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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 229 214
Rank change year-on-year -76 -15 +5
Contract jobs citing SAN 174 147 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.96% 0.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.91% 6.93% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 107 110
10th Percentile £126 £361 £300
25th Percentile £358 £442 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +29.63%
75th Percentile £571 £575 £600
90th Percentile £609 £603 £619
UK median daily rate £484 £508 £512
% change year-on-year -4.63% -0.83% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 17
10th Percentile - £29.09 -
25th Percentile - £33.73 £11.75
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.81% +38.17% -38.46%
75th Percentile - £54.35 £48.75
90th Percentile - £62.09 £51.50
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £35.73 £23.80
% change year-on-year -58.01% +50.11% -52.40%

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 2,946 2,121 2,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.70% 13.83% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,652 1,274 1,650
10th Percentile £221 £204 £206
25th Percentile £375 £325 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £640 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 138 277
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £20.19 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.40 £45.00 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% -18.00% -3.58%
75th Percentile £65.71 £66.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £48.56
% change year-on-year -43.48% -4.76% -10.07%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -25 74 £510 +10.52% 15
Yorkshire -21 38 £500 +21.21% 4
North West -32 35 £575 +21.05% 8
South East -100 28 £400 -21.18% 25
South West -28 24 £123 -73.51% 7
Midlands -37 17 £425 -10.53% 12
West Midlands -36 15 £425 -10.53% 8
Wales - 12 £525 - 2
East of England -38 11 £600 +9.09% 6
Scotland -16 10 £127 -73.09% 2
East Midlands -15 2 £388 -21.48% 4
North East - 1 £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 10 (5.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.72%) Apache
4 2 (1.15%) CloudStack
4 2 (1.15%) IIS
5 1 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.57%) nginx
5 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (20.69%) Azure
2 22 (12.64%) AWS
3 20 (11.49%) OpenShift
4 16 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (6.32%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.45%) GCP
7 5 (2.87%) IaaS
8 3 (1.72%) GitHub
8 3 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.15%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.15%) Datadog
10 1 (0.57%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.57%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.57%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.57%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 63 (36.21%) NAS
2 44 (25.29%) Firewall
3 42 (24.14%) DNS
4 35 (20.11%) VLAN
5 30 (17.24%) DHCP
6 18 (10.34%) Structured Cabling
7 16 (9.20%) Wireless
8 15 (8.62%) Cisco IOS
8 15 (8.62%) NX-OS
9 12 (6.90%) iSCSI
10 9 (5.17%) Fibre Channel
11 7 (4.02%) LAN
11 7 (4.02%) VPN
12 5 (2.87%) VoIP
12 5 (2.87%) WAN
13 4 (2.30%) TCP/IP
13 4 (2.30%) VSAN
14 2 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (1.15%) SD-WAN
14 2 (1.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.15%) MySQL
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (10.92%) JIRA
2 6 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.15%) Git
General
1 54 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
2 46 (26.44%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.49%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (6.32%) Banking
5 5 (2.87%) Finance
5 5 (2.87%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.30%) Games
6 4 (2.30%) Legal
7 3 (1.72%) Military
8 2 (1.15%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (27.59%) IT Engineer
2 41 (23.56%) Field Engineer
2 41 (23.56%) Field Service Engineer
3 38 (21.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (14.37%) Architect
5 22 (12.64%) Senior
6 18 (10.34%) Support Engineer
7 17 (9.77%) IT Support
7 17 (9.77%) IT Support Engineer
8 15 (8.62%) Data Centre Engineer
8 15 (8.62%) Field Support Engineer
9 12 (6.90%) Storage Engineer
10 10 (5.75%) Administrator
11 9 (5.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.17%) Storage Architect
12 7 (4.02%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.02%) Technical Architect
13 6 (3.45%) NetApp Engineer
13 6 (3.45%) Network Architect
13 6 (3.45%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.60%) Redfish
2 4 (2.30%) Celery
2 4 (2.30%) Kafka
2 4 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (2.30%) REST
3 3 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.57%) JSON
4 1 (0.57%) LAMP
4 1 (0.57%) LDAP
4 1 (0.57%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (0.57%) Loki
4 1 (0.57%) RESTful
4 1 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (58.05%) Data Centre
2 43 (24.71%) Analytical Mindset
3 34 (19.54%) Replication
4 31 (17.82%) Enterprise Storage
5 10 (5.75%) Clustering
6 9 (5.17%) EMC VMAX
6 9 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.45%) PKI
8 5 (2.87%) Fat Client
8 5 (2.87%) Thin Client
9 4 (2.30%) Animation
9 4 (2.30%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.30%) EMC VNX
9 4 (2.30%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.72%) FlexPod
10 3 (1.72%) Smartcard
11 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.15%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 70 (40.23%) Windows
2 53 (30.46%) Linux
3 46 (26.44%) Windows Server
4 27 (15.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (10.34%) Unix
6 12 (6.90%) AIX
7 11 (6.32%) CentOS
8 10 (5.75%) Rocky
9 8 (4.60%) Data ONTAP
10 6 (3.45%) Ubuntu
10 6 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (2.87%) VMS
12 3 (1.72%) CoreOS
12 3 (1.72%) Solaris
12 3 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (1.15%) HPUX
13 2 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.57%) SUSE
14 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (36.21%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (30.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 41 (23.56%) Break/Fix
3 41 (23.56%) Customer Service
3 41 (23.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 35 (20.11%) Migration
5 31 (17.82%) Capacity Planning
6 26 (14.94%) ITIL
7 22 (12.64%) Data Centre Operations
8 21 (12.07%) ITSM
9 17 (9.77%) Data Protection
9 17 (9.77%) High Availability
9 17 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (9.77%) Performance Tuning
10 16 (9.20%) Runbook
11 15 (8.62%) Validation
12 14 (8.05%) Network Segmentation
12 14 (8.05%) Storage Management
13 13 (7.47%) Server Management
14 12 (6.90%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.24%) PowerShell
2 29 (16.67%) Python
3 13 (7.47%) Bash
4 11 (6.32%) Perl
5 4 (2.30%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.15%) SQL
7 1 (0.57%) Bicep
7 1 (0.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 58 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (31.61%) CCNA
2 55 (31.61%) Network+ Certification
3 50 (28.74%) Security Cleared
4 46 (26.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 43 (24.71%) MCSE
6 41 (23.56%) A+ Certification
7 36 (20.69%) SC Cleared
8 17 (9.77%) CCNP
9 14 (8.05%) Server+ Certification
10 9 (5.17%) DV Cleared
10 9 (5.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (2.87%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.87%) Degree
12 3 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.72%) NCDA
12 3 (1.72%) NCIE
12 3 (1.72%) OCP
12 3 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (1.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.87%) SLA
2 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.15%) NIST
4 1 (0.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) GRC
4 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 52 (29.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (20.11%) Active Directory
3 21 (12.07%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (11.49%) vSphere
5 19 (10.92%) Firmware
6 18 (10.34%) Hyper-V
7 12 (6.90%) NFS
8 6 (3.45%) PowerHA
8 6 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (2.87%) SRDF
10 4 (2.30%) VMware NSX
11 3 (1.72%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (1.15%) Docker
13 1 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.57%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.57%) KVM
13 1 (0.57%) Postfix
13 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.57%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 31 (17.82%) Ansible
2 21 (12.07%) Kubernetes
3 20 (11.49%) NetBackup
4 13 (7.47%) vCenter Server
5 12 (6.90%) Terraform
6 11 (6.32%) Dell DRAC
7 8 (4.60%) SnapMirror
7 8 (4.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 8 (4.60%) WSUS
8 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (3.45%) Grafana
9 6 (3.45%) Prometheus
10 5 (2.87%) SCCM
11 4 (2.30%) EMC VPLEX
11 4 (2.30%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (2.30%) SnapVault
11 4 (2.30%) vMotion
12 3 (1.72%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 61 (35.06%) Dell
1 61 (35.06%) VMware
2 45 (25.86%) Cisco
3 31 (17.82%) Microsoft
4 26 (14.94%) NetApp
4 26 (14.94%) Veeam
5 19 (10.92%) ServiceNow
6 15 (8.62%) Red Hat
7 13 (7.47%) Juniper
8 11 (6.32%) Brocade
8 11 (6.32%) IBM
9 10 (5.75%) HP
10 9 (5.17%) Pure Storage
11 8 (4.60%) Commvault
12 7 (4.02%) EMC
12 7 (4.02%) Veritas
13 6 (3.45%) Broadcom
14 5 (2.87%) 3PAR
14 5 (2.87%) Fortinet
15 4 (2.30%) Perforce