SAN Contracts in the Midlands

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring SAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAN over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 102 127
Rank change year-on-year -1 +25 +43
Contract jobs citing SAN 14 33 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.70% 1.23% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.17% 7.13% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 27 17
10th Percentile £360 £299 £211
25th Percentile £444 £491 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +64.29%
75th Percentile £519 £675 £731
90th Percentile £550 £825 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £76.75
% change year-on-year - -47.88% +221.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 227 463 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.34% 17.21% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 280 328
10th Percentile £162 £200 £249
25th Percentile £263 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +12.64%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £678 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 36 16
10th Percentile £13.79 £12.28 £12.50
25th Percentile - £13.13 £15.94
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -31.08% +18.11%
75th Percentile £18.13 £24.35 £28.13
90th Percentile £24.69 £28.75 £40.25
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the Midlands

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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 19 May 2025. 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
West Midlands +2 12 £475 +58.33% 13
East Midlands -4 2 £550 - 9
SAN
England

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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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) NAS
2 4 (28.57%) LAN
3 3 (21.43%) Firewall
4 2 (14.29%) DHCP
4 2 (14.29%) DNS
4 2 (14.29%) HTTP
4 2 (14.29%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (14.29%) SSL
4 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 2 (14.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) Maven
1 2 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
1 4 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Linux Support
4 2 (14.29%) Linux Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Unix Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Unix Support
4 2 (14.29%) Unix Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) LDAP
1 2 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Windows
3 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
4 4 (28.57%) AIX
4 4 (28.57%) Debian
4 4 (28.57%) Ubuntu
4 4 (28.57%) Unix
5 2 (14.29%) CentOS
6 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Storage Management
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 2 (14.29%) Capacity Management
4 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) ITSM
4 2 (14.29%) Log Aggregation
4 2 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (14.29%) Patch Management
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Prototyping
4 2 (14.29%) Server Management
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
4 2 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (7.14%) Hardware Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (14.29%) Docker
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.14%) Firmware
4 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Tivoli
1 4 (28.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Nessus
2 2 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) Dell
2 4 (28.57%) IBM
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 2 (14.29%) Sophos
4 1 (7.14%) Aruba
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) EMC
4 1 (7.14%) Meraki
4 1 (7.14%) Veeam