SAN Jobs in the North of England

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 238 191
Rank change year-on-year -65 -47 +70
Permanent jobs citing SAN 46 154 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.83% 1.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.98% 6.99% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 42 141 155
10th Percentile £31,325 - £27,600
25th Percentile £32,813 £31,250 £32,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £43,742 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.74% +9.36% -5.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £47,672
90th Percentile £81,639 £75,000 £53,250
England median annual salary £46,000 £49,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.60% +3.68% -3.06%

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 2,328 2,203 3,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 19.78% 11.93% 19.71%
Number of salaries quoted 976 1,676 1,213
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,813 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,086 £31,250 £34,723
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.76% -5.56% -2.64%
75th Percentile £45,764 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,113 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the North of England

SAN
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAN in the North of England.

Salary trend for SAN in the North of England

SAN
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
Yorkshire +14 23 £35,000 -22.22% 6
North West -38 13 £62,205 +21.11% 13
North East +24 10 £60,000 +84.62%
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (4.35%) Confluence
1 2 (4.35%) Tomcat
1 2 (4.35%) WebSphere
1 2 (4.35%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 33 (71.74%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) GCP
3 8 (17.39%) AWS
4 7 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.52%) Nutanix
6 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.35%) GitHub
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (4.35%) Mimecast
6 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.17%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 21 (45.65%) NAS
2 12 (26.09%) Firewall
3 10 (21.74%) DNS
4 9 (19.57%) DHCP
5 8 (17.39%) VSAN
6 7 (15.22%) Multicast
6 7 (15.22%) VPN
7 5 (10.87%) LAN
7 5 (10.87%) WAN
8 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
9 2 (4.35%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (4.35%) FCoE
9 2 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (4.35%) IP Telephony
9 2 (4.35%) iSCSI
9 2 (4.35%) PuTTY
9 2 (4.35%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (4.35%) SD-WAN
9 2 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) DB2
2 5 (10.87%) MongoDB
2 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (8.70%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (8.70%) JIRA
3 3 (6.52%) Artifactory
3 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.52%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (6.52%) SonarQube
3 3 (6.52%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.17%) Git
5 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 27 (58.70%) Social Skills
2 15 (32.61%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Advertising
3 5 (10.87%) Banking
4 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Games
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Support Engineer
2 10 (21.74%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Senior
5 5 (10.87%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) DBA
5 5 (10.87%) IT Support
6 4 (8.70%) Administrator
6 4 (8.70%) Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) IT Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) SQL DBA
7 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Senior IT Support
7 3 (6.52%) Senior IT Support Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Support Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) Middleware
2 3 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.35%) LDAP
4 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Replication
2 5 (10.87%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (10.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.70%) Hedge funds
4 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.35%) Clustering
5 2 (4.35%) Driving Licence
5 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.35%) HP Storage
5 2 (4.35%) LPAR
5 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.17%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 28 (60.87%) Windows
2 14 (30.43%) Linux
3 9 (19.57%) Windows 10
4 7 (15.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (13.04%) Windows Server
6 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (4.35%) Solaris
8 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (23.91%) DevOps
3 10 (21.74%) Performance Optimisation
4 9 (19.57%) Containerisation
4 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (17.39%) High Availability
5 8 (17.39%) Mentoring
6 7 (15.22%) Computer Science
6 7 (15.22%) ITSM
7 6 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (13.04%) Test Automation
8 5 (10.87%) Agile
8 5 (10.87%) Architectural Design
8 5 (10.87%) Change Data Capture
8 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
8 5 (10.87%) Defect Management
8 5 (10.87%) Fintech
8 5 (10.87%) ITIL
8 5 (10.87%) Product Management
8 5 (10.87%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (43.48%) SQL
2 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.87%) Java
4 4 (8.70%) Python
5 3 (6.52%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Degree
2 8 (17.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (15.22%) Azure Certification
4 6 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.17%) CCNA
6 1 (2.17%) CCNP
6 1 (2.17%) HP ASE
6 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.17%) MCSA
6 1 (2.17%) MCSE
6 1 (2.17%) NCIE
6 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.35%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (28.26%) Hyper-V
3 10 (21.74%) Active Directory
4 6 (13.04%) VMware NSX
5 5 (10.87%) Docker
6 3 (6.52%) KVM
6 3 (6.52%) vSphere
7 2 (4.35%) Firmware
7 2 (4.35%) NFS
7 2 (4.35%) PowerHA
7 2 (4.35%) SRDF
7 2 (4.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (4.35%) Xen
8 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Terraform
2 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.04%) Ansible
3 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (13.04%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.52%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (6.52%) Grafana
4 3 (6.52%) Puppet
5 2 (4.35%) Control-M
6 1 (2.17%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.17%) vRealize
6 1 (2.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 26 (56.52%) VMware
3 18 (39.13%) Cisco
4 8 (17.39%) Google
4 8 (17.39%) Oracle
5 7 (15.22%) IBM
6 6 (13.04%) Veeam
7 5 (10.87%) Nimble Storage
8 4 (8.70%) EMC
8 4 (8.70%) HP
8 4 (8.70%) Sophos
9 3 (6.52%) Atlassian
9 3 (6.52%) Dell
9 3 (6.52%) Meraki
9 3 (6.52%) NetApp
9 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
10 2 (4.35%) ESET
10 2 (4.35%) F5
10 2 (4.35%) SonicWALL
10 2 (4.35%) Synology