SAN Jobs in the South East

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 309 249
Rank change year-on-year +63 -60 +121
Permanent jobs citing SAN 65 95 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.68% 0.51% 0.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.41% 3.35% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 51 87 93
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,750 £27,625
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £58,250 £52,125
90th Percentile £58,750 £64,050 £67,500
England median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £47,586
% change year-on-year -3.16% -0.18% -2.89%

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 1,475 2,835 2,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.35% 15.21% 17.96%
Number of salaries quoted 742 1,898 1,404
10th Percentile £25,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,850 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the South East

SAN
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAN in the South East.

Salary trend for SAN in the South East

SAN
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in the South East over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

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 13 June 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
Surrey +70 27 £40,000 -15.79% 2
Thames Valley +47 21 £41,500 -24.55% 24
Hampshire +70 14 £56,250 +20.97% 9
Oxfordshire +46 11 £41,500 +7.79% 1
Berkshire +28 6 £32,500 -44.92% 12
Buckinghamshire +30 4 £70,000 +27.27% 11
Kent +38 3 £40,000 +5.26% 4
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 43 (66.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (12.31%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.54%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.54%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (44.62%) Azure
2 23 (35.38%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (29.23%) AWS
4 10 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 5 (7.69%) IaaS
6 1 (1.54%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (56.92%) NAS
2 20 (30.77%) Firewall
3 14 (21.54%) DNS
4 12 (18.46%) DHCP
5 11 (16.92%) iSCSI
6 9 (13.85%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (12.31%) LAN
7 8 (12.31%) WAN
8 7 (10.77%) VLAN
8 7 (10.77%) VSAN
9 5 (7.69%) IP Telephony
9 5 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (7.69%) SNMP
10 4 (6.15%) TCP/IP
11 3 (4.62%) Fibre Channel
12 2 (3.08%) VPN
13 1 (1.54%) Ethernet
13 1 (1.54%) Structured Cabling
13 1 (1.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.15%) MySQL
2 4 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.54%) SAP HANA
General
1 19 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.23%) Games
2 6 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Finance
5 3 (4.62%) Legal
6 1 (1.54%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 34 (52.31%) Support Engineer
2 31 (47.69%) Infrastructure Support
3 28 (43.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 22 (33.85%) IT Engineer
5 22 (33.85%) IT Support
6 21 (32.31%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (32.31%) IT Support Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) 3rd Line Support
8 7 (10.77%) 3rd Line Support Technician
8 7 (10.77%) Support Technician
9 6 (9.23%) Support Specialist
9 6 (9.23%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 6 (9.23%) Virtualisation Specialist
9 6 (9.23%) VMware Engineer
9 6 (9.23%) VMware Specialist
9 6 (9.23%) VMware Support Engineer
10 5 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 5 (7.69%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.69%) SAML
2 1 (1.54%) Middleware
2 1 (1.54%) SAP Basis
2 1 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.54%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.23%) Clustering
2 14 (21.54%) Replication
3 6 (9.23%) PKI
4 5 (7.69%) Blackberry
5 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.62%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 58 (89.23%) Windows
2 30 (46.15%) Windows Server
3 20 (30.77%) Linux
4 6 (9.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (6.15%) Apple iOS
6 4 (6.15%) Mac OS
6 4 (6.15%) Unix
7 2 (3.08%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.54%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (46.15%) High Availability
3 24 (36.92%) Disaster Recovery
3 24 (36.92%) Virtual Environments
4 18 (27.69%) Kalman Filter
5 17 (26.15%) Computer Science
6 16 (24.62%) ITIL
7 12 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (18.46%) Server Building
7 12 (18.46%) Web Filtering
8 11 (16.92%) Agile
8 11 (16.92%) Antivirus Management
8 11 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (16.92%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (16.92%) Information Security
8 11 (16.92%) IT Strategy
8 11 (16.92%) Knowledge Transfer
8 11 (16.92%) Patch Management
9 9 (13.85%) Mobile Device Management
10 8 (12.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.08%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.15%) Bash
2 4 (6.15%) Korn
2 4 (6.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (43.08%) Degree
1 28 (43.08%) Security Cleared
2 20 (30.77%) DV Cleared
3 14 (21.54%) HND
4 11 (16.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (13.85%) SC Cleared
6 8 (12.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (7.69%) Azure Certification
7 5 (7.69%) CCNA
7 5 (7.69%) CCNP
7 5 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (3.08%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) Cyber Essentials
1 11 (16.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 11 (16.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (13.85%) GDPR
3 5 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 45 (69.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (44.62%) Hyper-V
4 15 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (15.38%) Docker
6 6 (9.23%) vSphere
7 4 (6.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (1.54%) ISA Server
8 1 (1.54%) KVM
8 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.54%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (16.92%) SCCM
3 10 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 6 (9.23%) Ansible
4 6 (9.23%) PowerCLI
4 6 (9.23%) Puppet
4 6 (9.23%) vCenter Server
4 6 (9.23%) vMotion
4 6 (9.23%) vRealize
5 5 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.54%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 59 (90.77%) Microsoft
2 56 (86.15%) VMware
3 21 (32.31%) Veeam
4 7 (10.77%) arcserve
4 7 (10.77%) Citrix
5 6 (9.23%) HP
6 5 (7.69%) Dell
6 5 (7.69%) McAfee
6 5 (7.69%) Sophos
7 4 (6.15%) Apple
7 4 (6.15%) Red Hat
7 4 (6.15%) Splunk
8 1 (1.54%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.54%) Ivanti
8 1 (1.54%) SAP
8 1 (1.54%) WatchGuard