SAN Jobs in the West Midlands

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 184 175 178
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +38
Permanent jobs citing SAN 12 72 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.99% 1.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.38% 7.20% 9.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8 57 66
10th Percentile £31,125 £27,500 £27,250
25th Percentile £35,625 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £38,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -22.05% +8.33%
75th Percentile £51,950 £47,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £53,810 £53,500 £71,933
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 504 1,000 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.29% 13.81% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 301 829 521
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,910 £25,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,950 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the West Midlands

SAN
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SAN in the West Midlands

SAN
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for SAN in the West Midlands

SAN
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the West Midlands region 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
Staffordshire +16 5 £37,500 -15.73% 5
Birmingham +11 3 £51,500 +24.10% 1
Herefordshire - 2 - - 3
Warwickshire -18 1 - - 3
Solihull - 1 - -
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (16.67%) Skype for Business
4 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DHCP
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) LAN
2 2 (16.67%) NAS
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (16.67%) Skype
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) VLAN
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (8.33%) HTTP
3 1 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (8.33%) PBX
3 1 (8.33%) SSL
3 1 (8.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Maven
1 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (41.67%) Law
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Police
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Administrator
2 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Junior IT Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) LDAP
1 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (8.33%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 9 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (16.67%) Linux
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (8.33%) CentOS
6 1 (8.33%) Debian
6 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
6 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Server Management
4 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Innovative Thinking
5 1 (8.33%) Matrix Management
5 1 (8.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
5 1 (8.33%) Release Management
5 1 (8.33%) Server Virtualisation
5 1 (8.33%) Time Management
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
2 8 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (58.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) Docker
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) SCCM
1 3 (25.00%) SCOM
2 2 (16.67%) SCOrch
2 2 (16.67%) SCSM
2 2 (16.67%) VxRail
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) Nessus
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix
3 3 (25.00%) Veeam
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Dell
5 1 (8.33%) Acronis
5 1 (8.33%) EMC
5 1 (8.33%) EqualLogic
5 1 (8.33%) HP
5 1 (8.33%) NetApp
5 1 (8.33%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (8.33%) Sophos
5 1 (8.33%) Ubiquiti