SAN Contracts in the South East

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 170 175
Rank change year-on-year +69 +5 -38
Contract jobs citing SAN 102 51 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.85% 0.88% 1.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.17% 5.19% 6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 40 57
10th Percentile £280 £286 £252
25th Percentile £400 £309 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £700
90th Percentile £608 £749 £738
England median daily rate £500 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -3.80% +15.50% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £53.65 -
25th Percentile £58.50 £68.50 £77.50
Median hourly rate £63.00 £78.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.75% -1.88% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £80.25 £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -46.67% +213.68% -52.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,248 982 1,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.61% 16.90% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 592 774
10th Percentile £205 £236 £189
25th Percentile £363 £363 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £486 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% +8.06% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £657
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 74 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.33 £15.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.81
Median hourly rate £57.35 £53.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +146.51% -34.85%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.50 £46.40
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.82 £23.91
% change year-on-year +108.55% -21.29% -4.36%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the South East

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAN in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SAN in the South East

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the South East

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAN in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the South East

SAN
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Thames Valley +36 50 £550 +2.33% 9
Berkshire +16 30 £590 +62.76% 5
Hampshire +22 25 £501 +57.18% 11
Buckinghamshire +36 18 £550 -
West Sussex +12 16 £450 +20.00% 5
Surrey +13 11 £413 +33.06% 4
Oxfordshire - 2 £525 - 4
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.96%) nginx
3 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 24 (23.53%) Azure
2 13 (12.75%) OCI
3 6 (5.88%) AWS
4 4 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.96%) Azure Stack
5 2 (1.96%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.96%) GCP
5 2 (1.96%) GitHub
5 2 (1.96%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.98%) IaaS
6 1 (0.98%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 29 (28.43%) DNS
2 25 (24.51%) DHCP
3 24 (23.53%) NAS
4 22 (21.57%) Firewall
5 21 (20.59%) TCP/IP
6 10 (9.80%) iSCSI
7 9 (8.82%) VLAN
8 8 (7.84%) Fibre Channel
9 7 (6.86%) WAN
10 6 (5.88%) SSL
11 5 (4.90%) LAN
11 5 (4.90%) VPN
11 5 (4.90%) Wireless
12 4 (3.92%) VoIP
13 3 (2.94%) MPLS
14 2 (1.96%) BGP
14 2 (1.96%) DDNS
14 2 (1.96%) DSL
14 2 (1.96%) OSPF
14 2 (1.96%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.86%) MySQL
3 5 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.98%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.96%) GitLab
2 1 (0.98%) Git
General
1 39 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
3 3 (2.94%) Legal
4 2 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.96%) Back Office
4 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (43.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (18.63%) Storage Engineer
3 17 (16.67%) Senior
4 16 (15.69%) Developer
4 16 (15.69%) Python Developer
5 10 (9.80%) Architect
5 10 (9.80%) Data Centre Engineer
6 9 (8.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) VMware Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Backup Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Break Fix Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Virtualisation Architect
11 4 (3.92%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure Architect
12 3 (2.94%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.75%) Flash
2 2 (1.96%) EDI
2 2 (1.96%) Middleware
3 1 (0.98%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 32 (31.37%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.88%) PKI
4 5 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.92%) Fat Client
5 4 (3.92%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.96%) CCTV
7 2 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.96%) Tandem
8 1 (0.98%) Clustering
8 1 (0.98%) CMDB
8 1 (0.98%) Replication
8 1 (0.98%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 71 (69.61%) Linux
2 38 (37.25%) Windows
3 26 (25.49%) Windows Server 2019
4 24 (23.53%) Windows Server
5 22 (21.57%) Ubuntu
6 21 (20.59%) Unix
7 19 (18.63%) Windows Server 2012
8 17 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (15.69%) Debian
9 16 (15.69%) Windows 10
10 13 (12.75%) AIX
10 13 (12.75%) Windows XP
11 7 (6.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (2.94%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (1.96%) Android
13 2 (1.96%) Mac OS
13 2 (1.96%) Solaris
14 1 (0.98%) CentOS
14 1 (0.98%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (48.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 43 (42.16%) ITIL
3 23 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (20.59%) Disaster Recovery
5 19 (18.63%) Break/Fix
5 19 (18.63%) Storage Management
6 17 (16.67%) Agile
7 16 (15.69%) Data Modelling
7 16 (15.69%) Project Management
8 15 (14.71%) Configuration Management
8 15 (14.71%) Prototyping
8 15 (14.71%) Server Management
9 14 (13.73%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (13.73%) Proactive Monitoring
10 13 (12.75%) Converged Infrastructure
10 13 (12.75%) Data Engineering
10 13 (12.75%) Performance Monitoring
10 13 (12.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 12 (11.76%) Matrix Organization
11 12 (11.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 22 (21.57%) PowerShell
2 19 (18.63%) Python
3 6 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 4 (3.92%) SQL
5 2 (1.96%) AWK
5 2 (1.96%) Bourne shell
5 2 (1.96%) Korn
5 2 (1.96%) Perl
6 1 (0.98%) Bash
Qualifications
1 57 (55.88%) Security Cleared
2 47 (46.08%) SC Cleared
3 29 (28.43%) Degree
4 26 (25.49%) DV Cleared
5 19 (18.63%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (17.65%) CCNA
7 13 (12.75%) CCNP
8 5 (4.90%) MCSE
8 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.96%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.96%) PhD
10 2 (1.96%) RHCE
10 2 (1.96%) RHCSA
10 2 (1.96%) Server+ Certification
11 1 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.98%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.76%) SLA
2 2 (1.96%) GDPR
2 2 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (32.35%) Active Directory
1 33 (32.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (19.61%) vSphere
3 19 (18.63%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (13.73%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.92%) Firmware
6 2 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.96%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.98%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 20 (19.61%) SCCM
2 19 (18.63%) WSUS
3 18 (17.65%) NetBackup
3 18 (17.65%) vCenter Server
4 13 (12.75%) EMC NetWorker
4 13 (12.75%) SCOM
5 8 (7.84%) Ansible
6 6 (5.88%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (4.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (4.90%) Avamar
8 4 (3.92%) Nessus
8 4 (3.92%) ZABBIX
9 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.96%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (1.96%) Oracle ZFS
10 2 (1.96%) PaperCut
10 2 (1.96%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (1.96%) vRealize
10 2 (1.96%) VxRail
10 2 (1.96%) yum
Vendors
1 66 (64.71%) VMware
2 45 (44.12%) Microsoft
3 31 (30.39%) Red Hat
4 29 (28.43%) Dell
5 25 (24.51%) HP
6 23 (22.55%) EMC
7 20 (19.61%) Veeam
8 18 (17.65%) Oracle
9 17 (16.67%) Cisco
10 16 (15.69%) 3PAR
11 15 (14.71%) Juniper
11 15 (14.71%) Palo Alto
12 13 (12.75%) Brocade
12 13 (12.75%) Extreme Networks
12 13 (12.75%) IBM
12 13 (12.75%) Symantec
13 6 (5.88%) Veritas
14 5 (4.90%) NetApp
14 5 (4.90%) Nimble Storage
15 4 (3.92%) SolarWinds