SAN Job Trends in the Midlands

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 229 203 200
Rank change year-on-year -26 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing SAN 17 23 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.14% 0.46% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.64% 2.70% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 16 19 119
10th Percentile £35,087 £36,950 £31,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £47,125 £54,000 £53,750
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
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 643 852 1,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.20% 16.96% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 502 488 1,258
10th Percentile £27,694 £26,968 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,000 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £40,313
Median % change year-on-year - +5.43% -6.79%
75th Percentile £58,450 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,125 £64,125
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SAN job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SAN
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SAN

SAN
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for SAN in the Midlands

SAN
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Midlands 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
East Midlands -28 9 £40,000 -16.67% 1
West Midlands -21 8 £42,500 -15.00% 2
SAN
England

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 12 (70.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (47.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Entra ID
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (47.06%) Mimecast
3 7 (41.18%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) IaaS
4 2 (11.76%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) Firewall
1 9 (52.94%) Network Security
2 8 (47.06%) Internet
2 8 (47.06%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (17.65%) DNS
4 2 (11.76%) DHCP
4 2 (11.76%) VLAN
4 2 (11.76%) WAN
5 1 (5.88%) LAN
5 1 (5.88%) NAS
5 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (5.88%) SSL
5 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.88%) VPN
5 1 (5.88%) Wireless
General
1 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) IT Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Administrator
2 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (29.41%) IT Administrator
3 5 (29.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) IT Systems Administrator
4 4 (23.53%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Network Administrator
5 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Network Systems Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 1 (5.88%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Clustering
2 4 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (5.88%) PKI
4 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
1 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Server Management
2 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (47.06%) Mobile Device Management
2 8 (47.06%) Patch Management
2 8 (47.06%) Storage Management
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (23.53%) ITSM
3 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
3 4 (23.53%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
4 3 (17.65%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Security Management
4 3 (17.65%) Service Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (5.88%) BCP
6 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity
6 1 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (5.88%) Identity Management
6 1 (5.88%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Bicep
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) A+ Certification
1 4 (23.53%) Network+ Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) CCNA
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) IISP
3 1 (5.88%) ISACA
3 1 (5.88%) MCSE
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) Active Directory
2 11 (64.71%) Hyper-V
3 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 10 (58.82%) Veeam
3 8 (47.06%) SonicWALL
4 6 (35.29%) VMware
5 1 (5.88%) Commvault
5 1 (5.88%) Dell
5 1 (5.88%) Meraki
5 1 (5.88%) NetApp
5 1 (5.88%) Nimble Storage