SAN Jobs in the Midlands

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SAN over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 182 261
Rank change year-on-year -7 +79 -88
Permanent jobs citing SAN 136 157 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.17% 1.63% 0.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.56% 9.12% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 119 91 75
10th Percentile £31,750 £27,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,647 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50,000 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £52,750 £71,500 £63,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +2.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

SAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,588 1,721 1,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.64% 17.88% 15.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,290 728 1,089
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,283 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,375 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% -0.29% -3.33%
75th Percentile £54,750 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,850
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the Midlands

SAN
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for SAN in the Midlands

SAN
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
West Midlands -6 72 £38,000 -22.05% 22
East Midlands -1 63 £41,500 -20.95% 6
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 40 (29.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (14.71%) SharePoint
3 17 (12.50%) IIS
4 6 (4.41%) WebSphere
5 4 (2.94%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 25 (18.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.74%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 93 (68.38%) Azure
2 72 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (18.38%) AWS
4 22 (16.18%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.41%) IaaS
5 6 (4.41%) OneDrive
6 5 (3.68%) PaaS
7 3 (2.21%) Azure Stack
7 3 (2.21%) SaaS
8 2 (1.47%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.47%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.47%) OpenDNS
8 2 (1.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 67 (49.26%) Firewall
2 52 (38.24%) DNS
3 46 (33.82%) DHCP
4 31 (22.79%) WAN
5 27 (19.85%) LAN
5 27 (19.85%) VPN
6 24 (17.65%) VLAN
7 13 (9.56%) TCP/IP
8 12 (8.82%) Wireless
9 11 (8.09%) NAS
10 10 (7.35%) iSCSI
11 9 (6.62%) WLAN
12 6 (4.41%) IPsec
12 6 (4.41%) Network Security
12 6 (4.41%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (2.94%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (2.94%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (2.94%) Kerberos
13 4 (2.94%) SSL
14 3 (2.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.29%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (10.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.94%) MySQL
4 3 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.21%) Redis
5 1 (0.74%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (2.21%) JIRA
1 3 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (36.03%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (11.03%) Finance
4 12 (8.82%) Law
5 10 (7.35%) Legal
6 7 (5.15%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.15%) Retail
7 6 (4.41%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.94%) Aviation
8 4 (2.94%) Avionics
8 4 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.94%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.21%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.21%) Automotive
9 3 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.47%) Marketing
10 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.47%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.74%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (22.79%) Support Engineer
3 27 (19.85%) IT Engineer
4 24 (17.65%) 3rd Line Support
5 20 (14.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 19 (13.97%) Senior
7 18 (13.24%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 14 (10.29%) Infrastructure Support
8 14 (10.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (10.29%) IT Support
9 13 (9.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (9.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 13 (9.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 11 (8.09%) Analyst
11 10 (7.35%) Lead
11 10 (7.35%) Network Manager
12 9 (6.62%) IT Support Engineer
13 8 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
14 6 (4.41%) Senior Technical Analyst
14 6 (4.41%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.21%) .NET
1 3 (2.21%) .NET Core
2 2 (1.47%) LAMP
2 2 (1.47%) LDAP
2 2 (1.47%) SAML
2 2 (1.47%) ServiceStack
2 2 (1.47%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.76%) Clustering
2 10 (7.35%) Data Centre
3 9 (6.62%) PKI
4 8 (5.88%) Driving Licence
4 8 (5.88%) Replication
5 5 (3.68%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.21%) NHS
8 2 (1.47%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.74%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Licensing
9 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.74%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 85 (62.50%) Windows
2 73 (53.68%) Windows Server
3 23 (16.91%) Linux
4 14 (10.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (7.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (6.62%) SUSE
6 9 (6.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (5.15%) Ubuntu
8 6 (4.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 5 (3.68%) CentOS
9 5 (3.68%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (2.94%) Mac OS X
10 4 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (2.94%) Windows 10
11 3 (2.21%) Unix
11 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
12 2 (1.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (39.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 40 (29.41%) ITIL
3 30 (22.06%) Cybersecurity
4 23 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (12.50%) High Availability
5 17 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 16 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (11.03%) Kalman Filter
8 14 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (10.29%) Customer Service
8 14 (10.29%) Mentoring
8 14 (10.29%) Risk Management
9 13 (9.56%) Patch Management
10 11 (8.09%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (8.09%) Task Automation
11 10 (7.35%) Load Balancing
12 9 (6.62%) Systems Engineering
13 8 (5.88%) Proactive Monitoring
13 8 (5.88%) Roadmaps
13 8 (5.88%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 22 (16.18%) SQL
3 6 (4.41%) Bash
4 2 (1.47%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (17.65%) Degree
2 18 (13.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (11.03%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (8.09%) CCNA
5 9 (6.62%) MCSE
5 9 (6.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (5.88%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.68%) MCSA
8 4 (2.94%) CCA
8 4 (2.94%) CCDA
8 4 (2.94%) Citrix Certification
9 3 (2.21%) CCNP
9 3 (2.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.47%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.47%) MCITP
11 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.74%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.74%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.09%) SLA
2 5 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.21%) GDPR
4 2 (1.47%) ISO 31000
4 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 2 (1.47%) NIST
5 1 (0.74%) COBIT
5 1 (0.74%) GRC
5 1 (0.74%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.74%) NCSC
5 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 81 (59.56%) Active Directory
2 79 (58.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (47.06%) Hyper-V
4 14 (10.29%) vSphere
5 8 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (5.15%) Terminal Services
6 7 (5.15%) VMware Server
7 6 (4.41%) NFS
7 6 (4.41%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.94%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (1.47%) Docker
9 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (1.47%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 16 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (8.09%) SmoothWall
3 8 (5.88%) SCCM
4 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Clustering
5 6 (4.41%) SCOM
5 6 (4.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (2.94%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.21%) Ansible
7 3 (2.21%) Backup Exec
7 3 (2.21%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (2.21%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.21%) SCOrch
7 3 (2.21%) Terraform
7 3 (2.21%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (2.21%) vMotion
8 2 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.47%) WSUS
9 1 (0.74%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 108 (79.41%) Microsoft
2 95 (69.85%) VMware
3 53 (38.97%) Veeam
4 50 (36.76%) HP
5 34 (25.00%) Cisco
6 25 (18.38%) Dell
7 19 (13.97%) Nimble Storage
8 16 (11.76%) Citrix
9 15 (11.03%) SonicWALL
10 13 (9.56%) Sophos
11 10 (7.35%) IBM
12 7 (5.15%) Mitel
12 7 (5.15%) Zerto
13 6 (4.41%) Apple
13 6 (4.41%) NetApp
13 6 (4.41%) SolarWinds
14 5 (3.68%) Aruba
15 4 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
15 4 (2.94%) EqualLogic
15 4 (2.94%) Fortinet