SAN Contracts in England

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAN over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 383 449
Rank change year-on-year +92 +66 -80
Contract jobs citing SAN 269 291 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.73% 0.59% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.53% 4.86% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 208 227
10th Percentile £280 £224 £237
25th Percentile £350 £339 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +13.28% +1.81%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £550
90th Percentile £688 £716 £675
UK median daily rate £511 £508 £450
% change year-on-year +0.59% +12.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 27
10th Percentile £20.36 £33.25 £20.91
25th Percentile £23.80 £48.44 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £76.75 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -47.88% +221.00% -52.18%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £24.96
90th Percentile - £83.88 £53.52
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £53.75 £23.91
% change year-on-year -55.72% +124.80% -52.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,862 5,986 7,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.21% 12.20% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,936 3,911 5,113
10th Percentile £207 £235 £223
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 431 301
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.86 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.90 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in England

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAN in England.

Daily rate trend for SAN in England

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in England

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAN in England.

Hourly rate trend for SAN in England

SAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAN in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SAN in England

SAN
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +75 103 £488 +30.00% 23
London +23 64 £450 -19.14% 25
Midlands +36 35 £550 +5.77% 23
South West +24 31 £500 -4.76% 11
North of England +32 28 £400 +13.88% 19
East Midlands +37 18 £550 +55.20% 10
West Midlands +9 16 £300 -47.37% 13
Yorkshire +28 14 £450 +50.00% 7
North West +13 13 £413 -2.94% 9
East of England -4 4 £425 -35.24% 8
North East +9 1 £180 +5.88% 3
SAN
UK

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 51 (18.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.20%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.35%) IIS
4 8 (2.97%) Confluence
5 3 (1.12%) nginx
5 3 (1.12%) WordPress
6 2 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.74%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.37%) Apache
7 1 (0.37%) Site Server
7 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.74%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 74 (27.51%) Azure
2 29 (10.78%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (10.41%) AWS
4 19 (7.06%) Nutanix
5 15 (5.58%) OCI
6 14 (5.20%) GCP
7 12 (4.46%) Rubrik
8 11 (4.09%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (3.72%) IaaS
9 10 (3.72%) PaaS
9 10 (3.72%) SaaS
10 7 (2.60%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.86%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.49%) OneDrive
13 3 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (1.12%) GitHub
14 2 (0.74%) Azure Stack
14 2 (0.74%) Mimecast
15 1 (0.37%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 73 (27.14%) Firewall
2 68 (25.28%) NAS
3 65 (24.16%) DNS
4 57 (21.19%) DHCP
5 39 (14.50%) LAN
6 38 (14.13%) TCP/IP
7 34 (12.64%) WAN
8 25 (9.29%) Fibre Channel
9 24 (8.92%) VLAN
10 18 (6.69%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (5.95%) VPN
12 14 (5.20%) iSCSI
13 11 (4.09%) MPLS
13 11 (4.09%) Wireless
14 8 (2.97%) Kerberos
15 7 (2.60%) Internet
16 6 (2.23%) FTP
16 6 (2.23%) Network Security
16 6 (2.23%) SSL
16 6 (2.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.78%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.72%) MySQL
3 7 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.49%) Big Data
4 4 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.09%) Git
2 10 (3.72%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.72%) JIRA
3 8 (2.97%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.74%) GitLab
General
1 65 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.27%) Finance
3 19 (7.06%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.32%) Banking
5 14 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.97%) Aerospace
7 7 (2.60%) Legal
8 5 (1.86%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.86%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.12%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.74%) Advertising
11 2 (0.74%) Back Office
11 2 (0.74%) Electronics
11 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 2 (0.74%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Front Office
12 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 70 (26.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 45 (16.73%) Storage Engineer
3 25 (9.29%) Support Engineer
4 24 (8.92%) Architect
5 22 (8.18%) Senior
5 22 (8.18%) VMware Engineer
6 20 (7.43%) Developer
6 20 (7.43%) Python Developer
7 19 (7.06%) Data Centre Engineer
8 15 (5.58%) Backup Engineer
9 14 (5.20%) Network Engineer
10 12 (4.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 12 (4.46%) Analyst
11 11 (4.09%) Storage and Backup Engineer
12 10 (3.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.72%) Server Engineer
12 10 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 8 (2.97%) IT Engineer
14 8 (2.97%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.58%) Flash
2 10 (3.72%) LDAP
3 5 (1.86%) REST
4 4 (1.49%) EDI
5 3 (1.12%) LAMP
6 2 (0.74%) .NET
6 2 (0.74%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.74%) ADSI
6 2 (0.74%) Middleware
6 2 (0.74%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.37%) OAuth
7 1 (0.37%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.37%) OpenID
7 1 (0.37%) SAML
7 1 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 75 (27.88%) Data Centre
2 25 (9.29%) Clustering
3 22 (8.18%) Replication
4 16 (5.95%) Management Information System
4 16 (5.95%) Video Conferencing
5 15 (5.58%) PKI
6 10 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.35%) Client/Server
8 7 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.60%) Fat Client
8 7 (2.60%) HP Storage
8 7 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.60%) Thin Client
9 6 (2.23%) CCTV
9 6 (2.23%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.49%) NHS
11 4 (1.49%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 148 (55.02%) Windows
2 128 (47.58%) Linux
3 85 (31.60%) Windows Server
4 38 (14.13%) Windows Server 2012
4 38 (14.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (12.64%) Ubuntu
6 32 (11.90%) Unix
7 31 (11.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (8.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 21 (7.81%) AIX
9 21 (7.81%) Windows 10
10 20 (7.43%) Debian
11 18 (6.69%) Solaris
12 14 (5.20%) Windows XP
13 10 (3.72%) VMS
14 8 (2.97%) Oracle Linux
15 5 (1.86%) Android
16 4 (1.49%) CentOS
16 4 (1.49%) Mac OS
16 4 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (33.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 73 (27.14%) ITIL
3 58 (21.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 41 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (14.50%) Migration
6 37 (13.75%) Agile
7 33 (12.27%) Storage Management
8 31 (11.52%) Performance Tuning
8 31 (11.52%) Server Management
9 24 (8.92%) Data Protection
10 23 (8.55%) Project Management
11 22 (8.18%) Customer Service
12 21 (7.81%) Break/Fix
12 21 (7.81%) High Availability
13 20 (7.43%) Data Modelling
14 19 (7.06%) Configuration Management
14 19 (7.06%) Prototyping
15 18 (6.69%) Business Continuity
16 17 (6.32%) Data Engineering
16 17 (6.32%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (24.54%) PowerShell
2 34 (12.64%) Python
3 18 (6.69%) Bash
4 17 (6.32%) SQL
5 6 (2.23%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.12%) Perl
7 2 (0.74%) AWK
7 2 (0.74%) Bourne shell
7 2 (0.74%) C#
7 2 (0.74%) Korn
8 1 (0.37%) Java
8 1 (0.37%) Ruby
8 1 (0.37%) VB
8 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 92 (34.20%) Security Cleared
2 63 (23.42%) SC Cleared
3 48 (17.84%) Degree
3 48 (17.84%) DV Cleared
4 26 (9.67%) CCNA
4 26 (9.67%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (5.58%) CCNP
7 13 (4.83%) MCSE
8 7 (2.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (1.86%) CISA
9 5 (1.86%) CISM
9 5 (1.86%) CISSP
9 5 (1.86%) SANS
10 4 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.49%) MCSA
11 3 (1.12%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.12%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.12%) PMP
11 3 (1.12%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.20%) SLA
2 10 (3.72%) GDPR
3 8 (2.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 108 (40.15%) Active Directory
2 107 (39.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (17.10%) VMware ESXi
4 39 (14.50%) vSphere
5 35 (13.01%) Hyper-V
6 20 (7.43%) VMware NSX
7 11 (4.09%) Docker
7 11 (4.09%) Firmware
8 9 (3.35%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (2.97%) VMware Workstation
10 7 (2.60%) KVM
11 5 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (1.86%) VMware Server
12 2 (0.74%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.37%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 53 (19.70%) SCCM
2 41 (15.24%) vCenter Server
3 38 (14.13%) NetBackup
4 30 (11.15%) EMC NetWorker
5 29 (10.78%) Ansible
6 22 (8.18%) WSUS
7 20 (7.43%) Kubernetes
7 20 (7.43%) Terraform
8 17 (6.32%) SCOM
9 11 (4.09%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (3.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 9 (3.35%) Microsoft Clustering
12 8 (2.97%) Nagios
12 8 (2.97%) Netcool
12 8 (2.97%) Tivoli
13 7 (2.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (2.23%) Avamar
14 6 (2.23%) HP Data Protector
14 6 (2.23%) Red Hat Satellite
14 6 (2.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 172 (63.94%) VMware
2 113 (42.01%) Microsoft
3 76 (28.25%) Cisco
4 66 (24.54%) HP
5 65 (24.16%) Dell
6 58 (21.56%) EMC
7 42 (15.61%) Red Hat
8 36 (13.38%) Veeam
9 33 (12.27%) Oracle
10 28 (10.41%) Brocade
10 28 (10.41%) IBM
11 24 (8.92%) Palo Alto
12 23 (8.55%) Citrix
13 21 (7.81%) CheckPoint
14 20 (7.43%) Symantec
15 19 (7.06%) NetApp
16 17 (6.32%) 3PAR
16 17 (6.32%) Juniper
17 15 (5.58%) Avaya
18 14 (5.20%) Extreme Networks