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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 232 206
Rank change year-on-year +9 -26 +39
Permanent jobs citing SAN 36 47 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.34% 0.52% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.38% 4.90% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23 36 74
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,250 £25,155
25th Percentile £33,250 £39,527 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £52,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.48% +36.36% -3.75%
75th Percentile £42,500 £59,063 £48,063
90th Percentile £69,732 £68,250 £65,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +11.11%

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 2,601 960 1,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.47% 10.52% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 751 531 968
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £25,500 £34,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% - -
75th Percentile £42,915 £60,000 £61,949
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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
Yorkshire -15 24 £36,500 -30.48% 5
North West +22 6 £49,219 -7.13% 7
North East -2 6 £35,000 -30.00% 6
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 16 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.33%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (83.33%) Azure
1 30 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (30.56%) SaaS
3 7 (19.44%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.33%) GitHub
5 2 (5.56%) AWS
5 2 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (44.44%) Firewall
2 10 (27.78%) VLAN
2 10 (27.78%) VoIP
3 3 (8.33%) Internet
3 3 (8.33%) LAN
3 3 (8.33%) SSL
3 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (8.33%) WAN
3 3 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (5.56%) Artifactory
2 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
2 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (47.22%) Manufacturing
2 11 (30.56%) Advertising
3 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Law
5 3 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Support Technician
2 11 (30.56%) Infrastructure Support
2 11 (30.56%) Infrastructure Support Technician
2 11 (30.56%) Infrastructure Technician
2 11 (30.56%) IT Support
3 7 (19.44%) Senior
4 6 (16.67%) Support Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Support Technician
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Technician
7 3 (8.33%) Field Support Technician
7 3 (8.33%) IT Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (8.33%) IT Technician
7 3 (8.33%) Senior IT Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Senior IT Support
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Support Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (27.78%) Clustering
3 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (58.33%) Windows
2 12 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 9 (25.00%) Linux
4 7 (19.44%) Windows 10
4 7 (19.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 11 (30.56%) Migration
3 7 (19.44%) ITIL
4 6 (16.67%) DevOps
5 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (8.33%) Architecture Roadmap
6 3 (8.33%) Change Control
6 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 3 (8.33%) CRM
6 3 (8.33%) Defect Management
6 3 (8.33%) Release Management
6 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 3 (8.33%) TOGAF
7 2 (5.56%) Containerisation
7 2 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (5.56%) IT Strategy
7 2 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.11%) Python
4 3 (8.33%) Bicep
5 2 (5.56%) C#
5 2 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 17 (47.22%) Active Directory
2 13 (36.11%) Hyper-V
3 12 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.56%) Docker
4 2 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) Control-M
2 2 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (5.56%) Grafana
2 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 22 (61.11%) VMware
3 7 (19.44%) Dell
3 7 (19.44%) HP
3 7 (19.44%) SonicWALL
3 7 (19.44%) Supermicro
4 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) Nimble Storage