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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 261 213
Rank change year-on-year -30 -48 +17
Contract jobs citing SAN 108 100 209
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.63% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.87% 4.08% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 60 146
10th Percentile £329 £282 £210
25th Percentile £394 £434 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% +13.89% +9.09%
75th Percentile £597 £568 £549
90th Percentile £636 £608 £607
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £470
% change year-on-year +3.50% +6.38% +5.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 5
10th Percentile £29.09 £11.75 -
25th Percentile £33.73 £14.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.45 £46.25 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% -26.59% +31.25%
75th Percentile £54.35 £49.69 £78.00
90th Percentile £62.09 £52.63 -
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £46.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -26.49% +15.63% +55.58%

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 2,218 2,450 3,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.42% 15.46% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,469 1,351 2,162
10th Percentile £191 £200 £205
25th Percentile £293 £330 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £580 £600
90th Percentile £644 £650 £680
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 138 286
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.91 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.43 £24.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.03 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -11.51% -14.98% +25.53%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £41.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.57% -25.45% +25.00%

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 7 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SAN in the UK excluding London

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 7 December 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
South East +28 56 £543 -8.05% 57
North of England -42 28 £498 -7.44% 32
North West -13 20 £550 +10.28% 17
East of England -20 8 £526 +3.80% 19
Midlands -30 8 £379 +45.58% 23
Yorkshire -44 8 £430 -22.91% 14
Northern Ireland -1 6 £375 +141.94% 1
East Midlands - 5 £127 - 6
West Midlands -29 3 £500 +92.31% 16
South West -25 2 £500 +5.26% 10
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 12 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 12 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 10 (9.26%) Exchange Server 2003
2 10 (9.26%) Exchange Server 2007
2 10 (9.26%) Exchange Server 2010
2 10 (9.26%) Exchange Server 2013
2 10 (9.26%) Office Communications Server
2 10 (9.26%) SharePoint Server
2 10 (9.26%) Skype for Business
3 4 (3.70%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.85%) Apache
5 1 (0.93%) CICS
5 1 (0.93%) Confluence
5 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.93%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.30%) Azure
2 12 (11.11%) AWS
3 8 (7.41%) GCP
4 6 (5.56%) SaaS
5 5 (4.63%) IaaS
5 5 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.63%) PaaS
6 4 (3.70%) Azure Storage
6 4 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.70%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.93%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 30 (27.78%) NAS
2 25 (23.15%) DNS
3 18 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 17 (15.74%) DHCP
5 16 (14.81%) Firewall
6 12 (11.11%) iSCSI
7 11 (10.19%) VPN
8 10 (9.26%) DDNS
9 7 (6.48%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (5.56%) VLAN
11 5 (4.63%) WAN
12 2 (1.85%) LAN
13 1 (0.93%) BGP
13 1 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
13 1 (0.93%) FCoE
13 1 (0.93%) MPLS
13 1 (0.93%) Multicast
13 1 (0.93%) OSPF
13 1 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Git
1 4 (3.70%) GitLab
1 4 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.85%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.04%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.63%) Banking
4 5 (4.63%) Finance
5 3 (2.78%) Front Office
6 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.85%) Local Government
7 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (18.52%) Architect
2 13 (12.04%) Administrator
2 13 (12.04%) Infrastructure Architect
3 12 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (9.26%) Exchange Engineer
4 10 (9.26%) Exchange Support
4 10 (9.26%) Support Engineer
5 9 (8.33%) Backup Administrator
5 9 (8.33%) Storage Administrator
5 9 (8.33%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 9 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) Technical Architect
7 6 (5.56%) Analyst
7 6 (5.56%) Developer
7 6 (5.56%) Senior
7 6 (5.56%) Server Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) HP Storage Administrator
8 5 (4.63%) Python Developer
9 4 (3.70%) Data Centre Technician
9 4 (3.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.41%) Middleware
2 1 (0.93%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (31.48%) Replication
2 28 (25.93%) Data Centre
3 14 (12.96%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (5.56%) Clustering
5 5 (4.63%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.70%) HP Storage
6 4 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.85%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.93%) CMDB
9 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.93%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.93%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 51 (47.22%) Windows
2 42 (38.89%) Linux
3 22 (20.37%) Windows Server
4 15 (13.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (10.19%) Windows Server 2003
6 10 (9.26%) Ubuntu
6 10 (9.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (7.41%) Debian
7 8 (7.41%) Unix
8 6 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (2.78%) CentOS
10 3 (2.78%) VMS
11 2 (1.85%) Solaris
12 1 (0.93%) AIX
12 1 (0.93%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.93%) MVS
12 1 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.93%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.56%) ITIL
2 25 (23.15%) Disaster Recovery
3 21 (19.44%) High Availability
4 20 (18.52%) Customer Service
4 20 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (13.89%) Migration
5 15 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
6 14 (12.96%) Agile
7 13 (12.04%) Capacity Planning
8 10 (9.26%) Architectural Design
8 10 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (9.26%) Content Management
8 10 (9.26%) Enterprise Content Management
8 10 (9.26%) Enterprise Search
9 9 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
9 9 (8.33%) Project Delivery
10 8 (7.41%) Application Virtualisation
10 8 (7.41%) Containerisation
10 8 (7.41%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.89%) PowerShell
2 14 (12.96%) Python
3 13 (12.04%) Shell Script
4 7 (6.48%) SQL
5 3 (2.78%) Bash
6 1 (0.93%) Bicep
6 1 (0.93%) Java
Qualifications
1 57 (52.78%) Security Cleared
2 36 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 23 (21.30%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.63%) CCNA
5 5 (4.63%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.63%) Degree
5 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.70%) A+ Certification
6 4 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.70%) MCSE
6 4 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (3.70%) Server+ Certification
7 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.93%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) CCNP
8 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.70%) GDPR
1 4 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (0.93%) NCSC
2 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (30.56%) Active Directory
2 25 (23.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.26%) Brightmail
3 10 (9.26%) ISA Server
4 9 (8.33%) Hyper-V
5 6 (5.56%) NFS
6 5 (4.63%) vSphere
7 3 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.78%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.93%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.93%) Firmware
9 1 (0.93%) KVM
9 1 (0.93%) SRDF
9 1 (0.93%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.93%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (9.26%) Microsoft Clustering
2 9 (8.33%) Ansible
2 9 (8.33%) NetBackup
3 7 (6.48%) vCenter Server
4 6 (5.56%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (5.56%) EMC VPLEX
5 5 (4.63%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.78%) vRealize
7 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.85%) SCCM
7 2 (1.85%) Terraform
8 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.93%) Puppet
8 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.93%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.93%) SnapVault
8 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 48 (44.44%) VMware
2 29 (26.85%) NetApp
3 27 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 23 (21.30%) Dell
5 22 (20.37%) Red Hat
6 17 (15.74%) EMC
7 15 (13.89%) Cisco
8 14 (12.96%) HP
9 10 (9.26%) Veritas
10 9 (8.33%) 3PAR
11 8 (7.41%) F5
11 8 (7.41%) IBM
11 8 (7.41%) Nimble Storage
11 8 (7.41%) Veeam
12 7 (6.48%) Brocade
12 7 (6.48%) Isilon
13 6 (5.56%) Oracle
14 5 (4.63%) Pure Storage
14 5 (4.63%) SolarWinds
15 4 (3.70%) Citrix