SAN Jobs in the Thames Valley

Storage Area Network (SAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 166 203 193
Rank change year-on-year +37 -10 +65
Permanent jobs citing SAN 15 44 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.44% 0.62% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.70% 4.50% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 14 42 25
10th Percentile - £36,750 £23,400
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £27,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £55,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% +69.23% -18.75%
75th Percentile £43,250 £59,000 £40,000
90th Percentile £61,975 £64,400 £51,975
South East median annual salary £41,500 £48,875 £40,000
% change year-on-year -15.09% +22.19% -11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 555 978 937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.23% 13.87% 16.23%
Number of salaries quoted 233 683 532
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,570 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £30,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £73,875
South East median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% -5.26%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the Thames Valley

SAN
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAN in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for SAN in the Thames Valley

SAN
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SAN in the Thames Valley

SAN
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Thames Valley 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
Oxfordshire +31 7 £41,500 +7.79% 5
Berkshire +21 6 £32,500 -44.92% 5
Buckinghamshire +29 2 £70,000 +27.27% 9
SAN
South East

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 12 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (6.67%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (80.00%) Azure
3 7 (46.67%) AWS
4 5 (33.33%) IaaS
5 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) LAN
2 5 (33.33%) VLAN
2 5 (33.33%) WAN
2 5 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
3 2 (13.33%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (6.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (6.67%) SAP HANA
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Technician
2 5 (33.33%) Support Technician
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Support
3 2 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Architect
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Basis
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (6.67%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Replication
2 5 (33.33%) PKI
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (13.33%) Mac OS
4 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Unix
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) ITIL
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Information Security
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 6 (40.00%) Migration
4 5 (33.33%) Business Continuity
4 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
4 5 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
4 5 (33.33%) Presales
4 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (13.33%) Time Management
6 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (6.67%) High Availability
6 1 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Bash
1 2 (13.33%) Korn
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 5 (33.33%) CCNA
1 5 (33.33%) CCNP
1 5 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (46.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 7 (46.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 9 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (53.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (13.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (46.67%) SCCM
2 5 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (86.67%) VMware
3 5 (33.33%) arcserve
3 5 (33.33%) Veeam
4 2 (13.33%) Apple
4 2 (13.33%) Dell
4 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (13.33%) Sophos
4 2 (13.33%) Splunk
5 1 (6.67%) SAP