SAN Contract Job Trends in Newport

Storage Area Network (SAN)
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newport requiring SAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SAN 4 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 5.13% - 14.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.05% - 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £493 - £351
25th Percentile £506 - £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £358
75th Percentile £541 - £367
90th Percentile £546 - £370
South Wales median daily rate £525 - £358
% change year-on-year - - +66.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £45.13
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £48.75
75th Percentile - - £50.94
90th Percentile - - £54.13
South Wales median hourly rate - - £48.75

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 19 2 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 24.36% 12.50% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £481 £194 £185
25th Percentile £493 £245 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £330 £233
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% +41.94% -55.71%
75th Percentile £544 £415 £324
90th Percentile £550 £466 £361
South Wales median daily rate £440 £295 £281
% change year-on-year +49.15% +4.89% -28.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £45.13
25th Percentile £51.25 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £48.75
75th Percentile £53.75 - £50.94
90th Percentile - - £54.13
South Wales median hourly rate £12.21 - £48.75

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport.

SAN job vacancy trend in Newport

SAN
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing SAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing SAN

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing SAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing SAN

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Backup Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Storage and Backup Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Backup Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (50.00%) Fat Client
2 2 (50.00%) Thin Client
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (25.00%) PKI
3 1 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Management
2 3 (75.00%) Presales
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) MCSE
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (25.00%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (25.00%) SnapMirror
1 1 (25.00%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) NetApp
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam