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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 124 155
Rank change year-on-year +20 +31 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SAN 63 51 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.79% 1.07% 1.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.68% 5.55% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 40 39
10th Percentile £358 £408 £263
25th Percentile £449 £455 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £590 £350
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +68.64% -30.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £550
90th Percentile £603 - £561
England median daily rate £550 £538 £450
% change year-on-year +2.33% +19.44% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £45.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.73 £13.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +164.63% -66.25% +67.29%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 590 919 1,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.72% 19.23% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 493 613
10th Percentile £220 £254 £208
25th Percentile £357 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £459
Median % change year-on-year - +8.93% -0.22%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £580
90th Percentile £638 £663 £675
England median daily rate £492 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 99 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £25.55 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.63 £51.06 £21.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.20
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -1.46% +29.34%
75th Percentile £70.16 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.05 £75.67
England median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.55% -0.23% +50.23%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the South East over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the South East

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

SAN
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +27 38 £450 -25.62% 9
Berkshire +28 31 £450 -25.62% 5
Hampshire +21 16 £600 +1.61% 8
Kent - 9 £569 - 8
Buckinghamshire +8 6 £529 -5.63% 4
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 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 14 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 13 (20.63%) Exchange Server 2003
2 13 (20.63%) Exchange Server 2007
2 13 (20.63%) Exchange Server 2010
2 13 (20.63%) Exchange Server 2013
2 13 (20.63%) Office Communications Server
2 13 (20.63%) SharePoint Server
2 13 (20.63%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (20.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.05%) Azure
2 6 (9.52%) AWS
3 5 (7.94%) IaaS
4 4 (6.35%) Azure Storage
4 4 (6.35%) GCP
5 3 (4.76%) PaaS
6 2 (3.17%) GitHub
6 2 (3.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (38.10%) VPN
2 22 (34.92%) DNS
3 18 (28.57%) DHCP
4 13 (20.63%) DDNS
5 12 (19.05%) LAN
5 12 (19.05%) MPLS
5 12 (19.05%) WAN
6 11 (17.46%) ATM
6 11 (17.46%) Ethernet
6 11 (17.46%) Frame Relay
6 11 (17.46%) GPRS
6 11 (17.46%) GSM
6 11 (17.46%) LTE
6 11 (17.46%) SDH
6 11 (17.46%) UMTS
6 11 (17.46%) Wireshark
7 10 (15.87%) NAS
8 7 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
8 7 (11.11%) Firewall
9 5 (7.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) GitLab
2 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 27 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.40%) Telecoms
3 9 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.17%) Banking
4 2 (3.17%) Front Office
5 1 (1.59%) Finance
5 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Support Engineer
2 13 (20.63%) Exchange Engineer
2 13 (20.63%) Exchange Support
3 10 (15.87%) IP Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Test Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) Administrator
5 8 (12.70%) Backup Administrator
5 8 (12.70%) Network Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) Storage Administrator
5 8 (12.70%) Storage and Backup Administrator
6 7 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
6 7 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 7 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Developer
7 5 (7.94%) IP Network Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Python Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
8 4 (6.35%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.40%) Replication
2 11 (17.46%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (12.70%) Data Centre
3 8 (12.70%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.76%) HP Storage
4 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (57.14%) Windows
2 26 (41.27%) Linux
3 15 (23.81%) Unix
4 13 (20.63%) Windows Server 2003
5 10 (15.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (12.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (11.11%) Windows Server
8 5 (7.94%) Debian
8 5 (7.94%) Ubuntu
8 5 (7.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (6.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (49.21%) ITIL
2 17 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (25.40%) High Availability
4 14 (22.22%) Architectural Design
5 13 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (20.63%) Content Management
5 13 (20.63%) Enterprise Content Management
5 13 (20.63%) Enterprise Search
6 12 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (19.05%) Project Management
7 11 (17.46%) Fault Management
7 11 (17.46%) Regression Testing
7 11 (17.46%) Test Strategy
8 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (9.52%) DevOps
9 6 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (7.94%) Agile
10 5 (7.94%) Data Modelling
10 5 (7.94%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.46%) Java
2 7 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 5 (7.94%) Python
4 2 (3.17%) Bash
5 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 13 (20.63%) SC Cleared
4 12 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (17.46%) CCNP
5 11 (17.46%) ISEB
5 11 (17.46%) ISTQB
5 11 (17.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (6.35%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.35%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.76%) Server+ Certification
8 2 (3.17%) A+ Certification
8 2 (3.17%) Degree
8 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (3.17%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.59%) CCNA
9 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.59%) MCP
9 1 (1.59%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) SLA
2 4 (6.35%) GDPR
2 4 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.63%) Brightmail
2 13 (20.63%) ISA Server
3 9 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (11.11%) vSphere
5 5 (7.94%) DFS Replication
6 4 (6.35%) Ceph
7 2 (3.17%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.59%) Firmware
8 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.59%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (20.63%) Microsoft Clustering
2 7 (11.11%) NetBackup
3 2 (3.17%) Argo
3 2 (3.17%) SCCM
4 1 (1.59%) Terraform
4 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 17 (26.98%) Cisco
3 15 (23.81%) VMware
4 14 (22.22%) Red Hat
5 12 (19.05%) NetApp
6 11 (17.46%) Juniper
7 10 (15.87%) Dell
8 8 (12.70%) 3PAR
8 8 (12.70%) HP
8 8 (12.70%) Veritas
9 7 (11.11%) Nimble Storage
10 5 (7.94%) EMC
11 4 (6.35%) Pure Storage
12 2 (3.17%) F5
13 1 (1.59%) Citrix
13 1 (1.59%) Isilon
13 1 (1.59%) Remedy
13 1 (1.59%) Veeam