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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 219 222
Rank change year-on-year -87 +3 +19
Contract jobs citing SAN 163 144 147
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.93% 0.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.55% 6.82% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 105 101
10th Percentile £126 £353 £300
25th Percentile £358 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -2.33% +33.54%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £601
90th Percentile £610 £603 £619
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.33% +14.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 17
10th Percentile - £29.09 -
25th Percentile - £33.73 £11.75
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.81% +38.17% -38.46%
75th Percentile - £54.35 £48.75
90th Percentile - £62.09 £51.50
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £35.73 £23.80
% change year-on-year -58.01% +50.11% -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 2,937 2,112 2,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.63% 13.69% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,639 1,280 1,573
10th Percentile £213 £204 £207
25th Percentile £363 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.70% -6.00% +10.19%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £643 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 138 262
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.69 £20.19 £21.28
Median hourly rate £26.14 £44.50 £54.94
Median % change year-on-year -41.26% -19.00% -4.32%
75th Percentile £65.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% -7.50% -10.56%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -28 68 £520 +16.33% 7
Yorkshire -17 34 £478 +15.88% 2
North West -28 33 £575 +21.05% 3
South East -105 25 £375 -25.56% 13
South West -20 24 £123 -73.51% 8
Midlands -36 15 £425 -15.00% 7
West Midlands -37 13 £425 -19.05% 5
East of England -43 11 £600 +9.09% 8
Wales - 11 £525 -
Scotland -17 9 £127 -73.12% 1
East Midlands -11 2 £388 -11.33% 2
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 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.84%) Apache
4 2 (1.23%) CloudStack
4 2 (1.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.61%) nginx
5 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.86%) Azure
2 19 (11.66%) AWS
3 17 (10.43%) OpenShift
4 15 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (6.75%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.07%) IaaS
7 4 (2.45%) GCP
8 3 (1.84%) GitHub
8 3 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.23%) Datadog
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.61%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.61%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.61%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 59 (36.20%) NAS
2 44 (26.99%) Firewall
3 43 (26.38%) DNS
4 36 (22.09%) VLAN
5 31 (19.02%) DHCP
6 18 (11.04%) Structured Cabling
7 16 (9.82%) Wireless
8 15 (9.20%) Cisco IOS
8 15 (9.20%) NX-OS
9 10 (6.13%) iSCSI
10 9 (5.52%) Fibre Channel
11 7 (4.29%) LAN
11 7 (4.29%) VPN
12 5 (3.07%) VoIP
12 5 (3.07%) WAN
13 4 (2.45%) TCP/IP
13 4 (2.45%) VSAN
14 2 (1.23%) SD-WAN
14 2 (1.23%) SSL
14 2 (1.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.91%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.61%) MySQL
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 19 (11.66%) JIRA
2 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.61%) Git
General
1 50 (30.67%) Analytical Skills
2 42 (25.77%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.27%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (3.07%) Banking
4 5 (3.07%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.45%) Games
6 3 (1.84%) Finance
6 3 (1.84%) Legal
6 3 (1.84%) Military
7 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (27.61%) IT Engineer
2 38 (23.31%) Field Engineer
2 38 (23.31%) Field Service Engineer
3 36 (22.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (15.34%) Architect
5 21 (12.88%) Senior
6 15 (9.20%) Data Centre Engineer
6 15 (9.20%) Support Engineer
7 14 (8.59%) IT Support
7 14 (8.59%) IT Support Engineer
8 12 (7.36%) Field Support Engineer
8 12 (7.36%) Storage Engineer
9 9 (5.52%) Administrator
9 9 (5.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.52%) Storage Architect
10 7 (4.29%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.68%) Consultant
11 6 (3.68%) Network Architect
11 6 (3.68%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.75%) Terraform
2 8 (4.91%) Redfish
3 4 (2.45%) Celery
3 4 (2.45%) Kafka
3 4 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.84%) REST
5 1 (0.61%) JSON
5 1 (0.61%) LAMP
5 1 (0.61%) LDAP
5 1 (0.61%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (0.61%) RESTful
5 1 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (58.28%) Data Centre
2 40 (24.54%) Analytical Mindset
3 32 (19.63%) Replication
4 31 (19.02%) Enterprise Storage
5 11 (6.75%) Clustering
6 7 (4.29%) EMC VMAX
6 7 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.68%) PKI
8 5 (3.07%) Fat Client
8 5 (3.07%) Thin Client
9 4 (2.45%) Animation
9 4 (2.45%) EMC VNX
9 4 (2.45%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.84%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.84%) Smartcard
11 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.61%) FlexPod
12 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 67 (41.10%) Windows
2 48 (29.45%) Linux
3 47 (28.83%) Windows Server
4 22 (13.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (7.98%) Unix
6 11 (6.75%) AIX
6 11 (6.75%) CentOS
7 10 (6.13%) Rocky
8 6 (3.68%) Data ONTAP
8 6 (3.68%) Ubuntu
8 6 (3.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.84%) Solaris
9 3 (1.84%) VMS
9 3 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.23%) HPUX
10 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.61%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.61%) SUSE
11 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (35.58%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (31.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 40 (24.54%) Disaster Recovery
4 38 (23.31%) Break/Fix
4 38 (23.31%) Customer Service
5 32 (19.63%) Capacity Planning
6 30 (18.40%) Migration
7 24 (14.72%) ITIL
8 22 (13.50%) Data Centre Operations
9 21 (12.88%) ITSM
10 16 (9.82%) High Availability
10 16 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (9.82%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (9.20%) Runbook
11 15 (9.20%) Validation
12 14 (8.59%) Data Protection
12 14 (8.59%) Network Segmentation
13 13 (7.98%) Server Management
13 13 (7.98%) Storage Management
14 12 (7.36%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.18%) PowerShell
2 25 (15.34%) Python
3 11 (6.75%) Bash
4 10 (6.13%) Perl
5 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.23%) SQL
6 1 (0.61%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 55 (33.74%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (31.90%) CCNA
2 52 (31.90%) Network+ Certification
3 51 (31.29%) Security Cleared
4 43 (26.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 40 (24.54%) MCSE
6 38 (23.31%) A+ Certification
7 37 (22.70%) SC Cleared
8 17 (10.43%) CCNP
9 14 (8.59%) Server+ Certification
10 9 (5.52%) DV Cleared
10 9 (5.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (3.07%) Azure Certification
12 4 (2.45%) Degree
13 3 (1.84%) NCDA
13 3 (1.84%) NCIE
14 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (1.23%) PMI Certification
14 2 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.07%) SLA
2 4 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.23%) NIST
4 1 (0.61%) GDPR
4 1 (0.61%) GRC
4 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 48 (29.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (21.47%) Active Directory
3 21 (12.88%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (11.66%) Firmware
4 19 (11.66%) Hyper-V
5 18 (11.04%) vSphere
6 10 (6.13%) NFS
7 6 (3.68%) PowerHA
8 5 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (2.45%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.84%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (1.84%) SRDF
10 3 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.61%) Docker
11 1 (0.61%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.61%) KVM
11 1 (0.61%) Postfix
11 1 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.61%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 27 (16.56%) Ansible
2 19 (11.66%) NetBackup
3 17 (10.43%) Kubernetes
4 14 (8.59%) vCenter Server
5 11 (6.75%) Dell DRAC
6 8 (4.91%) WSUS
7 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (4.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 6 (3.68%) SnapMirror
9 5 (3.07%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (3.07%) Grafana
9 5 (3.07%) Prometheus
9 5 (3.07%) SCCM
9 5 (3.07%) vMotion
10 4 (2.45%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (2.45%) SnapVault
11 3 (1.84%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (1.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 56 (34.36%) Dell
1 56 (34.36%) VMware
2 43 (26.38%) Cisco
3 31 (19.02%) Microsoft
4 26 (15.95%) Veeam
5 24 (14.72%) NetApp
6 19 (11.66%) ServiceNow
7 13 (7.98%) Juniper
8 12 (7.36%) Red Hat
9 10 (6.13%) Brocade
9 10 (6.13%) IBM
10 9 (5.52%) Pure Storage
11 8 (4.91%) Commvault
11 8 (4.91%) HP
12 7 (4.29%) EMC
13 6 (3.68%) Veritas
14 5 (3.07%) 3PAR
14 5 (3.07%) Fortinet
15 4 (2.45%) Broadcom
15 4 (2.45%) Perforce