SAN Contracts in the West Midlands

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 110 152
Rank change year-on-year +13 +42 -34
Contract jobs citing SAN 12 29 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.62% 1.22% 0.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.05% 8.26% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 15
10th Percentile £243 £263 £228
25th Percentile £331 £400 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £675 £300
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +125.00% -40.00%
75th Percentile £913 £731 £463
90th Percentile £1,000 - £577
England median daily rate £500 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% +4.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £19.95 - £20.00
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 394 351 383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.47% 14.75% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 217 267
10th Percentile £201 £263 £165
25th Percentile £313 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -4.48%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £505
90th Percentile £688 £700 £618
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 18
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £12.04
25th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £12.66
Median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.58 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £21.80 £20.51
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the West Midlands

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SAN in the West Midlands

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the West Midlands

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the West Midlands

SAN
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Coventry +14 3 - - 1
Birmingham -10 3 £1,000 +45.45% 3
Warwickshire - 3 £800 -
Shropshire +31 1 - - 9
Staffordshire +6 1 £275 - 3
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (16.67%) IIS
2 2 (16.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) Network Security
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (25.00%) DNS
3 3 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (16.67%) iSCSI
4 2 (16.67%) LAN
4 2 (16.67%) NAS
4 2 (16.67%) VPN
4 2 (16.67%) WAN
4 2 (16.67%) Wireless
5 1 (8.33%) DHCP
5 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Advertising
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Server Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (33.33%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (25.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (16.67%) VMS
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (8.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 1 (8.33%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (8.33%) Change Control
4 1 (8.33%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) Innovative Thinking
4 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (8.33%) Server Management
4 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) CCNA
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (41.67%) vSphere
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (16.67%) SCCM
3 1 (8.33%) NetBackup
3 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (58.33%) VMware
3 4 (33.33%) Cisco
4 3 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (25.00%) F5
4 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (16.67%) Aruba
5 2 (16.67%) NetApp
5 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 2 (16.67%) ProCurve
5 2 (16.67%) Synology
5 2 (16.67%) Veeam
5 2 (16.67%) Zerto
6 1 (8.33%) 3PAR
6 1 (8.33%) Commvault
6 1 (8.33%) HP
6 1 (8.33%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (8.33%) Sophos
6 1 (8.33%) Veritas