SAN Job Trends in the West Midlands

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring SAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 169 128
Rank change year-on-year 0 -41 +14
Permanent jobs citing SAN 5 29 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.095% 0.70% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.41% 4.27% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 54
10th Percentile £48,250 £36,250 £31,625
25th Percentile £49,375 £37,338 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £54,375 £51,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £57,750 £53,300 £60,625
England median annual salary £46,160 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% +5.00% +11.11%

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 1,215 679 756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.07% 16.42% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 231 301 674
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £58,600 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,144 £71,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

SAN job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

SAN
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SAN

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 13 January 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
Birmingham +21 4 £50,000 -2.91% 2
Solihull +1 1 - -
SAN
England

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) NAS
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
3 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (20.00%) SSL
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) ERP Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Log Aggregation
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Nessus
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) Tanium
2 2 (40.00%) Tenable
2 2 (40.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam