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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 230 189
Rank change year-on-year -69 -41 +55
Contract jobs citing SAN 134 106 246
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.83% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.29% 5.09% 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 66 182
10th Percentile £358 £358 £282
25th Percentile £402 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £560
90th Percentile £612 £601 £623
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £494
% change year-on-year +3.90% -2.53% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 15
10th Percentile - - £14.45
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £69.50 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

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 2,535 2,083 3,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.32% 16.41% 17.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,605 1,271 2,129
10th Percentile £203 £190 £200
25th Percentile £350 £306 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £575 £580 £595
90th Percentile £656 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +1.54% +2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 125 333
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £21.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.25 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -27.78% +139.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.61 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +81.35%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -41 58 £500 +8.11% 27
Yorkshire -41 34 £455 +16.67% 12
South East -36 31 £550 -4.35% 15
North West -40 21 £575 +21.05% 15
Scotland +5 12 £425 -15.00% 1
Midlands -67 12 £431 -9.21% 5
Wales -4 8 £345 -5.48% 3
South West -26 8 £123 -71.18% 5
West Midlands -59 7 £413 -13.16% 3
East Midlands -27 5 £450 -18.18% 2
East of England -40 4 £513 +0.05% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £375 -
North East - 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 2 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (21.64%) OpenShift
2 22 (16.42%) AWS
2 22 (16.42%) Azure
3 5 (3.73%) GCP
3 5 (3.73%) IaaS
4 3 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.24%) Nutanix
5 2 (1.49%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.49%) PaaS
6 1 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.75%) GitHub
6 1 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 53 (39.55%) NAS
2 21 (15.67%) Firewall
3 17 (12.69%) Fibre Channel
4 16 (11.94%) iSCSI
5 13 (9.70%) DHCP
5 13 (9.70%) DNS
6 9 (6.72%) VLAN
7 7 (5.22%) TCP/IP
8 6 (4.48%) LAN
8 6 (4.48%) WAN
9 4 (2.99%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (2.99%) NX-OS
9 4 (2.99%) Structured Cabling
9 4 (2.99%) Wireless
10 3 (2.24%) SD-WAN
10 3 (2.24%) VPN
11 2 (1.49%) VSAN
11 2 (1.49%) WLAN
12 1 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.75%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.24%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.75%) MySQL
3 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.21%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.72%) JIRA
3 7 (5.22%) Git
4 2 (1.49%) GitLab
5 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
General
1 36 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (23.13%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.21%) Banking
4 8 (5.97%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.99%) Legal
7 3 (2.24%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.49%) Finance
8 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
9 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (22.39%) IT Engineer
2 26 (19.40%) Field Engineer
2 26 (19.40%) Field Service Engineer
3 18 (13.43%) Architect
4 15 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (9.70%) IT Support
5 13 (9.70%) IT Support Engineer
5 13 (9.70%) Support Engineer
6 11 (8.21%) Field Support Engineer
6 11 (8.21%) Infrastructure Architect
7 9 (6.72%) Administrator
8 7 (5.22%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (4.48%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (3.73%) NetApp Engineer
10 5 (3.73%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.73%) Senior
11 4 (2.99%) Analyst
11 4 (2.99%) Site Engineer
11 4 (2.99%) Technical Architect
11 4 (2.99%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.48%) Loki
1 6 (4.48%) REST
2 3 (2.24%) LDAP
2 3 (2.24%) Redfish
3 2 (1.49%) Middleware
4 1 (0.75%) .NET
4 1 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.75%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 57 (42.54%) Data Centre
2 29 (21.64%) Replication
3 28 (20.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (11.94%) Enterprise Storage
5 10 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.73%) EMC VMAX
7 5 (3.73%) FlexPod
8 4 (2.99%) Clustering
8 4 (2.99%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.24%) NVMe
10 2 (1.49%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.49%) CMDB
10 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.75%) Fat Client
11 1 (0.75%) HP Storage
11 1 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 45 (33.58%) Windows
2 41 (30.60%) Linux
3 20 (14.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (14.18%) Windows Server
5 14 (10.45%) Unix
6 8 (5.97%) VMS
7 6 (4.48%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (3.73%) AIX
8 5 (3.73%) CoreOS
8 5 (3.73%) Ubuntu
8 5 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.24%) Debian
10 1 (0.75%) CentOS
10 1 (0.75%) Solaris
10 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (30.60%) Disaster Recovery
1 41 (30.60%) Migration
1 41 (30.60%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (24.63%) Customer Service
3 29 (21.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 27 (20.15%) ITIL
5 26 (19.40%) Break/Fix
6 24 (17.91%) Capacity Planning
6 24 (17.91%) Data Protection
7 21 (15.67%) High Availability
8 18 (13.43%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (12.69%) DevOps
9 17 (12.69%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (11.94%) CI/CD
10 16 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (10.45%) Change Management
12 13 (9.70%) Containerisation
13 12 (8.96%) Observability
14 11 (8.21%) Runbook
15 10 (7.46%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.40%) Python
2 20 (14.93%) PowerShell
3 11 (8.21%) Perl
4 8 (5.97%) Bash
5 7 (5.22%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.49%) SQL
7 1 (0.75%) Bicep
7 1 (0.75%) C++
7 1 (0.75%) Java
7 1 (0.75%) Korn
7 1 (0.75%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 35 (26.12%) Security Cleared
2 31 (23.13%) CCNA
2 31 (23.13%) Cisco Certification
3 30 (22.39%) Network+ Certification
4 28 (20.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (19.40%) A+ Certification
5 26 (19.40%) MCSE
6 22 (16.42%) SC Cleared
7 12 (8.96%) DV Cleared
8 9 (6.72%) Degree
9 5 (3.73%) CCNP
9 5 (3.73%) OCP
9 5 (3.73%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (2.99%) Server+ Certification
10 4 (2.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.24%) VCAP
12 2 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.49%) NCDA
12 2 (1.49%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.99%) SLA
2 2 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.49%) NIST
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.75%) GRC
3 1 (0.75%) GxP
3 1 (0.75%) NCSC
3 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 38 (28.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (15.67%) Active Directory
3 19 (14.18%) vSphere
4 15 (11.19%) NFS
5 12 (8.96%) Firmware
6 10 (7.46%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (3.73%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.99%) Hyper-V
10 3 (2.24%) DFS Replication
10 3 (2.24%) PowerHA
11 2 (1.49%) Docker
11 2 (1.49%) SRDF
12 1 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (20.15%) Ansible
2 24 (17.91%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.21%) NetBackup
4 10 (7.46%) Grafana
5 9 (6.72%) Terraform
6 6 (4.48%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.48%) SnapMirror
7 5 (3.73%) vMotion
7 5 (3.73%) vRealize
8 4 (2.99%) PowerCLI
9 3 (2.24%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (2.24%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (2.24%) EMC VPLEX
9 3 (2.24%) SCCM
10 2 (1.49%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.49%) Puppet
10 2 (1.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 2 (1.49%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.75%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 51 (38.06%) VMware
2 40 (29.85%) Dell
3 25 (18.66%) NetApp
4 20 (14.93%) Cisco
5 16 (11.94%) EMC
6 14 (10.45%) Microsoft
6 14 (10.45%) Red Hat
6 14 (10.45%) Veritas
7 10 (7.46%) IBM
7 10 (7.46%) Pure Storage
8 9 (6.72%) Brocade
9 8 (5.97%) Commvault
9 8 (5.97%) HP
9 8 (5.97%) ServiceNow
10 6 (4.48%) Veeam
11 5 (3.73%) Google
11 5 (3.73%) Oracle
12 4 (2.99%) Broadcom
12 4 (2.99%) Isilon
12 4 (2.99%) Zerto