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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 259 215
Rank change year-on-year -44 -44 +15
Contract jobs citing SAN 106 104 206
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.69% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.77% 4.32% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 63 145
10th Percentile £329 £286 £210
25th Percentile £393 £444 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £523 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +16.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £550
90th Percentile £638 £605 £623
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £473
% change year-on-year - +5.82% +11.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 5
10th Percentile £29.09 £11.75 -
25th Percentile £33.73 £14.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.45 £46.25 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% -26.59% +31.25%
75th Percentile £54.35 £49.69 £78.00
90th Percentile £62.09 £52.63 -
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £46.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -26.49% +15.63% +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 2,223 2,405 3,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.38% 15.89% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,470 1,345 2,104
10th Percentile £200 £200 £205
25th Percentile £300 £325 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £560 £580 £598
90th Percentile £639 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 127 281
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.87 £17.22
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.46 £24.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £41.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -27.42% +25.53%
75th Percentile £67.84 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £83.30 £73.75 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £39.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -8.86% -28.18% +32.53%

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 14 December 2025.

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
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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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 +33 48 £550 -5.38% 32
North of England -34 34 £499 -7.21% 11
North West -15 24 £553 +10.78% 6
Yorkshire -46 10 £461 -17.31% 5
East of England -29 8 £526 +3.80% 1
Midlands -36 8 £379 +45.58% 10
Northern Ireland -2 6 £375 +141.94%
East Midlands - 5 £127 - 2
West Midlands -39 3 £500 +92.31% 8
South West -21 2 £500 +5.26% 6
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 11 (10.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (10.38%) SharePoint
2 9 (8.49%) Exchange Server 2003
2 9 (8.49%) Exchange Server 2007
2 9 (8.49%) Exchange Server 2010
2 9 (8.49%) Exchange Server 2013
2 9 (8.49%) Office Communications Server
2 9 (8.49%) SharePoint Server
2 9 (8.49%) Skype for Business
3 4 (3.77%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.89%) Apache
5 1 (0.94%) CICS
5 1 (0.94%) Confluence
5 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.94%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.94%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (10.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.81%) Azure
2 11 (10.38%) AWS
3 8 (7.55%) GCP
4 6 (5.66%) OpenShift
4 6 (5.66%) SaaS
5 5 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.77%) Azure Storage
6 4 (3.77%) IaaS
6 4 (3.77%) PaaS
7 3 (2.83%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 31 (29.25%) NAS
2 23 (21.70%) DNS
3 15 (14.15%) DHCP
4 14 (13.21%) Firewall
4 14 (13.21%) iSCSI
4 14 (13.21%) TCP/IP
5 10 (9.43%) VPN
6 9 (8.49%) DDNS
7 8 (7.55%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (4.72%) VLAN
8 5 (4.72%) WAN
9 2 (1.89%) LAN
10 1 (0.94%) BGP
10 1 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.94%) FCoE
10 1 (0.94%) MPLS
10 1 (0.94%) Multicast
10 1 (0.94%) OSPF
10 1 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.77%) GitLab
1 4 (3.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.83%) Git
3 2 (1.89%) JIRA
4 1 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.94%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.38%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.72%) Banking
4 5 (4.72%) Finance
5 3 (2.83%) Front Office
6 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.89%) Local Government
7 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (18.87%) Architect
2 13 (12.26%) Administrator
2 13 (12.26%) Infrastructure Architect
2 13 (12.26%) Storage Engineer
3 12 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (8.49%) Backup Administrator
4 9 (8.49%) Exchange Engineer
4 9 (8.49%) Exchange Support
4 9 (8.49%) Storage Administrator
4 9 (8.49%) Storage and Backup Administrator
4 9 (8.49%) Support Engineer
5 8 (7.55%) Technical Architect
6 6 (5.66%) Analyst
6 6 (5.66%) Server Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) HP Storage Administrator
8 4 (3.77%) Data Centre Technician
8 4 (3.77%) Data Technician
8 4 (3.77%) Field Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Field Service Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.55%) Middleware
2 1 (0.94%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (33.02%) Replication
2 27 (25.47%) Data Centre
3 16 (15.09%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (5.66%) Clustering
5 4 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.77%) HP Storage
5 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.77%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.83%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.89%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.89%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.94%) CMDB
8 1 (0.94%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.94%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.94%) PKI
8 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.94%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 43 (40.57%) Windows
2 36 (33.96%) Linux
3 17 (16.04%) Windows Server
4 15 (14.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (9.43%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (6.60%) Unix
7 6 (5.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (4.72%) Ubuntu
8 5 (4.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (2.83%) CentOS
10 3 (2.83%) Debian
10 3 (2.83%) VMS
11 2 (1.89%) Solaris
12 1 (0.94%) AIX
12 1 (0.94%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.94%) MVS
12 1 (0.94%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (30.19%) ITIL
2 31 (29.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 25 (23.58%) High Availability
4 21 (19.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (16.98%) Customer Service
6 16 (15.09%) Migration
6 16 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
7 15 (14.15%) Capacity Planning
7 15 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (11.32%) Change Management
8 12 (11.32%) Project Delivery
9 10 (9.43%) Agile
9 10 (9.43%) Containerisation
9 10 (9.43%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (8.49%) Architectural Design
10 9 (8.49%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (8.49%) Content Management
10 9 (8.49%) Enterprise Content Management
10 9 (8.49%) Enterprise Search
11 8 (7.55%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.15%) PowerShell
2 13 (12.26%) Shell Script
3 9 (8.49%) Python
4 7 (6.60%) SQL
5 3 (2.83%) Bash
6 1 (0.94%) Bicep
6 1 (0.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 57 (53.77%) Security Cleared
2 33 (31.13%) SC Cleared
3 24 (22.64%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.66%) Degree
5 5 (4.72%) CCNA
5 5 (4.72%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.77%) A+ Certification
6 4 (3.77%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.77%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.77%) MCSE
6 4 (3.77%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (3.77%) Server+ Certification
7 2 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.94%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.94%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.77%) GDPR
1 4 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.94%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (0.94%) NCSC
2 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (28.30%) Active Directory
2 23 (21.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.49%) Brightmail
3 9 (8.49%) Hyper-V
3 9 (8.49%) ISA Server
4 8 (7.55%) NFS
5 5 (4.72%) Firmware
6 4 (3.77%) vSphere
7 3 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.83%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.94%) KVM
9 1 (0.94%) SRDF
9 1 (0.94%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.94%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (8.49%) Ansible
1 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Clustering
1 9 (8.49%) NetBackup
2 7 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.60%) vCenter Server
3 6 (5.66%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (5.66%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (2.83%) vRealize
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.89%) SCCM
5 2 (1.89%) Terraform
6 1 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.94%) Puppet
6 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.94%) SnapMirror
6 1 (0.94%) SnapVault
6 1 (0.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (38.68%) VMware
2 33 (31.13%) NetApp
3 23 (21.70%) Microsoft
4 22 (20.75%) Dell
4 22 (20.75%) EMC
5 17 (16.04%) Red Hat
6 14 (13.21%) Cisco
6 14 (13.21%) HP
6 14 (13.21%) Veritas
7 9 (8.49%) 3PAR
7 9 (8.49%) IBM
8 8 (7.55%) Nimble Storage
9 7 (6.60%) Brocade
9 7 (6.60%) F5
9 7 (6.60%) Veeam
10 6 (5.66%) Isilon
10 6 (5.66%) Oracle
10 6 (5.66%) Pure Storage
11 5 (4.72%) SolarWinds
12 4 (3.77%) Citrix