Data ONTAP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

NetApp Data ONTAP Operating System, including Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data ONTAP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 369 398
Rank change year-on-year +2 +29 +118
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 1 9 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.050% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.039% 0.30% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 16
10th Percentile - £334 £416
25th Percentile - £384 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £449 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% -16.51% +4.67%
75th Percentile - £491 £613
90th Percentile - £504 £630
UK median daily rate £436 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -8.21% -9.52% +0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £57.50

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Data ONTAP falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,574 2,966 3,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.64% 16.54% 17.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,647 1,846 2,473
10th Percentile £175 £183 £163
25th Percentile £225 £285 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £545 £575 £575
90th Percentile £622 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 237 299
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.38 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £19.64 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -54.27% +19.88% +108.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 - £75.71
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% +5.26% +98.66%

Data ONTAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data ONTAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data ONTAP in the UK excluding London

Data ONTAP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data ONTAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data ONTAP

Data ONTAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data ONTAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data ONTAP

Data ONTAP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data ONTAP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Scotland -6 1 £472 +4.89%
Data ONTAP
UK

Data ONTAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GPFS
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Sybase
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas