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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 85 96
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 +15
Contract jobs citing SAN 6 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.59% 0.17% 0.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.59% 1.33% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £433 £464 £362
25th Percentile £463 £484 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +26.47% -8.60%
75th Percentile £621 £609 £483
90th Percentile £691 £641 £501
North West median daily rate £548 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +21.67% +5.88% -

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 79 150 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 7.83% 12.53% 12.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 105 145
10th Percentile £246 £334 £313
25th Percentile £397 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.10% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £675 £544
90th Percentile £666 £850 £658
North West median daily rate £450 £525 £486
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.02% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile - £37.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £40.63 £15.74
Median hourly rate £19.50 £47.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.95% +187.88% -61.88%
75th Percentile £20.00 £76.38 £24.79
90th Percentile - £92.95 £46.88
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £48.56 £16.68
% change year-on-year -58.81% +191.13% -44.93%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in Manchester

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 and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) SaaS
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) IaaS
2 3 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Server Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Private Cloud
2 3 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (50.00%) Replication
3 2 (33.33%) Clustering
4 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Project Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Planning and Forecasting
4 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix
2 3 (50.00%) Dell
2 3 (50.00%) F5
2 3 (50.00%) HP
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (50.00%) NetApp
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Veeam
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds