SAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAN over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 251 298
Rank change year-on-year +67 +47 -68
Contract jobs citing SAN 232 213 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.13% 0.89% 0.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.86% 5.97% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 144 167
10th Percentile £294 £126 £217
25th Percentile £389 £304 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.41% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £578 £525
90th Percentile £628 £731 £678
UK median daily rate £511 £514 £450
% change year-on-year -0.54% +14.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 14
10th Percentile £12.75 £50.00 £20.01
25th Percentile £16.25 £57.33 £30.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £69.53 £46.83
Median % change year-on-year -42.47% +48.48% -1.42%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £47.40
90th Percentile - - £60.93
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £53.75 £23.91
% change year-on-year -55.72% +124.80% -52.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

SAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,384 3,566 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.46% 14.92% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,939 2,267 2,643
10th Percentile £203 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 324 235
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.44
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the UK excluding London

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAN in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SAN in the UK excluding London

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 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the UK excluding London

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAN in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the UK excluding London

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +70 105 £500 +33.33% 25
Midlands +30 35 £550 +5.77% 26
South West +31 33 £500 +11.11% 12
North of England +29 28 £400 +23.55% 19
Scotland +9 25 £575 +24.32% 3
East Midlands +36 18 £550 +55.20% 10
West Midlands +12 16 £300 -47.37% 16
Yorkshire +29 14 £450 +41.18% 7
North West +20 13 £413 -2.94% 9
East of England -3 4 £425 -30.61% 9
Wales +16 3 £365 +241.12% 3
North East +13 1 £180 -21.74% 3
SAN
UK

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (11.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.45%) IIS
3 7 (3.02%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.72%) SAS
5 3 (1.29%) nginx
6 2 (0.86%) WordPress
7 1 (0.43%) Apache
7 1 (0.43%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.43%) Site Server
7 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 56 (24.14%) Azure
2 25 (10.78%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (6.90%) AWS
4 15 (6.47%) OpenShift
5 14 (6.03%) OCI
6 7 (3.02%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.72%) GCP
8 3 (1.29%) Nutanix
8 3 (1.29%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.86%) Azure Stack
9 2 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.86%) GitHub
9 2 (0.86%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (22.84%) Firewall
2 52 (22.41%) DNS
3 51 (21.98%) NAS
4 46 (19.83%) DHCP
5 34 (14.66%) LAN
6 32 (13.79%) WAN
7 28 (12.07%) TCP/IP
8 27 (11.64%) Fibre Channel
9 17 (7.33%) iSCSI
10 15 (6.47%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (5.60%) VLAN
12 11 (4.74%) MPLS
13 10 (4.31%) VPN
14 9 (3.88%) Wireless
15 7 (3.02%) Network Security
16 6 (2.59%) FTP
16 6 (2.59%) Internet
16 6 (2.59%) SSL
17 5 (2.16%) Cisco Nexus
17 5 (2.16%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.07%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.45%) MySQL
3 5 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.72%) Big Data
4 4 (1.72%) DB2
4 4 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Git
1 5 (2.16%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.86%) GitLab
4 1 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 74 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 21 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.31%) Banking
4 10 (4.31%) Finance
5 8 (3.45%) Aerospace
5 8 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.02%) Legal
7 5 (2.16%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.86%) Back Office
10 2 (0.86%) Electronics
10 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.86%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Local Government
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (30.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 47 (20.26%) Storage Engineer
3 25 (10.78%) Senior
4 21 (9.05%) Developer
4 21 (9.05%) Python Developer
5 18 (7.76%) VMware Engineer
6 17 (7.33%) Architect
6 17 (7.33%) Data Centre Engineer
7 15 (6.47%) Backup Engineer
8 14 (6.03%) IT Engineer
8 14 (6.03%) Network Engineer
9 13 (5.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 13 (5.60%) Analyst
9 13 (5.60%) Support Engineer
10 12 (5.17%) Linux Engineer
10 12 (5.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.74%) Storage and Backup Engineer
12 9 (3.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 9 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.45%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.76%) Flash
2 8 (3.45%) REST
3 4 (1.72%) POSIX
4 3 (1.29%) .NET
4 3 (1.29%) EDI
5 2 (0.86%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.86%) ADSI
5 2 (0.86%) LAMP
5 2 (0.86%) Middleware
6 1 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (28.45%) Data Centre
2 14 (6.03%) Clustering
2 14 (6.03%) PKI
3 13 (5.60%) Client/Server
4 10 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.31%) Replication
5 8 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.02%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.59%) Fat Client
7 6 (2.59%) HP Storage
7 6 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.59%) Thin Client
8 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.72%) NVMe
10 3 (1.29%) CCTV
10 3 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.86%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 119 (51.29%) Linux
2 114 (49.14%) Windows
3 75 (32.33%) Windows Server
4 39 (16.81%) Unix
5 34 (14.66%) Ubuntu
6 31 (13.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 27 (11.64%) Windows Server 2012
9 21 (9.05%) AIX
9 21 (9.05%) Debian
10 18 (7.76%) Windows 10
11 16 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 14 (6.03%) Windows XP
13 10 (4.31%) Solaris
14 9 (3.88%) VMS
15 6 (2.59%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (1.72%) CentOS
16 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (1.29%) Android
17 3 (1.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (34.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 71 (30.60%) ITIL
3 44 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (14.22%) Customer Service
4 33 (14.22%) Migration
5 29 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 28 (12.07%) Agile
6 28 (12.07%) Server Management
6 28 (12.07%) Storage Management
7 27 (11.64%) Break/Fix
8 24 (10.34%) Data Protection
9 22 (9.48%) Performance Tuning
10 21 (9.05%) Data Modelling
11 20 (8.62%) Configuration Management
11 20 (8.62%) Project Management
11 20 (8.62%) Prototyping
12 18 (7.76%) Data Engineering
12 18 (7.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 17 (7.33%) Matrix Organization
14 16 (6.90%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 53 (22.84%) PowerShell
2 39 (16.81%) Python
3 20 (8.62%) SQL
4 13 (5.60%) Bash
5 10 (4.31%) Perl
6 6 (2.59%) Java
6 6 (2.59%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.86%) AWK
7 2 (0.86%) Bourne shell
7 2 (0.86%) C#
7 2 (0.86%) Korn
8 1 (0.43%) Ruby
8 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 95 (40.95%) Security Cleared
2 66 (28.45%) SC Cleared
3 49 (21.12%) DV Cleared
4 45 (19.40%) Degree
5 37 (15.95%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (15.52%) CCNA
7 20 (8.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (7.76%) CCNP
8 18 (7.76%) MCSE
9 10 (4.31%) A+ Certification
10 8 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (2.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.72%) MCSA
13 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.29%) RHCE
14 2 (0.86%) CCENT
14 2 (0.86%) PhD
14 2 (0.86%) RHCSA
14 2 (0.86%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.17%) SLA
2 2 (0.86%) GDPR
2 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 77 (33.19%) Active Directory
1 77 (33.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (19.40%) VMware ESXi
3 35 (15.09%) vSphere
4 24 (10.34%) Hyper-V
5 18 (7.76%) VMware NSX
6 11 (4.74%) Firmware
7 9 (3.88%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (3.45%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (2.16%) VMware Server
10 4 (1.72%) Docker
10 4 (1.72%) GPFS
10 4 (1.72%) NFS
11 2 (0.86%) KVM
11 2 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 40 (17.24%) NetBackup
2 38 (16.38%) SCCM
3 37 (15.95%) vCenter Server
4 22 (9.48%) EMC NetWorker
4 22 (9.48%) WSUS
5 21 (9.05%) Ansible
6 16 (6.90%) Kubernetes
7 14 (6.03%) SCOM
8 10 (4.31%) Microsoft Clustering
8 10 (4.31%) Terraform
9 8 (3.45%) Nagios
10 7 (3.02%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (2.59%) Avamar
11 6 (2.59%) HP Data Protector
11 6 (2.59%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (2.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (2.16%) Grafana
12 5 (2.16%) Prometheus
13 4 (1.72%) VxRail
13 4 (1.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 139 (59.91%) VMware
2 94 (40.52%) Microsoft
3 54 (23.28%) Cisco
4 52 (22.41%) Dell
5 40 (17.24%) HP
6 38 (16.38%) Red Hat
7 37 (15.95%) EMC
8 32 (13.79%) Veeam
9 29 (12.50%) Brocade
10 24 (10.34%) Oracle
10 24 (10.34%) Palo Alto
11 22 (9.48%) NetApp
12 20 (8.62%) IBM
12 20 (8.62%) Symantec
13 17 (7.33%) 3PAR
13 17 (7.33%) Veritas
14 16 (6.90%) Juniper
15 14 (6.03%) Extreme Networks
16 9 (3.88%) CheckPoint
16 9 (3.88%) F5