SRDF Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SRDF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 354 -
Rank change year-on-year -32 - -
Contract jobs citing SRDF 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.027% -
As % of the System Software category 0.043% 0.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 -
UK median daily rate - £550 -

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

SRDF falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,339 2,054 2,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.89% 13.83% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,606 1,324 1,918
10th Percentile £190 £185 £170
25th Percentile £313 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £474
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -3.91% +3.50%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £641 £652 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 67 194
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.39 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.25 £17.81
Median hourly rate £62.50 £30.00 £44.82
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% -33.06% +115.30%
75th Percentile £77.50 £64.75 £66.93
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £27.96 £46.18
% change year-on-year +69.92% -39.47% +84.72%

SRDF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SRDF job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SRDF
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

SRDF
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

SRDF
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 SRDF within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
North of England -41 1 - -
Yorkshire -46 1 - -
SRDF
UK

SRDF
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 1 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) FCoE
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MVS
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) VMware