SAN Contracts in London

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 326 363
Rank change year-on-year +4 +37 +93
Contract jobs citing SAN 31 69 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.39% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.36% 4.02% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 42 91
10th Percentile £249 £250 £313
25th Percentile £322 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £619 £688 £638
90th Percentile £705 £770 £675
England median daily rate £481 £501 £520
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.75% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £22.36 -
25th Percentile - £22.90 £22.75
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - +1.28% -1.71%
75th Percentile - - £24.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -46.67% +213.68%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,715 2,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.45% 9.63% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 1,143 1,884
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £561
Median % change year-on-year - -10.91% +2.05%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £28.41 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £45.00 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +104.55% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £52.00 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.85 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.66
% change year-on-year -30.00% +114.36% -21.96%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in London

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SAN in London

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in London

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SAN in London

SAN
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London -2 4 £619 +76.79% 2
West London +18 3 £250 - 3
North London -4 2 £270 +8.00%
South London - 1 £450 - 1
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (12.90%) Confluence
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.23%) Apache
3 1 (3.23%) IIS
3 1 (3.23%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) Entra ID
3 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.68%) IaaS
4 3 (9.68%) SaaS
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.45%) PaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.23%) GCP
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.23%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.23%) Route 53
6 1 (3.23%) Rubrik
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (38.71%) NAS
2 6 (19.35%) Firewall
3 4 (12.90%) FCoE
3 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
3 4 (12.90%) VLAN
4 3 (9.68%) DHCP
4 3 (9.68%) DNS
4 3 (9.68%) iSCSI
5 2 (6.45%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (6.45%) VPN
5 2 (6.45%) WAN
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (3.23%) DECT
6 1 (3.23%) Kerberos
6 1 (3.23%) LAN
6 1 (3.23%) MPLS
6 1 (3.23%) NGFW
6 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.23%) SSL
6 1 (3.23%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) Big Data
2 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.23%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (29.03%) Finance
2 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Banking
4 4 (12.90%) Law
4 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.68%) Legal
5 3 (9.68%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Electronics
6 2 (6.45%) Marketing
6 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Senior
3 4 (12.90%) Administrator
3 4 (12.90%) Server Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 3 (9.68%) Migration Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Linux Server Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Linux Specialist
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Server Specialist
5 2 (6.45%) VMS Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Data Centre
1 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (12.90%) Replication
2 3 (9.68%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.45%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (3.23%) Clustering
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) PKI
4 1 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (58.06%) Windows
2 14 (45.16%) Linux
3 5 (16.13%) VMS
3 5 (16.13%) Windows Server
4 4 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (12.90%) Unix
5 3 (9.68%) CentOS
6 2 (6.45%) OpenVMS
6 2 (6.45%) Windows 10
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (3.23%) Solaris
7 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (29.03%) ITIL
3 6 (19.35%) Storage Management
4 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (16.13%) Migration
4 5 (16.13%) Risk Management
4 5 (16.13%) Task Automation
5 4 (12.90%) Data Protection
5 4 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (12.90%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (12.90%) ITSM
6 3 (9.68%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (9.68%) Cloud Security
6 3 (9.68%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (9.68%) Data Loss Prevention
6 3 (9.68%) High Availability
6 3 (9.68%) Observability
6 3 (9.68%) Problem Management
6 3 (9.68%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
2 6 (19.35%) Python
3 3 (9.68%) Bash
3 3 (9.68%) C#
3 3 (9.68%) SQL
4 2 (6.45%) C
4 2 (6.45%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
1 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) CISSP
2 2 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) VCAP
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) GDPR
1 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.23%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.23%) ISO 14001
3 1 (3.23%) NIST
3 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (22.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.90%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.68%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (9.68%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (9.68%) vSphere
5 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (6.45%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (3.23%) Docker
6 1 (3.23%) Firmware
6 1 (3.23%) KVM
6 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Ansible
2 4 (12.90%) Terraform
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.45%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.45%) Puppet
4 2 (6.45%) SCCM
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (3.23%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (3.23%) HP Data Protector
5 1 (3.23%) Netcool
5 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (3.23%) Tivoli
5 1 (3.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) VMware
2 8 (25.81%) Dell
2 8 (25.81%) EMC
3 7 (22.58%) Red Hat
4 6 (19.35%) ServiceNow
5 5 (16.13%) Cisco
5 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
6 4 (12.90%) F5
6 4 (12.90%) Hitachi
6 4 (12.90%) NetApp
6 4 (12.90%) Splunk
6 4 (12.90%) Veritas
7 3 (9.68%) AppDynamics
7 3 (9.68%) HP
7 3 (9.68%) Oracle
8 2 (6.45%) Palo Alto
8 2 (6.45%) SAP
9 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
9 1 (3.23%) Forcepoint
9 1 (3.23%) Sybase