SAN Contracts in Cheshire

Storage Area Network (SAN)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 45 48
Rank change year-on-year -26 +3 +14
Contract jobs citing SAN 2 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.33% 1.64% 0.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.13% 12.90% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £406 -
North West median daily rate £475 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +11.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £46.75 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 94 62 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.36% 12.68% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 27 53
10th Percentile £315 £200 £350
25th Percentile £375 £374 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £588
90th Percentile £688 £765 £612
North West median daily rate £438 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -15.05% +8.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 £48.56 £16.50
% change year-on-year +36.94% +194.30% -48.14%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in Cheshire

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for SAN in Cheshire

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SAN in Cheshire

SAN
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Warrington - 2 - - 3
SAN
North West

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Server Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam
1 2 (100.00%) VMware