Data ONTAP Contracts

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data ONTAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data ONTAP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 575 623
Rank change year-on-year +63 +48 +216
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 8 7 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.016% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.20% 0.12% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 66
10th Percentile - - £423
25th Percentile - £665 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £693 £528
Median % change year-on-year -42.28% +31.37% +11.05%
75th Percentile £472 £722 £585
90th Percentile £489 - £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £693 £545
% change year-on-year -29.87% +27.27% +29.64%
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 4,086 5,803 9,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.96% 13.32% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,693 3,912 6,828
10th Percentile £200 £185 £190
25th Percentile £320 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 396 416
10th Percentile £16.22 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.11 £15.44 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.94 £22.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +4.26% -29.60% +56.25%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data ONTAP.

Daily rate trend for Data ONTAP in the UK

Data ONTAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data ONTAP.

Hourly rate trend for Data ONTAP in the UK

Data ONTAP
Top 4 Contract 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 1 May 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 - 4 £400 -
UK excluding London +58 2 £486 -29.87% 7
Scotland +11 2 £486 -29.87% 1
England +57 1 £400 - 7

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 (12.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (12.50%) NAS
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DB2
1 1 (12.50%) InfluxDB
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Consultant
1 4 (50.00%) NetApp Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) NetApp Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Storage Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Field Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) NetApp Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Flash
1 1 (12.50%) POSIX
1 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
1 1 (12.50%) FlexPod
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (12.50%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Agile
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
1 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) High Availability
2 1 (12.50%) Kanban
2 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (12.50%) Observability
2 1 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) SDLC
2 1 (12.50%) Security Hardening
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) NCDA
1 1 (12.50%) NCSIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) GPFS
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) KVM
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) HAProxy
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Nagios
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (12.50%) SnapMirror
2 1 (12.50%) SnapVault
2 1 (12.50%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) Brocade
2 1 (12.50%) Commvault
2 1 (12.50%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Sybase
2 1 (12.50%) Veritas
2 1 (12.50%) VMware