NetApp Contract Job Trends in the South East

NetApp
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 October 2025, 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
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 173 174
Rank change year-on-year +37 +1 +59
Contract jobs citing NetApp 32 4 30
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.88% 0.093% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 1.68% 0.19% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 4 7
10th Percentile £375 £366 -
25th Percentile £485 £391 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +36.52% -12.10% -4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £522 £550
90th Percentile - £584 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £475
% change year-on-year - +15.79% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - - £59.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.25 - £15.08
% change year-on-year - - -79.34%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,902 2,108 2,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.53% 49.18% 52.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,279 1,303 1,882
10th Percentile £205 £250 £205
25th Percentile £360 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £508
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +1.38% +1.60%
75th Percentile £588 £627 £606
90th Percentile £650 £700 £687
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 75 132
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £15.28
25th Percentile £15.56 £26.25 £19.44
Median hourly rate £20.00 £57.25 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -65.07% +10.18% +136.18%
75th Percentile £34.83 £66.51 £66.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.36% -21.35% +85.42%

NetApp
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

NetApp job vacancy trend in the South East

NetApp
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

NetApp
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NetApp in the South East over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NetApp in the South East

NetApp
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

NetApp
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 NetApp within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Hampshire +26 17 £650 +85.71% 1
Thames Valley +14 15 £395 -21.31% 3
Berkshire +28 14 £395 -21.31% 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 £525 -
NetApp
England

NetApp
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) AWS
1 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) Azure Storage
2 4 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (53.13%) Fibre Channel
1 17 (53.13%) iSCSI
2 14 (43.75%) SAN
3 6 (18.75%) NAS
4 2 (6.25%) Firewall
4 2 (6.25%) VSAN
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.13%) VLAN
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Architect
1 17 (53.13%) Infrastructure Architect
2 14 (43.75%) VMware Architect
3 8 (25.00%) Administrator
3 8 (25.00%) Backup Administrator
3 8 (25.00%) Storage Administrator
3 8 (25.00%) Storage and Backup Administrator
4 5 (15.63%) HP Storage Administrator
5 1 (3.13%) Build Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (9.38%) HP Storage
3 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) FlexPod
4 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (68.75%) Windows
2 19 (59.38%) Windows Server 2019
3 15 (46.88%) Windows Server
4 9 (28.13%) Linux
5 6 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (28.13%) Edge Virtualization
2 9 (28.13%) Mentoring
2 9 (28.13%) Performance Analysis
3 7 (21.88%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (15.63%) ITIL
4 5 (15.63%) Operational Stability
5 4 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (12.50%) Storage Management
5 4 (12.50%) TOGAF
6 3 (9.38%) Coaching
6 3 (9.38%) High Availability
6 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.38%) Prototyping
7 2 (6.25%) Service Delivery
8 1 (3.13%) Computer Science
8 1 (3.13%) Data Migration
8 1 (3.13%) Data Protection
8 1 (3.13%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (18.75%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 29 (90.63%) Security Cleared
2 16 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 16 (50.00%) MCSE
2 16 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
4 10 (31.25%) VCP5
4 10 (31.25%) VCP6
4 10 (31.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (3.13%) Degree
7 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) GDPR
1 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (53.13%) VMware ESXi
1 17 (53.13%) VMware Infrastructure
1 17 (53.13%) vSphere
2 16 (50.00%) NFS
3 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 20 (62.50%) VMware
2 17 (53.13%) Microsoft
2 17 (53.13%) Veeam
3 16 (50.00%) Splunk
4 8 (25.00%) 3PAR
4 8 (25.00%) HP
4 8 (25.00%) Nimble Storage
4 8 (25.00%) Veritas
5 6 (18.75%) Dell
5 6 (18.75%) Red Hat
6 4 (12.50%) EMC
6 4 (12.50%) Pure Storage
7 2 (6.25%) Cisco
8 1 (3.13%) Commvault
8 1 (3.13%) F5
8 1 (3.13%) Isilon
8 1 (3.13%) Juniper