SAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAN over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 213 238
Rank change year-on-year +5 +25 +41
Contract jobs citing SAN 150 194 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.04% 0.92% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.93% 5.91% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 127 141
10th Percentile £358 £300 £156
25th Percentile £440 £410 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £556
90th Percentile £603 £619 £731
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.60% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 21 6
10th Percentile - £12.00 £35.00
25th Percentile - £16.25 £37.19
Median hourly rate £41.45 £40.00 £50.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -20.99% -6.53%
75th Percentile - - £60.10
90th Percentile - £48.75 £70.40
UK median hourly rate £52.58 £40.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +31.46% -20.00% +109.12%

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 2,164 3,281 3,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.03% 15.57% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 1,849 2,227
10th Percentile £200 £203 £210
25th Percentile £325 £350 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £502
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.30% +0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 369 272
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.55 £47.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -33.59% +94.08% +8.78%
75th Percentile £64.69 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £81.88 £75.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.26
% change year-on-year -5.56% +102.16% -23.40%

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 5 July 2025.

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
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 July 2025. 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 +10 57 £525 -0.94% 71
East of England +51 31 £550 +29.41% 43
North of England +10 29 £513 - 60
Yorkshire +10 15 £405 -33.88% 26
North West +4 14 £525 +23.53% 30
Midlands -6 14 £475 -13.64% 37
Scotland +5 12 £472 +12.38% 7
West Midlands +4 12 £475 +58.33% 24
South West +6 4 £375 -25.00% 29
Northern Ireland - 3 £350 - 9
East Midlands -8 2 £550 -4.35% 13
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 15 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.67%) Exchange Server 2003
3 7 (4.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 7 (4.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (4.67%) Exchange Server 2013
3 7 (4.67%) Office Communications Server
3 7 (4.67%) SharePoint Server
3 7 (4.67%) Skype for Business
4 4 (2.67%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.00%) Confluence
5 3 (2.00%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (25.33%) Azure
2 26 (17.33%) Cohesity
3 19 (12.67%) AWS
4 15 (10.00%) OpenShift
5 13 (8.67%) IaaS
6 12 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (7.33%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (6.00%) PaaS
9 7 (4.67%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.67%) Entra ID
9 7 (4.67%) GCP
10 4 (2.67%) Azure Storage
10 4 (2.67%) OneDrive
10 4 (2.67%) SaaS
11 2 (1.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 55 (36.67%) DNS
2 33 (22.00%) NAS
3 26 (17.33%) LAN
4 25 (16.67%) VPN
5 21 (14.00%) DHCP
6 20 (13.33%) WAN
7 19 (12.67%) Firewall
8 16 (10.67%) Ethernet
9 15 (10.00%) MPLS
10 14 (9.33%) ATM
10 14 (9.33%) Frame Relay
10 14 (9.33%) GPRS
10 14 (9.33%) GSM
10 14 (9.33%) LTE
10 14 (9.33%) SDH
10 14 (9.33%) UMTS
10 14 (9.33%) Wireshark
11 12 (8.00%) Fibre Channel
11 12 (8.00%) TCP/IP
12 8 (5.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.67%) Oracle Database
1 4 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 16 (10.67%) Git
2 14 (9.33%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.67%) GitLab
4 8 (5.33%) JIRA
5 4 (2.67%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.33%) Maven
6 2 (1.33%) Selenium
6 2 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.33%) TestNG
General
1 50 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.67%) Telecoms
3 14 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.33%) Finance
4 8 (5.33%) Legal
5 7 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.00%) Banking
7 5 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.67%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.67%) Local Government
10 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (18.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (13.33%) Administrator
3 16 (10.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 13 (8.67%) IP Engineer
4 13 (8.67%) Support Engineer
5 12 (8.00%) Test Engineer
6 11 (7.33%) 3rd Line Support
6 11 (7.33%) Storage Engineer
7 10 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.67%) Network Engineer
7 10 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
8 9 (6.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) Consultant
8 9 (6.00%) VMware Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.33%) Backup Administrator
9 8 (5.33%) Senior
9 8 (5.33%) Storage Administrator
9 8 (5.33%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.33%) Middleware
2 8 (5.33%) LDAP
3 7 (4.67%) REST
4 4 (2.67%) Kafka
4 4 (2.67%) YAML
5 2 (1.33%) pytest
6 1 (0.67%) Flash
6 1 (0.67%) POSIX
6 1 (0.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.00%) Data Centre
1 18 (12.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 14 (9.33%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.33%) Replication
4 7 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.67%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.33%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.67%) Clustering
7 3 (2.00%) EMC VMAX
7 3 (2.00%) HP Storage
7 3 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.33%) CCTV
8 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.33%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.67%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 90 (60.00%) Windows
2 74 (49.33%) Linux
3 58 (38.67%) Windows Server
4 36 (24.00%) Unix
5 34 (22.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (21.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (10.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (10.67%) Ubuntu
8 10 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (6.00%) Debian
10 8 (5.33%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (4.67%) CentOS
12 4 (2.67%) AIX
13 1 (0.67%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (25.33%) ITIL
2 34 (22.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 32 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 23 (15.33%) Deployment Automation
6 22 (14.67%) Storage Management
7 21 (14.00%) SIEM
8 20 (13.33%) Build Automation
8 20 (13.33%) High Availability
8 20 (13.33%) Operations Management
9 18 (12.00%) Agile
10 16 (10.67%) DevOps
11 14 (9.33%) Containerisation
11 14 (9.33%) Fault Management
11 14 (9.33%) Project Management
11 14 (9.33%) Regression Testing
11 14 (9.33%) Test Strategy
12 13 (8.67%) CI/CD
13 12 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (7.33%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 30 (20.00%) Python
2 18 (12.00%) Shell Script
3 14 (9.33%) Java
4 7 (4.67%) SQL
5 4 (2.67%) Bash
6 1 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 54 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (21.33%) DV Cleared
3 24 (16.00%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.67%) CCNP
4 16 (10.67%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (9.33%) ISEB
5 14 (9.33%) ISTQB
5 14 (9.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 11 (7.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.33%) Degree
8 6 (4.00%) MCSE
9 4 (2.67%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.67%) HP ASE
12 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.67%) SLA
2 6 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.67%) GDPR
3 4 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 59 (39.33%) Active Directory
2 53 (35.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (16.00%) Virtual Servers
4 20 (13.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 15 (10.00%) vSphere
6 10 (6.67%) Hyper-V
7 9 (6.00%) DFS Replication
8 7 (4.67%) Brightmail
8 7 (4.67%) ISA Server
8 7 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (3.33%) Firmware
9 5 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (2.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (2.67%) Ceph
10 4 (2.67%) VMware NSX
11 3 (2.00%) Docker
12 2 (1.33%) GPFS
12 2 (1.33%) KVM
13 1 (0.67%) NFS
13 1 (0.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (22.67%) Ansible
2 25 (16.67%) WSUS
3 24 (16.00%) SCCM
4 17 (11.33%) NetBackup
5 13 (8.67%) Kubernetes
6 11 (7.33%) vCenter Server
7 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Clustering
7 7 (4.67%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (4.00%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (4.00%) vRealize
9 5 (3.33%) Puppet
10 4 (2.67%) Grafana
10 4 (2.67%) Prometheus
10 4 (2.67%) Tivoli
10 4 (2.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 3 (2.00%) Backup Exec
11 3 (2.00%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (2.00%) Terraform
12 2 (1.33%) HP Data Protector
12 2 (1.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 84 (56.00%) VMware
2 75 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 39 (26.00%) NetApp
4 36 (24.00%) Cisco
5 26 (17.33%) Splunk
6 23 (15.33%) Red Hat
7 20 (13.33%) Veritas
8 18 (12.00%) Dell
8 18 (12.00%) HP
9 17 (11.33%) EMC
10 15 (10.00%) Juniper
11 12 (8.00%) Brocade
11 12 (8.00%) Oracle
12 10 (6.67%) 3PAR
13 9 (6.00%) Citrix
13 9 (6.00%) IBM
14 8 (5.33%) Veeam
15 7 (4.67%) Nimble Storage
16 6 (4.00%) ServiceNow
17 5 (3.33%) Pure Storage