SAN Jobs in the South West

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 157 214 200
Rank change year-on-year +57 -14 +62
Permanent jobs citing SAN 24 72 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.68% 0.74% 1.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.26% 5.76% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 14 66 36
10th Percentile - £31,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £28,750 £37,500 £34,605
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £48,750 £57,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,350 £64,750 £68,125
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
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 563 1,251 1,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.99% 12.81% 19.20%
Number of salaries quoted 338 937 527
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,800
25th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £57,043 £57,500 £62,833
90th Percentile £72,875 £71,440 £77,542
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the South West

SAN
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for SAN in the South West

SAN
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for SAN in the South West

SAN
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the South 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
Dorset +53 15 £32,500 -35.00% 7
Somerset 0 3 £47,500 -16.67% 9
Wiltshire +43 2 £39,500 -31.30% 9
Bristol +34 2 £37,500 -25.00% 11
Gloucestershire +51 1 £55,000 +15.79% 17
Devon +12 1 £70,000 +75.00% 15
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (62.50%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (45.83%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (8.33%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
4 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 18 (75.00%) Firewall
2 15 (62.50%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (45.83%) VLAN
4 10 (41.67%) MPLS
4 10 (41.67%) VoIP
5 2 (8.33%) LAN
5 2 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (8.33%) Wireless
6 1 (4.17%) Ethernet
6 1 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (4.17%) IP Telephony
6 1 (4.17%) NAS
6 1 (4.17%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (4.17%) VPN
6 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
General
1 15 (62.50%) Manufacturing
2 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 10 (41.67%) Legal
4 2 (8.33%) Local Government
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Coordinator
1 15 (62.50%) Help Desk Coordinator
2 5 (20.83%) Administrator
2 5 (20.83%) Help Desk Administrator
2 5 (20.83%) IT Administrator
2 5 (20.83%) IT Systems Administrator
2 5 (20.83%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Operations Technician
6 1 (4.17%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 15 (62.50%) Video Conferencing
2 11 (45.83%) CCTV
3 3 (12.50%) Driving Licence
4 2 (8.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Clustering
5 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (87.50%) Windows
2 19 (79.17%) Windows Server
3 10 (41.67%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.33%) Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.17%) AIX
5 1 (4.17%) Android
5 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (62.50%) ERP
2 15 (62.50%) Time Management
2 15 (62.50%) Virtual Environments
3 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (20.83%) ITIL
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Analytics
5 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (8.33%) Decision Intelligence
5 2 (8.33%) Project Management
5 2 (8.33%) Service Management
5 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (4.17%) Business Continuity
6 1 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.17%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (4.17%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (4.17%) Security Architecture
6 1 (4.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (4.17%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) DBS Check
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CCNA
3 1 (4.17%) CCNP
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.17%) SANS
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (87.50%) Active Directory
1 21 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (41.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.33%) vSphere
4 1 (4.17%) Docker
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) SmoothWall
3 1 (4.17%) Backup Exec
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) NetBackup
3 1 (4.17%) SCCM
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (95.83%) Microsoft
2 22 (91.67%) VMware
3 12 (50.00%) Veeam
4 3 (12.50%) Cisco
5 2 (8.33%) EMC
5 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.17%) Citrix
6 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (4.17%) Hitachi
6 1 (4.17%) HP
6 1 (4.17%) IBM
6 1 (4.17%) NetApp
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle
6 1 (4.17%) Snow
6 1 (4.17%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (4.17%) Veritas