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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 295 310
Rank change year-on-year -41 +15 +42
Permanent jobs citing SAN 35 141 188
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.23% 0.86% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.57% 6.47% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 20 104 155
10th Percentile - £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,338 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +13.68%
75th Percentile £63,750 £54,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £81,050
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +2.94% +13.33%

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 1,363 2,178 2,946
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.12% 13.25% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 865 1,222 2,498
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £84,056
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

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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 12 January 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 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) Apache
2 2 (5.71%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (14.29%) Cohesity
4 4 (11.43%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.57%) IaaS
6 2 (5.71%) AWS
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.86%) GCP
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.86%) PaaS
7 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (48.57%) DNS
2 16 (45.71%) DHCP
3 10 (28.57%) WAN
4 7 (20.00%) Firewall
4 7 (20.00%) LAN
5 5 (14.29%) NAS
6 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
6 3 (8.57%) VLAN
6 3 (8.57%) VPN
7 2 (5.71%) SD-WAN
7 2 (5.71%) SNMP
8 1 (2.86%) SSL
8 1 (2.86%) VSAN
8 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Power BI
General
1 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (54.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
3 6 (17.14%) Support Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Linux Support
4 5 (14.29%) Linux Support Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.71%) IT Services Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Service Desk Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Service Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) ERP Manager
7 1 (2.86%) IT Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Clustering
1 2 (5.71%) FPGA
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (68.57%) Windows
2 22 (62.86%) Windows Server
3 15 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (22.86%) Linux
6 7 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (14.29%) Debian
7 5 (14.29%) Solaris
7 5 (14.29%) Unix
8 2 (5.71%) CentOS
8 2 (5.71%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (51.43%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (40.00%) Security Operations
4 13 (37.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (37.14%) DevOps
4 13 (37.14%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (22.86%) Service Delivery
6 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (11.43%) Network Design
7 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (5.71%) Change Management
8 2 (5.71%) ITSM
8 2 (5.71%) Mentoring
8 2 (5.71%) People Management
8 2 (5.71%) Time Management
9 1 (2.86%) Business Continuity
9 1 (2.86%) Information Security
9 1 (2.86%) Migration
9 1 (2.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) Python
2 5 (14.29%) Bash
2 5 (14.29%) Korn
3 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.57%) Bicep
5 2 (5.71%) Java
5 2 (5.71%) Perl
5 2 (5.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Azure Certification
1 6 (17.14%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.86%) CCNA
2 1 (2.86%) CCNP
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (68.57%) Active Directory
2 14 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.71%) vSphere
5 1 (2.86%) Docker
5 1 (2.86%) Firmware
5 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (37.14%) SCCM
2 13 (37.14%) vCenter Server
3 9 (25.71%) Ansible
4 4 (11.43%) Terraform
5 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (2.86%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (2.86%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 27 (77.14%) VMware
2 23 (65.71%) Microsoft
3 18 (51.43%) NetApp
4 14 (40.00%) Veeam
5 13 (37.14%) 3PAR
5 13 (37.14%) SolarWinds
6 6 (17.14%) Cisco
7 5 (14.29%) Fortinet
8 4 (11.43%) Dell
8 4 (11.43%) Juniper
9 3 (8.57%) HP
10 2 (5.71%) Oracle
10 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
10 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
10 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
10 2 (5.71%) Zscaler
11 1 (2.86%) Meraki
11 1 (2.86%) Nimble Storage
11 1 (2.86%) Tanium
11 1 (2.86%) Tenable