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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 251 249
Rank change year-on-year -91 -2 -17
Contract jobs citing SAN 139 137 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.88% 0.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.70% 6.60% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 104 75
10th Percentile £126 £329 £289
25th Percentile £358 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +5.35% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £598
90th Percentile £609 £610 £608
UK median daily rate £495 £527 £500
% change year-on-year -6.03% +5.35% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 18
10th Percentile - £29.09 £11.75
25th Percentile - £33.73 £11.81
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.45 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -63.81% +57.90% -55.51%
75th Percentile - £54.35 £48.75
90th Percentile - £62.09 £51.13
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +54.41% +42.86% -40.50%

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 2,955 2,075 2,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.47% 13.29% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,622 1,315 1,400
10th Percentile £213 £200 £203
25th Percentile £353 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% +5.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £640 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 353 133 188
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.36 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.50 £22.36
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% -25.89% -0.11%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.60 £81.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £42.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -22.94% -15.42% -11.05%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -34 57 £525 -3.67% 25
Yorkshire -27 28 £525 +17.45% 4
North West -39 28 £563 +2.74% 14
South West -14 20 £123 -73.51% 10
Midlands -28 16 £425 -2.75% 12
East of England -34 16 £600 +9.09% 15
South East -115 15 £147 -70.65% 23
West Midlands -37 11 £425 -19.05% 9
Scotland -19 8 £127 -70.89% 5
Wales - 7 £525 - 3
East Midlands -14 5 £425 +235.44% 3
North East - 1 £200 - 7
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 (7.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.16%) Apache
4 2 (1.44%) CloudStack
4 2 (1.44%) IIS
4 2 (1.44%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.72%) nginx
5 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (23.02%) Azure
2 17 (12.23%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (10.79%) OpenShift
4 14 (10.07%) AWS
5 9 (6.47%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.88%) GCP
7 3 (2.16%) Cohesity
7 3 (2.16%) GitHub
7 3 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.16%) IaaS
8 2 (1.44%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.44%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.44%) Datadog
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.72%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.72%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.72%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 50 (35.97%) NAS
2 41 (29.50%) DNS
3 39 (28.06%) Firewall
4 31 (22.30%) VLAN
5 28 (20.14%) DHCP
6 15 (10.79%) Structured Cabling
7 13 (9.35%) Wireless
8 12 (8.63%) Cisco IOS
8 12 (8.63%) NX-OS
9 8 (5.76%) iSCSI
10 7 (5.04%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (5.04%) TCP/IP
10 7 (5.04%) VPN
11 5 (3.60%) VoIP
12 4 (2.88%) LAN
13 3 (2.16%) WAN
14 2 (1.44%) Connectrix
14 2 (1.44%) Network Security
14 2 (1.44%) Skype
14 2 (1.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.72%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (10.79%) JIRA
2 3 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.44%) Git
General
1 44 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 33 (23.74%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (16.55%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (4.32%) Finance
5 4 (2.88%) Games
5 4 (2.88%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.16%) Banking
6 3 (2.16%) Military
7 1 (0.72%) Back Office
7 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.72%) Legal
7 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (28.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (20.86%) IT Engineer
3 24 (17.27%) Field Engineer
3 24 (17.27%) Field Service Engineer
4 20 (14.39%) Architect
5 19 (13.67%) Senior
6 17 (12.23%) Storage Engineer
7 12 (8.63%) Data Centre Engineer
8 9 (6.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (6.47%) Storage Architect
9 7 (5.04%) Administrator
9 7 (5.04%) Backup Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Storage and Backup Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Support Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Technical Architect
10 6 (4.32%) IT Support
10 6 (4.32%) IT Support Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) NetApp Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Field Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.91%) Terraform
2 5 (3.60%) Redfish
3 4 (2.88%) Celery
3 4 (2.88%) Kafka
3 4 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.88%) REST
4 3 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.72%) JSON
5 1 (0.72%) LAMP
5 1 (0.72%) LDAP
5 1 (0.72%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (0.72%) RESTful
5 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (53.96%) Data Centre
2 28 (20.14%) Enterprise Storage
3 24 (17.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 23 (16.55%) Replication
5 8 (5.76%) Clustering
6 6 (4.32%) PKI
7 5 (3.60%) Fat Client
7 5 (3.60%) Thin Client
8 4 (2.88%) Animation
8 4 (2.88%) EMC VMAX
8 4 (2.88%) EMC VNX
8 4 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.88%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.16%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.16%) Driving Licence
9 3 (2.16%) Smartcard
10 2 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 64 (46.04%) Windows
2 51 (36.69%) Windows Server
3 42 (30.22%) Linux
4 21 (15.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (10.79%) CentOS
6 12 (8.63%) Rocky
7 10 (7.19%) Unix
8 8 (5.76%) AIX
9 7 (5.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (4.32%) Ubuntu
11 5 (3.60%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (2.16%) Solaris
13 2 (1.44%) HPUX
13 2 (1.44%) Mac OS
13 2 (1.44%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.72%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (39.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 45 (32.37%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (22.30%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (17.27%) Break/Fix
4 24 (17.27%) Capacity Planning
4 24 (17.27%) Customer Service
5 22 (15.83%) ITIL
6 18 (12.95%) Migration
7 17 (12.23%) ITSM
8 16 (11.51%) Data Centre Operations
8 16 (11.51%) Validation
9 15 (10.79%) High Availability
10 14 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (10.07%) Server Management
11 13 (9.35%) Patch Management
11 13 (9.35%) Storage Management
12 12 (8.63%) Network Segmentation
13 11 (7.91%) Data Protection
14 9 (6.47%) Business Continuity
14 9 (6.47%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.86%) PowerShell
2 18 (12.95%) Python
3 8 (5.76%) Bash
4 7 (5.04%) Perl
5 4 (2.88%) SQL
6 3 (2.16%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 52 (37.41%) Security Cleared
2 38 (27.34%) Cisco Certification
3 35 (25.18%) CCNA
3 35 (25.18%) Network+ Certification
3 35 (25.18%) SC Cleared
4 29 (20.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (18.71%) MCSE
6 24 (17.27%) A+ Certification
7 14 (10.07%) CCNP
7 14 (10.07%) DV Cleared
8 11 (7.91%) Server+ Certification
9 7 (5.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (3.60%) Azure Certification
11 3 (2.16%) Degree
11 3 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (2.16%) NCDA
11 3 (2.16%) NCIE
12 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.60%) SLA
2 2 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 49 (35.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (23.02%) Active Directory
3 20 (14.39%) Hyper-V
4 18 (12.95%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (11.51%) Firmware
6 13 (9.35%) vSphere
7 10 (7.19%) NFS
8 3 (2.16%) Docker
8 3 (2.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (2.16%) PowerHA
8 3 (2.16%) SRDF
8 3 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.44%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.72%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.72%) GPFS
10 1 (0.72%) KVM
10 1 (0.72%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.72%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (18.71%) Ansible
2 20 (14.39%) NetBackup
3 16 (11.51%) Kubernetes
4 13 (9.35%) vCenter Server
5 10 (7.19%) Dell DRAC
6 8 (5.76%) WSUS
7 7 (5.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (4.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (3.60%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (3.60%) Grafana
9 5 (3.60%) Prometheus
9 5 (3.60%) SCCM
9 5 (3.60%) SnapMirror
10 4 (2.88%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (2.88%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (2.88%) SnapVault
10 4 (2.88%) vMotion
11 3 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.44%) Argo
12 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 55 (39.57%) VMware
2 42 (30.22%) Dell
3 38 (27.34%) Cisco
4 36 (25.90%) Microsoft
5 28 (20.14%) NetApp
6 25 (17.99%) Veeam
7 13 (9.35%) Juniper
7 13 (9.35%) ServiceNow
8 12 (8.63%) Red Hat
9 10 (7.19%) Brocade
10 7 (5.04%) IBM
11 6 (4.32%) EMC
11 6 (4.32%) Veritas
12 5 (3.60%) Commvault
12 5 (3.60%) HP
12 5 (3.60%) Pure Storage
13 4 (2.88%) 3PAR
13 4 (2.88%) Perforce
14 3 (2.16%) Fortinet
14 3 (2.16%) SolarWinds