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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 550 586
Rank change year-on-year -4 +36 +240
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 3 12 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.031% 0.093%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.067% 0.22% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 32
10th Percentile £407 £368 £430
25th Percentile £418 £425 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -9.52% +0.57%
75th Percentile £454 £500 £597
90th Percentile £465 £505 £637
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £449 £538
% change year-on-year +5.18% -16.51% +4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.50

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 4,453 5,451 7,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.51% 14.15% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,846 3,476 5,219
10th Percentile £188 £200 £185
25th Percentile £300 £329 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £674 £675 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £432 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 270 370
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.96 £15.18
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% +5.26% +98.66%
75th Percentile £58.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -54.27% +19.88% +108.55%

Data ONTAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data ONTAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data ONTAP 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 4 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 19 September 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
Work from Home +22 1 - -
UK excluding London +2 1 £472 +5.18% 3
England 0 1 £400 -20.00% 3
Scotland -6 1 £472 +4.89%

Data ONTAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Flash
1 1 (33.33%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (33.33%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (33.33%) Observability
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) GPFS
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Sybase
2 1 (33.33%) Veritas