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 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 81 85
Rank change year-on-year -35 +4 +20
Contract jobs citing SAN 9 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.46% 0.59% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.56% 6.67% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £445 £433 £410
25th Percentile £475 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £621 £556
90th Percentile £549 £691 £620
North West median daily rate £575 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +21.05% +11.76% -

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 162 90 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 8.24% 8.87% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 49 126
10th Percentile £210 £219 £305
25th Percentile £355 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £566 £535 £775
90th Percentile £600 £640 £850
North West median daily rate £477 £447 £515
% change year-on-year +6.71% -13.20% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £12.98 - £37.25
25th Percentile £15.25 - £40.63
Median hourly rate £17.06 £20.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.70% -57.89% +187.88%
75th Percentile £18.06 - £76.38
90th Percentile £22.06 - £92.95
North West median hourly rate £17.50 £66.50 £48.56
% change year-on-year -73.68% +36.94% +194.30%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) NAS
2 4 (44.44%) VLAN
3 2 (22.22%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (22.22%) VSAN
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) iSCSI
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
General
1 4 (44.44%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Backup Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) IBM Storage Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SAN Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) SAN Storage Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Wintel Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Storage Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Storage and Backup Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Animation
1 4 (44.44%) Replication
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
3 2 (22.22%) VMS
4 1 (11.11%) AIX
4 1 (11.11%) Unix
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (44.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 4 (44.44%) High Availability
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) Patch Management
2 4 (44.44%) Visual Effects
3 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Change Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Centre Operations
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) VCAP
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (22.22%) VMware NSX
4 2 (22.22%) vSphere
5 1 (11.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) PowerCLI
2 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
2 2 (22.22%) vMotion
2 2 (22.22%) vRealize
3 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM
3 1 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 4 (44.44%) Perforce
4 1 (11.11%) 3PAR
4 1 (11.11%) Brocade
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) Commvault
4 1 (11.11%) Dell
4 1 (11.11%) EMC
4 1 (11.11%) IBM
4 1 (11.11%) Isilon
4 1 (11.11%) Pure Storage
4 1 (11.11%) Veeam