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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 80 88
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +19
Contract jobs citing SAN 7 1 15
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.58% 0.093% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.43% 0.90% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 11
10th Percentile £433 - £408
25th Percentile £463 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £621 - -
90th Percentile £691 - -
North West median daily rate £553 £499 £478
% change year-on-year +10.78% +4.45% +12.35%

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 83 111 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 6.93% 10.28% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 71 134
10th Percentile £170 £204 £313
25th Percentile £304 £369 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £564 £587
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
North West median daily rate £475 £461 £500
% change year-on-year +2.98% -7.85% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.97%
75th Percentile £20.00 - £46.88
90th Percentile - - £50.00
North West median hourly rate £23.50 £48.56 £17.72
% change year-on-year -51.61% +174.04% -10.87%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 December 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 & 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 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) SaaS
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) IaaS
2 3 (42.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) iSCSI
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) VLAN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Server Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Field Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Field Service Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Private Cloud
2 3 (42.86%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (42.86%) Replication
3 2 (28.57%) Clustering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Project Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Break/Fix
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Planning and Forecasting
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) A+ Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) MCSE
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Dell
3 3 (42.86%) Citrix
3 3 (42.86%) F5
3 3 (42.86%) HP
3 3 (42.86%) IBM
3 3 (42.86%) NetApp
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 3 (42.86%) Veeam
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds