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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 219 198
Rank change year-on-year -47 -21 +47
Contract jobs citing SAN 188 133 214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.75% 1.03% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.84% 6.69% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 94 154
10th Percentile £126 £357 £296
25th Percentile £358 £440 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £501
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +2.40% +17.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £601 £602 £623
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 - £19.95
75th Percentile - - £40.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £46.50 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -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 2,749 1,987 3,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.04% 15.43% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,612 1,238 1,866
10th Percentile £231 £200 £205
25th Percentile £375 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -2.97% +0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 121 355
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.08 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% -32.26% +154.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.10 £71.01
UK median hourly rate £28.96 £41.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -29.37% +2.50% +118.16%

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 3 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 3 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 -22 83 £500 +10.50% 17
Yorkshire -28 46 £483 +19.14% 5
South East -63 35 £400 -20.00% 15
North West -14 34 £575 +9.52% 10
South West -12 20 £123 -74.21% 7
Scotland +5 19 £425 -10.01%
Midlands -52 17 £425 -10.53% 4
West Midlands -57 12 £419 -11.84% 2
Wales - 12 £418 - 3
East Midlands -24 5 £450 -18.18% 2
East of England -59 4 £500 -9.09% 1
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 (2.13%) Apache
1 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.06%) CloudStack
2 2 (1.06%) IIS
2 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) nginx
3 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 40 (21.28%) OpenShift
2 34 (18.09%) Azure
3 23 (12.23%) AWS
4 8 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.72%) IaaS
6 5 (2.66%) GCP
7 4 (2.13%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.13%) GitHub
7 4 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.60%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.06%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.06%) Datadog
9 2 (1.06%) PaaS
10 1 (0.53%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.53%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.53%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 78 (41.49%) NAS
2 36 (19.15%) Firewall
3 35 (18.62%) DNS
4 30 (15.96%) DHCP
5 24 (12.77%) VLAN
6 19 (10.11%) Structured Cabling
7 18 (9.57%) Fibre Channel
8 17 (9.04%) iSCSI
8 17 (9.04%) Wireless
9 16 (8.51%) Cisco IOS
9 16 (8.51%) NX-OS
10 8 (4.26%) LAN
11 7 (3.72%) TCP/IP
12 6 (3.19%) VPN
12 6 (3.19%) WAN
13 4 (2.13%) VSAN
14 3 (1.60%) WLAN
15 2 (1.06%) Connectrix
15 2 (1.06%) MPLS
15 2 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.19%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.06%) MySQL
2 2 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (7.45%) Jenkins
1 14 (7.45%) JIRA
2 8 (4.26%) Git
3 2 (1.06%) GitLab
4 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
General
1 66 (35.11%) Analytical Skills
2 55 (29.26%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.45%) Banking
4 13 (6.91%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.19%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.66%) Finance
7 4 (2.13%) Legal
8 3 (1.60%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Advertising
10 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.53%) Military
10 1 (0.53%) Retail
10 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (28.72%) IT Engineer
2 49 (26.06%) Field Engineer
2 49 (26.06%) Field Service Engineer
3 24 (12.77%) Architect
4 23 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (10.64%) Support Engineer
6 19 (10.11%) IT Support
6 19 (10.11%) IT Support Engineer
7 16 (8.51%) Field Support Engineer
8 12 (6.38%) Storage Engineer
9 11 (5.85%) Administrator
9 11 (5.85%) Senior
10 9 (4.79%) Data Centre Engineer
11 7 (3.72%) Network Architect
11 7 (3.72%) Project Manager
11 7 (3.72%) Storage Architect
11 7 (3.72%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.19%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.19%) Network Engineer
13 5 (2.66%) NetApp Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.79%) REST
2 7 (3.72%) Redfish
3 6 (3.19%) Loki
4 5 (2.66%) Kafka
5 4 (2.13%) Celery
5 4 (2.13%) LDAP
5 4 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.06%) Middleware
8 1 (0.53%) .NET
8 1 (0.53%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.53%) LAMP
8 1 (0.53%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (0.53%) RESTful
8 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (54.26%) Data Centre
2 51 (27.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 34 (18.09%) Replication
4 27 (14.36%) Enterprise Storage
5 11 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.79%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.66%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.66%) FlexPod
8 5 (2.66%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.13%) Clustering
9 4 (2.13%) EMC VNX
9 4 (2.13%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.60%) NVMe
11 2 (1.06%) CMDB
11 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 62 (32.98%) Windows
2 45 (23.94%) Linux
3 29 (15.43%) Windows Server
4 21 (11.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (10.11%) Unix
6 11 (5.85%) Data ONTAP
7 7 (3.72%) AIX
7 7 (3.72%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.72%) VMS
8 6 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (2.66%) CoreOS
10 3 (1.60%) CentOS
10 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.53%) Debian
11 1 (0.53%) Rocky
11 1 (0.53%) Solaris
11 1 (0.53%) SUSE
11 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (38.83%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (27.13%) Customer Service
3 49 (26.06%) Break/Fix
4 46 (24.47%) Disaster Recovery
4 46 (24.47%) Migration
5 40 (21.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (17.02%) Capacity Planning
7 30 (15.96%) ITIL
8 28 (14.89%) Data Protection
9 25 (13.30%) ITSM
10 24 (12.77%) High Availability
11 22 (11.70%) Performance Tuning
12 20 (10.64%) DevOps
13 19 (10.11%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (10.11%) Runbook
14 17 (9.04%) CI/CD
14 17 (9.04%) Storage Management
15 16 (8.51%) Data Centre Operations
15 16 (8.51%) Network Segmentation
15 16 (8.51%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 36 (19.15%) Python
2 25 (13.30%) PowerShell
3 16 (8.51%) Bash
4 15 (7.98%) Perl
5 6 (3.19%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.13%) SQL
7 1 (0.53%) C++
7 1 (0.53%) Java
7 1 (0.53%) Korn
7 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 68 (36.17%) Cisco Certification
2 65 (34.57%) CCNA
3 64 (34.04%) Network+ Certification
4 53 (28.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 49 (26.06%) A+ Certification
5 49 (26.06%) MCSE
6 41 (21.81%) Security Cleared
7 28 (14.89%) SC Cleared
8 19 (10.11%) CCNP
9 15 (7.98%) Server+ Certification
10 12 (6.38%) DV Cleared
11 11 (5.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 10 (5.32%) Degree
13 5 (2.66%) Azure Certification
13 5 (2.66%) NCDA
13 5 (2.66%) OCP
13 5 (2.66%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.60%) NCIE
14 3 (1.60%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.19%) SLA
2 3 (1.60%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.06%) NIST
3 2 (1.06%) QA
4 1 (0.53%) GDPR
4 1 (0.53%) GRC
4 1 (0.53%) GxP
System Software
1 48 (25.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (13.83%) Active Directory
3 25 (13.30%) vSphere
4 20 (10.64%) NFS
5 18 (9.57%) Firmware
6 16 (8.51%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (3.72%) Hyper-V
7 7 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.66%) SRDF
8 5 (2.66%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.60%) DFS Replication
9 3 (1.60%) Docker
9 3 (1.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (1.60%) PowerHA
10 2 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.53%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.53%) KVM
11 1 (0.53%) Postfix
11 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.53%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 36 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 31 (16.49%) Ansible
3 17 (9.04%) NetBackup
4 15 (7.98%) Grafana
5 13 (6.91%) Terraform
6 11 (5.85%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.85%) SnapMirror
7 9 (4.79%) Dell DRAC
7 9 (4.79%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.66%) SnapVault
8 5 (2.66%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (2.66%) vMotion
8 5 (2.66%) vRealize
9 4 (2.13%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (2.13%) PowerCLI
9 4 (2.13%) SCCM
10 3 (1.60%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.60%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (1.60%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (1.60%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (36.70%) Dell
2 60 (31.91%) VMware
3 44 (23.40%) Cisco
4 27 (14.36%) NetApp
5 23 (12.23%) Microsoft
6 20 (10.64%) ServiceNow
7 17 (9.04%) Veritas
8 16 (8.51%) Red Hat
9 15 (7.98%) Brocade
9 15 (7.98%) EMC
9 15 (7.98%) Pure Storage
9 15 (7.98%) Veeam
10 10 (5.32%) IBM
11 9 (4.79%) Commvault
11 9 (4.79%) HP
12 7 (3.72%) 3PAR
13 6 (3.19%) Fortinet
13 6 (3.19%) Juniper
14 5 (2.66%) Google
14 5 (2.66%) Oracle