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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 218 215
Rank change year-on-year -52 -3 +20
Contract jobs citing SAN 192 141 193
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.73% 1.02% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.74% 6.86% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 99 129
10th Percentile £126 £357 £300
25th Percentile £358 £450 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £603 £619
UK median daily rate £475 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -7.99% +3.25% -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 20
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - - £15.56
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.81% +3.63% -20.99%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £48.88
UK median hourly rate £46.50 £52.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year -11.57% +31.46% -20.00%

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 2,847 2,054 3,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.84% 14.91% 15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,664 1,243 1,840
10th Percentile £213 £200 £203
25th Percentile £375 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £473 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% -3.57% +3.16%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 128 371
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.44 £36.57 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.71% -23.01% +114.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £82.67 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.69 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.69% - +113.17%

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 30 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 30 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 -19 86 £500 -2.44% 12
Yorkshire -17 50 £457 +12.72% 2
North West -28 32 £575 +9.52% 7
South East -85 30 £388 -26.68% 9
South West -8 25 £123 -67.33% 2
Scotland -7 17 £425 -9.96%
Midlands -57 17 £425 -10.53% 3
Wales - 14 £525 - 2
West Midlands -55 12 £419 -11.84% 2
East Midlands -13 5 £450 -18.18% 1
East of England -51 5 £600 +9.09% 4
North East - 4 £200 - 3
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 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.56%) Apache
2 3 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.04%) CloudStack
3 2 (1.04%) IIS
4 1 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.52%) nginx
4 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (18.75%) Azure
2 35 (18.23%) OpenShift
3 24 (12.50%) AWS
4 13 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.65%) GCP
7 4 (2.08%) GitHub
7 4 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.08%) IaaS
8 3 (1.56%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.04%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.04%) Datadog
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.52%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.52%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 77 (40.10%) NAS
2 43 (22.40%) Firewall
3 38 (19.79%) DNS
4 31 (16.15%) DHCP
4 31 (16.15%) VLAN
5 19 (9.90%) Structured Cabling
6 17 (8.85%) Wireless
7 16 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
7 16 (8.33%) NX-OS
8 13 (6.77%) Fibre Channel
8 13 (6.77%) iSCSI
9 9 (4.69%) LAN
10 8 (4.17%) VPN
11 7 (3.65%) WAN
12 5 (2.60%) TCP/IP
12 5 (2.60%) VoIP
13 4 (2.08%) VSAN
14 2 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (1.04%) SD-WAN
14 2 (1.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.04%) MySQL
2 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (10.94%) JIRA
2 11 (5.73%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.60%) Git
4 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.52%) GitLab
General
1 61 (31.77%) Analytical Skills
2 54 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.85%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (7.29%) Banking
5 8 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.60%) Finance
7 4 (2.08%) Legal
8 3 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.56%) Military
9 2 (1.04%) Games
9 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
10 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (28.13%) IT Engineer
2 46 (23.96%) Field Engineer
2 46 (23.96%) Field Service Engineer
3 39 (20.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (12.50%) Architect
5 20 (10.42%) Support Engineer
6 19 (9.90%) IT Support
6 19 (9.90%) IT Support Engineer
6 19 (9.90%) Senior
7 16 (8.33%) Field Support Engineer
8 15 (7.81%) Data Centre Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Administrator
9 10 (5.21%) Storage Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.65%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.65%) Network Architect
11 7 (3.65%) Project Manager
11 7 (3.65%) Storage Architect
11 7 (3.65%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.13%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.17%) Redfish
2 7 (3.65%) REST
3 5 (2.60%) Kafka
4 4 (2.08%) Celery
4 4 (2.08%) Loki
4 4 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.56%) LDAP
6 1 (0.52%) .NET
6 1 (0.52%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.52%) LAMP
6 1 (0.52%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (0.52%) Middleware
6 1 (0.52%) RESTful
6 1 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 105 (54.69%) Data Centre
2 48 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 33 (17.19%) Enterprise Storage
4 32 (16.67%) Replication
5 12 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.69%) EMC VMAX
7 7 (3.65%) Clustering
8 6 (3.13%) PKI
9 5 (2.60%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.60%) Fat Client
9 5 (2.60%) FlexPod
9 5 (2.60%) Thin Client
10 4 (2.08%) EMC VNX
10 4 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.08%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.56%) NVMe
11 3 (1.56%) Smartcard
12 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 72 (37.50%) Windows
2 52 (27.08%) Linux
3 41 (21.35%) Windows Server
4 26 (13.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (8.85%) Unix
6 10 (5.21%) Data ONTAP
7 7 (3.65%) AIX
7 7 (3.65%) VMS
8 6 (3.13%) Ubuntu
8 6 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (2.60%) CoreOS
9 5 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (2.08%) CentOS
11 3 (1.56%) Rocky
12 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.52%) Solaris
12 1 (0.52%) SUSE
12 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (28.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 46 (23.96%) Break/Fix
3 46 (23.96%) Customer Service
4 44 (22.92%) Disaster Recovery
5 43 (22.40%) Migration
6 30 (15.63%) Capacity Planning
7 23 (11.98%) Data Protection
7 23 (11.98%) ITIL
7 23 (11.98%) ITSM
8 20 (10.42%) High Availability
8 20 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (10.42%) Runbook
9 19 (9.90%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (8.85%) Data Centre Operations
10 17 (8.85%) DevOps
10 17 (8.85%) Storage Management
11 16 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
12 15 (7.81%) CI/CD
12 15 (7.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.23%) Python
2 30 (15.63%) PowerShell
3 16 (8.33%) Bash
4 13 (6.77%) Perl
5 4 (2.08%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.08%) SQL
6 1 (0.52%) Bicep
6 1 (0.52%) C++
6 1 (0.52%) Java
6 1 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 65 (33.85%) Cisco Certification
2 62 (32.29%) CCNA
3 61 (31.77%) Network+ Certification
4 52 (27.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 48 (25.00%) MCSE
6 46 (23.96%) A+ Certification
7 45 (23.44%) Security Cleared
8 32 (16.67%) SC Cleared
9 19 (9.90%) CCNP
10 15 (7.81%) Server+ Certification
11 11 (5.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 9 (4.69%) DV Cleared
13 8 (4.17%) Degree
14 5 (2.60%) Azure Certification
14 5 (2.60%) NCDA
14 5 (2.60%) OCP
14 5 (2.60%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (1.56%) NCIE
15 3 (1.56%) VCAP
16 2 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.60%) SLA
2 4 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.04%) NIST
4 2 (1.04%) QA
5 1 (0.52%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) GRC
5 1 (0.52%) GxP
System Software
1 59 (30.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (17.71%) Active Directory
3 25 (13.02%) vSphere
4 24 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (8.33%) NFS
6 15 (7.81%) Firmware
6 15 (7.81%) Hyper-V
7 7 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.65%) VMware NSX
8 5 (2.60%) SRDF
9 4 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.56%) Docker
10 3 (1.56%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (1.56%) PowerHA
11 1 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.52%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.52%) KVM
11 1 (0.52%) Postfix
11 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.52%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 32 (16.67%) Ansible
2 31 (16.15%) Kubernetes
3 17 (8.85%) NetBackup
4 16 (8.33%) Terraform
5 13 (6.77%) Grafana
6 11 (5.73%) vCenter Server
7 10 (5.21%) Dell DRAC
7 10 (5.21%) SnapMirror
8 9 (4.69%) Prometheus
9 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (3.65%) WSUS
10 5 (2.60%) SCCM
10 5 (2.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 5 (2.60%) vMotion
10 5 (2.60%) vRealize
11 4 (2.08%) EMC VPLEX
11 4 (2.08%) PowerCLI
11 4 (2.08%) SnapVault
12 3 (1.56%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (36.46%) VMware
2 67 (34.90%) Dell
3 51 (26.56%) Cisco
4 30 (15.63%) Microsoft
5 25 (13.02%) NetApp
6 20 (10.42%) ServiceNow
7 18 (9.38%) Red Hat
7 18 (9.38%) Veeam
8 15 (7.81%) Brocade
9 14 (7.29%) Pure Storage
10 13 (6.77%) Juniper
11 11 (5.73%) Veritas
12 10 (5.21%) HP
13 9 (4.69%) Commvault
13 9 (4.69%) EMC
14 8 (4.17%) IBM
15 7 (3.65%) 3PAR
16 6 (3.13%) Fortinet
17 5 (2.60%) Google
17 5 (2.60%) Oracle