SAN Job Trends in London

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring SAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 354 396
Rank change year-on-year +6 +42 -48
Permanent jobs citing SAN 64 36 120
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.30% 0.29% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.44% 2.90% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 41 20 106
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,123 £46,875
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,500 £54,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £84,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £104,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -3.16% -0.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,858 1,243 3,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.71% 10.17% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,048 904 1,967
10th Percentile £33,250 £33,200 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,813 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SAN job vacancy trend in London

SAN
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SAN

SAN
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SAN in London

SAN
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Central London -5 3 £52,500 -38.24%
West London -15 2 - - 1
South London +19 1 £47,500 -35.59%
SAN
England

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 55 (85.94%) Azure
2 46 (71.88%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (32.81%) Datadog
3 21 (32.81%) IaaS
3 21 (32.81%) PaaS
4 19 (29.69%) SaaS
5 8 (12.50%) AWS
6 7 (10.94%) Entra ID
7 5 (7.81%) Nutanix
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 51 (79.69%) DNS
2 43 (67.19%) DHCP
2 43 (67.19%) Firewall
3 40 (62.50%) VLAN
3 40 (62.50%) VPN
4 39 (60.94%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (10.94%) WAN
6 5 (7.81%) VSAN
7 4 (6.25%) LAN
8 3 (4.69%) NAS
8 3 (4.69%) TCP/IP
8 3 (4.69%) VoIP
8 3 (4.69%) Wireless
9 2 (3.13%) iSCSI
9 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (65.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (29.69%) Chocolatey
2 1 (1.56%) Git
General
1 29 (45.31%) Finance
2 21 (32.81%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (31.25%) Banking
4 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Legal
5 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (46.88%) IT Engineer
2 29 (45.31%) Senior
3 26 (40.63%) Senior IT Engineer
4 18 (28.13%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (17.19%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (15.63%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (14.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 8 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (12.50%) Support Engineer
10 7 (10.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (10.94%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (10.94%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 7 (10.94%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (9.38%) Identity Management Engineer
11 6 (9.38%) Linux Engineer
12 5 (7.81%) Linux Support
12 5 (7.81%) Linux Support Engineer
12 5 (7.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.69%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (17.19%) PKI
3 4 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.25%) Replication
4 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 58 (90.63%) Windows
2 18 (28.13%) Windows Server
3 14 (21.88%) Linux
4 13 (20.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.56%) CentOS
6 1 (1.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (60.94%) ITSM
2 37 (57.81%) Migration
3 34 (53.13%) Disaster Recovery
4 22 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (31.25%) Change Management
5 20 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (29.69%) Analytical Thinking
6 19 (29.69%) Security Patching
7 18 (28.13%) ITIL
8 13 (20.31%) RBAC
9 12 (18.75%) SIEM
10 8 (12.50%) Business Continuity
11 7 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (10.94%) Security Hardening
11 7 (10.94%) Security Monitoring
12 6 (9.38%) Computer Science
12 6 (9.38%) Identity Management
12 6 (9.38%) Privileged Identity Management
13 5 (7.81%) Converged Infrastructure
13 5 (7.81%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.06%) SQL
2 5 (7.81%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.13%) Java
4 1 (1.56%) Bash
4 1 (1.56%) Python
4 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (23.44%) Azure Certification
2 13 (20.31%) Degree
3 12 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 10 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (10.94%) CCNP
5 7 (10.94%) DV Cleared
6 6 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
8 4 (6.25%) CCNA
9 3 (4.69%) MCSE
10 2 (3.13%) Dell Certification
10 2 (3.13%) MCSA
11 1 (1.56%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (1.56%) RHCE
11 1 (1.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (34.38%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (89.06%) Active Directory
2 31 (48.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (23.44%) vSphere
4 13 (20.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (6.25%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.56%) Docker
7 1 (1.56%) Firmware
7 1 (1.56%) KVM
Systems Management
1 19 (29.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 19 (29.69%) SCCM
2 9 (14.06%) WSUS
3 6 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (7.81%) VxRail
5 2 (3.13%) WhatsUp Gold
5 2 (3.13%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.56%) Ansible
6 1 (1.56%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.56%) Nagios
6 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 61 (95.31%) VMware
2 55 (85.94%) Microsoft
3 19 (29.69%) AppDynamics
3 19 (29.69%) Dynatrace
3 19 (29.69%) Tenable
4 12 (18.75%) Cisco
5 8 (12.50%) Dell
6 7 (10.94%) EMC
6 7 (10.94%) McAfee
7 6 (9.38%) Broadcom
8 5 (7.81%) Red Hat
8 5 (7.81%) Veeam
9 3 (4.69%) Commvault
9 3 (4.69%) Meraki
9 3 (4.69%) Sophos
10 2 (3.13%) Citrix
10 2 (3.13%) Fujitsu
10 2 (3.13%) HP
10 2 (3.13%) Juniper
10 2 (3.13%) Ubiquiti