iSCSI Contract Job Trends in England

iSCSI
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring iSCSI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 496 560
Rank change year-on-year -18 +64 +150
Contract jobs citing iSCSI 30 13 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.100% 0.042% 0.043%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.87% 0.35% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 10
10th Percentile £463 £291 £394
25th Percentile £600 £484 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% +19.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile - £621 £536
90th Percentile - £635 £638
UK median daily rate £650 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +26.83% -6.82% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.50 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

iSCSI 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,445 3,742 5,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.44% 12.20% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,214 2,179 3,550
10th Percentile £213 £235 £212
25th Percentile £361 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 131 326
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £18.54
25th Percentile £20.63 £26.25 £23.32
Median hourly rate £34.00 £49.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% -13.26% +26.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.18
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.32% -13.64% +31.74%

iSCSI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

iSCSI job vacancy trend in England

iSCSI
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing iSCSI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing iSCSI

iSCSI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing iSCSI in England over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for iSCSI in England

iSCSI
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing iSCSI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing iSCSI

iSCSI
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iSCSI within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
South East +12 15 £650 +13.04% 3
North of England -33 5 £475 +111.11%
East of England -14 4 - - 2
North West -18 4 £475 +111.11%
London - 3 - - 5
South West +1 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £365 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £365 - 1
iSCSI
UK

iSCSI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 3 (10.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.33%) CICS
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (3.33%) AWS KMS
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) IaaS
4 1 (3.33%) PaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Route 53
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (60.00%) Fibre Channel
2 10 (33.33%) SAN
3 9 (30.00%) DNS
4 6 (20.00%) VLAN
5 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
6 4 (13.33%) VSAN
7 3 (10.00%) NAS
8 2 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (6.67%) DHCP
8 2 (6.67%) Firewall
8 2 (6.67%) LAN
8 2 (6.67%) WAN
8 2 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (3.33%) FCoE
9 1 (3.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) GitLab
2 3 (10.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Architect
1 15 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 12 (40.00%) VMware Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Server Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Administrator
4 4 (13.33%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) LDAP
1 1 (3.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Replication
2 6 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (16.67%) Clustering
4 4 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (3.33%) FlexPod
6 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
6 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (70.00%) Windows
2 18 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 14 (46.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (23.33%) Linux
5 4 (13.33%) Ubuntu
6 3 (10.00%) CentOS
7 1 (3.33%) MVS
7 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.33%) Solaris
7 1 (3.33%) SUSE
7 1 (3.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 7 (23.33%) Customer Requirements
2 7 (23.33%) Edge Virtualization
2 7 (23.33%) Performance Analysis
3 4 (13.33%) ITSM
3 4 (13.33%) Operational Stability
4 3 (10.00%) Coaching
4 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 3 (10.00%) Migration
4 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (10.00%) Prototyping
5 2 (6.67%) Change Management
5 2 (6.67%) High Availability
5 2 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (6.67%) ITIL
5 2 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) SQL
2 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (16.67%) Python
4 3 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (63.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (46.67%) MCSE
2 14 (46.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (43.33%) DV Cleared
4 9 (30.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (26.67%) VCP5
5 8 (26.67%) VCP6
6 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
7 3 (10.00%) Degree
8 2 (6.67%) CCNP
8 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (6.67%) JNCIP
9 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
9 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (53.33%) VMware ESXi
3 15 (50.00%) NFS
4 14 (46.67%) vSphere
5 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
6 6 (20.00%) Hyper-V
7 4 (13.33%) VMware NSX
8 2 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (3.33%) Firmware
9 1 (3.33%) KVM
9 1 (3.33%) SRDF
9 1 (3.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (3.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Ansible
2 4 (13.33%) vCenter Server
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (6.67%) PowerCLI
3 2 (6.67%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.33%) Puppet
4 1 (3.33%) Terraform
4 1 (3.33%) vMotion
Vendors
1 27 (90.00%) VMware
2 22 (73.33%) Microsoft
3 20 (66.67%) NetApp
3 20 (66.67%) Veeam
4 14 (46.67%) Splunk
5 9 (30.00%) Cisco
6 4 (13.33%) Dell
6 4 (13.33%) SolarWinds
7 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.33%) Aruba
8 1 (3.33%) Citrix
8 1 (3.33%) Commvault
8 1 (3.33%) EMC
8 1 (3.33%) F5
8 1 (3.33%) Google
8 1 (3.33%) HP
8 1 (3.33%) IBM
8 1 (3.33%) Oracle
8 1 (3.33%) Pure Storage