SAN Contracts with Work from Home Options

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 249 309 446
Rank change year-on-year +60 +137 -92
Contract jobs citing SAN 92 160 173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.61% 0.64% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.87% 5.55% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 101 116
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £350 £400 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £444
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +17.18% -4.57%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £550
90th Percentile £619 £731 £666
UK median daily rate £511 £508 £450
% change year-on-year +0.59% +12.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 7
10th Percentile - - £46.55
25th Percentile - £47.50 £54.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.93
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.58% -1.33%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £63.00
90th Percentile - £82.43 £70.80
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,567 2,884 4,286
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.39% 11.50% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 1,907 2,899
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.10 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £26.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.19 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

SAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SAN trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SAN.

SAN daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SAN over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

SAN daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SAN.

SAN hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.61%) Confluence
3 6 (6.52%) IIS
4 1 (1.09%) Apache
4 1 (1.09%) EPiServer
4 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.09%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.83%) Azure
2 9 (9.78%) AWS
3 8 (8.70%) Nutanix
3 8 (8.70%) PaaS
3 8 (8.70%) SaaS
4 7 (7.61%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (7.61%) GCP
4 7 (7.61%) IaaS
4 7 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.61%) Rubrik
5 5 (5.43%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.43%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 30 (32.61%) Firewall
2 25 (27.17%) TCP/IP
3 23 (25.00%) NAS
4 14 (15.22%) DNS
5 13 (14.13%) DHCP
5 13 (14.13%) LAN
6 9 (9.78%) VLAN
7 8 (8.70%) WAN
8 7 (7.61%) Kerberos
8 7 (7.61%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (6.52%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (6.52%) Internet
10 2 (2.17%) SD-WAN
10 2 (2.17%) SNMP
11 1 (1.09%) BIG-IP
11 1 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (1.09%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.09%) Network Security
11 1 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.35%) Big Data
3 2 (2.17%) DB2
4 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Git
1 8 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.61%) JIRA
2 7 (7.61%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (20.65%) Finance
2 12 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.70%) Banking
4 7 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Local Government
7 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (18.48%) Developer
1 17 (18.48%) Python Developer
2 14 (15.22%) Support Engineer
3 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) Senior
4 10 (10.87%) Storage Engineer
5 7 (7.61%) Data Centre Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Architect
6 6 (6.52%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Backend Developer
7 4 (4.35%) Data Migration Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) IT Support
7 4 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.35%) Senior Python Developer
7 4 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (3.26%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.61%) LDAP
2 5 (5.43%) REST
3 2 (2.17%) .NET
3 2 (2.17%) ADSI
3 2 (2.17%) Middleware
4 1 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.30%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.78%) Clustering
2 9 (9.78%) Replication
3 8 (8.70%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (2.17%) HP Storage
4 2 (2.17%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (2.17%) LPAR
4 2 (2.17%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.17%) PKI
4 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.17%) Tandem
5 1 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.09%) NHS
5 1 (1.09%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (52.17%) Windows
2 39 (42.39%) Linux
3 29 (31.52%) Windows Server
4 18 (19.57%) Ubuntu
5 17 (18.48%) Debian
6 13 (14.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (11.96%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (10.87%) Solaris
9 9 (9.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (7.61%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (6.52%) VMS
12 3 (3.26%) AIX
13 2 (2.17%) Unix
13 2 (2.17%) zOS
14 1 (1.09%) CentOS
14 1 (1.09%) Windows 10
14 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.43%) ITIL
2 26 (28.26%) Agile
3 23 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 19 (20.65%) Migration
5 17 (18.48%) Data Modelling
6 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (17.39%) Matrix Organization
7 15 (16.30%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (15.22%) Configuration Management
8 14 (15.22%) Data Engineering
8 14 (15.22%) Prototyping
8 14 (15.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 11 (11.96%) DevOps
9 11 (11.96%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (10.87%) Data Security
11 9 (9.78%) High Availability
11 9 (9.78%) Software Engineering
12 8 (8.70%) Business Continuity
12 8 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (7.61%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (30.43%) Python
2 20 (21.74%) PowerShell
3 12 (13.04%) Bash
4 8 (8.70%) SQL
5 1 (1.09%) Java
5 1 (1.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (27.17%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.22%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.43%) CCNA
4 5 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (5.43%) Degree
5 4 (4.35%) MCSA
5 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.35%) PMP
6 3 (3.26%) CCNP
7 2 (2.17%) A+ Certification
7 2 (2.17%) CCENT
7 2 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.17%) MCSE
7 2 (2.17%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.09%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) GDPR
1 7 (7.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (44.57%) Active Directory
2 34 (36.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (7.61%) Docker
5 6 (6.52%) Hyper-V
5 6 (6.52%) VMware NSX
6 5 (5.43%) vSphere
7 2 (2.17%) KVM
7 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.09%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 13 (14.13%) Ansible
2 12 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.96%) SCCM
4 10 (10.87%) EMC NetWorker
4 10 (10.87%) Terraform
5 7 (7.61%) Netcool
5 7 (7.61%) Tivoli
5 7 (7.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (5.43%) Avamar
7 3 (3.26%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.17%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (2.17%) Puppet
9 1 (1.09%) Grafana
9 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 59 (64.13%) VMware
2 49 (53.26%) Microsoft
3 26 (28.26%) Cisco
4 24 (26.09%) HP
5 22 (23.91%) EMC
6 17 (18.48%) Red Hat
7 15 (16.30%) Dell
8 13 (14.13%) Citrix
9 12 (13.04%) CyberArk
10 10 (10.87%) IBM
11 9 (9.78%) Oracle
12 8 (8.70%) Avaya
12 8 (8.70%) CheckPoint
13 7 (7.61%) Isilon
13 7 (7.61%) Qualys
13 7 (7.61%) Serena
13 7 (7.61%) ServiceNow
13 7 (7.61%) Splunk
14 5 (5.43%) Brocade
15 4 (4.35%) F5