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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 218 195
Rank change year-on-year -31 -23 +44
Contract jobs citing SAN 195 132 215
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.03% 1.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.08% 6.71% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 93 154
10th Percentile £126 £363 £296
25th Percentile £363 £440 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £511
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.74% +20.24%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £600 £624
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 - £19.95
75th Percentile - - £40.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £46.50 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -55.72%

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 2,755 1,967 3,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.06% 15.42% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,619 1,223 1,885
10th Percentile £231 £200 £205
25th Percentile £375 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £483
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -4.15% +1.58%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 117 354
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.32 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +7.19% -33.91% +154.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.35 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £28.44 £40.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -29.78% +1.25% +116.22%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -13 87 £500 +25.79% 14
Yorkshire -22 49 £483 +23.72% 6
South East -54 37 £408 -18.50% 13
North West -16 35 £575 +9.52% 6
South West -9 20 £123 -74.21% 5
Scotland +2 19 £425 -10.05%
Midlands -58 17 £425 -10.53% 3
West Midlands -60 12 £419 -11.84% 1
Wales - 12 £418 - 2
East Midlands -23 5 £450 -18.18% 2
East of England -59 4 £500 -9.09% 1
North East - 3 - - 2
Northern Ireland +2 1 £375 +7.14%
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 5 (2.56%) Apache
2 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.03%) CloudStack
3 2 (1.03%) IIS
3 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) nginx
4 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 43 (22.05%) OpenShift
2 35 (17.95%) Azure
3 25 (12.82%) AWS
4 8 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.59%) IaaS
6 5 (2.56%) GCP
7 4 (2.05%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.05%) GitHub
7 4 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.54%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.03%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.03%) Datadog
9 2 (1.03%) PaaS
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.51%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.51%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 81 (41.54%) NAS
2 36 (18.46%) Firewall
3 35 (17.95%) DNS
4 30 (15.38%) DHCP
5 24 (12.31%) VLAN
6 21 (10.77%) Fibre Channel
7 20 (10.26%) iSCSI
8 19 (9.74%) Structured Cabling
9 17 (8.72%) Wireless
10 16 (8.21%) Cisco IOS
10 16 (8.21%) NX-OS
11 9 (4.62%) TCP/IP
12 8 (4.10%) LAN
13 6 (3.08%) VPN
13 6 (3.08%) WAN
14 4 (2.05%) VSAN
15 3 (1.54%) WLAN
16 2 (1.03%) Connectrix
16 2 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
16 2 (1.03%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.03%) MySQL
2 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (7.18%) Jenkins
1 14 (7.18%) JIRA
2 8 (4.10%) Git
3 2 (1.03%) GitLab
4 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
General
1 67 (34.36%) Analytical Skills
2 55 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.18%) Banking
4 13 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.56%) Finance
7 4 (2.05%) Legal
8 3 (1.54%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Advertising
10 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.51%) Military
10 1 (0.51%) Retail
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (28.21%) IT Engineer
2 50 (25.64%) Field Engineer
2 50 (25.64%) Field Service Engineer
3 24 (12.31%) Architect
4 23 (11.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (10.26%) Support Engineer
6 19 (9.74%) IT Support
6 19 (9.74%) IT Support Engineer
7 16 (8.21%) Field Support Engineer
8 13 (6.67%) Storage Engineer
9 12 (6.15%) Administrator
10 11 (5.64%) Senior
11 9 (4.62%) Data Centre Engineer
12 7 (3.59%) Network Architect
12 7 (3.59%) Project Manager
12 7 (3.59%) Storage Architect
12 7 (3.59%) Technical Architect
13 6 (3.08%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.08%) Network Engineer
14 5 (2.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.62%) REST
2 7 (3.59%) Redfish
3 6 (3.08%) Loki
4 5 (2.56%) Kafka
5 4 (2.05%) Celery
5 4 (2.05%) LDAP
5 4 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.03%) Middleware
8 1 (0.51%) .NET
8 1 (0.51%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.51%) LAMP
8 1 (0.51%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (0.51%) RESTful
8 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (52.82%) Data Centre
2 52 (26.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 37 (18.97%) Replication
4 30 (15.38%) Enterprise Storage
5 11 (5.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.62%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.56%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.56%) FlexPod
8 5 (2.56%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.05%) Clustering
9 4 (2.05%) EMC VNX
9 4 (2.05%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.54%) NVMe
11 2 (1.03%) CMDB
11 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.51%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 62 (31.79%) Windows
2 48 (24.62%) Linux
3 29 (14.87%) Windows Server
4 22 (11.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (9.74%) Unix
6 11 (5.64%) Data ONTAP
7 9 (4.62%) Ubuntu
8 8 (4.10%) VMS
9 7 (3.59%) AIX
10 6 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (2.56%) CoreOS
12 3 (1.54%) CentOS
12 3 (1.54%) Debian
12 3 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.51%) Rocky
13 1 (0.51%) Solaris
13 1 (0.51%) SUSE
13 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (27.18%) Customer Service
3 50 (25.64%) Break/Fix
4 49 (25.13%) Disaster Recovery
4 49 (25.13%) Migration
5 43 (22.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 34 (17.44%) Capacity Planning
7 32 (16.41%) ITIL
8 31 (15.90%) Data Protection
9 27 (13.85%) High Availability
10 25 (12.82%) ITSM
10 25 (12.82%) Performance Tuning
11 21 (10.77%) DevOps
12 19 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (9.74%) Runbook
13 17 (8.72%) CI/CD
13 17 (8.72%) Containerisation
13 17 (8.72%) Storage Management
14 16 (8.21%) Network Segmentation
14 16 (8.21%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 37 (18.97%) Python
2 25 (12.82%) PowerShell
3 16 (8.21%) Bash
4 15 (7.69%) Perl
5 7 (3.59%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.05%) SQL
7 1 (0.51%) C++
7 1 (0.51%) Java
7 1 (0.51%) Korn
7 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 69 (35.38%) Cisco Certification
2 66 (33.85%) CCNA
3 65 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
4 54 (27.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 50 (25.64%) A+ Certification
5 50 (25.64%) MCSE
6 44 (22.56%) Security Cleared
7 31 (15.90%) SC Cleared
8 19 (9.74%) CCNP
9 15 (7.69%) Server+ Certification
10 14 (7.18%) DV Cleared
11 11 (5.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 10 (5.13%) Degree
13 5 (2.56%) Azure Certification
13 5 (2.56%) NCDA
13 5 (2.56%) OCP
13 5 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.54%) NCIE
14 3 (1.54%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.08%) SLA
2 3 (1.54%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.03%) NIST
3 2 (1.03%) QA
4 1 (0.51%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) GRC
4 1 (0.51%) GxP
System Software
1 48 (24.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 25 (12.82%) vSphere
4 23 (11.79%) NFS
5 18 (9.23%) Firmware
6 16 (8.21%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (3.59%) Hyper-V
7 7 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.56%) SRDF
8 5 (2.56%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.54%) DFS Replication
9 3 (1.54%) Docker
9 3 (1.54%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (1.54%) PowerHA
10 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.51%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.51%) KVM
11 1 (0.51%) Postfix
11 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.51%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 39 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 31 (15.90%) Ansible
3 17 (8.72%) NetBackup
4 15 (7.69%) Grafana
5 13 (6.67%) Terraform
6 11 (5.64%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.64%) SnapMirror
7 9 (4.62%) Dell DRAC
7 9 (4.62%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.56%) EMC VPLEX
8 5 (2.56%) SnapVault
8 5 (2.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (2.56%) vMotion
8 5 (2.56%) vRealize
9 4 (2.05%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (2.05%) PowerCLI
9 4 (2.05%) SCCM
10 3 (1.54%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (1.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 71 (36.41%) Dell
2 63 (32.31%) VMware
3 45 (23.08%) Cisco
4 30 (15.38%) NetApp
5 24 (12.31%) Microsoft
6 20 (10.26%) ServiceNow
7 19 (9.74%) EMC
7 19 (9.74%) Red Hat
8 17 (8.72%) Veritas
9 16 (8.21%) Brocade
10 15 (7.69%) Pure Storage
10 15 (7.69%) Veeam
11 13 (6.67%) IBM
12 9 (4.62%) Commvault
12 9 (4.62%) HP
13 7 (3.59%) 3PAR
14 6 (3.08%) Fortinet
14 6 (3.08%) Juniper
15 5 (2.56%) Google
15 5 (2.56%) Oracle