SAN Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Storage Area Network (SAN)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring SAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 80 74
Rank change year-on-year +16 -6 +37
Contract jobs citing SAN 15 9 24
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.47% 0.75% 1.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.73% 3.75% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 10
10th Percentile £554 £420 £102
25th Percentile - £525 £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £413
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% +43.09% -43.10%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £437
90th Percentile £646 £600 £578
South East median daily rate £508 £583 £443
% change year-on-year -12.88% +31.61% -11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - - £59.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £59.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.81%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 194 240 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.00% 19.97% 25.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 123 125
10th Percentile £275 £400 £234
25th Percentile £482 £463 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £550
90th Percentile £650 £686 £613
South East median daily rate £480 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -4.00% +7.97% +0.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 26 36
10th Percentile £45.50 £33.13 £15.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.91 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +21.74% +19.79%
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile £64.00 £75.00 £76.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +33.33%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

SAN job vacancy trend in Hampshire

SAN
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SAN

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in Hampshire over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in Hampshire

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SAN

SAN
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Basingstoke - 11 £600 -
Havant - 1 £220 - 1
Romsey - 1 - -
Southampton - 1 £550 -
Farnborough - 1 £613 - 4
SAN
South East

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 10 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 10 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
1 10 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
1 10 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2013
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (66.67%) Office Communications Server
1 10 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 10 (66.67%) SharePoint Server
1 10 (66.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) DDNS
1 10 (66.67%) DHCP
1 10 (66.67%) DNS
1 10 (66.67%) VPN
2 3 (20.00%) NAS
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
4 1 (6.67%) VSAN
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Exchange Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) Exchange Support
1 10 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Field Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Field Service Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Server Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Replication
2 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 10 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) High Availability
2 10 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 10 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (66.67%) Content Management
2 10 (66.67%) Enterprise Content Management
2 10 (66.67%) Enterprise Search
2 10 (66.67%) ITIL
3 1 (6.67%) Break/Fix
3 1 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (6.67%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Stability
3 1 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.67%) Project Management
3 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (6.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (73.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CCNA
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) MCSE
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Active Directory
2 10 (66.67%) Brightmail
2 10 (66.67%) ISA Server
3 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.67%) Firmware
4 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Dell
3 1 (6.67%) EMC
3 1 (6.67%) NetApp
3 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto