Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 364 304
Rank change year-on-year -115 -60 +239
Permanent jobs citing SAN 208 738 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.75% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.00% 5.42% 7.51%
Number of salaries quoted 149 650 686
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +2.11%
75th Percentile £61,000 £64,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,886 £75,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% +3.53% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,936 13,623 16,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 13.85% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,252 9,516 8,186
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the UK

SAN
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SAN in the UK

SAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for SAN in the UK

SAN
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -105 198 £50,000 - 135
UK excluding London -80 151 £45,000 +2.27% 113
Work from Home +2 78 £50,000 -0.99% 118
London +13 52 £65,000 - 38
North of England -22 45 £53,000 +24.71% 28
South East +56 42 £42,000 -16.00% 32
Midlands -45 24 £50,000 +25.00% 16
Yorkshire +28 23 £35,000 -20.45% 11
South West +67 19 £34,500 -33.01% 12
East of England +20 15 £52,500 +20.69% 13
East Midlands -2 12 £50,000 +20.48% 3
North West -6 12 £62,205 +21.11% 13
West Midlands -9 12 £39,000 +2.63% 13
North East +27 10 £58,250 +79.23% 6
Wales +13 3 £42,500 +3.49% 7
Scotland +113 2 £31,500 -33.68% 4
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 61 (29.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.77%) Exchange Server 2013
3 12 (5.77%) IIS
4 11 (5.29%) Skype for Business
5 8 (3.85%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (1.92%) Confluence
7 2 (0.96%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.96%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.96%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.48%) nginx
8 1 (0.48%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (0.48%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 22 (10.58%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (3.85%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (5.29%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (43.75%) Azure
2 57 (27.40%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (16.83%) AWS
4 27 (12.98%) Entra ID
5 15 (7.21%) PaaS
6 14 (6.73%) IaaS
7 13 (6.25%) SaaS
8 11 (5.29%) GCP
9 9 (4.33%) Cohesity
10 6 (2.88%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.92%) GitHub
12 4 (1.92%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (1.44%) Nutanix
13 3 (1.44%) OneDrive
14 2 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (0.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 78 (37.50%) Firewall
2 71 (34.13%) NAS
3 64 (30.77%) DNS
4 59 (28.37%) DHCP
5 35 (16.83%) VLAN
6 32 (15.38%) VPN
7 23 (11.06%) SMTP
7 23 (11.06%) WAN
8 22 (10.58%) LAN
9 17 (8.17%) Structured Cabling
10 16 (7.69%) PBX
10 16 (7.69%) VSAN
10 16 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (7.21%) Cisco IOS
11 15 (7.21%) FTP
11 15 (7.21%) IPv4
11 15 (7.21%) TCP/IP
12 13 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
13 12 (5.77%) MPLS
13 12 (5.77%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (21.63%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.40%) DB2
4 5 (2.40%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.40%) Power BI
5 4 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.96%) Big Data
6 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.48%) MySQL
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.40%) Jenkins
1 5 (2.40%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (1.92%) JIRA
3 3 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.96%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.96%) Git
4 2 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.96%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.48%) Maven
5 1 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 72 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 50 (24.04%) Finance
3 24 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.17%) Legal
5 15 (7.21%) Manufacturing
6 12 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.81%) Law
8 9 (4.33%) Advertising
9 7 (3.37%) Banking
9 7 (3.37%) Games
9 7 (3.37%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.40%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.96%) Retail
12 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.48%) Marketing
12 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 54 (25.96%) Support Engineer
2 47 (22.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 35 (16.83%) IT Engineer
4 26 (12.50%) IT Support
5 24 (11.54%) Senior
6 22 (10.58%) IT Support Engineer
7 19 (9.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 19 (9.13%) Analyst
8 18 (8.65%) Infrastructure Support
9 17 (8.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 16 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (7.21%) 3rd Line Support
12 14 (6.73%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (5.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 11 (5.29%) Consultant
13 11 (5.29%) Coordinator
13 11 (5.29%) Help Desk Coordinator
14 10 (4.81%) Administrator
14 10 (4.81%) Junior
15 9 (4.33%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.37%) Middleware
2 4 (1.92%) LDAP
3 3 (1.44%) YAML
4 2 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.48%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.48%) REST
5 1 (0.48%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.35%) Clustering
2 29 (13.94%) Replication
3 17 (8.17%) Data Centre
4 14 (6.73%) CCTV
4 14 (6.73%) Hedge funds
4 14 (6.73%) Public Cloud
5 12 (5.77%) Driving Licence
6 11 (5.29%) Private Cloud
6 11 (5.29%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (4.33%) Podcast
8 8 (3.85%) Blackberry
8 8 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.40%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.92%) PKI
10 4 (1.92%) Smartphone
11 3 (1.44%) BYOD
11 3 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.44%) HP Storage
11 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 155 (74.52%) Windows
2 81 (38.94%) Windows Server
3 42 (20.19%) Windows 10
4 41 (19.71%) Linux
5 20 (9.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 18 (8.65%) Android
7 16 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.44%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.44%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.44%) Unix
10 2 (0.96%) CentOS
10 2 (0.96%) Solaris
10 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.48%) AIX
11 1 (0.48%) Debian
11 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (33.65%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (25.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 43 (20.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 42 (20.19%) High Availability
5 32 (15.38%) ITIL
6 31 (14.90%) Cybersecurity
7 30 (14.42%) Virtual Environments
8 20 (9.62%) Computer Science
9 17 (8.17%) Customer Service
9 17 (8.17%) DevOps
9 17 (8.17%) Time Management
10 16 (7.69%) ERP
10 16 (7.69%) Incident Management
10 16 (7.69%) IT Strategy
11 15 (7.21%) Change Control
11 15 (7.21%) Patch Management
12 14 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (6.73%) ITSM
12 14 (6.73%) Kalman Filter
12 14 (6.73%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 67 (32.21%) PowerShell
2 44 (21.15%) SQL
3 28 (13.46%) Python
4 5 (2.40%) Java
5 3 (1.44%) Bash
6 2 (0.96%) C#
7 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (29.81%) Degree
2 41 (19.71%) Security Cleared
3 27 (12.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (12.02%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (10.58%) DV Cleared
6 21 (10.10%) CCNA
7 19 (9.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (8.65%) Network+ Certification
8 18 (8.65%) SC Cleared
8 18 (8.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (4.81%) Azure Certification
9 10 (4.81%) CISSP
9 10 (4.81%) SANS
10 9 (4.33%) CEH
10 9 (4.33%) CompTIA Security+
10 9 (4.33%) GCIA
10 9 (4.33%) GCIH
10 9 (4.33%) HND
10 9 (4.33%) OSCP
11 4 (1.92%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.69%) GDPR
2 11 (5.29%) SLA
3 8 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (1.92%) NIST
6 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.96%) QA
7 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 120 (57.69%) Active Directory
2 105 (50.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 78 (37.50%) Hyper-V
4 47 (22.60%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (10.10%) vSphere
6 15 (7.21%) Docker
7 13 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (5.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (4.33%) VMware NSX
10 6 (2.88%) Terminal Services
11 4 (1.92%) KVM
12 2 (0.96%) Firmware
12 2 (0.96%) NFS
12 2 (0.96%) PowerHA
12 2 (0.96%) SRDF
12 2 (0.96%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.96%) Xen
12 2 (0.96%) XenApp
12 2 (0.96%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (13.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (11.54%) SCCM
3 21 (10.10%) Ansible
4 17 (8.17%) WSUS
5 16 (7.69%) Kubernetes
5 16 (7.69%) Terraform
6 14 (6.73%) Puppet
7 11 (5.29%) Progress Chef
8 9 (4.33%) vCenter Server
9 8 (3.85%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (2.88%) PowerCLI
10 6 (2.88%) vRealize
11 5 (2.40%) SCOM
11 5 (2.40%) vMotion
12 3 (1.44%) Backup Exec
12 3 (1.44%) Grafana
12 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.44%) VxRail
13 2 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.96%) Nessus
Vendors
1 148 (71.15%) Microsoft
2 138 (66.35%) VMware
3 58 (27.88%) Veeam
4 54 (25.96%) Cisco
5 27 (12.98%) Citrix
6 22 (10.58%) NetApp
7 21 (10.10%) Dell
8 20 (9.62%) HP
9 12 (5.77%) EMC
9 12 (5.77%) Oracle
10 9 (4.33%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (4.33%) Google
10 9 (4.33%) Red Hat
11 8 (3.85%) IBM
12 6 (2.88%) Meraki
12 6 (2.88%) Nimble Storage
12 6 (2.88%) Veritas
13 5 (2.40%) SonicWALL
13 5 (2.40%) Sophos
13 5 (2.40%) Symantec