SAN Jobs in the North West

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 246 165
Rank change year-on-year -31 -81 +68
Permanent jobs citing SAN 13 53 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.17% 0.51% 1.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.95% 4.50% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 13 50 66
10th Percentile £33,724 £28,325 £29,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,205 £51,364 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% +14.14% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £70,625 £48,000
90th Percentile - £76,250 £53,750
England median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -3.06%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,367 1,179 1,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.52% 11.40% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 435 895 655
10th Percentile £23,000 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £23,504 £31,500 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £54,938 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,800 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the North West

SAN
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for SAN in the North West

SAN
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SAN in the North West

SAN
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Manchester +29 7 £71,991 +40.16% 26
Lancashire -59 5 £55,000 +33.39% 7
Cumbria -73 1 £45,000 +28.57% 1
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) Nutanix
5 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) NAS
2 7 (53.85%) DHCP
2 7 (53.85%) DNS
3 6 (46.15%) VSAN
4 4 (30.77%) Firewall
5 2 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (15.38%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
2 5 (38.46%) MongoDB
2 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.69%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (53.85%) Mentoring
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Architectural Design
3 5 (38.46%) Defect Management
3 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (38.46%) Fintech
3 5 (38.46%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (38.46%) Service Design
4 2 (15.38%) Antivirus Management
4 2 (15.38%) Budget Management
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
4 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Server Management
4 2 (15.38%) Storage Management
4 2 (15.38%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Azure Certification
1 7 (53.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) VMware NSX
2 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) Docker
3 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.69%) KVM
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Progress Chef
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) VMware
2 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
3 5 (38.46%) Cisco
3 5 (38.46%) Google
3 5 (38.46%) Oracle
4 4 (30.77%) Sophos
5 3 (23.08%) Meraki
6 2 (15.38%) ESET
6 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
6 2 (15.38%) Synology
6 2 (15.38%) Veeam
7 1 (7.69%) CyberArk