SAN Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Storage Area Network (SAN)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring SAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 84 85
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 +27
Contract jobs citing SAN 3 1 12
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.20% 0.10% 0.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.83% 0.95% 6.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile £513 - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £594 £524 £480
% change year-on-year +13.32% +9.11% +12.94%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 106 105 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 6.93% 10.89% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 76 155
10th Percentile £191 £193 £228
25th Percentile £375 £309 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -5.56% -11.55%
75th Percentile £616 £491 £650
90th Percentile £666 £552 £775
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £16.16 - £14.29
25th Percentile £16.38 - -
Median hourly rate £17.56 - £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.42%
75th Percentile £18.06 - £50.00
90th Percentile £18.16 - £80.00
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £24.59 £26.00
% change year-on-year +70.59% -5.44% +7.87%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

SAN job vacancy trend in Manchester

SAN
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SAN

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SAN

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Field Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Field Service Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Field Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Break/Fix
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) A+ Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) MCSE
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) 3PAR
2 1 (33.33%) Commvault
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Isilon
2 1 (33.33%) Pure Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam