SAN Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Storage Area Network (SAN)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring SAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 38 -
Rank change year-on-year -38 - -
Contract jobs citing SAN 4 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.60% 2.16% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.76% 12.31% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.26% - -
75th Percentile £433 £556 -
90th Percentile £441 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £430 £544 -
% change year-on-year -20.97% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £13.50 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 84 65 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 12.50% 17.57% 7.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 33 21
10th Percentile £250 £209 £190
25th Percentile £406 £220 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £593
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -9.36% +12.95%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £699 £675
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £538 £593
% change year-on-year -2.33% -9.36% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £13.50 -

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

SAN job vacancy trend in Sheffield

SAN
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SAN

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SAN

SAN
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 (25.00%) CICS
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) NAS
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) FCoE
3 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Migration Specialist
1 3 (75.00%) Server Migration Specialist
1 3 (75.00%) Server Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) VMS
4 1 (25.00%) MVS
4 1 (25.00%) Solaris
4 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Kanban
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) Server Migrations
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (75.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) KVM
3 1 (25.00%) NFS
3 1 (25.00%) SRDF
3 1 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (25.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (75.00%) vRealize
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) F5
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Pure Storage