SAN Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Storage Area Network (SAN)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring SAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing SAN 1 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.17% - 1.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.04% - 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £218
25th Percentile - - £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £531
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.38%
75th Percentile - - £779
90th Percentile - - £830
Scotland median daily rate £425 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -22.73% -4.35% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - - £47.75
% change year-on-year - - +169.47%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 49 70 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.43% 12.37% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 32 38
10th Percentile £255 £154 £130
25th Percentile £413 £233 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £444
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% +17.41% -6.58%
75th Percentile £509 £609 £569
90th Percentile £618 £650 £723
Scotland median daily rate £425 £425 £550
% change year-on-year - -22.73% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile - £21.00 -
25th Percentile - £21.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £24.66 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +204.14% +40.91% -51.29%
75th Percentile - £52.15 £40.13
90th Percentile - £72.00 £52.95
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £23.77 £59.52
% change year-on-year +215.56% -60.06% +267.83%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

SAN job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

SAN
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SAN

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SAN

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware