SAN Contracts in England

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAN over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 293 369
Rank change year-on-year -42 +76 +56
Contract jobs citing SAN 144 254 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.59% 0.70% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.53% 5.30% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 185 207
10th Percentile £350 £280 £236
25th Percentile £425 £350 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £632
90th Percentile £609 £688 £718
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 6
10th Percentile - £20.34 £33.25
25th Percentile - £23.80 £48.44
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £76.75
Median % change year-on-year - -47.88% +221.00%
75th Percentile - - £80.25
90th Percentile - - £83.88
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £53.75
% change year-on-year - -55.72% +124.80%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,178 4,791 5,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.06% 13.15% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,973 2,878 3,859
10th Percentile £220 £210 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £515
% change year-on-year -0.51% -4.85% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 389 419
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.09 £16.30 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £58.13
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.13 £74.60
UK median hourly rate £30.70 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -23.25% +116.22% -34.70%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in England

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAN in England.

Daily rate trend for SAN in England

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in England

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAN in England.

Hourly rate trend for SAN in England

SAN
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 SAN within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 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 -20 35 £550 +18.92% 66
East of England +49 31 £550 +29.41% 19
London +17 29 £494 +9.72% 100
North of England +16 27 £405 +1.25% 30
North West +15 14 £488 +18.18% 22
Midlands -1 14 £475 -13.64% 22
Yorkshire +12 13 £390 -13.33% 7
West Midlands +2 12 £475 +58.33% 13
South West +13 5 £425 -15.00% 15
East Midlands -4 2 £550 - 9
SAN
UK

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (13.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.25%) Confluence
3 8 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.56%) Skype for Business
4 7 (4.86%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (2.78%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (2.08%) Office Communications Server
6 3 (2.08%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.69%) Apache
7 1 (0.69%) IIS
7 1 (0.69%) nginx
7 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.67%) Azure
2 23 (15.97%) Cohesity
3 14 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (7.64%) AWS
5 9 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 9 (6.25%) IaaS
6 6 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.47%) PaaS
8 4 (2.78%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.08%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.08%) SaaS
10 2 (1.39%) GitHub
11 1 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.69%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.69%) GCP
11 1 (0.69%) Route 53
11 1 (0.69%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (31.94%) DNS
2 34 (23.61%) NAS
3 31 (21.53%) LAN
4 25 (17.36%) WAN
5 24 (16.67%) VPN
6 19 (13.19%) Ethernet
7 18 (12.50%) DHCP
7 18 (12.50%) MPLS
8 17 (11.81%) Firewall
9 16 (11.11%) ATM
9 16 (11.11%) Frame Relay
9 16 (11.11%) GPRS
9 16 (11.11%) GSM
9 16 (11.11%) LTE
9 16 (11.11%) SDH
9 16 (11.11%) UMTS
9 16 (11.11%) Wireshark
10 13 (9.03%) VLAN
11 12 (8.33%) TCP/IP
12 11 (7.64%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.78%) Oracle Database
1 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.69%) Big Data
3 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.69%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (9.03%) JIRA
2 9 (6.25%) Git
3 8 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.86%) GitLab
5 2 (1.39%) Maven
5 2 (1.39%) Selenium
5 2 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.39%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.39%) TestNG
General
1 45 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.28%) Telecoms
3 15 (10.42%) Finance
4 12 (8.33%) Legal
5 11 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.86%) Banking
8 4 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.08%) Electronics
9 3 (2.08%) Law
9 3 (2.08%) Marketing
10 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.69%) Front Office
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
3 15 (10.42%) IP Engineer
4 14 (9.72%) Test Engineer
5 13 (9.03%) Administrator
6 12 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 12 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
7 11 (7.64%) Linux Engineer
8 10 (6.94%) Systems Administrator
8 10 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) Support Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) Network Engineer
11 7 (4.86%) 3rd Line Support
11 7 (4.86%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.17%) Consultant
12 6 (4.17%) Senior
12 6 (4.17%) Unix Engineer
13 5 (3.47%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.64%) LDAP
2 8 (5.56%) Middleware
3 6 (4.17%) REST
4 4 (2.78%) Kafka
4 4 (2.78%) YAML
5 2 (1.39%) Flash
5 2 (1.39%) pytest
6 1 (0.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 16 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (4.86%) Clustering
4 7 (4.86%) EMC VMAX
4 7 (4.86%) Replication
5 5 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.78%) Blackberry
6 4 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.08%) Fibre Optics
7 3 (2.08%) PKI
8 2 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.69%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.69%) HP Storage
9 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (53.47%) Windows
2 65 (45.14%) Linux
3 49 (34.03%) Windows Server
4 32 (22.22%) Unix
5 28 (19.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 24 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (8.33%) Ubuntu
8 9 (6.25%) CentOS
9 7 (4.86%) AIX
9 7 (4.86%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (4.17%) VMS
10 6 (4.17%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (2.78%) Debian
11 4 (2.78%) Solaris
11 4 (2.78%) Windows 10
12 3 (2.08%) HPUX
13 2 (1.39%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (23.61%) ITIL
3 31 (21.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (18.06%) Deployment Automation
5 20 (13.89%) High Availability
5 20 (13.89%) SIEM
5 20 (13.89%) Storage Management
6 19 (13.19%) Build Automation
6 19 (13.19%) Operations Management
7 17 (11.81%) Problem Management
8 16 (11.11%) DevOps
8 16 (11.11%) Fault Management
8 16 (11.11%) Project Management
8 16 (11.11%) Regression Testing
8 16 (11.11%) Test Strategy
9 14 (9.72%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (8.33%) Agile
11 11 (7.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (7.64%) Migration
12 10 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 36 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 20 (13.89%) Python
3 16 (11.11%) Java
4 10 (6.94%) Shell Script
5 5 (3.47%) Bash
6 3 (2.08%) C#
6 3 (2.08%) SQL
7 2 (1.39%) C
7 2 (1.39%) COBOL
7 2 (1.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 48 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 29 (20.14%) DV Cleared
3 24 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 19 (13.19%) CCNP
4 19 (13.19%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (11.11%) ISEB
5 16 (11.11%) ISTQB
5 16 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 14 (9.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (6.25%) Degree
8 8 (5.56%) MCSE
9 7 (4.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.39%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.39%) CCNA
11 2 (1.39%) CISSP
11 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.39%) MCSA
12 1 (0.69%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.94%) SLA
2 3 (2.08%) GDPR
2 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.69%) ISO 14001
3 1 (0.69%) NIST
3 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 56 (38.89%) Active Directory
3 23 (15.97%) Virtual Servers
4 19 (13.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 18 (12.50%) vSphere
6 13 (9.03%) Hyper-V
7 11 (7.64%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (4.17%) DFS Replication
9 6 (4.17%) Firmware
9 6 (4.17%) KVM
9 6 (4.17%) VMware NSX
10 4 (2.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (2.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 3 (2.08%) Brightmail
11 3 (2.08%) Docker
11 3 (2.08%) ISA Server
11 3 (2.08%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (1.39%) Ceph
13 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (26.39%) Ansible
2 24 (16.67%) SCCM
2 24 (16.67%) WSUS
3 13 (9.03%) vCenter Server
4 9 (6.25%) Puppet
5 6 (4.17%) Kubernetes
5 6 (4.17%) vRealize
6 5 (3.47%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.47%) Terraform
6 5 (3.47%) Tivoli
6 5 (3.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (2.78%) Backup Exec
7 4 (2.78%) Grafana
7 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.78%) NetBackup
7 4 (2.78%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.08%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (2.08%) HP Data Protector
8 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (1.39%) SCOM
Vendors
1 82 (56.94%) VMware
2 74 (51.39%) Microsoft
3 38 (26.39%) Cisco
4 35 (24.31%) NetApp
5 29 (20.14%) Splunk
6 19 (13.19%) Red Hat
7 18 (12.50%) EMC
8 17 (11.81%) Dell
8 17 (11.81%) Juniper
9 14 (9.72%) HP
10 12 (8.33%) Oracle
11 9 (6.25%) Brocade
11 9 (6.25%) ServiceNow
12 7 (4.86%) Citrix
12 7 (4.86%) IBM
12 7 (4.86%) Veeam
12 7 (4.86%) Veritas
13 5 (3.47%) F5
14 4 (2.78%) AppDynamics
14 4 (2.78%) Confluent