SAN Contracts in Berkshire

Storage Area Network (SAN)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring SAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAN over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 92 101
Rank change year-on-year +24 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing SAN 31 19 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.56% 1.09% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.90% 5.90% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 6
10th Percentile £364 £589 £211
25th Percentile £393 £603 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £363
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +66.90% -27.50%
75th Percentile £498 £608 £431
90th Percentile £500 - £514
South East median daily rate £525 £583 £350
% change year-on-year -9.87% +66.43% -30.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

SAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 195 322 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.10% 18.53% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 128 188
10th Percentile £297 £281 £221
25th Percentile £373 £394 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £541 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.86% +20.28% -2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £600
90th Percentile £600 £638 £654
South East median daily rate £498 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 16
10th Percentile £58.25 £56.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £63.13 £71.75 £23.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £83.77 £69.42
Median % change year-on-year -13.45% +20.67% +255.99%
75th Percentile £83.13 £87.46 £75.67
90th Percentile £88.75 - £76.55
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -4.10% -0.26% +49.35%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in Berkshire

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAN in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for SAN in Berkshire

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in Berkshire

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAN in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for SAN in Berkshire

SAN
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 3 August 2025. 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
Slough - 14 £450 - 1
Wokingham -2 10 £395 -33.05% 3
Reading +13 2 £365 -39.67% 1
Bracknell -2 1 - -
SAN
South East

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) AWS
1 4 (12.90%) Azure
1 4 (12.90%) Azure Storage
1 4 (12.90%) GCP
2 2 (6.45%) GitHub
2 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (35.48%) ATM
1 11 (35.48%) Ethernet
1 11 (35.48%) Frame Relay
1 11 (35.48%) GPRS
1 11 (35.48%) GSM
1 11 (35.48%) LAN
1 11 (35.48%) LTE
1 11 (35.48%) MPLS
1 11 (35.48%) SDH
1 11 (35.48%) UMTS
1 11 (35.48%) VPN
1 11 (35.48%) WAN
1 11 (35.48%) Wireshark
2 5 (16.13%) NAS
3 4 (12.90%) BGP
3 4 (12.90%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (12.90%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (12.90%) OSPF
3 4 (12.90%) Spanning Tree
3 4 (12.90%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) GitLab
General
1 21 (67.74%) Social Skills
2 15 (48.39%) Telecoms
3 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Front Office
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) IP Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Test Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) Administrator
3 8 (25.81%) Backup Administrator
3 8 (25.81%) Network Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) Storage Administrator
3 8 (25.81%) Storage and Backup Administrator
4 5 (16.13%) IP Network Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) HP Storage Administrator
6 3 (9.68%) Data Centre Technician
6 3 (9.68%) Data Technician
7 2 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) IP Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) IP Network Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Network Consultant
8 1 (3.23%) Change Manager
8 1 (3.23%) Data Centre Manager
8 1 (3.23%) Data Manager
8 1 (3.23%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (35.48%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (25.81%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (12.90%) Data Centre
4 3 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (9.68%) HP Storage
5 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
5 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (61.29%) Linux
2 14 (45.16%) Unix
3 7 (22.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (22.58%) Windows
4 4 (12.90%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (12.90%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (12.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (35.48%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (35.48%) Fault Management
2 11 (35.48%) Project Management
2 11 (35.48%) Regression Testing
2 11 (35.48%) Test Strategy
3 9 (29.03%) ITIL
4 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (16.13%) Storage Management
6 4 (12.90%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (12.90%) Runbook
7 3 (9.68%) Capacity Management
7 3 (9.68%) Incident Management
7 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (9.68%) TOGAF
8 2 (6.45%) Business Continuity
8 2 (6.45%) Business Continuity Management
8 2 (6.45%) DevOps
8 2 (6.45%) Mentoring
8 2 (6.45%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) Java
2 7 (22.58%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (35.48%) CCNP
2 11 (35.48%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (35.48%) ISEB
2 11 (35.48%) ISTQB
2 11 (35.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 10 (32.26%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
5 3 (9.68%) Server+ Certification
6 2 (6.45%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (3.23%) BC Cleared
7 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
1 4 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Ceph
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) NetBackup
2 2 (6.45%) Argo
3 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) Cisco
2 11 (35.48%) Juniper
2 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 11 (35.48%) NetApp
3 9 (29.03%) Red Hat
4 8 (25.81%) 3PAR
4 8 (25.81%) Dell
4 8 (25.81%) HP
4 8 (25.81%) Veritas
5 7 (22.58%) Nimble Storage
6 4 (12.90%) EMC
6 4 (12.90%) Pure Storage
7 1 (3.23%) VMware