SAN Contracts in the Midlands

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAN over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 126 172
Rank change year-on-year +25 +46 -37
Contract jobs citing SAN 34 34 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.26% 1.02% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.28% 6.64% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 18 17
10th Percentile £299 £224 £235
25th Percentile £447 £372 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £350
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +48.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £731 £463
90th Percentile £825 - £577
England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £19.95 - £20.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £76.75 £23.91
% change year-on-year -47.88% +221.00% -52.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

SAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 467 512 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.35% 15.36% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 336 390
10th Percentile £200 £249 £163
25th Percentile £300 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £602
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 32
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £15.94 £14.55
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.35 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -29.89% +16.10% +16.87%
75th Percentile £24.35 £23.68 £20.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the Midlands

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAN in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SAN in the Midlands

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the Midlands

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAN in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands +31 18 £550 +55.20% 12
West Midlands +9 16 £300 -47.37% 12
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (8.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.88%) IIS
2 2 (5.88%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) AWS
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.88%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.94%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 15 (44.12%) Fibre Channel
2 8 (23.53%) Firewall
3 7 (20.59%) DNS
4 6 (17.65%) LAN
4 6 (17.65%) WAN
5 5 (14.71%) DHCP
5 5 (14.71%) NAS
5 5 (14.71%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
6 4 (11.76%) Network Security
7 3 (8.82%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (8.82%) VPN
8 2 (5.88%) iSCSI
8 2 (5.88%) Wireless
9 1 (2.94%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Advertising
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (14.71%) Administrator
1 5 (14.71%) Developer
1 5 (14.71%) Network Engineer
1 5 (14.71%) Python Developer
1 5 (14.71%) Server Administrator
1 5 (14.71%) Storage Engineer
1 5 (14.71%) VMWare Administrator
2 4 (11.76%) Backup Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Design Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Implementation Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Senior
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.94%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) HP Storage
2 5 (14.71%) PKI
3 4 (11.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.88%) Replication
5 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (58.82%) Linux
1 20 (58.82%) Windows
2 11 (32.35%) Ubuntu
3 10 (29.41%) Windows Server
4 8 (23.53%) AIX
4 8 (23.53%) Solaris
5 5 (14.71%) Debian
5 5 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (11.76%) CentOS
6 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (5.88%) VMS
7 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) ITIL
2 10 (29.41%) Agile
3 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (23.53%) Project Delivery
4 6 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (14.71%) Configuration Management
5 5 (14.71%) Customer Service
5 5 (14.71%) Data Engineering
5 5 (14.71%) Data Modelling
5 5 (14.71%) Load Balancing
5 5 (14.71%) Matrix Organization
5 5 (14.71%) Prototyping
5 5 (14.71%) Statistics
5 5 (14.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 5 (14.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 4 (11.76%) Patch Management
6 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) PowerShell
2 8 (23.53%) Bash
3 7 (20.59%) SQL
4 5 (14.71%) Python
5 1 (2.94%) C#
5 1 (2.94%) Ruby
5 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 13 (38.24%) SC Cleared
3 10 (29.41%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.82%) CCNA
4 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.88%) Degree
5 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Active Directory
2 10 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (26.47%) vSphere
4 5 (14.71%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (14.71%) VMware NSX
4 5 (14.71%) VMware Server
5 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) EMC NetWorker
2 7 (20.59%) NetBackup
3 6 (17.65%) HP Data Protector
4 5 (14.71%) vCenter Server
5 3 (8.82%) Ansible
5 3 (8.82%) Terraform
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (5.88%) SCCM
6 2 (5.88%) VxRail
7 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (55.88%) VMware
2 17 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (35.29%) Cisco
4 8 (23.53%) Brocade
4 8 (23.53%) EMC
5 7 (20.59%) HP
6 6 (17.65%) Red Hat
6 6 (17.65%) Symantec
7 5 (14.71%) Oracle
8 3 (8.82%) CheckPoint
8 3 (8.82%) F5
8 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
9 2 (5.88%) Aruba
9 2 (5.88%) Dell
9 2 (5.88%) NetApp
9 2 (5.88%) Palo Alto
9 2 (5.88%) ProCurve
9 2 (5.88%) Synology
9 2 (5.88%) Veeam
9 2 (5.88%) Zerto