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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
Contract jobs citing SAN 3 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.47% - 1.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.55% - 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £104
25th Percentile £425 - £107
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £600
75th Percentile £475 - £830
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +25.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £14.15
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -71.10%

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 66 61 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.34% 9.90% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 30 47
10th Percentile £228 £150 £167
25th Percentile £411 £288 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +0.95% +4.82%
75th Percentile £600 £558 £646
90th Percentile £686 £608 £750
Scotland median daily rate £425 £425 £531
% change year-on-year - -19.89% +14.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 10
10th Percentile - - £15.95
25th Percentile - £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £22.88 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +227.87% -47.11% +18.07%
75th Percentile - £29.48 £60.75
90th Percentile - £48.57 £60.83
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £22.88 £60.00
% change year-on-year +227.87% -61.88% +464.44%

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 2 (66.67%) Nutanix
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) NVMe
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) BCP
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) NCDA
1 1 (33.33%) VCP6
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) vMotion
1 2 (66.67%) vRealize
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) PowerCLI
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Brocade
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Commvault
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
3 1 (33.33%) Veeam