SAN Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 220 212
Rank change year-on-year -55 -8 +25
Contract jobs citing SAN 180 140 198
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 1.04% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.45% 6.87% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 99 139
10th Percentile £126 £357 £300
25th Percentile £358 £440 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £603 £619
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 17
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.81% +3.63% -33.94%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £46.50 £52.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year -11.57% +120.93% -52.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,792 2,038 3,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.77% 15.16% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 1,246 1,846
10th Percentile £213 £200 £205
25th Percentile £375 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £473 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -3.08% +2.63%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 124 369
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.44 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £35.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.26% -24.74% +150.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.88 £74.20
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £45.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -37.91% +8.43% +118.42%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SAN job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SAN
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the UK excluding London

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

SAN
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 SAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
North of England -17 81 £500 - 13
Yorkshire -23 47 £457 +12.72% 2
North West -21 31 £575 +9.52% 9
South East -82 29 £388 -27.57% 13
South West -11 22 £123 -67.33% 5
Scotland -1 18 £425 -10.01%
Midlands -55 17 £425 -10.53% 2
West Midlands -57 12 £419 -11.84%
Wales - 11 £418 - 5
East Midlands -14 5 £450 -18.18% 2
East of England -54 4 £500 -9.09% 2
North East - 3 - - 2
SAN
UK

SAN
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.67%) Apache
2 3 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.11%) CloudStack
3 2 (1.11%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) nginx
4 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 34 (18.89%) Azure
3 22 (12.22%) AWS
4 11 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.89%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.33%) GCP
7 4 (2.22%) GitHub
7 4 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.22%) IaaS
8 3 (1.67%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.11%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.11%) Datadog
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.56%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.56%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 76 (42.22%) NAS
2 39 (21.67%) Firewall
3 33 (18.33%) DNS
4 28 (15.56%) DHCP
4 28 (15.56%) VLAN
5 19 (10.56%) Structured Cabling
6 17 (9.44%) Wireless
7 16 (8.89%) Cisco IOS
7 16 (8.89%) NX-OS
8 13 (7.22%) Fibre Channel
8 13 (7.22%) iSCSI
9 9 (5.00%) LAN
10 8 (4.44%) VPN
11 7 (3.89%) WAN
12 5 (2.78%) TCP/IP
13 4 (2.22%) VSAN
14 2 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (1.11%) SD-WAN
14 2 (1.11%) SSL
14 2 (1.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.11%) MySQL
2 2 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (10.00%) JIRA
2 13 (7.22%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.89%) Git
4 2 (1.11%) GitLab
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 62 (34.44%) Analytical Skills
2 53 (29.44%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.78%) Banking
4 13 (7.22%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.78%) Finance
7 4 (2.22%) Legal
8 3 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.11%) Military
9 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.56%) Games
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (29.44%) IT Engineer
2 46 (25.56%) Field Engineer
2 46 (25.56%) Field Service Engineer
3 28 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (13.33%) Architect
5 20 (11.11%) Support Engineer
6 19 (10.56%) IT Support
6 19 (10.56%) IT Support Engineer
7 16 (8.89%) Field Support Engineer
8 13 (7.22%) Data Centre Engineer
8 13 (7.22%) Senior
9 11 (6.11%) Administrator
10 7 (3.89%) Network Architect
10 7 (3.89%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.89%) Storage Architect
10 7 (3.89%) Storage Engineer
10 7 (3.89%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.33%) Network Engineer
12 5 (2.78%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (2.78%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.44%) Redfish
1 8 (4.44%) REST
2 5 (2.78%) Kafka
2 5 (2.78%) Loki
3 4 (2.22%) Celery
3 4 (2.22%) LDAP
3 4 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.11%) Middleware
6 1 (0.56%) .NET
6 1 (0.56%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.56%) LAMP
6 1 (0.56%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (0.56%) RESTful
6 1 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (56.67%) Data Centre
2 48 (26.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 30 (16.67%) Replication
4 28 (15.56%) Enterprise Storage
5 12 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (5.00%) EMC VMAX
7 5 (2.78%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.78%) FlexPod
7 5 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.78%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.22%) Clustering
8 4 (2.22%) EMC VNX
8 4 (2.22%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.67%) NVMe
10 2 (1.11%) CMDB
10 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.11%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.56%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 64 (35.56%) Windows
2 47 (26.11%) Linux
3 33 (18.33%) Windows Server
4 22 (12.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (10.00%) Unix
6 10 (5.56%) Data ONTAP
7 7 (3.89%) AIX
7 7 (3.89%) VMS
8 6 (3.33%) Ubuntu
8 6 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (2.78%) CoreOS
9 5 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.67%) CentOS
11 1 (0.56%) Rocky
11 1 (0.56%) Solaris
11 1 (0.56%) SUSE
11 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (38.33%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (25.56%) Break/Fix
2 46 (25.56%) Customer Service
3 43 (23.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 43 (23.89%) Migration
4 42 (23.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 29 (16.11%) Capacity Planning
6 24 (13.33%) Data Protection
7 23 (12.78%) ITSM
8 22 (12.22%) ITIL
9 20 (11.11%) Runbook
10 19 (10.56%) High Availability
11 18 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
12 17 (9.44%) Data Centre Operations
12 17 (9.44%) DevOps
13 16 (8.89%) CI/CD
13 16 (8.89%) Network Segmentation
13 16 (8.89%) Storage Management
14 15 (8.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 36 (20.00%) Python
2 27 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 16 (8.89%) Bash
4 14 (7.78%) Perl
5 5 (2.78%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.22%) SQL
7 1 (0.56%) Bicep
7 1 (0.56%) C++
7 1 (0.56%) Java
7 1 (0.56%) Korn
7 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 65 (36.11%) Cisco Certification
2 62 (34.44%) CCNA
3 61 (33.89%) Network+ Certification
4 50 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 46 (25.56%) A+ Certification
5 46 (25.56%) MCSE
6 38 (21.11%) Security Cleared
7 27 (15.00%) SC Cleared
8 19 (10.56%) CCNP
9 15 (8.33%) Server+ Certification
10 11 (6.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 8 (4.44%) Degree
11 8 (4.44%) DV Cleared
12 5 (2.78%) Azure Certification
12 5 (2.78%) NCDA
12 5 (2.78%) OCP
12 5 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (1.67%) NCIE
13 3 (1.67%) VCAP
14 2 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (1.67%) SLA
3 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.11%) NIST
3 2 (1.11%) QA
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) GRC
4 1 (0.56%) GxP
System Software
1 53 (29.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (15.56%) Active Directory
3 25 (13.89%) vSphere
4 20 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (8.89%) NFS
6 15 (8.33%) Firmware
7 9 (5.00%) Hyper-V
8 7 (3.89%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (3.33%) VMware NSX
10 5 (2.78%) SRDF
11 4 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (1.67%) Docker
12 3 (1.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (1.67%) PowerHA
13 1 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.56%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.56%) KVM
13 1 (0.56%) Postfix
13 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.56%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 32 (17.78%) Kubernetes
2 31 (17.22%) Ansible
3 16 (8.89%) NetBackup
4 15 (8.33%) Terraform
5 14 (7.78%) Grafana
6 10 (5.56%) Dell DRAC
6 10 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.56%) SnapMirror
6 10 (5.56%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 5 (2.78%) vMotion
7 5 (2.78%) vRealize
8 4 (2.22%) EMC VPLEX
8 4 (2.22%) PowerCLI
8 4 (2.22%) SCCM
8 4 (2.22%) SnapVault
8 4 (2.22%) WSUS
9 3 (1.67%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.67%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 66 (36.67%) Dell
2 64 (35.56%) VMware
3 47 (26.11%) Cisco
4 23 (12.78%) Microsoft
5 20 (11.11%) NetApp
5 20 (11.11%) ServiceNow
6 16 (8.89%) Red Hat
7 15 (8.33%) Brocade
7 15 (8.33%) Veeam
8 14 (7.78%) Pure Storage
9 12 (6.67%) Veritas
10 10 (5.56%) Juniper
11 9 (5.00%) Commvault
11 9 (5.00%) EMC
11 9 (5.00%) HP
12 8 (4.44%) IBM
13 7 (3.89%) 3PAR
14 6 (3.33%) Fortinet
15 5 (2.78%) Google
15 5 (2.78%) Oracle