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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 80 89
Rank change year-on-year -38 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing SAN 8 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.41% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.97% 3.16% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £455 £588 £410
25th Percentile £475 £608 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £661 £450
Median % change year-on-year -24.39% +46.94% +5.88%
75th Percentile £541 £708 £556
90th Percentile £553 £726 £620
North West median daily rate £575 £525 £425
% change year-on-year +9.52% +23.53% -

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 161 95 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 8.28% 9.72% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 56 145
10th Percentile £255 £193 £228
25th Percentile £375 £344 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.88% -15.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £576 £528 £775
90th Percentile £635 £644 £850
North West median daily rate £492 £450 £502
% change year-on-year +9.33% -10.36% +8.54%
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 £17.75 £45.08 £45.88
% change year-on-year -60.63% -1.74% +172.12%

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) NAS
2 3 (37.50%) VLAN
3 2 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (25.00%) VSAN
4 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
General
1 3 (37.50%) Games
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Backup Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Field Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Field Service Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Field Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IBM Storage Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) SAN Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) SAN Storage Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Storage and Backup Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Replication
2 3 (37.50%) Animation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (12.50%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
4 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (25.00%) VMS
3 1 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (37.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Patch Management
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (37.50%) Visual Effects
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) VCAP
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (12.50%) A+ Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) MCSE
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (25.00%) vSphere
4 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (25.00%) PowerCLI
1 2 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (25.00%) vMotion
1 2 (25.00%) vRealize
2 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Perforce
3 2 (25.00%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) 3PAR
4 1 (12.50%) Brocade
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Commvault
4 1 (12.50%) EMC
4 1 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (12.50%) Isilon
4 1 (12.50%) Pure Storage
4 1 (12.50%) Veeam