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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 235 181
Rank change year-on-year -50 -54 +69
Contract jobs citing SAN 144 101 243
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.80% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.63% 4.95% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 63 178
10th Percentile £351 £358 £291
25th Percentile £400 £415 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £605 £602 £623
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 15
10th Percentile - - £14.45
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £69.50 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -32.23%

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 2,557 2,040 3,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.21% 16.10% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,611 1,243 2,101
10th Percentile £204 £193 £202
25th Percentile £354 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -1.58% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £598
90th Percentile £653 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £480
% change year-on-year +2.56% +1.67% -7.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 127 338
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.67 £13.43
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.15 £17.69
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £45.44
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -38.38% +145.62%
75th Percentile £70.29 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.41 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +20.71% -6.67% +97.37%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -41 63 £500 +16.96% 27
Yorkshire -34 37 £477 +22.18% 12
South East -43 31 £550 -3.80% 15
North West -36 23 £575 +21.05% 15
Midlands -66 13 £450 -5.26% 5
Scotland +6 12 £425 -15.00% 1
South West -21 10 £123 -71.18% 5
Wales -6 9 £345 -5.48% 3
West Midlands -59 8 £413 -13.16% 3
East Midlands -30 5 £450 -18.18% 2
East of England -37 5 £513 +0.05% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £375 -
North East - 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 2 (1.39%) Apache
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.92%) OpenShift
2 22 (15.28%) AWS
2 22 (15.28%) Azure
3 5 (3.47%) GCP
3 5 (3.47%) IaaS
4 3 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.08%) Nutanix
5 2 (1.39%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.39%) GitHub
5 2 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (1.39%) PaaS
6 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 59 (40.97%) NAS
2 22 (15.28%) Firewall
3 19 (13.19%) Fibre Channel
3 19 (13.19%) iSCSI
4 16 (11.11%) DNS
5 15 (10.42%) DHCP
6 11 (7.64%) VLAN
7 7 (4.86%) TCP/IP
8 6 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (4.17%) LAN
8 6 (4.17%) NX-OS
8 6 (4.17%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (4.17%) WAN
8 6 (4.17%) Wireless
9 3 (2.08%) SD-WAN
9 3 (2.08%) VPN
10 2 (1.39%) VSAN
10 2 (1.39%) WLAN
11 1 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.69%) MySQL
3 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.25%) JIRA
3 7 (4.86%) Git
4 2 (1.39%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
General
1 40 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (24.31%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.03%) Banking
4 7 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (4.86%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.78%) Legal
6 3 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.39%) Finance
7 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Advertising
8 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (23.61%) IT Engineer
2 30 (20.83%) Field Engineer
2 30 (20.83%) Field Service Engineer
3 20 (13.89%) Architect
4 15 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (9.72%) IT Support
5 14 (9.72%) IT Support Engineer
5 14 (9.72%) Support Engineer
6 12 (8.33%) Field Support Engineer
7 10 (6.94%) Administrator
7 10 (6.94%) Infrastructure Architect
8 7 (4.86%) Senior
8 7 (4.86%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.17%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.47%) NetApp Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) Project Manager
11 4 (2.78%) Analyst
11 4 (2.78%) Site Engineer
11 4 (2.78%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.17%) Loki
1 6 (4.17%) REST
2 3 (2.08%) LDAP
2 3 (2.08%) Redfish
3 2 (1.39%) Middleware
4 1 (0.69%) .NET
4 1 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 63 (43.75%) Data Centre
2 32 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 32 (22.22%) Replication
3 19 (13.19%) Enterprise Storage
4 10 (6.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.47%) EMC VMAX
6 5 (3.47%) FlexPod
7 4 (2.78%) Clustering
7 4 (2.78%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.08%) CMDB
8 3 (2.08%) NVMe
9 2 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.39%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.39%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.69%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.69%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.69%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 45 (31.25%) Windows
2 40 (27.78%) Linux
3 20 (13.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (13.89%) Windows Server
4 14 (9.72%) Unix
5 8 (5.56%) VMS
6 6 (4.17%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (3.47%) AIX
7 5 (3.47%) CoreOS
7 5 (3.47%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.08%) Debian
9 1 (0.69%) CentOS
9 1 (0.69%) Solaris
9 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (31.25%) Migration
3 43 (29.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 37 (25.69%) Customer Service
5 31 (21.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 30 (20.83%) Break/Fix
7 28 (19.44%) ITIL
8 27 (18.75%) Data Protection
9 26 (18.06%) Capacity Planning
10 23 (15.97%) High Availability
11 20 (13.89%) Performance Tuning
12 19 (13.19%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (11.81%) CI/CD
14 17 (11.81%) DevOps
15 15 (10.42%) Containerisation
16 14 (9.72%) Change Management
17 13 (9.03%) ITSM
17 13 (9.03%) Observability
18 12 (8.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.75%) Python
2 20 (13.89%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.64%) Perl
4 8 (5.56%) Bash
5 7 (4.86%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.39%) SQL
7 1 (0.69%) Bicep
7 1 (0.69%) C++
7 1 (0.69%) Java
7 1 (0.69%) Korn
7 1 (0.69%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 37 (25.69%) CCNA
1 37 (25.69%) Cisco Certification
1 37 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 36 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
3 33 (22.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 30 (20.83%) A+ Certification
4 30 (20.83%) MCSE
5 24 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 13 (9.03%) DV Cleared
7 9 (6.25%) Degree
8 7 (4.86%) CCNP
9 6 (4.17%) Server+ Certification
10 5 (3.47%) OCP
10 5 (3.47%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (3.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.08%) VCAP
12 2 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.39%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.47%) SLA
2 2 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.39%) NIST
3 1 (0.69%) GDPR
3 1 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.69%) GRC
3 1 (0.69%) GxP
3 1 (0.69%) NCSC
3 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 38 (26.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (14.58%) Active Directory
3 19 (13.19%) vSphere
4 17 (11.81%) NFS
5 12 (8.33%) Firmware
6 11 (7.64%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (3.47%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.78%) Hyper-V
10 3 (2.08%) DFS Replication
10 3 (2.08%) PowerHA
11 2 (1.39%) Docker
11 2 (1.39%) SRDF
12 1 (0.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (20.14%) Ansible
2 27 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.64%) NetBackup
4 10 (6.94%) Grafana
4 10 (6.94%) Terraform
5 6 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.17%) SnapMirror
6 5 (3.47%) vMotion
6 5 (3.47%) vRealize
7 4 (2.78%) PowerCLI
8 3 (2.08%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (2.08%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (2.08%) EMC VPLEX
8 3 (2.08%) SCCM
8 3 (2.08%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.39%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.39%) Puppet
9 2 (1.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.69%) Kibana
10 1 (0.69%) logstash
Vendors
1 51 (35.42%) VMware
2 46 (31.94%) Dell
3 26 (18.06%) NetApp
4 25 (17.36%) Cisco
5 17 (11.81%) EMC
6 16 (11.11%) Microsoft
7 14 (9.72%) Red Hat
7 14 (9.72%) Veritas
8 12 (8.33%) Brocade
8 12 (8.33%) Pure Storage
9 10 (6.94%) IBM
9 10 (6.94%) ServiceNow
10 8 (5.56%) Commvault
10 8 (5.56%) HP
11 6 (4.17%) Veeam
12 5 (3.47%) Google
12 5 (3.47%) Oracle
13 4 (2.78%) Broadcom
13 4 (2.78%) Isilon
13 4 (2.78%) Zerto