NCDA Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for NCDA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 342 -
Rank change year-on-year -59 - -
Contract jobs citing NCDA 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.014% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.029% 0.042% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% - -
75th Percentile £475 £556 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £463 £538 -
% change year-on-year -13.95% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

NCDA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,905 4,805 7,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.62% 34.67% 36.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,401 2,822 4,373
10th Percentile £263 £220 £250
25th Percentile £405 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -7.02% +2.48%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £650
90th Percentile £706 £700 £707
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 374 706
10th Percentile £15.62 £18.65 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £21.47
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.69 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -41.09% -11.80% +7.56%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.25 £66.15
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.36 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.52 £47.75
% change year-on-year -36.36% -17.24% +6.11%

NCDA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NCDA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

NCDA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

NCDA
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

NCDA
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 NCDA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 January 2026. 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 - 2 £463 - 1
NCDA
UK

NCDA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) VCP6
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) vMotion
1 2 (100.00%) vRealize
2 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Brocade
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Commvault
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) VMware