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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 149 165
Rank change year-on-year -4 +16 -7
Contract jobs citing SAN 33 25 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.82% 0.60% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.29% 5.20% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 19
10th Percentile £357 £360 £107
25th Percentile £401 £506 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £565 £375
Median % change year-on-year -18.41% +50.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £558 £619 £438
90th Percentile £638 £673 £478
England median daily rate £550 £538 £450
% change year-on-year +2.33% +19.44% -1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £29.98 - -
25th Percentile £35.94 £11.75 -
Median hourly rate £46.75 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +246.30% - -
75th Percentile £57.44 £15.25 -
90th Percentile £63.33 - -
England median hourly rate £35.73 £13.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +164.63% -66.25% +67.29%

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 525 481 656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.08% 11.64% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 314 462
10th Percentile £160 £217 £213
25th Percentile £325 £401 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +14.44% -
75th Percentile £538 £650 £565
90th Percentile £638 £816 £650
England median daily rate £492 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -2.24% +0.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 16
10th Percentile £23.00 £13.87 £15.72
25th Percentile £31.38 £18.21 £15.75
Median hourly rate £58.25 £24.87 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +134.22% +36.27% -14.68%
75th Percentile £67.25 £49.31 £23.69
90th Percentile £68.71 £51.96 £46.17
England median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.55% -0.23% +57.14%

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

SAN
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 17 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAN in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 August 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 -3 17 £475 +11.76% 16
Yorkshire -10 16 £413 -32.65% 10
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 (12.12%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.03%) CICS
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.03%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) SaaS
3 4 (12.12%) GCP
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.09%) IaaS
4 3 (9.09%) PaaS
5 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.03%) AWS
6 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (36.36%) NAS
2 11 (33.33%) DNS
3 6 (18.18%) Firewall
4 5 (15.15%) iSCSI
5 4 (12.12%) LAN
5 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
5 4 (12.12%) VLAN
6 3 (9.09%) Network Security
6 3 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (9.09%) WLAN
7 2 (6.06%) SSL
7 2 (6.06%) VPN
7 2 (6.06%) WAN
8 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (3.03%) FCoE
8 1 (3.03%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (3.03%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
1 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.21%) GitLab
3 2 (6.06%) Selenium
3 2 (6.06%) TestNG
4 1 (3.03%) JIRA
4 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Architect
1 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (27.27%) Storage Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Server Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Industrial Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Migration Specialist
4 3 (9.09%) Server Migration Specialist
4 3 (9.09%) Server Specialist
4 3 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Network Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Automation Specialist
6 1 (3.03%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) Middleware
2 4 (12.12%) REST
3 3 (9.09%) LDAP
4 2 (6.06%) Kafka
4 2 (6.06%) pytest
5 1 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (18.18%) Replication
3 5 (15.15%) Clustering
3 5 (15.15%) Data Centre
3 5 (15.15%) Private Cloud
4 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
5 3 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (6.06%) CCTV
6 2 (6.06%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (3.03%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
7 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Windows
2 16 (48.48%) Windows Server
3 15 (45.45%) Linux
4 4 (12.12%) Unix
4 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (6.06%) VMS
7 1 (3.03%) MVS
7 1 (3.03%) Solaris
7 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (3.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (30.30%) Agile
2 10 (30.30%) Scrum
3 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
4 8 (24.24%) Migration
4 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (21.21%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (21.21%) Kanban
5 7 (21.21%) Storage Management
6 6 (18.18%) High Availability
6 6 (18.18%) Project Delivery
7 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
8 4 (12.12%) Change Management
8 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
8 4 (12.12%) Problem Management
9 3 (9.09%) Asset Management
9 3 (9.09%) Business Continuity
9 3 (9.09%) Data Management
9 3 (9.09%) ITIL
9 3 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) PowerShell
2 9 (27.27%) Python
3 6 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 4 (12.12%) SQL
5 2 (6.06%) Bash
6 1 (3.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CCNP
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.03%) HP ASE
4 1 (3.03%) MCSE
4 1 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 15 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 14 (42.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (21.21%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (21.21%) VMware NSX
3 7 (21.21%) vSphere
4 4 (12.12%) Firmware
5 2 (6.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
5 2 (6.06%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (3.03%) KVM
6 1 (3.03%) NFS
6 1 (3.03%) SRDF
6 1 (3.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.03%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) vCenter Server
2 10 (30.30%) Ansible
3 9 (27.27%) vRealize
4 3 (9.09%) Backup Exec
4 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 3 (9.09%) NetBackup
4 3 (9.09%) Puppet
4 3 (9.09%) Terraform
5 2 (6.06%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (6.06%) Grafana
5 2 (6.06%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.03%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (3.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (66.67%) VMware
2 16 (48.48%) Cisco
3 9 (27.27%) HP
4 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
4 8 (24.24%) Veeam
5 7 (21.21%) EMC
5 7 (21.21%) F5
5 7 (21.21%) NetApp
6 6 (18.18%) Brocade
6 6 (18.18%) Dell
6 6 (18.18%) Oracle
7 4 (12.12%) Citrix
7 4 (12.12%) IBM
7 4 (12.12%) SolarWinds
8 3 (9.09%) Symantec
9 2 (6.06%) 3PAR
9 2 (6.06%) Confluent
9 2 (6.06%) Pure Storage
9 2 (6.06%) Splunk
9 2 (6.06%) Veritas