SAN Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring SAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 110 107
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +22
Contract jobs citing SAN 8 9 33
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.53% 0.55% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.06% 4.15% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 19
10th Percentile - £433 £395
25th Percentile £413 - £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - +29.41%
75th Percentile £466 - £624
90th Percentile £475 - £743
UK median daily rate £500 £482 £465
% change year-on-year +3.73% +3.66% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £13.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +151.85% -66.25% +55.58%

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 197 217 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.97% 13.31% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 130 174
10th Percentile £198 £150 £238
25th Percentile £288 £313 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £428 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% -22.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £637
90th Percentile £675 £619 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.42% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 26
10th Percentile - - £16.38
25th Percentile - £21.00 £23.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £23.77 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +215.56% -60.39% +355.93%
75th Percentile - £43.22 £60.75
90th Percentile - £71.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% -32.50% +141.49%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

SAN job vacancy trend in Scotland

SAN
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SAN

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SAN

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 February 2026. 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 +3 5 £425 -22.73% 1
Edinburgh - 3 £450 - 2
SAN
UK

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (37.50%) Nutanix
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) NAS
2 3 (37.50%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) VXLAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Loki
1 4 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (37.50%) NVMe
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Unix
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (62.50%) Observability
3 4 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Data Deduplication
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) BCP
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Kanban
6 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (87.50%) Python
3 6 (75.00%) Perl
4 3 (37.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) NCDA
1 2 (25.00%) VCP6
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (12.50%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (37.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Ansible
1 7 (87.50%) Grafana
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (37.50%) vMotion
3 3 (37.50%) vRealize
4 2 (25.00%) PowerCLI
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Veritas
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Brocade
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Commvault
2 3 (37.50%) NetApp
3 1 (12.50%) Veeam