Data ONTAP Contract Job Trends in the North of England

NetApp Data ONTAP Operating System, including Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data ONTAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.11% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £510 - -
90th Percentile £533 - -
England median daily rate £510 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +27.38% -20.00% -13.04%

All Operating Systems
North of England

Data ONTAP falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 745 531 695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.52% 16.18% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 341 473
10th Percentile £146 £163 £165
25th Percentile £270 £213 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £423
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.33% -11.05%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £525
90th Percentile £615 £625 £650
England median daily rate £451 £467 £475
% change year-on-year -3.43% -1.79% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 19 78
10th Percentile £16.43 £13.00 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.60 £10.95
Median hourly rate £27.50 £17.44 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.68% +9.00% -39.62%
75th Percentile £63.50 £18.75 £19.14
90th Percentile £178.75 £19.55 £34.53
England median hourly rate £41.71 £20.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +108.55% -11.11% -45.84%

Data ONTAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data ONTAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data ONTAP job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data ONTAP
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data ONTAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data ONTAP

Data ONTAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data ONTAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data ONTAP

Data ONTAP
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data ONTAP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 May 2026. 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
Yorkshire - 7 £500 - 1
Data ONTAP
England

Data ONTAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) OpenShift
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Datadog
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) NAS
3 1 (14.29%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (85.71%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) NetApp Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Storage Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) FlexPod
1 5 (71.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (28.57%) EMC VNX
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (28.57%) Replication
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) CoreOS
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (71.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Migration
2 6 (85.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (71.43%) Data Protection
3 5 (71.43%) Task Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 1 (14.29%) Key Management
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Network Design
5 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Runbook
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) OCP
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) NCDA
2 1 (14.29%) NCIE
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (100.00%) vSphere
2 6 (85.71%) NFS
3 5 (71.43%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (14.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (14.29%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) SnapMirror
2 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (28.57%) EMC VPLEX
3 2 (28.57%) NetBackup
3 2 (28.57%) SnapVault
3 2 (28.57%) vCenter Server
4 1 (14.29%) Argo
4 1 (14.29%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) NetApp
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat
3 5 (71.43%) Google
4 2 (28.57%) 3PAR
4 2 (28.57%) Brocade
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) EMC
4 2 (28.57%) Veeam
5 1 (14.29%) Dell
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) Pure Storage
5 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds