SAN Job Trends in the North of England

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 261 234
Rank change year-on-year -57 -27 -16
Permanent jobs citing SAN 36 39 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.42% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.49% 2.12% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 26 34 70
10th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £31,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,000 £43,742
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -19.99% +21.51%
75th Percentile £60,625 £37,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £70,750 £60,125 £65,625
England median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,444 1,838 1,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.18% 19.57% 9.06%
Number of salaries quoted 910 842 792
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,000 £27,525
25th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £30,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% -32.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £44,688 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -3.85%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SAN job vacancy trend in the North of England

SAN
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SAN

SAN
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SAN in the North of England

SAN
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
North West +8 28 £50,000 +38.89% 3
Yorkshire -64 6 £55,000 +57.14% 5
North East -64 2 - - 3
SAN
England

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (16.67%) IIS
3 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (94.44%) Azure
2 13 (36.11%) AWS
3 8 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (19.44%) GitHub
5 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (13.89%) Power Platform
6 4 (11.11%) GCP
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.78%) ChatGPT
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.78%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (30.56%) Firewall
2 10 (27.78%) DNS
3 9 (25.00%) DHCP
4 6 (16.67%) LAN
4 6 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 5 (13.89%) NAS
5 5 (13.89%) WAN
6 2 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (2.78%) Ethernet
7 1 (2.78%) FTP
7 1 (2.78%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (2.78%) SSH
7 1 (2.78%) SSL
7 1 (2.78%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (2.78%) VLAN
7 1 (2.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Advertising
5 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Senior
3 8 (22.22%) VMware Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) SAN Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Administrator
6 5 (13.89%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) IT Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) IT Support
7 4 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Support Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) VMware Support Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Data Centre
1 10 (27.78%) Driving Licence
1 10 (27.78%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (11.11%) Clustering
3 3 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Replication
5 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.78%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.78%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (55.56%) Windows
1 20 (55.56%) Windows Server
2 6 (16.67%) Linux
3 3 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.78%) SUSE
4 1 (2.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (41.67%) Storage Management
3 9 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 8 (22.22%) BCP
4 8 (22.22%) Business Continuity Planning
4 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (19.44%) Virtual Environments
6 6 (16.67%) AI
6 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 6 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
7 5 (13.89%) DevOps
7 5 (13.89%) Service Delivery
7 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (11.11%) Application Security
8 4 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 8 (22.22%) Bicep
3 7 (19.44%) Python
3 7 (19.44%) SQL
4 1 (2.78%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 10 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (13.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 4 (11.11%) MCSA
4 3 (8.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.78%) HP ASE
5 1 (2.78%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.78%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (72.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (69.44%) Active Directory
3 8 (22.22%) Firmware
4 7 (19.44%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.56%) vSphere
6 1 (2.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (2.78%) NFS
6 1 (2.78%) Terminal Services
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) VxRail
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (11.11%) WSUS
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Avamar
3 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (86.11%) VMware
2 20 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 7 (19.44%) Veeam
4 6 (16.67%) Cisco
4 6 (16.67%) Dell
4 6 (16.67%) Zerto
5 5 (13.89%) HP
6 4 (11.11%) Commvault
6 4 (11.11%) Meraki
6 4 (11.11%) Tenable
7 1 (2.78%) Broadcom
7 1 (2.78%) Brocade
7 1 (2.78%) EMC
7 1 (2.78%) NetApp
7 1 (2.78%) Oracle
7 1 (2.78%) WatchGuard