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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 - 88
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing SAN 5 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.31% - 0.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.55% - 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 11
10th Percentile £516 - £400
25th Percentile £522 - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.99%
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £563 - -
North West median daily rate £575 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +21.05% -1.04% +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 110 101 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 6.82% 10.71% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 74 163
10th Percentile £301 £193 £254
25th Percentile £385 £314 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -11.76%
75th Percentile £610 £497 £700
90th Percentile £661 £557 £850
North West median daily rate £500 £443 £493
% change year-on-year +12.99% -10.24% -1.40%
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 £58.10 £24.59 £26.00
% change year-on-year +136.32% -5.44% -16.80%

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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) NAS
2 2 (40.00%) VSAN
3 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Field Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Field Service Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Field Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Replication
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (40.00%) VMS
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Break/Fix
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) A+ Certification
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) MCSE
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Network+ Certification
1 2 (40.00%) VCAP
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) PowerCLI
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (40.00%) vMotion
1 2 (40.00%) vRealize
2 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) 3PAR
3 1 (20.00%) Commvault
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) Isilon
3 1 (20.00%) Pure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam