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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 233 188
Rank change year-on-year -42 -45 +75
Contract jobs citing SAN 157 112 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.88% 1.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.14% 5.71% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 73 163
10th Percentile £126 £358 £280
25th Percentile £366 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.15% +20.24%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £594
90th Percentile £588 £602 £645
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £506
% change year-on-year - -6.13% -2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 16
10th Percentile - - £13.38
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £69.50 - £31.90
% change year-on-year - - -36.20%

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 2,557 1,962 3,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.79% 15.39% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,557 1,202 2,002
10th Percentile £209 £193 £203
25th Percentile £363 £301 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £464 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% -2.37% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £653 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £489 £490
% change year-on-year +2.30% -0.26% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 134 353
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.64 £17.30 £17.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.72 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +89.39% -39.58% +148.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.21 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.67% -6.25% +110.53%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -33 64 £500 +23.46% 13
Yorkshire -31 42 £475 +21.79% 5
South East -63 36 £513 -6.82% 10
North West -32 19 £575 +17.95% 6
Scotland +6 13 £425 -15.00% 2
South West -22 13 £123 -71.18% 5
Midlands -57 13 £450 -5.26% 8
Wales +1 11 £345 -5.48% 4
West Midlands -60 8 £413 -13.16% 5
East of England -38 6 £513 +0.05% 1
East Midlands -34 5 £450 -18.18% 3
Northern Ireland +5 3 £375 - 3
North East - 3 - - 3
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 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.27%) Apache
3 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 34 (21.66%) OpenShift
2 25 (15.92%) Azure
3 21 (13.38%) AWS
4 5 (3.18%) GCP
4 5 (3.18%) IaaS
5 4 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.91%) GitHub
6 3 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.91%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.27%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.27%) PaaS
8 1 (0.64%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 61 (38.85%) NAS
2 24 (15.29%) Firewall
3 20 (12.74%) iSCSI
4 19 (12.10%) Fibre Channel
5 18 (11.46%) DNS
6 15 (9.55%) DHCP
7 11 (7.01%) VLAN
8 6 (3.82%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (3.82%) LAN
8 6 (3.82%) NX-OS
8 6 (3.82%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (3.82%) TCP/IP
8 6 (3.82%) Wireless
9 5 (3.18%) WAN
10 3 (1.91%) VPN
10 3 (1.91%) VSAN
11 2 (1.27%) Connectrix
11 2 (1.27%) SD-WAN
11 2 (1.27%) WLAN
12 1 (0.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.91%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.64%) MySQL
3 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (8.28%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.64%) JIRA
3 7 (4.46%) Git
4 2 (1.27%) GitLab
5 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
General
1 51 (32.48%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (21.66%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.92%) Banking
4 8 (5.10%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.55%) Legal
7 3 (1.91%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.27%) Finance
8 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Advertising
9 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.64%) Military
9 1 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (28.03%) IT Engineer
2 40 (25.48%) Field Engineer
2 40 (25.48%) Field Service Engineer
3 16 (10.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (10.19%) IT Support
3 16 (10.19%) IT Support Engineer
3 16 (10.19%) Support Engineer
4 15 (9.55%) Architect
5 14 (8.92%) Field Support Engineer
6 11 (7.01%) Administrator
7 9 (5.73%) Storage Engineer
8 8 (5.10%) Senior
9 6 (3.82%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (3.82%) Data Centre Engineer
9 6 (3.82%) Infrastructure Architect
10 5 (3.18%) NetApp Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Project Manager
11 4 (2.55%) Consultant
11 4 (2.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 4 (2.55%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.82%) Loki
1 6 (3.82%) Redfish
1 6 (3.82%) REST
2 3 (1.91%) LDAP
3 2 (1.27%) Middleware
4 1 (0.64%) .NET
4 1 (0.64%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.64%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 73 (46.50%) Data Centre
2 42 (26.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 34 (21.66%) Replication
4 23 (14.65%) Enterprise Storage
5 10 (6.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.46%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.18%) FlexPod
9 4 (2.55%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.55%) Clustering
9 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.91%) NVMe
11 2 (1.27%) CMDB
11 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.27%) EMC VNX
11 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.27%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.64%) Fat Client
12 1 (0.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 50 (31.85%) Windows
2 43 (27.39%) Linux
3 23 (14.65%) Windows Server
4 21 (13.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (8.92%) Unix
6 8 (5.10%) Data ONTAP
6 8 (5.10%) VMS
7 5 (3.18%) AIX
7 5 (3.18%) CoreOS
7 5 (3.18%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.91%) Debian
9 1 (0.64%) CentOS
9 1 (0.64%) Solaris
9 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (37.58%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (28.66%) Migration
3 44 (28.03%) Customer Service
3 44 (28.03%) Disaster Recovery
4 40 (25.48%) Break/Fix
5 34 (21.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 30 (19.11%) Capacity Planning
7 28 (17.83%) ITIL
8 27 (17.20%) Data Protection
9 23 (14.65%) High Availability
10 21 (13.38%) Performance Tuning
11 18 (11.46%) DevOps
11 18 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (10.83%) CI/CD
13 16 (10.19%) Containerisation
13 16 (10.19%) Runbook
14 14 (8.92%) Change Management
14 14 (8.92%) ITSM
14 14 (8.92%) Technical Leadership
15 13 (8.28%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 27 (17.20%) Python
2 20 (12.74%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.01%) Perl
4 9 (5.73%) Bash
5 7 (4.46%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.27%) SQL
7 1 (0.64%) C++
7 1 (0.64%) Java
7 1 (0.64%) Korn
7 1 (0.64%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 47 (29.94%) CCNA
1 47 (29.94%) Cisco Certification
2 46 (29.30%) Network+ Certification
3 44 (28.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 40 (25.48%) A+ Certification
4 40 (25.48%) MCSE
5 34 (21.66%) Security Cleared
6 19 (12.10%) SC Cleared
7 15 (9.55%) DV Cleared
8 9 (5.73%) Degree
9 7 (4.46%) CCNP
9 7 (4.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (3.82%) Server+ Certification
11 5 (3.18%) OCP
11 5 (3.18%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.91%) NCDA
12 3 (1.91%) VCAP
13 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (1.27%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.82%) SLA
2 2 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.27%) NIST
3 1 (0.64%) GDPR
3 1 (0.64%) GRC
3 1 (0.64%) GxP
3 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 43 (27.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (14.65%) Active Directory
3 21 (13.38%) vSphere
4 18 (11.46%) NFS
5 15 (9.55%) Firmware
6 14 (8.92%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (3.18%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.55%) Hyper-V
10 3 (1.91%) DFS Replication
10 3 (1.91%) PowerHA
10 3 (1.91%) SRDF
11 2 (1.27%) Docker
12 1 (0.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.64%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (19.11%) Ansible
2 28 (17.83%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.28%) NetBackup
4 11 (7.01%) Grafana
5 10 (6.37%) Terraform
6 8 (5.10%) Dell DRAC
6 8 (5.10%) SnapMirror
7 7 (4.46%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.82%) vCenter Server
9 5 (3.18%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (3.18%) EMC VPLEX
9 5 (3.18%) vMotion
9 5 (3.18%) vRealize
10 4 (2.55%) PowerCLI
10 4 (2.55%) SCCM
11 3 (1.91%) SnapVault
12 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.27%) Puppet
12 2 (1.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 2 (1.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 59 (37.58%) Dell
2 56 (35.67%) VMware
3 28 (17.83%) Cisco
3 28 (17.83%) NetApp
4 19 (12.10%) EMC
4 19 (12.10%) Microsoft
5 16 (10.19%) Red Hat
6 14 (8.92%) Brocade
6 14 (8.92%) Veritas
7 13 (8.28%) Pure Storage
8 10 (6.37%) IBM
8 10 (6.37%) ServiceNow
8 10 (6.37%) Veeam
9 8 (5.10%) Commvault
9 8 (5.10%) HP
10 5 (3.18%) 3PAR
10 5 (3.18%) Google
10 5 (3.18%) Oracle
11 4 (2.55%) Broadcom
11 4 (2.55%) Isilon