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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 205 203
Rank change year-on-year -62 -2 +35
Contract jobs citing SAN 193 148 196
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.73% 1.05% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.70% 7.08% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 104 129
10th Percentile £126 £358 £300
25th Percentile £358 £436 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +3.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £603 £619
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 21
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.81% +3.63% -20.99%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £48.75
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 2,880 2,089 3,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.91% 14.82% 15.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,679 1,263 1,857
10th Percentile £213 £200 £203
25th Percentile £375 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £470 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% -4.08% +3.16%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 129 368
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.83 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.22 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.09% -26.32% +115.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £82.48 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £44.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.58% -1.11% +114.29%

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 3 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 3 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 -15 86 £500 -2.44% 17
Yorkshire -17 50 £457 +12.72% 2
North West -24 32 £575 +9.52% 11
South East -85 30 £388 -24.94% 12
South West -5 25 £123 -67.33% 5
Scotland -1 17 £425 -9.96%
Midlands -58 17 £425 -10.53% 5
Wales - 14 £525 - 3
West Midlands -62 12 £419 -11.84% 4
East of England -46 6 £600 +9.09% 6
East Midlands -11 5 £450 -18.18% 1
North East - 4 £200 - 4
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 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.55%) Apache
2 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.04%) CloudStack
3 2 (1.04%) IIS
4 1 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.52%) nginx
4 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (18.65%) Azure
2 35 (18.13%) OpenShift
3 24 (12.44%) AWS
4 13 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.15%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.63%) GCP
7 4 (2.07%) GitHub
7 4 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.07%) IaaS
8 3 (1.55%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.04%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.04%) Datadog
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.52%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.52%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 77 (39.90%) NAS
2 44 (22.80%) Firewall
3 39 (20.21%) DNS
4 32 (16.58%) VLAN
5 31 (16.06%) DHCP
6 19 (9.84%) Structured Cabling
7 17 (8.81%) Wireless
8 16 (8.29%) Cisco IOS
8 16 (8.29%) NX-OS
9 13 (6.74%) Fibre Channel
9 13 (6.74%) iSCSI
10 9 (4.66%) LAN
11 8 (4.15%) VPN
12 7 (3.63%) WAN
13 5 (2.59%) TCP/IP
13 5 (2.59%) VoIP
14 4 (2.07%) VSAN
15 2 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
15 2 (1.04%) SD-WAN
15 2 (1.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.04%) MySQL
2 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (10.88%) JIRA
2 11 (5.70%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.59%) Git
4 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.52%) GitLab
General
1 61 (31.61%) Analytical Skills
2 54 (27.98%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.81%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (7.25%) Banking
5 8 (4.15%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.59%) Finance
7 4 (2.07%) Legal
8 3 (1.55%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Military
9 2 (1.04%) Games
9 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
10 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (27.98%) IT Engineer
2 46 (23.83%) Field Engineer
2 46 (23.83%) Field Service Engineer
3 39 (20.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (12.44%) Architect
5 20 (10.36%) Senior
5 20 (10.36%) Support Engineer
6 19 (9.84%) IT Support
6 19 (9.84%) IT Support Engineer
7 16 (8.29%) Field Support Engineer
8 15 (7.77%) Data Centre Engineer
9 10 (5.18%) Administrator
9 10 (5.18%) Storage Engineer
10 9 (4.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) Network Architect
11 7 (3.63%) Project Manager
11 7 (3.63%) Storage Architect
11 7 (3.63%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.15%) Redfish
2 7 (3.63%) REST
3 5 (2.59%) Kafka
4 4 (2.07%) Celery
4 4 (2.07%) Loki
4 4 (2.07%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.55%) LDAP
6 1 (0.52%) .NET
6 1 (0.52%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.52%) LAMP
6 1 (0.52%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (0.52%) Middleware
6 1 (0.52%) RESTful
6 1 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 105 (54.40%) Data Centre
2 48 (24.87%) Analytical Mindset
3 33 (17.10%) Enterprise Storage
3 33 (17.10%) Replication
4 12 (6.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.66%) EMC VMAX
6 7 (3.63%) Clustering
7 6 (3.11%) PKI
8 5 (2.59%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.59%) Fat Client
8 5 (2.59%) FlexPod
8 5 (2.59%) Thin Client
9 4 (2.07%) EMC VNX
9 4 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.07%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.07%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.55%) NVMe
10 3 (1.55%) Smartcard
11 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 73 (37.82%) Windows
2 53 (27.46%) Linux
3 42 (21.76%) Windows Server
4 27 (13.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (8.81%) Unix
6 10 (5.18%) Data ONTAP
7 7 (3.63%) AIX
7 7 (3.63%) VMS
8 6 (3.11%) Ubuntu
8 6 (3.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (2.59%) CentOS
9 5 (2.59%) CoreOS
9 5 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (2.07%) Rocky
11 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.52%) Solaris
11 1 (0.52%) SUSE
11 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (37.31%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (28.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 46 (23.83%) Break/Fix
3 46 (23.83%) Customer Service
4 44 (22.80%) Disaster Recovery
5 43 (22.28%) Migration
6 30 (15.54%) Capacity Planning
7 23 (11.92%) Data Protection
7 23 (11.92%) ITIL
7 23 (11.92%) ITSM
8 20 (10.36%) High Availability
8 20 (10.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (10.36%) Runbook
9 19 (9.84%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (8.81%) Data Centre Operations
10 17 (8.81%) DevOps
10 17 (8.81%) Storage Management
11 16 (8.29%) Network Segmentation
12 15 (7.77%) CI/CD
12 15 (7.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.13%) Python
2 31 (16.06%) PowerShell
3 16 (8.29%) Bash
4 13 (6.74%) Perl
5 4 (2.07%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.07%) SQL
6 1 (0.52%) Bicep
6 1 (0.52%) C++
6 1 (0.52%) Java
6 1 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 65 (33.68%) Cisco Certification
2 62 (32.12%) CCNA
3 61 (31.61%) Network+ Certification
4 52 (26.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 48 (24.87%) MCSE
6 46 (23.83%) A+ Certification
6 46 (23.83%) Security Cleared
7 33 (17.10%) SC Cleared
8 19 (9.84%) CCNP
9 15 (7.77%) Server+ Certification
10 11 (5.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (4.66%) DV Cleared
12 8 (4.15%) Degree
13 5 (2.59%) Azure Certification
13 5 (2.59%) NCDA
13 5 (2.59%) OCP
13 5 (2.59%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (1.55%) NCIE
14 3 (1.55%) VCAP
15 2 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.59%) SLA
2 4 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.55%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.04%) NIST
4 2 (1.04%) QA
5 1 (0.52%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) GRC
5 1 (0.52%) GxP
System Software
1 59 (30.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (17.62%) Active Directory
3 25 (12.95%) vSphere
4 24 (12.44%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (8.29%) NFS
6 15 (7.77%) Firmware
6 15 (7.77%) Hyper-V
7 7 (3.63%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.63%) VMware NSX
8 5 (2.59%) SRDF
9 4 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.55%) Docker
10 3 (1.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (1.55%) PowerHA
11 1 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.52%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.52%) KVM
11 1 (0.52%) Postfix
11 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.52%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 33 (17.10%) Ansible
2 31 (16.06%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.33%) NetBackup
4 16 (8.29%) Terraform
5 13 (6.74%) Grafana
6 11 (5.70%) vCenter Server
7 10 (5.18%) Dell DRAC
7 10 (5.18%) SnapMirror
8 9 (4.66%) Prometheus
9 7 (3.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (3.63%) WSUS
10 5 (2.59%) SCCM
10 5 (2.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 5 (2.59%) vMotion
10 5 (2.59%) vRealize
11 4 (2.07%) EMC VPLEX
11 4 (2.07%) PowerCLI
11 4 (2.07%) SnapVault
12 3 (1.55%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (36.27%) VMware
2 67 (34.72%) Dell
3 51 (26.42%) Cisco
4 30 (15.54%) Microsoft
5 26 (13.47%) NetApp
6 20 (10.36%) ServiceNow
7 19 (9.84%) Veeam
8 18 (9.33%) Red Hat
9 15 (7.77%) Brocade
10 14 (7.25%) Pure Storage
11 13 (6.74%) Juniper
12 11 (5.70%) Veritas
13 10 (5.18%) HP
14 9 (4.66%) Commvault
14 9 (4.66%) EMC
15 8 (4.15%) IBM
16 7 (3.63%) 3PAR
17 6 (3.11%) Fortinet
18 5 (2.59%) Google
18 5 (2.59%) Oracle