SAN Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 331 350
Rank change year-on-year +11 +19 +212
Permanent jobs citing SAN 77 288 366
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.85% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.06% 5.44% 7.64%
Number of salaries quoted 56 250 304
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £34,605
25th Percentile £37,000 £37,500 £41,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,257 £65,000 £69,063
90th Percentile £73,886 £76,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £49,675 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -0.65% +3.09% +2.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,513 5,294 4,791
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.80% 15.65% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,608 3,435 3,553
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,300
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
% change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%

SAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SAN trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SAN.

SAN salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SAN
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SAN over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SAN salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 34 (44.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (15.58%) SharePoint
3 9 (11.69%) Skype for Business
4 7 (9.09%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 7 (9.09%) Exchange Server 2013
5 6 (7.79%) IIS
6 2 (2.60%) Confluence
6 2 (2.60%) Tomcat
6 2 (2.60%) WebSphere
6 2 (2.60%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.36%) Azure
2 17 (22.08%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (9.09%) Cohesity
3 7 (9.09%) GCP
4 4 (5.19%) AWS
4 4 (5.19%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.19%) IaaS
5 2 (2.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.60%) GitHub
5 2 (2.60%) Nutanix
5 2 (2.60%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.60%) PaaS
5 2 (2.60%) SaaS
6 1 (1.30%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.30%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 35 (45.45%) Firewall
2 26 (33.77%) NAS
3 16 (20.78%) DNS
4 15 (19.48%) DHCP
5 11 (14.29%) VPN
6 10 (12.99%) Remote Desktop
7 9 (11.69%) Skype
8 7 (9.09%) IMAP
8 7 (9.09%) Multicast
8 7 (9.09%) SMTP
9 6 (7.79%) TCP/IP
10 5 (6.49%) LAN
10 5 (6.49%) VSAN
11 4 (5.19%) WAN
12 3 (3.90%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (3.90%) iSCSI
12 3 (3.90%) Network Security
12 3 (3.90%) Unified Communications
13 2 (2.60%) FCoE
13 2 (2.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.49%) DB2
3 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.60%) JIRA
2 2 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (25.97%) Finance
2 16 (20.78%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.79%) Games
5 5 (6.49%) Banking
5 5 (6.49%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.19%) Law
7 3 (3.90%) Advertising
8 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (32.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 23 (29.87%) Support Engineer
3 12 (15.58%) Analyst
3 12 (15.58%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure Support
4 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 9 (11.69%) CISSP Analyst
5 9 (11.69%) Incident Analyst
5 9 (11.69%) IT Engineer
5 9 (11.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (11.69%) Junior
5 9 (11.69%) Junior Analyst
5 9 (11.69%) Junior Operations Analyst
5 9 (11.69%) Junior Security Analyst
5 9 (11.69%) Operations Analyst
5 9 (11.69%) Security Analyst
5 9 (11.69%) Security Incident Analyst
5 9 (11.69%) Security Operations Analyst
5 9 (11.69%) SIEM Analyst
6 8 (10.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) Middleware
2 2 (2.60%) LDAP
2 2 (2.60%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.88%) Replication
2 10 (12.99%) Clustering
3 9 (11.69%) Hedge funds
3 9 (11.69%) Podcast
4 7 (9.09%) Blackberry
5 6 (7.79%) Data Centre
5 6 (7.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (6.49%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (3.90%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.60%) PKI
8 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.30%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 61 (79.22%) Windows
2 25 (32.47%) Windows Server
3 11 (14.29%) Linux
4 9 (11.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (9.09%) Windows 10
5 7 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (7.79%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.90%) Android
7 3 (3.90%) Apple iOS
7 3 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.90%) Unix
8 2 (2.60%) Solaris
8 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (18.18%) High Availability
5 12 (15.58%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (11.69%) Incident Response
6 9 (11.69%) Mentoring
6 9 (11.69%) SIEM
7 7 (9.09%) Capacity Management
7 7 (9.09%) Customer Service
7 7 (9.09%) ITIL
7 7 (9.09%) Problem Management
8 6 (7.79%) Containerisation
8 6 (7.79%) Virtual Environments
9 5 (6.49%) Architectural Design
9 5 (6.49%) Defect Management
9 5 (6.49%) DevOps
9 5 (6.49%) Fintech
9 5 (6.49%) Kalman Filter
9 5 (6.49%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.77%) PowerShell
2 15 (19.48%) SQL
3 10 (12.99%) Python
4 2 (2.60%) Java
5 1 (1.30%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (29.87%) Degree
2 16 (20.78%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.99%) CISSP
3 10 (12.99%) SANS
4 9 (11.69%) CEH
4 9 (11.69%) CompTIA Security+
4 9 (11.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (11.69%) GCIA
4 9 (11.69%) GCIH
4 9 (11.69%) OSCP
4 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared
5 8 (10.39%) Azure Certification
5 8 (10.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (9.09%) DV Cleared
7 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (5.19%) CCNP
8 4 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.90%) CCNA
10 2 (2.60%) CCA
10 2 (2.60%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) SLA
2 6 (7.79%) GDPR
3 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.60%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 32 (41.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (37.66%) Hyper-V
4 9 (11.69%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (9.09%) vSphere
6 6 (7.79%) Terminal Services
7 5 (6.49%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (6.49%) VMware NSX
8 2 (2.60%) Firmware
8 2 (2.60%) KVM
8 2 (2.60%) NFS
8 2 (2.60%) SRDF
8 2 (2.60%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (2.60%) Xen
8 2 (2.60%) XenApp
8 2 (2.60%) XenDesktop
9 1 (1.30%) Docker
9 1 (1.30%) VMware Server
9 1 (1.30%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (11.69%) Progress Chef
2 7 (9.09%) Ansible
3 6 (7.79%) Puppet
3 6 (7.79%) Terraform
4 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
7 2 (2.60%) Backup Exec
7 2 (2.60%) SCCM
7 2 (2.60%) SCOM
7 2 (2.60%) SCOrch
7 2 (2.60%) SCSM
7 2 (2.60%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.30%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 57 (74.03%) VMware
2 54 (70.13%) Microsoft
3 18 (23.38%) Cisco
4 16 (20.78%) NetApp
5 9 (11.69%) CrowdStrike
5 9 (11.69%) Dell
6 7 (9.09%) Google
6 7 (9.09%) HP
6 7 (9.09%) Oracle
6 7 (9.09%) Veeam
7 5 (6.49%) EMC
7 5 (6.49%) IBM
7 5 (6.49%) Symantec
8 4 (5.19%) Citrix
8 4 (5.19%) Fortinet
8 4 (5.19%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.90%) Remedy
9 3 (3.90%) SaltStack
9 3 (3.90%) Veritas
10 2 (2.60%) F5