SAN Jobs with Work from Home Options

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SAN over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 351 550
Rank change year-on-year +29 +199 -207
Permanent jobs citing SAN 285 368 286
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.84% 0.85% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.39% 7.54% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 247 307 237
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,605 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £51,500 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% +3.52% +3.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £67,500
UK median annual salary £49,625 £47,836 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.74% +0.71% +2.98%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

SAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,290 4,883 7,238
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.63% 11.24% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,432 3,603 4,847
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,375 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +3.60% +5.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,875 £73,675
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,852 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SAN trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SAN.

SAN salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SAN over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 56 (19.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (11.23%) SharePoint
3 16 (5.61%) IIS
4 4 (1.40%) SAS
5 3 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) SPSS
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 165 (57.89%) Azure
2 117 (41.05%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (20.70%) AWS
4 27 (9.47%) Entra ID
5 21 (7.37%) OneDrive
6 20 (7.02%) GCP
7 18 (6.32%) IaaS
8 14 (4.91%) PaaS
9 13 (4.56%) SaaS
10 10 (3.51%) Rubrik
11 8 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.46%) Slack
13 4 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.40%) Nutanix
14 3 (1.05%) Dropbox
15 2 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 2 (0.70%) Azure Storage
15 2 (0.70%) Power Automate
16 1 (0.35%) OCI
16 1 (0.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 92 (32.28%) Firewall
2 75 (26.32%) WAN
3 63 (22.11%) DNS
4 62 (21.75%) LAN
4 62 (21.75%) NAS
5 57 (20.00%) DHCP
6 33 (11.58%) TCP/IP
6 33 (11.58%) VLAN
7 28 (9.82%) SD-WAN
8 24 (8.42%) Wireless
9 22 (7.72%) iSCSI
9 22 (7.72%) Network Security
9 22 (7.72%) VPN
10 17 (5.96%) WLAN
11 12 (4.21%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (3.86%) Fibre Channel
13 7 (2.46%) Remote Desktop
13 7 (2.46%) Unified Communications
14 6 (2.11%) Internet
15 5 (1.75%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (16.49%) SQL Server
2 16 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.05%) Big Data
3 3 (1.05%) EDRMS
3 3 (1.05%) MySQL
4 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
General
1 115 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.68%) Finance
3 25 (8.77%) Organisational Skills
4 24 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.86%) Advertising
6 11 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.51%) Law
8 7 (2.46%) Legal
9 6 (2.11%) Military
10 5 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.40%) Japanese Language
12 3 (1.05%) Banking
12 3 (1.05%) Retail
13 2 (0.70%) Marketing
14 1 (0.35%) Electronics
14 1 (0.35%) French Language
14 1 (0.35%) Italian Language
14 1 (0.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 81 (28.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 63 (22.11%) IT Engineer
3 57 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 47 (16.49%) Senior
5 45 (15.79%) 3rd Line Support
6 41 (14.39%) IT Support
7 39 (13.68%) IT Support Engineer
8 36 (12.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 35 (12.28%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 35 (12.28%) Storage Specialist
10 32 (11.23%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 31 (10.88%) IBM Storage Specialist
11 31 (10.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 30 (10.53%) SAN Specialist
12 30 (10.53%) SAN Storage Specialist
13 25 (8.77%) Administrator
14 24 (8.42%) IT Administrator
15 21 (7.37%) Server Administrator
16 18 (6.32%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
16 18 (6.32%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.70%) ARM Templates
1 2 (0.70%) LDAP
1 2 (0.70%) OAuth
2 1 (0.35%) JSON
2 1 (0.35%) Middleware
2 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 57 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 40 (14.04%) Driving Licence
3 33 (11.58%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (8.42%) Replication
5 23 (8.07%) Enterprise Storage
6 15 (5.26%) Clustering
7 12 (4.21%) PMI
8 10 (3.51%) PKI
9 7 (2.46%) CMDB
10 5 (1.75%) Fat Client
10 5 (1.75%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.75%) Thin Client
11 4 (1.40%) iPad
12 3 (1.05%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.05%) Cybercrime
12 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.05%) VAX
12 3 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
13 2 (0.70%) FPGA
13 2 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 152 (53.33%) Windows
2 120 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 82 (28.77%) Linux
4 20 (7.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (6.67%) Unix
5 19 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 18 (6.32%) Windows 10
7 14 (4.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (2.81%) CentOS
8 8 (2.81%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.75%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.35%) AIX
12 1 (0.35%) Android
12 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (36.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (20.70%) ITIL
3 50 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (16.49%) Server Management
5 33 (11.58%) Disaster Recovery
6 30 (10.53%) Migration
7 29 (10.18%) Incident Management
7 29 (10.18%) Storage Management
8 27 (9.47%) Line Management
8 27 (9.47%) Root Cause Analysis
9 25 (8.77%) Agile
9 25 (8.77%) Customer Service
10 24 (8.42%) Project Management
11 21 (7.37%) Benchmarking
11 21 (7.37%) Data Centre Operations
11 21 (7.37%) Desktop Virtualisation
11 21 (7.37%) Infrastructure Maintenance
11 21 (7.37%) Performance Monitoring
11 21 (7.37%) Vulnerability Management
12 19 (6.67%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (21.40%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.96%) SQL
3 9 (3.16%) Python
4 7 (2.46%) Bash
5 2 (0.70%) Java
6 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 50 (17.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 37 (12.98%) Security Cleared
3 34 (11.93%) SC Cleared
4 27 (9.47%) Degree
5 24 (8.42%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (7.72%) Azure Certification
6 22 (7.72%) MCSE
7 16 (5.61%) CCNA
8 13 (4.56%) PMI Certification
9 11 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (3.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 8 (2.81%) CCNP
12 7 (2.46%) DV Cleared
13 6 (2.11%) MCSA
14 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (1.40%) DBS Check
16 3 (1.05%) A+ Certification
16 3 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 3 (1.05%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.56%) SLA
2 4 (1.40%) GDPR
3 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.70%) PMO
4 1 (0.35%) COBIT
4 1 (0.35%) GRC
4 1 (0.35%) ISO 31000
4 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
4 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 148 (51.93%) Active Directory
2 120 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (24.91%) Hyper-V
4 32 (11.23%) vSphere
5 11 (3.86%) NFS
6 9 (3.16%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (2.11%) DFS Replication
8 6 (2.11%) Terminal Services
8 6 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (2.11%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (1.05%) XenApp
10 2 (0.70%) SRDF
10 2 (0.70%) Terminal Server
10 2 (0.70%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.35%) Docker
11 1 (0.35%) Lustre
11 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.35%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 37 (12.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (9.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 22 (7.72%) SCCM
4 20 (7.02%) Ansible
5 13 (4.56%) Terraform
5 13 (4.56%) ZABBIX
6 12 (4.21%) Microsoft Clustering
6 12 (4.21%) Opsgenie
6 12 (4.21%) VxRail
7 10 (3.51%) Nagios
8 8 (2.81%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (2.81%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 7 (2.46%) SCOM
10 6 (2.11%) FortiGate
10 6 (2.11%) NetBackup
10 6 (2.11%) Puppet
11 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 4 (1.40%) EMC NetWorker
13 3 (1.05%) WSUS
Vendors
1 181 (63.51%) Microsoft
2 168 (58.95%) VMware
3 54 (18.95%) Cisco
4 53 (18.60%) Citrix
5 45 (15.79%) NetApp
6 41 (14.39%) IBM
6 41 (14.39%) Veeam
7 27 (9.47%) HP
8 23 (8.07%) Dell
9 18 (6.32%) Sophos
10 14 (4.91%) EMC
10 14 (4.91%) SolarWinds
11 12 (4.21%) Fortinet
12 10 (3.51%) 3PAR
13 9 (3.16%) CheckPoint
13 9 (3.16%) Meraki
13 9 (3.16%) Nimble Storage
13 9 (3.16%) Red Hat
14 7 (2.46%) Zerto
15 6 (2.11%) Palo Alto