NetApp Contract Job Trends in England

NetApp
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of NetApp products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NetApp over the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Network Appliance Corporation.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 431 453
Rank change year-on-year -68 +22 -5
Contract jobs citing NetApp 120 90 73
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.32% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.62% 0.67% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 66 61
10th Percentile £389 £403 £363
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +11.98%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £544
% change year-on-year - +1.15% +13.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £52.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.25 -

All Vendors
England

NetApp falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,215 13,375 14,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.54% 47.80% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,767 8,496 8,616
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% -3.43% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £628
90th Percentile £714 £700 £727
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,244 643 524
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.87 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -28.16% -20.16%
75th Percentile £60.98 £43.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.69 £69.65 £72.65
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -3.24% -21.88% -26.01%

NetApp
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

NetApp job vacancy trend in England

NetApp
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NetApp

NetApp
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NetApp in England over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NetApp in England

NetApp
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NetApp

NetApp
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 NetApp within the England region over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. 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
London -63 33 £550 -12.00% 23
East of England -29 25 £600 +9.09% 4
North of England -51 22 £332 -26.22% 9
Midlands -36 21 £319 -36.25% 2
West Midlands -34 18 £270 -46.00% 1
South West -30 15 £575 +35.29% 1
South East -79 15 £550 -8.33% 33
Yorkshire -25 11 £332 -
North West -44 11 - - 9
East Midlands - 3 £319 - 1
NetApp
UK

NetApp
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 5 (4.17%) Confluence
2 3 (2.50%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.67%) Azure
2 21 (17.50%) Rubrik
3 13 (10.83%) AWS
4 7 (5.83%) Cohesity
4 7 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.17%) GCP
6 3 (2.50%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.83%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.83%) Datadog
7 1 (0.83%) GitHub
7 1 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.83%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 34 (28.33%) SAN
2 31 (25.83%) DNS
3 22 (18.33%) Firewall
4 20 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 16 (13.33%) VLAN
6 11 (9.17%) BIG-IP
6 11 (9.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 11 (9.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 11 (9.17%) HTTP
6 11 (9.17%) SSL
6 11 (9.17%) Wireshark
7 9 (7.50%) Kerberos
8 8 (6.67%) NAS
8 8 (6.67%) VPN
9 7 (5.83%) DHCP
10 6 (5.00%) Network Security
10 6 (5.00%) WAN
11 5 (4.17%) LAN
11 5 (4.17%) SD-WAN
11 5 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.67%) SQLite
3 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.67%) MySQL
4 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 12 (10.00%) Git
2 11 (9.17%) Fiddler
3 9 (7.50%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.00%) JIRA
5 1 (0.83%) Subversion
General
1 26 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.83%) Finance
3 17 (14.17%) Banking
3 17 (14.17%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.17%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.33%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.50%) Legal
7 3 (2.50%) Retail
8 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.83%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (32.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (22.50%) Storage Engineer
3 19 (15.83%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 15 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 15 (12.50%) VMware Specialist
5 13 (10.83%) Senior
6 11 (9.17%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 11 (9.17%) IP Network Engineer
6 11 (9.17%) Web Engineer
7 10 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (7.50%) Backup Engineer
8 9 (7.50%) NetApp Engineer
9 8 (6.67%) Architect
9 8 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (6.67%) Storage and Backup Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Storage Architect
11 5 (4.17%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 5 (4.17%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.67%) SPNEGO
2 6 (5.00%) Terraform
3 2 (1.67%) Mojolicious
3 2 (1.67%) Moose
4 1 (0.83%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (29.17%) Enterprise Storage
2 26 (21.67%) Replication
3 21 (17.50%) Data Centre
4 15 (12.50%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.33%) PKI
6 3 (2.50%) Clustering
6 3 (2.50%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.50%) EMC VMAX
6 3 (2.50%) EMC VNX
6 3 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.67%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Celerra
8 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.83%) EMC Centera
8 1 (0.83%) NVMe
8 1 (0.83%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 44 (36.67%) Linux
2 39 (32.50%) Windows
3 24 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (19.17%) Windows Server
5 13 (10.83%) CentOS
6 12 (10.00%) Rocky
7 10 (8.33%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (4.17%) VMS
9 4 (3.33%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.50%) AIX
10 3 (2.50%) Solaris
11 2 (1.67%) HPUX
12 1 (0.83%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.83%) Unix
12 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (17.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (11.67%) CI/CD
4 14 (11.67%) Load Balancing
5 13 (10.83%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (10.00%) Migration
7 11 (9.17%) Business Continuity
7 11 (9.17%) Data Loss Prevention
7 11 (9.17%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 9 (7.50%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (7.50%) Data Protection
8 9 (7.50%) High Availability
8 9 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (7.50%) Service Management
9 8 (6.67%) Change Control
9 8 (6.67%) DevOps
9 8 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (6.67%) Service Delivery
9 8 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.17%) PowerShell
2 15 (12.50%) Python
3 12 (10.00%) Bash
4 8 (6.67%) Korn
4 8 (6.67%) Perl
5 6 (5.00%) SQL
6 3 (2.50%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 39 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.83%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.33%) Degree
5 3 (2.50%) CCNP
5 3 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.67%) NCDA
6 2 (1.67%) NCIE
7 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.83%) PMP
7 1 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.83%) RHCE
System Software
1 53 (44.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (17.50%) vSphere
3 17 (14.17%) Firmware
4 14 (11.67%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (11.67%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (6.67%) Active Directory
6 7 (5.83%) NFS
7 6 (5.00%) VMware NSX
8 5 (4.17%) Hyper-V
9 3 (2.50%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (1.67%) SRDF
10 2 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.83%) KVM
11 1 (0.83%) Samba
11 1 (0.83%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 24 (20.00%) Ansible
2 16 (13.33%) NetBackup
3 7 (5.83%) SCCM
3 7 (5.83%) vCenter Server
4 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.17%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.17%) SnapMirror
6 3 (2.50%) EMC VPLEX
6 3 (2.50%) Puppet
7 2 (1.67%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.67%) SnapVault
7 2 (1.67%) systemd
7 2 (1.67%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.83%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.83%) Grafana
8 1 (0.83%) Nagios
8 1 (0.83%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.83%) Salt
Vendors
1 78 (65.00%) VMware
2 27 (22.50%) Veeam
3 23 (19.17%) Cisco
4 19 (15.83%) Dell
4 19 (15.83%) Microsoft
5 14 (11.67%) EMC
6 11 (9.17%) Blue Coat
6 11 (9.17%) F5
6 11 (9.17%) McAfee
6 11 (9.17%) Meraki
7 7 (5.83%) Red Hat
7 7 (5.83%) SolarWinds
8 6 (5.00%) Brocade
8 6 (5.00%) CheckPoint
9 5 (4.17%) BT
9 5 (4.17%) Commvault
9 5 (4.17%) IBM
9 5 (4.17%) Oracle
9 5 (4.17%) Remedy
9 5 (4.17%) Xerox