SAN Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Storage Area Network (SAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 51 64
Rank change year-on-year -23 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing SAN 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.55% 0.19% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.03% 2.56% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £1,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.45%
West Midlands median daily rate £413 £475 £800
% change year-on-year -13.16% -40.63% +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £19.95
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £19.95

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 124 39 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.70% 7.37% 19.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 25 93
10th Percentile £206 £169 £205
25th Percentile £329 £363 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +50.00% -31.71%
75th Percentile £540 £600 £488
90th Percentile £601 £700 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £423 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -11.05% +18.75% -17.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £16.34 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.84 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.23 - £19.95
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.00%
75th Percentile £19.06 - £28.75
90th Percentile £19.23 - £72.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £58.00 £16.26 £19.95
% change year-on-year +256.70% -18.50% +7.84%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SAN job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SAN
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SAN

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SAN

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) AIX Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Banking Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Server Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Unix Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking Systems Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Clustering
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
2 2 (40.00%) AIX
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Security Hardening
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Perl
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
1 2 (40.00%) PowerHA
2 1 (20.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) Remedy
2 1 (20.00%) Brocade
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Pure Storage
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk