Data ONTAP Contract Job Trends in the South East

NetApp Data ONTAP Operating System, including Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT)
England > South East

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 - 207
Rank change year-on-year - - +50
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.023% - 0.058%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.14% - 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 £486 £480
% change year-on-year +33.68% +1.30% +47.69%

All Operating Systems
South East

Data ONTAP falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 720 686 1,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.89% 17.19% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 456 665
10th Percentile £190 £200 £161
25th Percentile £231 £278 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £439 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.99% +9.69% -15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £606 £658 £638
England median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 32 81
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.91 £17.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £43.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £20.18 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.19% +11.82% +193.33%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.13 £76.53
England median hourly rate £24.00 £60.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +84.62% +30.00%

Data ONTAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data ONTAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Data ONTAP job vacancy trend in the South East

Data ONTAP
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data ONTAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data ONTAP

Data ONTAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data ONTAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data ONTAP

Data ONTAP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data ONTAP within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 December 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Thames Valley - 1 - -
Data ONTAP
England

Data ONTAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SnapMirror
1 1 (100.00%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) VMware