SAN Contracts in the North of England

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 155 187 199
Rank change year-on-year +32 +12 -43
Contract jobs citing SAN 28 25 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.60% 0.44% 0.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.94% 3.79% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 42
10th Percentile £258 £105 £265
25th Percentile £313 £200 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £351 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.88% -17.35% -
75th Percentile £619 £438 £450
90th Percentile £663 £447 £534
England median daily rate £500 £510 £450
% change year-on-year -1.91% +13.28% +1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.04
Median hourly rate - - £21.35
75th Percentile - - £22.67
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £76.75 £23.91
% change year-on-year -47.88% +221.00% -52.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 567 660 874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.13% 11.61% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 444 607
10th Percentile £200 £205 £180
25th Percentile £313 £325 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £602 £570 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 26
10th Percentile £13.31 - £10.93
25th Percentile £18.89 £9.80 £16.06
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -41.75% +4.29%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.40
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £50.48
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the North of England

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SAN in the North of England

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the North of England

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the North of England

SAN
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
Yorkshire +28 14 £450 +50.00% 7
North West +13 13 £413 -2.94% 9
North East +9 1 £180 +5.88% 3
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.14%) IIS
3 1 (3.57%) Site Server
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) Azure
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) LAN
2 6 (21.43%) Firewall
2 6 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (17.86%) DHCP
3 5 (17.86%) DNS
3 5 (17.86%) Internet
4 4 (14.29%) NAS
5 2 (7.14%) VLAN
5 2 (7.14%) WAN
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (3.57%) iSCSI
6 1 (3.57%) Network Security
6 1 (3.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Big Data
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
General
1 4 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Banking
2 1 (3.57%) Local Government
2 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Storage Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) SAN Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) SAN Storage Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) VMware Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) IT Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Migration Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Data Centre Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Data Migration Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) IT Support
5 4 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior
6 3 (10.71%) Server Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
7 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) ADSI
2 1 (3.57%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) NHS
3 1 (3.57%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.57%) Clustering
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Windows
2 11 (39.29%) Windows Server
3 6 (21.43%) Linux
3 6 (21.43%) VMS
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (25.00%) Migration
3 5 (17.86%) Customer Service
3 5 (17.86%) Email Filtering
3 5 (17.86%) Kalman Filter
3 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.14%) High Availability
4 2 (7.14%) Informatics
4 2 (7.14%) ITIL
4 2 (7.14%) Server Virtualisation
5 1 (3.57%) BCP
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science
5 1 (3.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.57%) Information Security
5 1 (3.57%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (3.57%) Problem Management
5 1 (3.57%) Security Management
5 1 (3.57%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.57%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (3.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) C#
3 1 (3.57%) Java
3 1 (3.57%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.71%) MCSA
3 2 (7.14%) A+ Certification
3 2 (7.14%) CCENT
3 2 (7.14%) CCNA
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.14%) MCSE
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) RHCE
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 6 (21.43%) Firmware
3 6 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.57%) Avamar
2 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) VMware
2 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
3 10 (35.71%) Cisco
4 3 (10.71%) Dell
5 2 (7.14%) Citrix
5 2 (7.14%) HP
5 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.57%) Meraki
6 1 (3.57%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (3.57%) Veeam