SAN Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring SAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing SAN 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.98% 0.53% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.13% 6.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 £148 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £155 -
Median % change year-on-year +125.81% - -
75th Percentile £381 £163 -
90th Percentile £393 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £482 £450
% change year-on-year +14.11% +7.11% -1.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 31 16 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 12.30% 8.42% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 15
10th Percentile £221 £139 £205
25th Percentile £325 £143 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £150 £400
Median % change year-on-year +216.67% -62.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £163 -
90th Percentile £599 £250 £610
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £27.55 £12.83
25th Percentile - £30.25 £13.69
Median hourly rate £15.33 £37.50 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -59.12% +145.90% +17.31%
75th Percentile - £40.25 £16.69
90th Percentile - - £17.48
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £48.56 £55.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% -11.71% +36.52%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

SAN job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

SAN
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing SAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing SAN

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing SAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing SAN

SAN
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
County Antrim -2 5 £350 +125.81% 2
SAN
UK

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Technology Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Backup Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Storage and Backup Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Consultant
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 5 (100.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (100.00%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Brocade
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Dell
1 5 (100.00%) EMC
1 5 (100.00%) Isilon
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 5 (100.00%) VMware