SAN Jobs in the Midlands

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 192 175
Rank change year-on-year -28 -17 +97
Permanent jobs citing SAN 23 136 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.33% 1.16% 1.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.76% 8.51% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18 119 89
10th Percentile £35,500 £31,750 £27,450
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £31,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £55,750 £52,750 £71,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -

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 834 1,599 1,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.01% 13.70% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 475 1,299 719
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -1.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £64,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
East Midlands -1 12 £50,000 +20.48% 3
West Midlands -11 11 £40,500 +6.58% 14
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 11 (47.83%) IIS
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (39.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.70%) Skype for Business
4 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.70%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) IaaS
3 2 (8.70%) PaaS
3 2 (8.70%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (78.26%) Firewall
2 11 (47.83%) DHCP
2 11 (47.83%) DNS
3 8 (34.78%) VPN
4 6 (26.09%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
6 2 (8.70%) LAN
6 2 (8.70%) NAS
6 2 (8.70%) Skype
6 2 (8.70%) VLAN
6 2 (8.70%) WAN
7 1 (4.35%) HTTP
7 1 (4.35%) Network Security
7 1 (4.35%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (4.35%) PBX
7 1 (4.35%) SSL
7 1 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (65.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) Maven
1 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (43.48%) Law
2 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Police
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) 3rd Line Support
2 7 (30.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Support Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Active Directory Support
4 2 (8.70%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Administrator
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Implementation Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Project Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) SAN Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) SAN Support
4 2 (8.70%) Software Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Software Implementation Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) LDAP
1 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Clustering
2 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (95.65%) Windows
2 21 (91.30%) Windows Server
3 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (8.70%) Linux
5 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.35%) CentOS
6 1 (4.35%) Debian
6 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (26.09%) Patch Management
4 5 (21.74%) High Availability
5 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (13.04%) Server Management
6 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (8.70%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (8.70%) Load Balancing
6 2 (8.70%) Machine Learning
7 1 (4.35%) Agile
7 1 (4.35%) Capacity Management
7 1 (4.35%) DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) Incident Management
7 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (4.35%) Matrix Management
7 1 (4.35%) Release Management
7 1 (4.35%) Scrum
7 1 (4.35%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.35%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (73.91%) Active Directory
2 14 (60.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (56.52%) Hyper-V
4 6 (26.09%) Terminal Services
4 6 (26.09%) vSphere
5 1 (4.35%) Docker
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (13.04%) SCCM
2 3 (13.04%) SCOM
3 2 (8.70%) SCOrch
3 2 (8.70%) SCSM
3 2 (8.70%) VxRail
4 1 (4.35%) Nessus
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (78.26%) Microsoft
2 17 (73.91%) VMware
3 8 (34.78%) Dell
4 7 (30.43%) HP
4 7 (30.43%) NetApp
5 3 (13.04%) Cisco
5 3 (13.04%) Citrix
5 3 (13.04%) Veeam
6 1 (4.35%) Acronis
6 1 (4.35%) EMC
6 1 (4.35%) EqualLogic
6 1 (4.35%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.35%) Sophos
6 1 (4.35%) Ubiquiti