SAN Contracts in the South West

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 111 146
Rank change year-on-year +2 +35 +1
Contract jobs citing SAN 5 33 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.30% 1.03% 0.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.94% 6.27% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 22 20
10th Percentile - £325 £239
25th Percentile £300 £438 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £595
90th Percentile £680 £598 £675
England median daily rate £481 £501 £520
% change year-on-year -3.94% -3.61% +15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -46.67% +213.68%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 258 526 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.31% 16.45% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 340 410
10th Percentile £250 £281 £218
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £713 £719
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 41 123
10th Percentile £33.15 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.61%
75th Percentile - £70.66 £60.35
90th Percentile - £85.00 £77.20
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SAN in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the South West over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Wiltshire +32 2 £625 +32.98%
Gloucestershire +12 2 £300 - 5
Dorset - 1 - - 2
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) VLAN
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) NAS
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (40.00%) VMS
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Server Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) NsoIT
2 2 (40.00%) Power Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) System Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (80.00%) MCSE
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (40.00%) CCNA
3 2 (40.00%) CCNP
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (40.00%) MCSA
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCOM
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Veeam