Data ONTAP Contract Job Trends

NetApp Data ONTAP Operating System, including Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Data ONTAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 528 568
Rank change year-on-year -44 +40 +169
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 3 12 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.037% 0.072%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.063% 0.26% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 18
10th Percentile - - £460
25th Percentile - £400 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £473 £505
Median % change year-on-year +37.57% -6.44% -1.94%
75th Percentile - £501 £564
90th Percentile - £513 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £449 £518
% change year-on-year +44.85% -13.29% -0.19%

All Operating Systems
UK

Data ONTAP falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,729 4,591 6,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.75% 13.98% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,108 2,864 4,381
10th Percentile £175 £200 £180
25th Percentile £263 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £600
90th Percentile £669 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £412 £425 £430
% change year-on-year -3.00% -1.16% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 174 314
10th Percentile £15.22 £16.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.96 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% +10.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £62.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.80 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £27.50
% change year-on-year -18.29% +11.93% +25.00%

Data ONTAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data ONTAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data ONTAP job vacancy trend in the UK

Data ONTAP
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data ONTAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data ONTAP

Data ONTAP
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data ONTAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data ONTAP

Data ONTAP
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data ONTAP within the UK over the 6 months to 2 January 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
UK excluding London -55 2 £650 +44.85%
England -57 2 £650 +37.57%
East Midlands - 1 £650 -
Midlands - 1 £650 -
South East - 1 - -

Data ONTAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (66.67%) iSCSI
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) EMC VNX
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Firmware
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SnapMirror
1 1 (33.33%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) Dell Compellent
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Hitachi
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) VMware