SAN Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Storage Area Network (SAN)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow 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 63 72 65
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 -15
Contract jobs citing SAN 7 13 14
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.99% 1.56% 1.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.97% 13.83% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 10
10th Percentile - £411 £513
25th Percentile £413 £458 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £583
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -14.16% +33.14%
75th Percentile £456 £550 £623
90th Percentile £495 - £722
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +25.71%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 78 94 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 11.06% 11.31% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 54 87
10th Percentile £207 £213 £210
25th Percentile £360 £322 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £421 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -23.45% +23.60%
75th Percentile £625 £485 £635
90th Percentile £675 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £425 £425 £531
% change year-on-year - -19.89% +14.70%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

SAN job vacancy trend in Glasgow

SAN
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SAN

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SAN

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 6 (85.71%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) NAS
2 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Site Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Loki
1 6 (85.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Unix
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Thinking
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) Data Deduplication
1 6 (85.71%) Data Protection
1 6 (85.71%) Observability
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) BCP
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Perl
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) NCDA
1 1 (14.29%) VCAP
1 1 (14.29%) VCP6
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) NetBackup
2 6 (85.71%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) PowerCLI
3 1 (14.29%) vMotion
3 1 (14.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Veritas
2 1 (14.29%) Brocade
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Commvault
2 1 (14.29%) NetApp
2 1 (14.29%) VMware