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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 345 323
Rank change year-on-year +19 -22 +106
Contract jobs citing SAN 39 53 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.31% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.79% 3.22% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 38 97
10th Percentile £376 £250 £308
25th Percentile £466 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £425 £557
Median % change year-on-year +18.35% -23.63% +6.00%
75th Percentile £675 £634 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £745
England median daily rate £525 £514 £469
% change year-on-year +2.19% +9.60% +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.86 - £22.75
Median hourly rate £63.72 £23.80 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +167.71% +1.28% -1.71%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £24.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.58 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +31.46% - +67.29%

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 1,399 1,646 2,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.31% 9.57% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 906 1,073 1,875
10th Percentile £275 £231 £250
25th Percentile £400 £360 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £614 £666
90th Percentile £717 £725 £750
England median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 45 47
10th Percentile £19.33 £14.89 £18.93
25th Percentile £25.15 £17.78 £22.69
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -33.89% +38.46%
75th Percentile £52.00 £41.25 £65.88
90th Percentile £63.25 £60.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +23.08% +30.00%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -10 10 £615 +75.71% 5
West London +4 3 £250 - 3
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 3 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) IIS
3 1 (2.56%) nginx
3 1 (2.56%) OpenEdge
3 1 (2.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (15.38%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.69%) IaaS
4 3 (7.69%) SaaS
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (5.13%) PaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
6 1 (2.56%) Google Ads
6 1 (2.56%) Route 53
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (33.33%) NAS
2 10 (25.64%) Firewall
3 6 (15.38%) DNS
4 5 (12.82%) DHCP
5 4 (10.26%) iSCSI
5 4 (10.26%) VPN
5 4 (10.26%) WAN
6 3 (7.69%) FCoE
6 3 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (7.69%) LAN
6 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.13%) VLAN
7 2 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.56%) Internet
8 1 (2.56%) MPLS
8 1 (2.56%) Network Security
8 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.56%) SSH
8 1 (2.56%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (2.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.56%) Big Data
1 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (25.64%) Finance
2 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Legal
6 2 (5.13%) Law
6 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Front Office
7 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Senior
2 8 (20.51%) Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Administrator
4 4 (10.26%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Data Centre Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.13%) OpenVMS Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Security Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.13%) VMS Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) EDI
1 1 (2.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (12.82%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.26%) Replication
4 3 (7.69%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (5.13%) CMDB
5 2 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.56%) CCTV
6 1 (2.56%) Clustering
6 1 (2.56%) HACMP
6 1 (2.56%) HP Storage
6 1 (2.56%) PKI
6 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (43.59%) Linux
1 17 (43.59%) Windows
2 6 (15.38%) Unix
3 5 (12.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (10.26%) CentOS
4 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.69%) VMS
6 2 (5.13%) OpenVMS
6 2 (5.13%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.56%) AIX
7 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) ITIL
2 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (12.82%) Risk Management
4 4 (10.26%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (10.26%) High Availability
4 4 (10.26%) Migration
4 4 (10.26%) Storage Management
4 4 (10.26%) Task Automation
5 3 (7.69%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (7.69%) Data Protection
5 3 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (7.69%) Incident Management
5 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (7.69%) ITSM
5 3 (7.69%) Observability
5 3 (7.69%) Visualisation
6 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (5.13%) Problem Management
6 2 (5.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.82%) Python
3 3 (7.69%) Bash
4 2 (5.13%) C
4 2 (5.13%) C#
4 2 (5.13%) COBOL
4 2 (5.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
1 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.13%) CCNA
4 2 (5.13%) CISSP
4 2 (5.13%) VCAP
5 1 (2.56%) CCIE
5 1 (2.56%) CCNP
5 1 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.56%) ISO 14001
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (28.21%) Active Directory
3 7 (17.95%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (2.56%) Firmware
5 1 (2.56%) KVM
5 1 (2.56%) Samba
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.56%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Ansible
2 7 (17.95%) NetBackup
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.13%) Puppet
4 2 (5.13%) SCCM
4 2 (5.13%) Terraform
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (2.56%) HP Data Protector
5 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.56%) Packer
5 1 (2.56%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (2.56%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.56%) vMotion
5 1 (2.56%) yum
Vendors
1 16 (41.03%) VMware
2 15 (38.46%) Cisco
3 14 (35.90%) Dell
4 10 (25.64%) Veritas
5 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
6 8 (20.51%) Red Hat
7 7 (17.95%) EMC
7 7 (17.95%) Isilon
8 5 (12.82%) F5
8 5 (12.82%) NetApp
8 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow
9 4 (10.26%) Hitachi
9 4 (10.26%) HP
9 4 (10.26%) Oracle
10 3 (7.69%) AppDynamics
10 3 (7.69%) Splunk
11 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
11 1 (2.56%) Mitel
11 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
11 1 (2.56%) SonicWALL