NetApp Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

NetApp
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring knowledge or experience of NetApp products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NetApp over the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Network Appliance Corporation.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -49 - -
Contract jobs citing NetApp 11 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.39% 0.84% -
As % of the Vendors category 2.49% 1.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £391 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.51% - -
75th Percentile £487 £556 -
90th Percentile £487 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £438 £538 -
% change year-on-year -18.51% - -

All Vendors
Sheffield

NetApp falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 442 134 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 55.74% 56.54% 49.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 80 113
10th Percentile £346 £220 £238
25th Percentile £413 £298 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £550 £582 £595
90th Percentile £686 £650 £719
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £15.74 £12.10 -
25th Percentile £16.34 £12.62 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.01 £14.85 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +16.43% -25.00%
75th Percentile £19.01 £16.68 £12.88
90th Percentile £19.21 £16.97 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £14.85 £12.75
% change year-on-year +12.29% +16.43% -8.93%

NetApp
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

NetApp job vacancy trend in Sheffield

NetApp
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing NetApp.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing NetApp

NetApp
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing NetApp.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing NetApp

NetApp
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) CICS
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) OpenShift
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) NAS
2 6 (54.55%) SAN
3 5 (45.45%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (45.45%) iSCSI
4 2 (18.18%) Firewall
5 1 (9.09%) DNS
5 1 (9.09%) Kerberos
5 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 1 (9.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 1 (9.09%) Banking
1 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Storage Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (9.09%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Replication
2 5 (45.45%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (9.09%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) CMDB
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Solaris
2 1 (9.09%) VMS
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Migration
2 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
3 6 (54.55%) Data Protection
3 6 (54.55%) Performance Optimisation
3 6 (54.55%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (45.45%) High Availability
4 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (45.45%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (36.36%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) GitOps
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Engineering
7 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 1 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (9.09%) Runbook
7 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineering
7 1 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) NFS
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (9.09%) Docker
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) KVM
3 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
3 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
3 3 (27.27%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) Argo
4 1 (9.09%) Podman
4 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) EMC
2 5 (45.45%) IBM
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) Isilon
4 2 (18.18%) F5
4 2 (18.18%) VMware
5 1 (9.09%) Brocade
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle
5 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 1 (9.09%) Red Hat