SAN Jobs in the UK excluding London

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 244 381
Rank change year-on-year -82 +137 -101
Permanent jobs citing SAN 552 844 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 1.43% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.66% 7.78% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 487 428 509
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £62,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £49,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -4.04% +2.06% +2.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,754 10,849 11,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.62% 18.34% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,061 4,721 6,541
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £74,919
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the UK excluding London

SAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAN in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SAN in the UK excluding London

SAN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SAN in the UK excluding London

SAN
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
North of England -50 152 £42,500 +6.25% 19
Midlands -22 130 £40,000 -23.81% 20
South East -20 101 £50,000 +25.00% 25
South West -24 67 £50,000 +21.21% 13
Yorkshire +32 65 £44,500 +36.92% 9
East Midlands -12 65 £42,000 -22.94% 13
West Midlands -8 64 £38,000 -20.00% 7
East of England +13 52 £43,500 -13.00% 8
North West -82 50 £51,364 +14.14% 7
North East +9 37 £32,500 -13.33% 3
Wales -18 30 £41,067 -6.13% 6
Scotland -129 18 £47,500 -13.64% 5
Northern Ireland +2 2 £65,000 +85.71% 1
SAN
UK

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 134 (24.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 69 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 39 (7.07%) IIS
4 6 (1.09%) SAS
4 6 (1.09%) WebSphere
5 5 (0.91%) CMS
5 5 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (0.72%) CloudStack
6 4 (0.72%) WordPress
7 3 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.36%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 55 (9.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 295 (53.44%) Azure
2 260 (47.10%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (14.67%) AWS
4 56 (10.14%) OneDrive
5 49 (8.88%) Entra ID
6 29 (5.25%) IaaS
7 25 (4.53%) GCP
8 20 (3.62%) PaaS
8 20 (3.62%) SaaS
9 13 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (2.36%) OCI
10 7 (1.27%) Slack
11 6 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (0.91%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.91%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.72%) Google Workspace
14 3 (0.54%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.54%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.36%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 191 (34.60%) Firewall
2 137 (24.82%) NAS
3 130 (23.55%) DNS
4 111 (20.11%) DHCP
5 102 (18.48%) WAN
6 84 (15.22%) LAN
7 81 (14.67%) VPN
8 67 (12.14%) VLAN
9 45 (8.15%) TCP/IP
10 38 (6.88%) Wireless
11 37 (6.70%) iSCSI
12 36 (6.52%) VoIP
13 25 (4.53%) SD-WAN
13 25 (4.53%) Wi-Fi
14 22 (3.99%) WLAN
15 19 (3.44%) Network Security
15 19 (3.44%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (2.90%) Internet
16 16 (2.90%) SSL
17 15 (2.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (17.75%) SQL Server
2 26 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (2.36%) MySQL
4 5 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.91%) Power BI
5 3 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.54%) Redis
6 1 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (0.54%) GitLab
1 3 (0.54%) JIRA
1 3 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
1 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
General
1 213 (38.59%) Social Skills
2 71 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (12.14%) Finance
4 40 (7.25%) Law
5 38 (6.88%) Organisational Skills
6 23 (4.17%) Legal
7 18 (3.26%) Public Sector
8 17 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.99%) Advertising
9 11 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.45%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.09%) Local Government
12 6 (1.09%) Police
12 6 (1.09%) Retail
13 5 (0.91%) Automotive
14 4 (0.72%) Aviation
14 4 (0.72%) Avionics
15 3 (0.54%) Marketing
15 3 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 178 (32.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 117 (21.20%) Support Engineer
3 106 (19.20%) IT Engineer
4 77 (13.95%) Senior
5 64 (11.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 64 (11.59%) IT Support
6 61 (11.05%) 3rd Line Support
7 58 (10.51%) IT Support Engineer
8 50 (9.06%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 42 (7.61%) Administrator
10 38 (6.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 37 (6.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 34 (6.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (5.25%) IT Administrator
14 26 (4.71%) Infrastructure Support
14 26 (4.71%) Lead
15 25 (4.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 25 (4.53%) Server Administrator
16 24 (4.35%) IT Manager
17 22 (3.99%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.81%) LAMP
2 8 (1.45%) .NET
3 4 (0.72%) EJB
4 3 (0.54%) .NET Core
4 3 (0.54%) ASP.NET
4 3 (0.54%) CSS
4 3 (0.54%) HTML
4 3 (0.54%) jQuery
4 3 (0.54%) LDAP
5 2 (0.36%) SAML
5 2 (0.36%) ServiceStack
5 2 (0.36%) V-Ray
6 1 (0.18%) Flash
6 1 (0.18%) Middleware
6 1 (0.18%) Web Services
6 1 (0.18%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 78 (14.13%) Data Centre
2 61 (11.05%) Driving Licence
3 38 (6.88%) Clustering
4 36 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
5 34 (6.16%) Replication
6 31 (5.62%) Enterprise Storage
7 24 (4.35%) Management Information System
8 18 (3.26%) PKI
9 17 (3.08%) PMI
10 11 (1.99%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.81%) CCTV
12 8 (1.45%) VAX
13 7 (1.27%) CMDB
14 6 (1.09%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.09%) Onboarding
15 5 (0.91%) NHS
15 5 (0.91%) Operational Technology
16 4 (0.72%) iPad
16 4 (0.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 354 (64.13%) Windows
2 254 (46.01%) Windows Server
3 168 (30.43%) Linux
4 60 (10.87%) Windows 10
5 52 (9.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 44 (7.97%) Windows Server 2016
7 35 (6.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (3.44%) Windows Server 2008
9 18 (3.26%) Windows 7
10 16 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (2.36%) AIX
11 13 (2.36%) Ubuntu
11 13 (2.36%) Windows Server 2003
12 12 (2.17%) Windows XP
13 10 (1.81%) Unix
14 8 (1.45%) SUSE
15 6 (1.09%) CentOS
15 6 (1.09%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 6 (1.09%) VMS
16 4 (0.72%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (38.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 153 (27.72%) ITIL
3 120 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (13.41%) Disaster Recovery
5 70 (12.68%) Server Management
6 59 (10.69%) Cybersecurity
7 55 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 55 (9.96%) Project Management
8 50 (9.06%) Mentoring
8 50 (9.06%) Migration
9 48 (8.70%) Storage Management
10 44 (7.97%) Customer Service
11 43 (7.79%) Incident Management
12 38 (6.88%) Performance Monitoring
13 34 (6.16%) Agile
14 32 (5.80%) Proactive Monitoring
15 31 (5.62%) Infrastructure Maintenance
16 30 (5.43%) Root Cause Analysis
16 30 (5.43%) Service Delivery
17 29 (5.25%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 142 (25.72%) PowerShell
2 68 (12.32%) SQL
3 14 (2.54%) Bash
4 11 (1.99%) Python
5 3 (0.54%) C#
5 3 (0.54%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.54%) VB.NET
6 2 (0.36%) Perl
6 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.18%) AWK
7 1 (0.18%) Bourne shell
7 1 (0.18%) Korn
Qualifications
1 82 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 78 (14.13%) Cisco Certification
2 78 (14.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 75 (13.59%) Degree
4 68 (12.32%) CCNA
5 64 (11.59%) SC Cleared
6 42 (7.61%) MCSE
7 29 (5.25%) Azure Certification
8 28 (5.07%) DV Cleared
9 27 (4.89%) ITIL Certification
10 21 (3.80%) CCNP
11 17 (3.08%) PMI Certification
11 17 (3.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 15 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (2.72%) MCP
13 13 (2.36%) Citrix Certification
14 10 (1.81%) A+ Certification
15 9 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (1.63%) JNCIA
15 9 (1.63%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (9.24%) SLA
2 10 (1.81%) GDPR
3 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.36%) ISO 31000
5 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (0.36%) NIST
5 2 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.18%) COBIT
6 1 (0.18%) GRC
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.18%) NCSC
6 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 335 (60.69%) Active Directory
2 250 (45.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 176 (31.88%) Hyper-V
4 58 (10.51%) vSphere
5 56 (10.14%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (2.72%) XenApp
7 11 (1.99%) Terminal Services
8 10 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (1.45%) VMware Server
11 7 (1.27%) Firmware
11 7 (1.27%) SRDF
12 6 (1.09%) Docker
12 6 (1.09%) NFS
12 6 (1.09%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.91%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.36%) pfSense
14 2 (0.36%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 66 (11.96%) SCCM
2 59 (10.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 47 (8.51%) vCenter Server
4 30 (5.43%) SCOM
5 28 (5.07%) NetBackup
6 22 (3.99%) Backup Exec
7 21 (3.80%) ZABBIX
8 20 (3.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 19 (3.44%) WSUS
10 16 (2.90%) EMC NetWorker
10 16 (2.90%) VxRail
11 15 (2.72%) Microsoft Clustering
12 13 (2.36%) Nagios
13 12 (2.17%) Ansible
13 12 (2.17%) Opsgenie
13 12 (2.17%) SmoothWall
14 10 (1.81%) Terraform
15 8 (1.45%) EMC VPLEX
15 8 (1.45%) FortiGate
16 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 380 (68.84%) Microsoft
2 373 (67.57%) VMware
3 133 (24.09%) Veeam
4 93 (16.85%) Cisco
5 79 (14.31%) Citrix
6 73 (13.22%) HP
7 71 (12.86%) Dell
8 69 (12.50%) NetApp
9 45 (8.15%) IBM
10 40 (7.25%) EMC
11 28 (5.07%) Palo Alto
12 27 (4.89%) Fortinet
13 26 (4.71%) Sophos
14 25 (4.53%) Aruba
14 25 (4.53%) Oracle
15 24 (4.35%) Veritas
16 23 (4.17%) Mitel
16 23 (4.17%) SolarWinds
17 22 (3.99%) Nimble Storage
18 19 (3.44%) 3PAR