SAN Contracts in the South West

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 148 143
Rank change year-on-year +29 -5 -25
Contract jobs citing SAN 31 25 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.97% 0.68% 0.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.81% 3.85% 6.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 20 18
10th Percentile £320 £239 £260
25th Percentile £421 £388 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £419
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +7.46% +19.64%
75th Percentile £528 £595 £518
90th Percentile £575 £675 £643
England median daily rate £500 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £34.35 - £60.92
25th Percentile - - £60.92
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £60.93
75th Percentile - - £60.93
90th Percentile - - £60.93
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 West

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 West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 534 649 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.75% 17.76% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 422 298
10th Percentile £275 £207 £223
25th Percentile £460 £400 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £540
90th Percentile £713 £718 £619
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 128 34
10th Percentile £12.50 - £41.13
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +9.91%
75th Percentile £70.66 £62.13 £66.46
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.58 £69.05
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the South West

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SAN in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAN in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SAN in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Bristol +21 14 £500 -5.88% 5
Somerset +9 8 - - 3
Devon 0 4 £550 +129.17%
Wiltshire - 3 £350 -
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 2
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 14 (45.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (25.81%) Azure
3 4 (12.90%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (41.94%) WAN
2 12 (38.71%) LAN
3 11 (35.48%) Firewall
4 9 (29.03%) DHCP
4 9 (29.03%) DNS
5 8 (25.81%) MPLS
5 8 (25.81%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (22.58%) NAS
7 6 (19.35%) FTP
8 2 (6.45%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (6.45%) Skype
9 1 (3.23%) VLAN
9 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Aerospace
3 8 (25.81%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.90%) Legal
5 2 (6.45%) Electronics
5 2 (6.45%) Finance
5 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.45%) Marketing
5 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Analyst
1 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 8 (25.81%) IT Analyst
1 8 (25.81%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Network Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Backup Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Wintel Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (3.23%) Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Field Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Field Service Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Support
7 1 (3.23%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (38.71%) Clustering
2 9 (29.03%) Data Centre
3 8 (25.81%) Client/Server
4 6 (19.35%) Replication
5 2 (6.45%) Fat Client
5 2 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (6.45%) PKI
5 2 (6.45%) Thin Client
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (80.65%) Windows
2 17 (54.84%) Windows Server
3 12 (38.71%) Linux
4 8 (25.81%) Unix
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Data Protection
2 10 (32.26%) Server Management
3 8 (25.81%) Application Packaging
3 8 (25.81%) Asset Management
3 8 (25.81%) Business Transformation
3 8 (25.81%) Capacity Management
3 8 (25.81%) Capacity Planning
3 8 (25.81%) Data Migration
3 8 (25.81%) Decision-Making
3 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (25.81%) Migration
3 8 (25.81%) Network Management
4 7 (22.58%) ITIL
5 6 (19.35%) Change Management
6 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
6 4 (12.90%) DevOps
6 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.90%) Virtual Environments
7 3 (9.68%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (45.16%) Security Cleared
2 11 (35.48%) DV Cleared
3 8 (25.81%) Degree
4 3 (9.68%) MCSE
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (3.23%) A+ Certification
6 1 (3.23%) CCNA
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.23%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 23 (74.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (54.84%) Active Directory
3 12 (38.71%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (35.48%) VMware NSX
5 9 (29.03%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (25.81%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (12.90%) vSphere
8 3 (9.68%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft Clustering
1 10 (32.26%) SCCM
2 8 (25.81%) Nagios
2 8 (25.81%) NetBackup
2 8 (25.81%) vCenter Server
3 4 (12.90%) Ansible
3 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.45%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (93.55%) VMware
2 17 (54.84%) Microsoft
3 8 (25.81%) Dell
3 8 (25.81%) Hitachi
3 8 (25.81%) NetApp
4 7 (22.58%) Veeam
5 6 (19.35%) CheckPoint
5 6 (19.35%) Cisco
5 6 (19.35%) Palo Alto
6 4 (12.90%) CyberArk
7 2 (6.45%) HP
7 2 (6.45%) SAP