SAN Contracts in the Thames Valley

Storage Area Network (SAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 100 118
Rank change year-on-year +29 +18 +2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SAN 38 21 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.30% 0.93% 0.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.02% 5.66% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 15 13
10th Percentile £369 £527 £278
25th Percentile £415 £603 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £524
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +15.57% +1.65%
75th Percentile £500 £608 £561
90th Percentile £538 - £582
South East median daily rate £508 £593 £394
% change year-on-year -14.45% +50.67% -21.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 253 371 524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.34% 16.47% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 181 313
10th Percentile £293 £281 £205
25th Percentile £375 £404 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.05% +0.12%
75th Percentile £539 £608 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £668
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £459
% change year-on-year - +8.93% -0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 20
10th Percentile - £39.42 £16.93
25th Percentile £14.20 £62.81 £18.50
Median hourly rate £21.90 £75.24 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.89% +14.00% +300.00%
75th Percentile £89.63 £87.46 £75.67
90th Percentile - - £76.19
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.20
% change year-on-year -4.10% -1.46% +29.34%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SAN

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SAN

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 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
Berkshire +31 31 £450 -25.62% 5
Buckinghamshire +5 6 £529 -1.31% 4
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
SAN
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) AWS
1 6 (15.79%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) Azure Storage
2 4 (10.53%) GCP
3 2 (5.26%) GitHub
3 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (31.58%) LAN
1 12 (31.58%) MPLS
1 12 (31.58%) WAN
2 11 (28.95%) ATM
2 11 (28.95%) Ethernet
2 11 (28.95%) Frame Relay
2 11 (28.95%) GPRS
2 11 (28.95%) GSM
2 11 (28.95%) LTE
2 11 (28.95%) SDH
2 11 (28.95%) UMTS
2 11 (28.95%) VPN
2 11 (28.95%) Wireshark
3 7 (18.42%) NAS
4 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
5 4 (10.53%) BGP
5 4 (10.53%) DNS
5 4 (10.53%) IPv6
5 4 (10.53%) OSPF
5 4 (10.53%) TACACS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Git
General
1 23 (60.53%) Social Skills
2 16 (42.11%) Telecoms
3 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.26%) Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Front Office
6 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) IP Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Test Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) Administrator
3 8 (21.05%) Backup Administrator
3 8 (21.05%) Network Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) Storage Administrator
3 8 (21.05%) Storage and Backup Administrator
4 5 (13.16%) Developer
4 5 (13.16%) IP Network Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) HP Storage Administrator
5 4 (10.53%) Python Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Senior
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Consultant
6 3 (7.89%) Data Centre Technician
6 3 (7.89%) Data Technician
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (5.26%) IP Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) IP Network Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (21.05%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
4 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (7.89%) HP Storage
4 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (65.79%) Linux
2 15 (39.47%) Unix
3 14 (36.84%) Windows
4 9 (23.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (18.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (15.79%) Windows Server
7 5 (13.16%) Debian
7 5 (13.16%) Ubuntu
8 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (36.84%) ITIL
3 11 (28.95%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (28.95%) Fault Management
3 11 (28.95%) Project Management
3 11 (28.95%) Regression Testing
3 11 (28.95%) Test Strategy
4 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (13.16%) Agile
5 5 (13.16%) Data Modelling
5 5 (13.16%) Storage Management
6 4 (10.53%) Customer Service
6 4 (10.53%) Data Engineering
6 4 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (10.53%) Runbook
6 4 (10.53%) TOGAF
7 3 (7.89%) Capacity Management
7 3 (7.89%) Incident Management
7 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Management
8 2 (5.26%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) Java
2 7 (18.42%) Shell Script
3 5 (13.16%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) Bash
4 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 13 (34.21%) SC Cleared
3 11 (28.95%) CCNP
3 11 (28.95%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (28.95%) ISEB
3 11 (28.95%) ISTQB
3 11 (28.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 4 (10.53%) Azure Certification
5 3 (7.89%) Server+ Certification
6 2 (5.26%) Degree
6 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (2.63%) A+ Certification
7 1 (2.63%) BC Cleared
7 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.63%) MCP
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) GDPR
1 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Ceph
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.63%) vSphere
3 1 (2.63%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) NetBackup
2 2 (5.26%) Argo
2 2 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Cisco
2 15 (39.47%) Microsoft
3 14 (36.84%) Red Hat
4 12 (31.58%) NetApp
5 11 (28.95%) Juniper
6 9 (23.68%) Dell
7 8 (21.05%) 3PAR
7 8 (21.05%) HP
7 8 (21.05%) Veritas
7 8 (21.05%) VMware
8 7 (18.42%) Nimble Storage
9 4 (10.53%) EMC
9 4 (10.53%) Pure Storage
10 2 (5.26%) F5
11 1 (2.63%) Citrix
11 1 (2.63%) Isilon
11 1 (2.63%) Remedy
11 1 (2.63%) Veeam