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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 242 200
Rank change year-on-year -61 -42 +53
Contract jobs citing SAN 104 100 227
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.74% 1.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.45% 4.46% 6.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 63 161
10th Percentile £330 £300 £280
25th Percentile £400 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £513 £465
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +10.22% +3.33%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £550
90th Percentile £623 £593 £608
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £465
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.15% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 16
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile £65.75 £21.25 £19.03
Median hourly rate £66.50 £22.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +195.56% -43.75% -27.93%
75th Percentile £67.25 £23.75 -
90th Percentile - - £72.75
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £22.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +51.11% -43.75% +55.58%

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 2,337 2,242 3,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.70% 16.57% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,542 1,297 2,074
10th Percentile £190 £187 £205
25th Percentile £301 £300 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.53% +0.32%
75th Percentile £563 £580 £588
90th Percentile £655 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 106 332
10th Percentile £15.15 £15.33 £14.28
25th Percentile £16.00 £20.81 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.54 £26.75 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +51.55% -48.45% +161.00%
75th Percentile £65.50 £62.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.56 £70.63 £74.90
UK median hourly rate £31.44 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -3.26% -31.58% +143.59%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -50 39 £499 -4.55% 22
South East -30 27 £550 -1.65% 13
Yorkshire -52 19 £435 -10.31% 13
North West -39 17 £555 +6.22% 7
Midlands -54 11 £450 +68.22% 11
Scotland +10 9 £425 -22.73% 3
East Midlands -23 8 £450 -18.18% 4
East of England -32 6 £513 +5.18% 5
Northern Ireland - 6 £375 -
Wales -4 3 £345 -5.48% 2
South West -22 3 £550 +6.80% 3
West Midlands -54 3 £500 +92.31% 7
North East - 3 - - 2
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 3 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.92%) Apache
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (0.96%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.96%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (22.12%) OpenShift
2 17 (16.35%) Azure
3 11 (10.58%) AWS
4 4 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.88%) IaaS
5 3 (2.88%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.92%) GCP
6 2 (1.92%) PaaS
7 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.96%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.96%) GitHub
7 1 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (35.58%) NAS
2 14 (13.46%) Firewall
3 13 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
4 11 (10.58%) DNS
5 10 (9.62%) DHCP
5 10 (9.62%) iSCSI
6 9 (8.65%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.85%) WAN
8 3 (2.88%) LAN
8 3 (2.88%) VLAN
8 3 (2.88%) VPN
9 1 (0.96%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.96%) DDNS
9 1 (0.96%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.96%) MPLS
9 1 (0.96%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.96%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.96%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.77%) Git
3 2 (1.92%) GitLab
3 2 (1.92%) JIRA
4 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
General
1 31 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.88%) Banking
4 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (2.88%) Finance
5 1 (0.96%) Advertising
5 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.96%) Legal
5 1 (0.96%) Local Government
5 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (16.35%) Architect
2 16 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (11.54%) IT Engineer
4 11 (10.58%) Field Engineer
4 11 (10.58%) Field Service Engineer
5 10 (9.62%) Infrastructure Architect
6 9 (8.65%) Storage Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.77%) Administrator
9 5 (4.81%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Analyst
11 3 (2.88%) Consultant
11 3 (2.88%) Infrastructure Manager
11 3 (2.88%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
11 3 (2.88%) NetApp Engineer
11 3 (2.88%) Operations Manager
11 3 (2.88%) Site Engineer
11 3 (2.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 3 (2.88%) Support Engineer
11 3 (2.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.81%) Loki
1 5 (4.81%) REST
2 3 (2.88%) LDAP
3 2 (1.92%) Middleware
4 1 (0.96%) .NET
4 1 (0.96%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.96%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 29 (27.88%) Data Centre
2 24 (23.08%) Replication
3 12 (11.54%) Enterprise Storage
4 11 (10.58%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.85%) Clustering
6 4 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.88%) NVMe
8 2 (1.92%) CMDB
8 2 (1.92%) FlexPod
8 2 (1.92%) HP Storage
8 2 (1.92%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.96%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.96%) PACS
9 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 34 (32.69%) Windows
2 27 (25.96%) Linux
3 15 (14.42%) Windows Server
4 13 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.81%) Unix
6 4 (3.85%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.88%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (2.88%) Debian
7 3 (2.88%) VMS
8 2 (1.92%) CentOS
8 2 (1.92%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.96%) AIX
9 1 (0.96%) Solaris
9 1 (0.96%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (25.96%) Disaster Recovery
3 24 (23.08%) Migration
4 22 (21.15%) Customer Service
5 21 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (19.23%) High Availability
7 18 (17.31%) Data Protection
7 18 (17.31%) Technical Leadership
8 17 (16.35%) Capacity Planning
9 16 (15.38%) ITIL
10 12 (11.54%) Change Management
10 12 (11.54%) CI/CD
10 12 (11.54%) DevOps
10 12 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (10.58%) Break/Fix
11 11 (10.58%) Containerisation
12 10 (9.62%) Observability
12 10 (9.62%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (7.69%) Application Virtualisation
14 7 (6.73%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 15 (14.42%) Python
3 7 (6.73%) Perl
4 5 (4.81%) Shell Script
5 4 (3.85%) SQL
6 3 (2.88%) Bash
7 1 (0.96%) Bicep
7 1 (0.96%) C++
7 1 (0.96%) Java
7 1 (0.96%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 41 (39.42%) Security Cleared
2 27 (25.96%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.42%) DV Cleared
4 12 (11.54%) CCNA
4 12 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (11.54%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (10.58%) A+ Certification
5 11 (10.58%) MCSE
6 6 (5.77%) Degree
7 5 (4.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.92%) NCDA
9 2 (1.92%) OCP
9 2 (1.92%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (1.92%) VCP6
9 2 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.96%) Server+ Certification
10 1 (0.96%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) SLA
2 1 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (0.96%) NCSC
2 1 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 28 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (17.31%) Active Directory
3 11 (10.58%) NFS
4 10 (9.62%) vSphere
5 6 (5.77%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.81%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (3.85%) Firmware
8 3 (2.88%) DFS Replication
8 3 (2.88%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.96%) Brightmail
10 1 (0.96%) Docker
10 1 (0.96%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (17.31%) Ansible
1 18 (17.31%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.62%) NetBackup
3 9 (8.65%) Grafana
4 6 (5.77%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (5.77%) EMC VPLEX
4 6 (5.77%) Terraform
5 5 (4.81%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.88%) SCCM
6 3 (2.88%) SnapMirror
6 3 (2.88%) vMotion
6 3 (2.88%) vRealize
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.92%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.96%) Podman
8 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.96%) SnapVault
8 1 (0.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (42.31%) VMware
2 25 (24.04%) Dell
2 25 (24.04%) NetApp
3 18 (17.31%) EMC
4 15 (14.42%) Cisco
4 15 (14.42%) Microsoft
5 14 (13.46%) Veritas
6 13 (12.50%) Red Hat
7 11 (10.58%) Brocade
8 6 (5.77%) Isilon
8 6 (5.77%) Pure Storage
9 5 (4.81%) Commvault
9 5 (4.81%) HP
9 5 (4.81%) IBM
10 4 (3.85%) Veeam
11 3 (2.88%) 3PAR
11 3 (2.88%) Capita
11 3 (2.88%) Nimble Storage
11 3 (2.88%) Oracle
12 2 (1.92%) Google