SAN Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring SAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 71 99
Rank change year-on-year -24 +28 +17
Contract jobs citing SAN 8 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.53% 0.86% 0.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.51% 4.58% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 9
10th Percentile £136 £275 £106
25th Percentile £277 £287 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £480 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.48% +12.94% +30.77%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £475
90th Percentile £598 £579 £525
England median daily rate £527 £493 £465
% change year-on-year +7.01% +5.91% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £41.45 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.17% - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £13.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +151.85% -66.25% +55.58%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 228 240 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.01% 18.81% 20.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 114 208
10th Percentile £168 £220 £218
25th Percentile £213 £290 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £684 £600 £638
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 40 70
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.17 £20.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £22.62 £50.31
Median hourly rate £62.50 £49.28 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -24.18% +1.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £82.00 £70.33 £73.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £49.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -30.61% -13.26% +25.53%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

SAN job vacancy trend in the East of England

SAN
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SAN

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the East of England

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SAN

SAN
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Hertfordshire -20 3 £526 +2.54% 7
Bedfordshire -11 2 £41 -86.18% 1
Cambridgeshire - 2 £575 - 3
Suffolk - 1 - -
SAN
England

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
2 4 (50.00%) DHCP
2 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (25.00%) NAS
4 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (25.00%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (25.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) CentOS
4 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) BCP
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (25.00%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) Aruba
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (12.50%) Veeam