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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 221 224
Rank change year-on-year -72 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing SAN 186 143 168
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.96% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.38% 6.63% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 102 107
10th Percentile £126 £358 £300
25th Percentile £358 £448 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.33% +26.47%
75th Percentile £555 £575 £600
90th Percentile £603 £603 £619
UK median daily rate £478 £516 £514
% change year-on-year -7.51% +0.49% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 21
10th Percentile - - £11.75
25th Percentile - - £13.25
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 - - £50.00
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 2,914 2,158 3,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.80% 14.50% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 1,301 1,763
10th Percentile £213 £200 £205
25th Percentile £371 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -5.00% +9.17%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +2.25% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 136 330
10th Percentile £15.98 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.30 £17.64
Median hourly rate £26.55 £42.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.53% -10.53% -16.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £46.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.78% +15.63% -16.67%

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 22 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 22 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 82 £500 +11.86% 13
Yorkshire -19 47 £435 +5.45% 2
North West -28 33 £575 +9.52% 9
South East -86 28 £400 -23.81% 12
South West -15 24 £123 -72.78%
Midlands -47 19 £438 -7.89% 4
West Midlands -51 14 £425 -10.53% 4
Wales - 13 £525 - 1
Scotland -16 12 £276 -41.09%
East of England -39 10 £600 +9.09% 4
East Midlands -9 5 £450 -18.18%
North East - 2 £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 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.61%) Apache
2 3 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.08%) CloudStack
3 2 (1.08%) IIS
4 1 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.54%) nginx
4 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (18.82%) Azure
2 31 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 23 (12.37%) AWS
4 14 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.84%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.76%) GCP
7 4 (2.15%) GitHub
7 4 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.15%) IaaS
8 2 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.08%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.08%) Datadog
9 1 (0.54%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.54%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.54%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.54%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 73 (39.25%) NAS
2 44 (23.66%) Firewall
3 40 (21.51%) DNS
4 34 (18.28%) VLAN
5 30 (16.13%) DHCP
6 19 (10.22%) Structured Cabling
7 17 (9.14%) Wireless
8 16 (8.60%) Cisco IOS
8 16 (8.60%) NX-OS
9 11 (5.91%) iSCSI
10 9 (4.84%) Fibre Channel
11 7 (3.76%) LAN
11 7 (3.76%) VPN
12 5 (2.69%) VoIP
12 5 (2.69%) WAN
13 4 (2.15%) TCP/IP
13 4 (2.15%) VSAN
14 2 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
14 2 (1.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.08%) MySQL
2 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (11.29%) JIRA
2 8 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.61%) Git
General
1 56 (30.11%) Analytical Skills
2 51 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.22%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (6.99%) Banking
5 6 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.69%) Finance
7 4 (2.15%) Legal
8 3 (1.61%) Games
8 3 (1.61%) Military
9 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Advertising
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (26.88%) IT Engineer
2 43 (23.12%) Field Engineer
2 43 (23.12%) Field Service Engineer
3 39 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (13.44%) Architect
5 22 (11.83%) Senior
6 19 (10.22%) Support Engineer
7 18 (9.68%) IT Support
7 18 (9.68%) IT Support Engineer
8 16 (8.60%) Field Support Engineer
9 15 (8.06%) Data Centre Engineer
10 12 (6.45%) Storage Engineer
11 10 (5.38%) Administrator
12 9 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.30%) Storage Architect
14 7 (3.76%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (3.76%) NetApp Engineer
14 7 (3.76%) Network Architect
14 7 (3.76%) Project Manager
14 7 (3.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.30%) Redfish
2 5 (2.69%) Kafka
2 5 (2.69%) REST
3 4 (2.15%) Celery
3 4 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.08%) LDAP
5 2 (1.08%) Loki
6 1 (0.54%) .NET
6 1 (0.54%) LAMP
6 1 (0.54%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (0.54%) Middleware
6 1 (0.54%) RESTful
6 1 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (54.84%) Data Centre
2 45 (24.19%) Analytical Mindset
3 35 (18.82%) Replication
4 30 (16.13%) Enterprise Storage
5 11 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.84%) Clustering
6 9 (4.84%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (3.23%) PKI
8 5 (2.69%) Fat Client
8 5 (2.69%) FlexPod
8 5 (2.69%) Thin Client
9 4 (2.15%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.15%) EMC VNX
9 4 (2.15%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.61%) Animation
10 3 (1.61%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.61%) Smartcard
11 2 (1.08%) CMDB
11 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 71 (38.17%) Windows
2 54 (29.03%) Linux
3 44 (23.66%) Windows Server
4 28 (15.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (9.14%) Unix
6 10 (5.38%) AIX
6 10 (5.38%) Data ONTAP
7 9 (4.84%) CentOS
8 8 (4.30%) Rocky
9 7 (3.76%) VMS
10 6 (3.23%) Ubuntu
11 5 (2.69%) CoreOS
11 5 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (1.08%) Solaris
13 1 (0.54%) HPUX
13 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.54%) SUSE
13 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (36.02%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (29.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 43 (23.12%) Break/Fix
3 43 (23.12%) Customer Service
3 43 (23.12%) Disaster Recovery
4 42 (22.58%) Migration
5 30 (16.13%) Capacity Planning
6 24 (12.90%) ITIL
7 23 (12.37%) ITSM
8 21 (11.29%) Data Protection
9 19 (10.22%) Data Centre Operations
9 19 (10.22%) Runbook
10 18 (9.68%) High Availability
10 18 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (9.14%) Performance Tuning
11 17 (9.14%) Storage Management
12 16 (8.60%) Network Segmentation
13 15 (8.06%) Test Automation
14 14 (7.53%) DevOps
15 13 (6.99%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.74%) Python
2 29 (15.59%) PowerShell
3 14 (7.53%) Bash
4 12 (6.45%) Perl
5 4 (2.15%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.61%) SQL
7 1 (0.54%) Bicep
7 1 (0.54%) C++
7 1 (0.54%) Java
7 1 (0.54%) Korn
Qualifications
1 62 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 59 (31.72%) CCNA
3 58 (31.18%) Network+ Certification
4 49 (26.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 49 (26.34%) Security Cleared
5 45 (24.19%) MCSE
6 43 (23.12%) A+ Certification
7 35 (18.82%) SC Cleared
8 19 (10.22%) CCNP
9 15 (8.06%) Server+ Certification
10 10 (5.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (4.84%) DV Cleared
12 8 (4.30%) Degree
13 5 (2.69%) Azure Certification
13 5 (2.69%) OCP
13 5 (2.69%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (2.15%) NCDA
15 3 (1.61%) NCIE
16 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.69%) SLA
2 4 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.08%) NIST
4 1 (0.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) GRC
4 1 (0.54%) GxP
4 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 56 (30.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (17.74%) Active Directory
3 24 (12.90%) vSphere
4 23 (12.37%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (9.14%) Firmware
6 16 (8.60%) Hyper-V
7 14 (7.53%) NFS
8 7 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (2.69%) PowerHA
9 5 (2.69%) SRDF
9 5 (2.69%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.61%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.08%) Docker
12 1 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.54%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.54%) KVM
12 1 (0.54%) Postfix
12 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.54%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 34 (18.28%) Ansible
2 28 (15.05%) Kubernetes
3 19 (10.22%) NetBackup
4 16 (8.60%) Terraform
5 11 (5.91%) vCenter Server
6 10 (5.38%) Dell DRAC
6 10 (5.38%) SnapMirror
7 8 (4.30%) Grafana
8 7 (3.76%) Prometheus
8 7 (3.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 7 (3.76%) WSUS
9 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.15%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (2.15%) SCCM
10 4 (2.15%) SnapVault
11 3 (1.61%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (1.61%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.61%) vMotion
11 3 (1.61%) vRealize
Vendors
1 66 (35.48%) VMware
2 63 (33.87%) Dell
3 48 (25.81%) Cisco
4 30 (16.13%) Microsoft
5 27 (14.52%) NetApp
6 23 (12.37%) Veeam
7 20 (10.75%) ServiceNow
8 17 (9.14%) Red Hat
9 13 (6.99%) Brocade
9 13 (6.99%) Juniper
10 12 (6.45%) Pure Storage
11 10 (5.38%) IBM
12 9 (4.84%) Commvault
13 8 (4.30%) EMC
13 8 (4.30%) HP
13 8 (4.30%) Veritas
14 5 (2.69%) 3PAR
14 5 (2.69%) Fortinet
14 5 (2.69%) Google
14 5 (2.69%) Oracle