SAN Jobs in the UK excluding London

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SAN over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 249 381
Rank change year-on-year -81 +132 -112
Permanent jobs citing SAN 551 829 608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.38% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.64% 7.60% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 486 454 498
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,608 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £55,750 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £62,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +1.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

SAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,776 10,911 10,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.78% 18.11% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7,090 4,770 6,474
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,889 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the UK excluding London

SAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAN in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SAN in the UK excluding London

SAN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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
North of England -45 152 £42,500 +6.25% 17
Midlands -16 131 £40,000 -23.81% 23
South East -11 100 £50,000 +20.48% 26
West Midlands -16 66 £37,750 -28.10% 14
Yorkshire +33 65 £44,000 +30.37% 7
South West -27 65 £50,000 +19.05% 11
East Midlands -5 64 £40,000 -26.61% 9
East of England +14 53 £43,500 -13.00% 8
North West -75 50 £51,364 +14.14% 8
North East +8 37 £32,500 -13.33% 2
Wales -14 30 £41,067 -8.74% 3
Scotland -118 18 £47,500 -9.52% 5
Northern Ireland +3 2 £65,000 +85.71% 2
SAN
UK

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 139 (25.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 71 (12.89%) SharePoint
3 37 (6.72%) IIS
4 6 (1.09%) SAS
4 6 (1.09%) WebSphere
5 5 (0.91%) CMS
5 5 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (0.73%) CloudStack
6 4 (0.73%) WordPress
7 3 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.36%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 54 (9.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.18%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 300 (54.45%) Azure
2 263 (47.73%) Microsoft 365
3 83 (15.06%) AWS
4 55 (9.98%) OneDrive
5 50 (9.07%) Entra ID
6 30 (5.44%) IaaS
7 25 (4.54%) GCP
8 22 (3.99%) SaaS
9 20 (3.63%) PaaS
10 13 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (2.36%) OCI
11 7 (1.27%) Slack
12 6 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (0.91%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.91%) Power Platform
14 4 (0.73%) Google Workspace
14 4 (0.73%) WhatsApp
15 3 (0.54%) Amazon S3
16 2 (0.36%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 195 (35.39%) Firewall
2 135 (24.50%) NAS
3 129 (23.41%) DNS
4 111 (20.15%) DHCP
5 105 (19.06%) WAN
6 86 (15.61%) LAN
7 81 (14.70%) VPN
8 68 (12.34%) VLAN
9 45 (8.17%) TCP/IP
10 41 (7.44%) Wireless
11 38 (6.90%) VoIP
12 37 (6.72%) iSCSI
13 25 (4.54%) SD-WAN
13 25 (4.54%) Wi-Fi
14 22 (3.99%) WLAN
15 18 (3.27%) Network Security
15 18 (3.27%) Remote Desktop
16 17 (3.09%) Internet
17 16 (2.90%) SSL
18 15 (2.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (17.79%) SQL Server
2 27 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (2.90%) MySQL
4 5 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.91%) Power BI
5 3 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.54%) Redis
6 1 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (0.54%) GitLab
1 3 (0.54%) JIRA
1 3 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
1 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 216 (39.20%) Social Skills
2 71 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (12.16%) Finance
4 40 (7.26%) Law
5 38 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 24 (4.36%) Legal
7 18 (3.27%) Public Sector
8 17 (3.09%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.00%) Advertising
9 11 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.27%) Retail
12 6 (1.09%) Local Government
12 6 (1.09%) Police
13 5 (0.91%) Automotive
14 4 (0.73%) Aviation
14 4 (0.73%) Avionics
14 4 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 177 (32.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 114 (20.69%) Support Engineer
3 105 (19.06%) IT Engineer
4 76 (13.79%) Senior
5 65 (11.80%) IT Support
6 61 (11.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 59 (10.71%) 3rd Line Support
8 57 (10.34%) IT Support Engineer
9 47 (8.53%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 42 (7.62%) Administrator
11 37 (6.72%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 36 (6.53%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 33 (5.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 29 (5.26%) IT Administrator
15 27 (4.90%) Infrastructure Support
15 27 (4.90%) Lead
16 26 (4.72%) Analyst
17 25 (4.54%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
17 25 (4.54%) Server Administrator
18 24 (4.36%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.81%) LAMP
2 8 (1.45%) .NET
3 4 (0.73%) EJB
4 3 (0.54%) .NET Core
4 3 (0.54%) ASP.NET
4 3 (0.54%) CSS
4 3 (0.54%) HTML
4 3 (0.54%) jQuery
4 3 (0.54%) LDAP
5 2 (0.36%) SAML
5 2 (0.36%) ServiceStack
5 2 (0.36%) V-Ray
6 1 (0.18%) EDI
6 1 (0.18%) Flash
6 1 (0.18%) Middleware
6 1 (0.18%) Web Services
6 1 (0.18%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 80 (14.52%) Data Centre
2 59 (10.71%) Driving Licence
3 37 (6.72%) Clustering
3 37 (6.72%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (5.81%) Replication
5 29 (5.26%) Enterprise Storage
6 26 (4.72%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.27%) PKI
8 17 (3.09%) PMI
9 11 (2.00%) CCTV
9 11 (2.00%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.45%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.45%) VAX
11 7 (1.27%) CMDB
12 6 (1.09%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.91%) Operational Technology
14 4 (0.73%) iPad
14 4 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (0.73%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 356 (64.61%) Windows
2 257 (46.64%) Windows Server
3 165 (29.95%) Linux
4 60 (10.89%) Windows 10
5 54 (9.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 45 (8.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 40 (7.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 21 (3.81%) Windows Server 2008
9 18 (3.27%) Windows 7
10 17 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (2.54%) Ubuntu
12 13 (2.36%) AIX
12 13 (2.36%) Windows Server 2003
13 12 (2.18%) Windows XP
14 11 (2.00%) Unix
15 8 (1.45%) SUSE
16 6 (1.09%) CentOS
16 6 (1.09%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 6 (1.09%) VMS
17 4 (0.73%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (37.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 157 (28.49%) ITIL
3 121 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (13.61%) Disaster Recovery
5 71 (12.89%) Server Management
6 61 (11.07%) Cybersecurity
7 57 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (10.16%) Project Management
9 50 (9.07%) Mentoring
10 49 (8.89%) Migration
11 46 (8.35%) Storage Management
12 45 (8.17%) Customer Service
13 42 (7.62%) Incident Management
14 38 (6.90%) Performance Monitoring
15 34 (6.17%) Agile
16 32 (5.81%) Proactive Monitoring
17 31 (5.63%) Infrastructure Maintenance
18 30 (5.44%) Root Cause Analysis
18 30 (5.44%) Service Delivery
19 29 (5.26%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 142 (25.77%) PowerShell
2 69 (12.52%) SQL
3 13 (2.36%) Bash
4 10 (1.81%) Python
5 3 (0.54%) C#
5 3 (0.54%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.54%) VB.NET
6 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.18%) AWK
7 1 (0.18%) Bourne shell
7 1 (0.18%) Korn
7 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (14.70%) Security Cleared
2 80 (14.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 78 (14.16%) Cisco Certification
4 77 (13.97%) Degree
5 68 (12.34%) CCNA
6 63 (11.43%) SC Cleared
7 43 (7.80%) MCSE
8 29 (5.26%) Azure Certification
9 27 (4.90%) DV Cleared
9 27 (4.90%) ITIL Certification
10 21 (3.81%) CCNP
11 19 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 17 (3.09%) PMI Certification
13 16 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
14 15 (2.72%) MCP
15 13 (2.36%) Citrix Certification
16 11 (2.00%) A+ Certification
16 11 (2.00%) MCSA
17 10 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 9 (1.63%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (9.80%) SLA
2 10 (1.81%) GDPR
3 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.36%) ISO 31000
5 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (0.36%) NIST
5 2 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.18%) COBIT
6 1 (0.18%) GRC
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.18%) NCSC
6 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 338 (61.34%) Active Directory
2 253 (45.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 176 (31.94%) Hyper-V
4 57 (10.34%) vSphere
5 55 (9.98%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (2.54%) XenApp
8 11 (2.00%) Terminal Services
9 9 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (1.45%) VMware Server
11 7 (1.27%) Firmware
11 7 (1.27%) SRDF
12 6 (1.09%) Docker
12 6 (1.09%) NFS
13 5 (0.91%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.91%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.36%) pfSense
14 2 (0.36%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 67 (12.16%) SCCM
2 60 (10.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 46 (8.35%) vCenter Server
4 31 (5.63%) SCOM
5 26 (4.72%) NetBackup
6 21 (3.81%) Backup Exec
6 21 (3.81%) ZABBIX
7 20 (3.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 19 (3.45%) WSUS
9 16 (2.90%) EMC NetWorker
10 15 (2.72%) VxRail
11 13 (2.36%) Microsoft Clustering
11 13 (2.36%) Nagios
12 12 (2.18%) Opsgenie
12 12 (2.18%) SmoothWall
13 11 (2.00%) Ansible
14 10 (1.81%) Terraform
15 8 (1.45%) EMC VPLEX
15 8 (1.45%) FortiGate
16 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 379 (68.78%) Microsoft
2 376 (68.24%) VMware
3 133 (24.14%) Veeam
4 97 (17.60%) Cisco
5 78 (14.16%) Citrix
6 76 (13.79%) HP
7 71 (12.89%) Dell
8 68 (12.34%) NetApp
9 45 (8.17%) IBM
10 40 (7.26%) EMC
11 28 (5.08%) Palo Alto
12 26 (4.72%) Aruba
12 26 (4.72%) Fortinet
12 26 (4.72%) Sophos
13 25 (4.54%) Oracle
14 24 (4.36%) Mitel
14 24 (4.36%) Nimble Storage
15 23 (4.17%) SolarWinds
16 22 (3.99%) Veritas
17 19 (3.45%) Juniper