Hybrid/Remote SAN Job Trends

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring SAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 369 345
Rank change year-on-year -57 -24 -21
Permanent jobs citing SAN 17 65 236
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.080% 0.39% 0.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.72% 3.30% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 16 48 213
10th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,313 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,750 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -3.61% -11.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £73,886 £76,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £44,250 £46,500
% change year-on-year +18.64% -4.84% -7.00%

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 2,359 1,972 4,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.05% 11.92% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,282 1,208 2,990
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,499 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -7.77%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SAN and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SAN job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SAN

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SAN over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

SAN salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 12 (70.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (41.18%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.76%) IIS
4 1 (5.88%) Site Server
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (52.94%) Entra ID
3 7 (41.18%) Azure
4 6 (35.29%) Mimecast
5 4 (23.53%) IaaS
5 4 (23.53%) PaaS
6 3 (17.65%) AWS
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (11.76%) Datadog
8 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
8 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
8 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (76.47%) Firewall
2 6 (35.29%) DHCP
2 6 (35.29%) DNS
2 6 (35.29%) Network Security
3 5 (29.41%) Internet
3 5 (29.41%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (23.53%) WAN
5 3 (17.65%) Wireless
6 2 (11.76%) iSCSI
6 2 (11.76%) NAS
6 2 (11.76%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
6 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
6 2 (11.76%) VLAN
6 2 (11.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
2 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Senior
3 4 (23.53%) Administrator
3 4 (23.53%) IT Administrator
3 4 (23.53%) IT Systems Administrator
3 4 (23.53%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Lead
5 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Clustering
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 4 (23.53%) Replication
3 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (5.88%) Fat Client
4 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) PKI
4 1 (5.88%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 3 (17.65%) Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (35.29%) Patch Management
2 6 (35.29%) Server Management
2 6 (35.29%) Storage Management
3 5 (29.41%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (17.65%) High Availability
4 3 (17.65%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
5 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL
5 2 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (11.76%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (11.76%) SIEM
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.76%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) Korn
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) IISP
2 1 (5.88%) ISACA
2 1 (5.88%) MCSE
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) Active Directory
2 9 (52.94%) Hyper-V
3 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (17.65%) vSphere
5 2 (11.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (11.76%) Docker
6 1 (5.88%) Firmware
6 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (11.76%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Proxmox
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 10 (58.82%) Veeam
3 6 (35.29%) VMware
4 5 (29.41%) SonicWALL
5 4 (23.53%) Cisco
6 3 (17.65%) Dell
7 2 (11.76%) Broadcom
7 2 (11.76%) EMC
7 2 (11.76%) Meraki
7 2 (11.76%) NetApp
7 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
7 2 (11.76%) Sophos
7 2 (11.76%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (5.88%) Commvault
8 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
8 1 (5.88%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (5.88%) WatchGuard