SAN Contracts in the North of England

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 161 194
Rank change year-on-year +24 +33 -3
Contract jobs citing SAN 29 28 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.88% 0.59% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.23% 4.71% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 20
10th Percentile £350 £258 £105
25th Percentile £357 £313 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £400 £324
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +23.55% -23.82%
75th Percentile £519 £619 £438
90th Percentile £538 £663 £447
England median daily rate £481 £501 £520
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.75% +15.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 554 595 680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.78% 12.51% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 415 468
10th Percentile £182 £200 £204
25th Percentile £250 £313 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £487
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -2.41% +9.38%
75th Percentile £538 £607 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.66
% change year-on-year -30.00% +114.36% -21.96%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAN in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for SAN in the North of England

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the North of England

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAN in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the North of England

SAN
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 SAN within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West +17 16 £488 +18.18% 14
Yorkshire +6 13 £390 -13.33% 12
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (13.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
3 4 (13.79%) OneDrive
3 4 (13.79%) OpenShift
4 2 (6.90%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (44.83%) NAS
2 4 (13.79%) DNS
2 4 (13.79%) SSL
3 3 (10.34%) LAN
3 3 (10.34%) Network Security
3 3 (10.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Git
2 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
3 4 (13.79%) GitLab
4 2 (6.90%) Selenium
4 2 (6.90%) TestNG
5 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Legal
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Backup Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Consultant
4 3 (10.34%) Industrial Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Unix Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Administrator
6 1 (3.45%) Automation Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Storage and Backup Administrator
6 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) Middleware
2 6 (20.69%) REST
3 4 (13.79%) Kafka
3 4 (13.79%) LDAP
4 2 (6.90%) pytest
5 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Clustering
1 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
1 4 (13.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (10.34%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Linux
2 12 (41.38%) Windows
3 11 (37.93%) Windows Server
4 7 (24.14%) Unix
4 7 (24.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (6.90%) AIX
7 2 (6.90%) CentOS
7 2 (6.90%) HPUX
7 2 (6.90%) Solaris
7 2 (6.90%) Ubuntu
8 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (41.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (41.38%) High Availability
3 9 (31.03%) Problem Management
3 9 (31.03%) Storage Management
4 6 (20.69%) Change Management
4 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.24%) Migration
6 4 (13.79%) Agile
6 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
6 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
6 4 (13.79%) E-Discovery
6 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (13.79%) Kanban
6 4 (13.79%) Key Management
6 4 (13.79%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 4 (13.79%) RBAC
6 4 (13.79%) Scrum
7 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Python
2 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
2 6 (20.69%) Shell Script
3 4 (13.79%) Bash
4 2 (6.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
1 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (13.79%) MCSE
3 4 (13.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.90%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) CCNP
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.45%) HP ASE
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Active Directory
1 11 (37.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (24.14%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (20.69%) Firmware
4 4 (13.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (13.79%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (13.79%) VMware NSX
4 4 (13.79%) vSphere
5 2 (6.90%) KVM
6 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) vCenter Server
2 9 (31.03%) Ansible
3 6 (20.69%) vRealize
4 5 (17.24%) Puppet
5 4 (13.79%) Grafana
5 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
5 4 (13.79%) NetBackup
5 4 (13.79%) Progress Chef
5 4 (13.79%) Prometheus
5 4 (13.79%) WSUS
6 3 (10.34%) Backup Exec
6 3 (10.34%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (10.34%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (6.90%) Terraform
8 1 (3.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) VMware
2 11 (37.93%) Cisco
3 9 (31.03%) EMC
4 8 (27.59%) Brocade
4 8 (27.59%) HP
5 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
6 5 (17.24%) Oracle
6 5 (17.24%) Splunk
7 4 (13.79%) Citrix
7 4 (13.79%) Confluent
7 4 (13.79%) Veritas
8 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
8 3 (10.34%) Symantec
8 3 (10.34%) Veeam
9 2 (6.90%) 3PAR
9 2 (6.90%) NetApp
10 1 (3.45%) AppDynamics
10 1 (3.45%) Dell
10 1 (3.45%) Pure Storage
10 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow