SnapVault Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Dell SnapVault Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SnapVault skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SnapVault 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £492 - -
25th Percentile £502 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £537 - -
90th Percentile £548 - -
UK median daily rate £519 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

SnapVault falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,116 1,886 2,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.86% 14.75% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,166 1,321 1,692
10th Percentile £299 £235 £210
25th Percentile £404 £391 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £669 £660 £655
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 29 76
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £38.40 £19.97 £17.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -22.63% -23.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £49.06
90th Percentile £74.90 £79.55 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £26.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year +113.21% -2.75% -52.61%

SnapVault
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SnapVault relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SnapVault job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SnapVault
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SnapVault.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SnapVault

SnapVault
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SnapVault.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SnapVault

SnapVault
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 SnapVault within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Yorkshire - 2 £537 -
North of England - 2 £537 -
South East - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £490 - 1
SnapVault
UK

SnapVault
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (25.00%) Datadog
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) NAS
3 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Architect
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Replication
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (50.00%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (50.00%) EMC VNX
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Key Management
3 1 (25.00%) Network Design
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) NCDA
2 1 (25.00%) NCIE
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) NFS
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) vSphere
4 1 (25.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (25.00%) SRDF
4 1 (25.00%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) SnapMirror
2 2 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (50.00%) EMC VPLEX
2 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Argo
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) NetApp
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Veeam
3 2 (50.00%) 3PAR
3 2 (50.00%) Brocade
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) EMC
4 1 (25.00%) Dell
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Pure Storage
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds