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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 252 207
Rank change year-on-year -47 -45 +16
Contract jobs citing SAN 106 100 210
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.68% 1.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.71% 4.23% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 63 155
10th Percentile £329 £286 £210
25th Percentile £393 £444 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £550
90th Percentile £629 £593 £608
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 6
10th Percentile £29.98 - £25.63
25th Percentile £35.94 £11.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.75 £26.25 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.10% -49.03% +7.29%
75th Percentile £57.44 £48.75 £75.38
90th Percentile £63.33 £50.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £26.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year +29.52% -34.38% +55.58%

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 2,251 2,364 3,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.23% 16.04% 17.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,494 1,342 2,078
10th Percentile £200 £190 £205
25th Percentile £300 £313 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £597
90th Percentile £650 £650 £684
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 114 272
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.22 £17.30
25th Percentile £17.26 £20.88 £24.32
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -38.04% +38.45%
75th Percentile £67.88 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £83.68 £70.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year -2.86% -37.94% +50.96%

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 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SAN in the UK excluding London

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 December 2025. 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
South East +18 49 £550 -4.35% 17
North of England -48 31 £492 -8.42% 19
North West -17 21 £548 +9.77% 6
Yorkshire -43 10 £461 -17.31% 8
Midlands -37 9 £379 +45.58% 17
Northern Ireland -2 6 £375 +141.94% 1
East of England -29 6 £526 +2.54% 4
East Midlands - 6 £127 - 3
West Midlands -29 3 £500 +92.31% 14
Scotland 0 2 £425 -22.73%
South West -18 2 £550 +6.80% 4
Wales -8 1 - - 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 9 (8.49%) SharePoint
2 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (6.60%) Exchange Server 2003
3 7 (6.60%) Exchange Server 2007
3 7 (6.60%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (6.60%) Exchange Server 2013
3 7 (6.60%) Office Communications Server
3 7 (6.60%) SharePoint Server
3 7 (6.60%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.89%) Apache
5 1 (0.94%) CICS
5 1 (0.94%) Confluence
5 1 (0.94%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.94%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.94%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.87%) Azure
2 10 (9.43%) AWS
3 8 (7.55%) OpenShift
4 5 (4.72%) GCP
5 4 (3.77%) Azure Storage
5 4 (3.77%) IaaS
5 4 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.83%) PaaS
6 3 (2.83%) SaaS
7 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 33 (31.13%) NAS
2 22 (20.75%) DNS
3 16 (15.09%) Firewall
4 15 (14.15%) DHCP
5 13 (12.26%) iSCSI
6 12 (11.32%) TCP/IP
7 10 (9.43%) Fibre Channel
8 8 (7.55%) VPN
9 7 (6.60%) DDNS
10 5 (4.72%) VLAN
11 4 (3.77%) WAN
12 2 (1.89%) LAN
13 1 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
13 1 (0.94%) FCoE
13 1 (0.94%) MPLS
13 1 (0.94%) Multicast
13 1 (0.94%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.94%) VSAN
13 1 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.66%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.72%) Git
3 3 (2.83%) GitLab
4 1 (0.94%) JIRA
4 1 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.77%) Finance
5 3 (2.83%) Front Office
6 2 (1.89%) Banking
6 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.94%) Local Government
7 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (16.04%) Architect
2 15 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (12.26%) Storage Engineer
4 12 (11.32%) Administrator
5 10 (9.43%) Infrastructure Architect
6 9 (8.49%) Backup Administrator
6 9 (8.49%) Storage Administrator
6 9 (8.49%) Storage and Backup Administrator
7 8 (7.55%) Technical Architect
8 7 (6.60%) Exchange Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Exchange Support
8 7 (6.60%) Field Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Field Service Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) IT Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Server Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) Analyst
10 5 (4.72%) HP Storage Administrator
11 4 (3.77%) Data Centre Technician
11 4 (3.77%) Data Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.72%) Middleware
2 2 (1.89%) Loki
2 2 (1.89%) REST
3 1 (0.94%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (31.13%) Replication
2 28 (26.42%) Data Centre
3 15 (14.15%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (6.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (5.66%) Clustering
6 4 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.77%) HP Storage
6 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.89%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.94%) CMDB
8 1 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.94%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.94%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.94%) PKI
8 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.94%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 42 (39.62%) Windows
2 31 (29.25%) Linux
3 15 (14.15%) Windows Server
4 14 (13.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (7.55%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (5.66%) Unix
6 6 (5.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (4.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (3.77%) Ubuntu
8 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (2.83%) Debian
9 3 (2.83%) VMS
10 2 (1.89%) CentOS
10 2 (1.89%) Solaris
11 1 (0.94%) AIX
11 1 (0.94%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.94%) MVS
11 1 (0.94%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (30.19%) ITIL
2 31 (29.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 24 (22.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 23 (21.70%) High Availability
5 21 (19.81%) Customer Service
6 20 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (15.09%) Migration
8 15 (14.15%) Capacity Planning
8 15 (14.15%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (11.32%) Change Management
10 10 (9.43%) Data Protection
10 10 (9.43%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (8.49%) Project Delivery
12 8 (7.55%) Application Virtualisation
12 8 (7.55%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (7.55%) Storage Management
13 7 (6.60%) Agile
13 7 (6.60%) Content Management
13 7 (6.60%) Enterprise Content Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.04%) PowerShell
2 12 (11.32%) Shell Script
3 10 (9.43%) Python
4 4 (3.77%) SQL
5 3 (2.83%) Bash
6 2 (1.89%) Perl
7 1 (0.94%) Bicep
7 1 (0.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 54 (50.94%) Security Cleared
2 33 (31.13%) SC Cleared
3 21 (19.81%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (6.60%) A+ Certification
5 7 (6.60%) CCNA
5 7 (6.60%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (6.60%) MCSE
5 7 (6.60%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (4.72%) Degree
8 4 (3.77%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.77%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.77%) Server+ Certification
9 2 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.94%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.77%) GDPR
1 4 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.83%) SLA
3 1 (0.94%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (26.42%) Active Directory
2 26 (24.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.55%) Hyper-V
3 8 (7.55%) NFS
4 7 (6.60%) Brightmail
4 7 (6.60%) ISA Server
4 7 (6.60%) vSphere
5 5 (4.72%) Firmware
6 3 (2.83%) DFS Replication
6 3 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.83%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.94%) KVM
8 1 (0.94%) SRDF
8 1 (0.94%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.94%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (10.38%) NetBackup
2 10 (9.43%) Ansible
3 9 (8.49%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Clustering
4 7 (6.60%) vCenter Server
5 6 (5.66%) EMC NetWorker
5 6 (5.66%) EMC VPLEX
6 3 (2.83%) vRealize
7 2 (1.89%) Grafana
7 2 (1.89%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.89%) SCCM
7 2 (1.89%) Terraform
8 1 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.94%) Puppet
8 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.94%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.94%) SnapVault
8 1 (0.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (36.79%) VMware
2 33 (31.13%) NetApp
3 24 (22.64%) Dell
4 22 (20.75%) EMC
4 22 (20.75%) Microsoft
5 17 (16.04%) Red Hat
6 16 (15.09%) Veritas
7 13 (12.26%) Cisco
8 11 (10.38%) HP
9 9 (8.49%) 3PAR
10 8 (7.55%) Nimble Storage
11 7 (6.60%) Brocade
11 7 (6.60%) Veeam
12 6 (5.66%) IBM
12 6 (5.66%) Isilon
12 6 (5.66%) Pure Storage
13 5 (4.72%) SolarWinds
14 4 (3.77%) F5
15 3 (2.83%) Capita
15 3 (2.83%) Oracle