SAN Contracts in Lancashire

Storage Area Network (SAN)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SAN 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 4.00% - 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.17% - 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 - £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £520
75th Percentile £538 - £530
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £488 £413 £395
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.43% -4.24%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 24 8 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 13.71% 4.10% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 18
10th Percentile - - £140
25th Percentile £153 - £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £200 £425
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -52.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £500 £323 £536
90th Percentile £538 £396 £683
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £20.00 £32.14 £45.60
25th Percentile £21.12 £40.97 £49.80
Median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year -46.41% -11.99% +31.23%
75th Percentile £25.47 - -
90th Percentile £25.90 - -
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in Lancashire

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for SAN in Lancashire

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in Lancashire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in Lancashire

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for SAN in Lancashire

SAN
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Preston - 4 £438 -
Burnley - 3 - - 1
SAN
North West

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (57.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
1 3 (42.86%) WLAN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Industrial Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 4 (57.14%) Unix
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) E-Discovery
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 4 (57.14%) RBAC
3 3 (42.86%) Asset Management
3 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
3 3 (42.86%) Data Management
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Proactive Maintenance
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Storage Management
3 3 (42.86%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (57.14%) MCSE
2 4 (57.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (57.14%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (57.14%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (57.14%) WSUS
3 3 (42.86%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Citrix
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 3 (42.86%) Symantec
3 3 (42.86%) Veeam