SAN Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Storage Area Network (SAN)
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring SAN skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SAN 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 3.85% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £539 - -
25th Percentile £540 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £559 - -
90th Percentile £561 - -
North West median daily rate £545 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +28.24% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 36 33 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 27.69% 15.57% 46.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 44
10th Percentile £379 £437 £436
25th Percentile £435 £515 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £660 £486
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +35.80% +90.59%
75th Percentile £553 £670 £606
90th Percentile £603 £688 £627
North West median daily rate £446 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -15.05% +10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £48.56 -
North West median hourly rate £23.50 £48.56 £16.68
% change year-on-year -51.61% +191.13% -27.65%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in Cumbria

SAN
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing SAN

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing SAN

SAN
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 4 £550 - 2
SAN
North West

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SAN Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Application Virtualisation
1 4 (80.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (60.00%) Due Diligence
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Capita