SAN Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 347 305
Rank change year-on-year -135 -42 -8
Permanent jobs citing SAN 99 148 565
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.56% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.24% 3.74% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 82 124 495
10th Percentile £25,375 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,250 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +5.11% +3.53%
75th Percentile £68,750 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £74,300 £70,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - +4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,992 3,952 9,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.63% 14.86% 13.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,914 2,613 7,137
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £44,360 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.28% +5.26% -6.86%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SAN job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SAN

SAN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for SAN in the UK excluding London

SAN
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
South East -46 31 £56,750 +33.53% 13
North of England -80 23 £50,000 -4.76% 16
East of England -37 16 £72,500 +38.10% 3
South West -50 12 £26,150 -24.20% 3
Yorkshire -71 11 £40,000 +14.29% 7
North West -28 10 £60,000 -3.54% 7
Midlands -50 9 £42,500 -15.00% 7
Scotland -15 7 £26,150 -16.98% 2
East Midlands -59 6 £41,250 -17.50% 4
West Midlands -39 3 £50,000 +23.46% 3
North East -47 2 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
SAN
UK

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (24.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.06%) IIS
2 6 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.02%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.42%) Azure
2 36 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (14.14%) AWS
4 13 (13.13%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.05%) Cohesity
5 5 (5.05%) GitHub
5 5 (5.05%) Mimecast
6 4 (4.04%) PaaS
7 3 (3.03%) IaaS
8 2 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.02%) SaaS
9 1 (1.01%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.01%) GCP
9 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.01%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 35 (35.35%) Firewall
2 30 (30.30%) DNS
3 23 (23.23%) NAS
4 20 (20.20%) DHCP
5 13 (13.13%) WAN
6 10 (10.10%) LAN
7 8 (8.08%) iSCSI
7 8 (8.08%) NetScaler
7 8 (8.08%) TCP/IP
8 7 (7.07%) Network Security
8 7 (7.07%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (6.06%) VLAN
9 6 (6.06%) Wireshark
10 5 (5.05%) Internet
10 5 (5.05%) VPN
10 5 (5.05%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (4.04%) Wireless
12 2 (2.02%) Fibre Channel
12 2 (2.02%) PBX
12 2 (2.02%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.10%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.07%) MySQL
2 7 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.01%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.01%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.01%) JIRA
2 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.01%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 15 (15.15%) Legal
5 7 (7.07%) Manufacturing
5 7 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.06%) Law
7 5 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.05%) Finance
8 1 (1.01%) Advertising
8 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (37.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 23 (23.23%) IT Engineer
3 18 (18.18%) Senior
4 17 (17.17%) Field Engineer
4 17 (17.17%) Field Service Engineer
5 13 (13.13%) IT Support
6 10 (10.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (10.10%) VMware Engineer
7 9 (9.09%) Support Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Architect
9 7 (7.07%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Network Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.06%) 3rd Line Support
11 5 (5.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (4.04%) Administrator
12 4 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (4.04%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.02%) Regular Expression
1 2 (2.02%) XMPP
2 1 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.26%) Data Centre
2 17 (17.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (15.15%) Smartphone
4 9 (9.09%) Clustering
5 8 (8.08%) PKI
6 7 (7.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (7.07%) Management Information System
7 5 (5.05%) Cloud Native
8 4 (4.04%) Replication
8 4 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 49 (49.49%) Windows
2 47 (47.47%) Windows Server
3 22 (22.22%) Linux
4 15 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (7.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (5.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (4.04%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.02%) CentOS
9 1 (1.01%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (32.32%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (20.20%) ITIL
5 17 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (17.17%) Customer Service
6 16 (16.16%) Coaching
6 16 (16.16%) High Availability
7 14 (14.14%) Storage Management
8 10 (10.10%) Server Management
9 9 (9.09%) DevOps
9 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
9 9 (9.09%) Patch Management
10 8 (8.08%) Roadmaps
11 7 (7.07%) Business Continuity
11 7 (7.07%) Time Management
12 6 (6.06%) Mentoring
12 6 (6.06%) Service Delivery
13 5 (5.05%) Mobile Device Management
13 5 (5.05%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.25%) PowerShell
2 11 (11.11%) SQL
3 7 (7.07%) Bash
3 7 (7.07%) Bicep
4 5 (5.05%) Korn
4 5 (5.05%) Python
5 2 (2.02%) C
6 1 (1.01%) C#
6 1 (1.01%) Java
6 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (19.19%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (18.18%) CCNA
3 18 (18.18%) Network+ Certification
3 18 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 17 (17.17%) A+ Certification
4 17 (17.17%) MCSE
5 15 (15.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (13.13%) DV Cleared
7 8 (8.08%) Degree
8 6 (6.06%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (2.02%) RHCE
10 2 (2.02%) RHCSA
10 2 (2.02%) SC Cleared
11 1 (1.01%) CCNP
11 1 (1.01%) IISP
11 1 (1.01%) ISACA
11 1 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.05%) SLA
2 3 (3.03%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.01%) NIST
4 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 51 (51.52%) Active Directory
2 21 (21.21%) Hyper-V
3 19 (19.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (10.10%) vSphere
6 8 (8.08%) Docker
7 7 (7.07%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (2.02%) Samba
9 2 (2.02%) VMware NSX
10 1 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.07%) vCenter Server
3 7 (7.07%) WSUS
4 6 (6.06%) SCCM
4 6 (6.06%) VxRail
5 4 (4.04%) Ansible
5 4 (4.04%) Terraform
6 3 (3.03%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.02%) Grafana
7 2 (2.02%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.01%) Control-M
8 1 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.01%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (1.01%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.01%) Graylog
8 1 (1.01%) Nagios
8 1 (1.01%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 59 (59.60%) Microsoft
2 58 (58.59%) VMware
3 32 (32.32%) Dell
4 19 (19.19%) Veeam
5 16 (16.16%) NetApp
6 12 (12.12%) Cisco
7 10 (10.10%) Red Hat
8 8 (8.08%) Citrix
8 8 (8.08%) Commvault
9 6 (6.06%) Zerto
10 5 (5.05%) Fortinet
10 5 (5.05%) HP
10 5 (5.05%) Meraki
10 5 (5.05%) SolarWinds
10 5 (5.05%) SonicWALL
10 5 (5.05%) Tenable
11 4 (4.04%) 3PAR
11 4 (4.04%) Facebook
11 4 (4.04%) Instagram
11 4 (4.04%) Juniper