SAN Contracts in Scotland

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 104 109
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +45
Contract jobs citing SAN 16 25 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.98% 1.13% 1.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.35% 10.00% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 24
10th Percentile £411 £410 £186
25th Percentile £434 £513 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £471
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +16.71% +4.72%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £585
90th Percentile - £765 £632
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -7.32% -1.35% +15.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £13.35 £56.68
25th Percentile - £13.50 £57.33
Median hourly rate - £17.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -70.35% -
75th Percentile - £18.75 £60.10
90th Percentile - - £60.37
UK median hourly rate - £31.90 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -44.52% +140.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 141 250 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 8.68% 11.28% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 150 227
10th Percentile £200 £187 £160
25th Percentile £313 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £525 £626 £538
90th Percentile £550 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 21
10th Percentile - £15.43 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.69 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +108.23% -77.62%
75th Percentile £23.53 £60.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in Scotland

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAN in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for SAN in Scotland

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in Scotland

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAN in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for SAN in Scotland

SAN
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Glasgow +7 16 £500 -14.16% 3
SAN
UK

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (6.25%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
1 12 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon S3
2 11 (68.75%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (43.75%) AWS
4 6 (37.50%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) NAS
2 1 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (6.25%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Git
1 11 (68.75%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) NetBackup Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Storage Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Backup Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Flash
1 1 (6.25%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Windows
2 13 (81.25%) Unix
3 12 (75.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (31.25%) Linux
5 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
1 11 (68.75%) Data Deduplication
1 11 (68.75%) Data Protection
1 11 (68.75%) Observability
2 10 (62.50%) Decision-Making
3 7 (43.75%) Penetration Testing
3 7 (43.75%) Security Hardening
4 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Task Automation
5 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (18.75%) Capacity Management
7 3 (18.75%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (12.50%) OO
8 2 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
8 2 (12.50%) Problem Management
8 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
9 1 (6.25%) Agile
9 1 (6.25%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) GPFS
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (68.75%) NetBackup
2 11 (68.75%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (12.50%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (6.25%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Veritas
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Brocade
3 2 (12.50%) EMC
3 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) NetApp
3 2 (12.50%) Sybase
4 1 (6.25%) Google