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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 216 230
Rank change year-on-year -61 +14 0
Contract jobs citing SAN 180 144 157
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.67% 0.96% 0.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.20% 6.70% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 104 105
10th Percentile £126 £366 £300
25th Percentile £358 £445 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £504 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% -6.28% +32.72%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £601
90th Percentile £607 £603 £619
UK median daily rate £500 £506 £515
% change year-on-year -1.19% -1.75% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 17
10th Percentile - - £11.75
25th Percentile - - £12.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.81% +3.63% -8.57%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £51.50
UK median hourly rate £46.50 £52.58 £30.00
% change year-on-year -11.57% +75.28% -40.00%

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 2,905 2,150 2,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.74% 14.30% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,659 1,302 1,698
10th Percentile £219 £200 £205
25th Percentile £375 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 137 297
10th Percentile £15.69 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 £44.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.41% -12.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.76% +8.33% -10.00%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -25 77 £500 +11.86% 14
Yorkshire -14 43 £489 +18.55% 3
North West -27 33 £575 +15.00% 10
South East -98 28 £400 -23.81% 11
South West -13 24 £123 -73.51%
Midlands -45 19 £425 -10.53% 3
West Midlands -47 15 £425 -10.53% 3
Wales - 12 £525 - 1
Scotland -15 11 £127 -72.89%
East of England -38 11 £600 +9.09% 3
East Midlands -11 4 £450 -18.18%
North East - 1 £200 - 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 9 (5.00%) 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%) Exchange Server 2010
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 35 (19.44%) Azure
2 27 (15.00%) OpenShift
3 22 (12.22%) AWS
4 14 (7.78%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.89%) GCP
7 4 (2.22%) IaaS
8 3 (1.67%) GitHub
8 3 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
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 69 (38.33%) NAS
2 45 (25.00%) Firewall
3 41 (22.78%) DNS
4 35 (19.44%) VLAN
5 30 (16.67%) DHCP
6 19 (10.56%) Structured Cabling
7 17 (9.44%) Wireless
8 16 (8.89%) Cisco IOS
8 16 (8.89%) NX-OS
9 11 (6.11%) iSCSI
10 8 (4.44%) Fibre Channel
11 7 (3.89%) LAN
11 7 (3.89%) VPN
12 5 (2.78%) VoIP
12 5 (2.78%) WAN
13 4 (2.22%) TCP/IP
13 4 (2.22%) VSAN
14 2 (1.11%) Connectrix
14 2 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (1.11%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.11%) MySQL
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (11.67%) JIRA
2 7 (3.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.67%) Git
General
1 55 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
2 50 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.56%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (7.22%) Banking
5 6 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.78%) Finance
7 4 (2.22%) Legal
8 3 (1.67%) Games
8 3 (1.67%) Military
9 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (27.22%) IT Engineer
2 42 (23.33%) Field Engineer
2 42 (23.33%) Field Service Engineer
3 38 (21.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (13.89%) Architect
5 23 (12.78%) Senior
6 19 (10.56%) Support Engineer
7 18 (10.00%) IT Support
7 18 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
8 16 (8.89%) Field Support Engineer
9 15 (8.33%) Data Centre Engineer
10 11 (6.11%) Storage Engineer
11 10 (5.56%) Administrator
12 9 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.44%) Storage Architect
14 7 (3.89%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (3.89%) NetApp Engineer
14 7 (3.89%) Network Architect
14 7 (3.89%) Project Manager
14 7 (3.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.44%) Redfish
2 5 (2.78%) REST
3 4 (2.22%) Celery
3 4 (2.22%) Kafka
3 4 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.11%) Loki
6 1 (0.56%) LAMP
6 1 (0.56%) LDAP
6 1 (0.56%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (0.56%) RESTful
6 1 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (56.11%) Data Centre
2 44 (24.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 34 (18.89%) Replication
4 29 (16.11%) Enterprise Storage
5 11 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (5.00%) Clustering
6 9 (5.00%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (3.33%) PKI
8 5 (2.78%) Fat Client
8 5 (2.78%) FlexPod
8 5 (2.78%) Thin Client
9 4 (2.22%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.22%) EMC VNX
9 4 (2.22%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.67%) Animation
10 3 (1.67%) Smartcard
11 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.11%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 69 (38.33%) Windows
2 52 (28.89%) Linux
3 43 (23.89%) Windows Server
4 28 (15.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (10.00%) Unix
6 11 (6.11%) AIX
7 10 (5.56%) CentOS
7 10 (5.56%) Data ONTAP
8 9 (5.00%) Rocky
9 7 (3.89%) VMS
10 6 (3.33%) Ubuntu
11 5 (2.78%) CoreOS
11 5 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (1.11%) Solaris
14 1 (0.56%) HPUX
14 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.56%) SUSE
14 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (29.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 42 (23.33%) Break/Fix
3 42 (23.33%) Customer Service
4 41 (22.78%) Disaster Recovery
5 40 (22.22%) Migration
6 30 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
7 25 (13.89%) ITIL
8 22 (12.22%) ITSM
9 20 (11.11%) Data Centre Operations
10 18 (10.00%) Data Protection
11 17 (9.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (9.44%) Performance Tuning
11 17 (9.44%) Runbook
11 17 (9.44%) Storage Management
12 16 (8.89%) High Availability
12 16 (8.89%) Network Segmentation
13 14 (7.78%) Test Automation
14 13 (7.22%) Infrastructure Management
14 13 (7.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.78%) Python
2 29 (16.11%) PowerShell
3 13 (7.22%) Bash
4 12 (6.67%) Perl
5 3 (1.67%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.11%) SQL
7 1 (0.56%) Bicep
7 1 (0.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 61 (33.89%) Cisco Certification
2 58 (32.22%) CCNA
3 57 (31.67%) Network+ Certification
4 49 (27.22%) Security Cleared
5 48 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (24.44%) MCSE
7 42 (23.33%) A+ Certification
8 35 (19.44%) SC Cleared
9 19 (10.56%) CCNP
10 15 (8.33%) Server+ Certification
11 9 (5.00%) DV Cleared
11 9 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (3.89%) Degree
13 5 (2.78%) Azure Certification
13 5 (2.78%) OCP
13 5 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (1.67%) NCDA
14 3 (1.67%) NCIE
15 2 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 2 (1.11%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.78%) SLA
2 4 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.11%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) GRC
4 1 (0.56%) GxP
4 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 53 (29.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (17.78%) Active Directory
3 23 (12.78%) vSphere
4 22 (12.22%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (10.00%) Firmware
6 16 (8.89%) Hyper-V
7 14 (7.78%) NFS
8 7 (3.89%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (3.33%) PowerHA
10 5 (2.78%) SRDF
11 4 (2.22%) VMware NSX
12 3 (1.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (1.11%) Docker
14 1 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.56%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.56%) KVM
14 1 (0.56%) Postfix
14 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.56%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 33 (18.33%) Ansible
2 25 (13.89%) Kubernetes
3 19 (10.56%) NetBackup
4 15 (8.33%) Terraform
5 11 (6.11%) vCenter Server
6 10 (5.56%) Dell DRAC
6 10 (5.56%) SnapMirror
7 8 (4.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 7 (3.89%) Grafana
8 7 (3.89%) Prometheus
8 7 (3.89%) WSUS
9 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.22%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (2.22%) SCCM
10 4 (2.22%) SnapVault
11 3 (1.67%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.11%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 62 (34.44%) VMware
2 61 (33.89%) Dell
3 46 (25.56%) Cisco
4 29 (16.11%) Microsoft
5 26 (14.44%) NetApp
6 25 (13.89%) Veeam
7 20 (11.11%) ServiceNow
8 17 (9.44%) Red Hat
9 13 (7.22%) Juniper
10 11 (6.11%) Brocade
10 11 (6.11%) IBM
10 11 (6.11%) Pure Storage
11 8 (4.44%) Commvault
11 8 (4.44%) HP
12 7 (3.89%) EMC
12 7 (3.89%) Veritas
13 5 (2.78%) 3PAR
13 5 (2.78%) Broadcom
13 5 (2.78%) Fortinet
13 5 (2.78%) Google