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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 - 393
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SRDF 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.009% - 0.014%
As % of the System Software category 0.077% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £575
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £495 £575
% change year-on-year -4.12% -13.84% -4.17%

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 2,586 1,935 2,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.58% 15.37% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,797 1,314 1,680
10th Percentile £190 £190 £173
25th Percentile £350 £340 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +5.56% -5.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £586
90th Percentile £650 £662 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 70 185
10th Percentile £15.19 £15.21 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.41 £21.05 £15.50
Median hourly rate £48.72 £37.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.92% +20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £74.26 £66.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.20 £82.88 £71.01
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +68.00% +16.00% -47.86%

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 28 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
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1
North of England - 2 £500 - 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) TOWER Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware