%) GCIA
13 9 (4.35%) GCIH
13 9 (4.35%) OSCP
14 6 (2.90%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.25%) GDPR
2 14 (6.76%) SLA
3 9 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.45%) NIST
7 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.97%) QA
8 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 121 (58.45%) Active Directory
2 112 (54.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 47 (22.71%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (11.59%) vSphere
6 18 (8.70%) Docker
7 12 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (5.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (4.35%) VMware NSX
10 6 (2.90%) Terminal Services
11 4 (1.93%) KVM
12 2 (0.97%) Firmware
12 2 (0.97%) NFS
12 2 (0.97%) PowerHA
12 2 (0.97%) SRDF
12 2 (0.97%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.97%) Xen
13 1 (0.48%) ISA Server
13 1 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 30 (14.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (10.14%) SCCM
3 20 (9.66%) Ansible
4 19 (9.18%) Kubernetes
5 16 (7.73%) Terraform
6 13 (6.28%) Puppet
6 13 (6.28%) WSUS
7 11 (5.31%) vCenter Server
8 9 (4.35%) Progress Chef
9 7 (3.38%) PowerCLI
9 7 (3.38%) vRealize
10 6 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.90%) vMotion
11 4 (1.93%) Grafana
11 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (1.45%) SCOM
13 2 (0.97%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.97%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.97%) SCSM
13 2 (0.97%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 149 (71.98%) Microsoft
2 145 (70.05%) VMware
3 59 (28.50%) Veeam
4 51 (24.64%) Cisco
5 22 (10.63%) Citrix
5 22 (10.63%) HP
5 22 (10.63%) NetApp
6 19 (9.18%) Dell
7 15 (7.25%) EMC
8 11 (5.31%) Oracle
9 10 (4.83%) Google
9 10 (4.83%) Red Hat
10 9 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (3.86%) IBM
12 7 (3.38%) Meraki
12 7 (3.38%) Sophos
13 6 (2.90%) Nimble Storage
14 5 (2.42%) Veritas
15 4 (1.93%) arcserve
15 4 (1.93%) Symantec