SRDF Contract Job Trends in England

EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SRDF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 472 544
Rank change year-on-year -110 +72 +106
Contract jobs citing SRDF 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.013% 0.004% 0.008%
As % of the System Software category 0.12% 0.031% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -13.84% -4.17%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £495 £575
% change year-on-year -4.12% -13.84% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.70 - -
25th Percentile £68.50 - -
Median hourly rate £78.00 - -
75th Percentile £89.13 - -
90th Percentile £94.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £78.00 - -

All System Software Skills
England

SRDF falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,298 3,208 4,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.32% 13.23% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,938 2,221 2,839
10th Percentile £213 £210 £188
25th Percentile £400 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £696 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 83 202
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.36 £15.50
Median hourly rate £48.72 £28.41 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +71.49% +28.26% -44.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.55 £85.50 £70.59
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +68.00% +16.00% -47.86%

SRDF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SRDF job vacancy trend in England

SRDF
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SRDF

SRDF
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SRDF

SRDF
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SRDF in England over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SRDF in England

SRDF
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 SRDF within the England region over the 6 months to 28 March 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
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1
North of England - 2 £500 - 1
SRDF
UK

SRDF
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) iSCSI
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) VSAN
3 1 (20.00%) FCoE
3 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SAN Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) EMC VMAX
2 3 (60.00%) Replication
3 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (40.00%) Symmetrix
4 1 (20.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (20.00%) Runbook
4 1 (20.00%) Storage Virtualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) VCAP
2 1 (20.00%) VCDX
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) EMC TimeFinder
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Dell
2 3 (60.00%) Broadcom
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) TOWER Software
4 1 (20.00%) Brocade
4 1 (20.00%) EMC
4 1 (20.00%) NetApp
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat