SAN Contracts in the South East

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring SAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAN over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 91 168
Rank change year-on-year -21 +77 +5
Contract jobs citing SAN 36 105 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.21% 1.90% 0.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.96% 8.55% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 81 41
10th Percentile £440 £280 £286
25th Percentile £450 £400 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £550
90th Percentile £615 £608 £749
England median daily rate £491 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -1.71% -3.85% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £53.65
25th Percentile - £58.50 £68.50
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year - -19.75% -1.88%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £80.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £76.75
% change year-on-year - -47.88% +221.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 517 1,228 954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.37% 22.24% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 613 577
10th Percentile £212 £205 £241
25th Percentile £325 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +0.41% +8.44%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £625 £648 £700
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 131 73
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £18.25
25th Percentile £20.85 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.88 £57.35 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.32% +7.20% +148.84%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £85.65 £80.25
England median hourly rate £28.41 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.98% +116.22% -22.63%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the South East

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAN in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SAN in the South East

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the South East

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAN in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the South East

SAN
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 SAN within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Thames Valley 0 19 £450 -18.18% 13
Berkshire +15 18 £450 -24.69% 3
Hampshire +12 10 £563 +12.28% 5
Kent - 6 £592 - 2
Oxfordshire +4 1 - - 6
West Sussex -3 1 - -
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (8.33%) Office Communications Server
2 3 (8.33%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (8.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) IaaS
3 3 (8.33%) PaaS
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub
4 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.78%) AWS
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (52.78%) Ethernet
1 19 (52.78%) VPN
2 17 (47.22%) LAN
2 17 (47.22%) MPLS
2 17 (47.22%) WAN
3 16 (44.44%) ATM
3 16 (44.44%) Frame Relay
3 16 (44.44%) GPRS
3 16 (44.44%) GSM
3 16 (44.44%) LTE
3 16 (44.44%) SDH
3 16 (44.44%) UMTS
3 16 (44.44%) Wireshark
4 15 (41.67%) DNS
5 13 (36.11%) DHCP
6 7 (19.44%) Firewall
7 5 (13.89%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (11.11%) iSCSI
8 4 (11.11%) VLAN
9 3 (8.33%) DDNS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 20 (55.56%) Telecoms
2 19 (52.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Legal
5 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Electronics
6 1 (2.78%) Finance
6 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) IP Engineer
2 14 (38.89%) Test Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Network Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (13.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) IP Network Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 3 (8.33%) Designer
7 3 (8.33%) Exchange Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Exchange Support
7 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (44.44%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.33%) Fibre Optics
3 3 (8.33%) Replication
4 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (52.78%) Linux
2 16 (44.44%) Unix
3 10 (27.78%) Windows
4 3 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (44.44%) Fault Management
2 16 (44.44%) Project Management
2 16 (44.44%) Regression Testing
2 16 (44.44%) Test Strategy
3 10 (27.78%) ITIL
4 7 (19.44%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (19.44%) DevOps
4 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (16.67%) Security Patching
6 4 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (11.11%) RBAC
7 3 (8.33%) Architectural Design
7 3 (8.33%) Content Management
7 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Content Management
7 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Search
7 3 (8.33%) High Availability
8 2 (5.56%) CI/CD
8 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) Java
2 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) CCNP
1 16 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
1 16 (44.44%) ISEB
1 16 (44.44%) ISTQB
1 16 (44.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Degree
5 1 (2.78%) MCP
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) Active Directory
1 11 (30.56%) vSphere
2 7 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (16.67%) DFS Replication
4 3 (8.33%) Brightmail
4 3 (8.33%) ISA Server
4 3 (8.33%) KVM
5 2 (5.56%) Ceph
6 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.78%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (5.56%) Argo
3 1 (2.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (52.78%) Cisco
3 16 (44.44%) Juniper
4 8 (22.22%) VMware
5 2 (5.56%) Dell
5 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.78%) Citrix
6 1 (2.78%) F5
6 1 (2.78%) SAP