SAN Job Trends in the South East

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 224 284
Rank change year-on-year -34 +60 +14
Permanent jobs citing SAN 34 51 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.24% 0.65% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.62% 4.20% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 28 39 91
10th Percentile £30,538 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £40,063 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,375 £41,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.66% -17.00% +22.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £48,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £58,750 £59,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £49,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.51% -1.30% +3.98%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,298 1,214 2,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.97% 15.46% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 820 756 1,877
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,313 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,625 £70,000
England median annual salary £46,330 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.34% +5.26% -5.00%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

SAN job vacancy trend in the South East

SAN
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SAN

SAN
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SAN in the South East

SAN
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Thames Valley +21 17 £67,500 +62.65% 5
Kent -23 14 £33,500 -4.29% 2
Buckinghamshire -1 9 £70,000 - 1
Berkshire +16 8 £67,500 +107.69% 3
Hampshire -35 3 £60,000 +9.09% 2
SAN
England

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (29.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.88%) Apache
3 1 (2.94%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) AWS
1 14 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (26.47%) Azure
3 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (47.06%) DNS
2 15 (44.12%) Firewall
3 14 (41.18%) NAS
4 10 (29.41%) NetScaler
5 8 (23.53%) DHCP
5 8 (23.53%) iSCSI
5 8 (23.53%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (23.53%) Wireshark
6 3 (8.82%) VPN
7 2 (5.88%) Network Security
7 2 (5.88%) PBX
7 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.88%) VLAN
7 2 (5.88%) VSAN
8 1 (2.94%) WAN
8 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) MySQL
1 8 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
General
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Legal
5 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Senior
2 8 (23.53%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) IT Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Applications Architect
4 6 (17.65%) Architect
5 4 (11.76%) IT Support
5 4 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Field Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Field Service Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Design Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Regular Expression
1 4 (11.76%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Management Information System
1 8 (23.53%) PKI
2 6 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) Smartphone
4 2 (5.88%) Clustering
4 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (64.71%) Linux
2 20 (58.82%) Windows
2 20 (58.82%) Windows Server
3 16 (47.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (11.76%) Ubuntu
4 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (5.88%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (29.41%) ITIL
3 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (26.47%) High Availability
4 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (23.53%) Time Management
5 6 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (11.76%) Antivirus Management
6 4 (11.76%) Asset Management
6 4 (11.76%) Coaching
6 4 (11.76%) DevOps
6 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (11.76%) Pattern Matching
6 4 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (11.76%) Security Operations
6 4 (11.76%) SIEM
6 4 (11.76%) User Experience
6 4 (11.76%) Validation
7 3 (8.82%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) PowerShell
2 8 (23.53%) Bash
3 6 (17.65%) Korn
4 2 (5.88%) C
4 2 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) DV Cleared
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) Degree
3 3 (8.82%) A+ Certification
3 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (8.82%) CCNA
3 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (8.82%) MCSE
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (8.82%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (5.88%) RHCE
4 2 (5.88%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (70.59%) Active Directory
2 10 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (26.47%) vSphere
4 8 (23.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (23.53%) Docker
5 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.88%) Samba
5 2 (5.88%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (17.65%) vCenter Server
3 4 (11.76%) SCCM
4 3 (8.82%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (5.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 22 (64.71%) VMware
3 14 (41.18%) Dell
3 14 (41.18%) NetApp
4 12 (35.29%) Red Hat
5 10 (29.41%) Citrix
6 7 (20.59%) Veeam
7 4 (11.76%) 3PAR
7 4 (11.76%) Facebook
7 4 (11.76%) Instagram
7 4 (11.76%) SolarWinds
8 2 (5.88%) Cisco
8 2 (5.88%) D-Link
9 1 (2.94%) Commvault
9 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.94%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (2.94%) Meraki
9 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.94%) Zerto