SAN Contracts in the North West

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for SAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAN over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 143 160
Rank change year-on-year +20 +17 -35
Contract jobs citing SAN 13 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.48% 0.38% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.79% 2.83% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 15
10th Percentile £271 £231 £317
25th Percentile £325 £358 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +3.03%
75th Percentile £498 £438 £475
90th Percentile £591 £532 £560
England median daily rate £500 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -3.80% +15.50% +1.81%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

SAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 343 424 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.71% 13.43% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 298 353
10th Percentile £199 £288 £181
25th Percentile £313 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £663 £570 £588
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 12
10th Percentile £17.72 £17.92 £11.71
25th Percentile £18.48 £19.17 £15.91
Median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +62.34% -59.41%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £46.34
90th Percentile £83.76 £52.13 £64.38
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the North West

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SAN in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the North West

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Cheshire +9 8 £406 -
Manchester +13 3 £425 +6.25% 8
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DHCP
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) iSCSI
2 1 (7.69%) NAS
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) VSAN
2 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (7.69%) Banking
1 1 (7.69%) Local Government
1 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Storage Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Cisco Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) SAN Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) SAN Storage Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) VMware Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 3 (23.08%) Server Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) IT Architect
5 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Server Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) NHS
3 1 (7.69%) Clustering
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) Informatics
2 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 1 (7.69%) BCP
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (7.69%) Database Security
3 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (7.69%) Information Security
3 1 (7.69%) Low Latency
3 1 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.69%) Security Management
3 1 (7.69%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) MCSE
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) MCSA
2 1 (7.69%) RHCE
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Firmware
1 6 (46.15%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.69%) Avamar
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 7 (53.85%) Cisco
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
4 3 (23.08%) Dell
5 2 (15.38%) Citrix
5 2 (15.38%) HP
5 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
6 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
6 1 (7.69%) Meraki
6 1 (7.69%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (7.69%) Veeam