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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 553 562
Rank change year-on-year -87 +9 +52
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 19 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.012% 0.021%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.37% 0.091% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 3
10th Percentile £465 £414 -
25th Percentile £496 £436 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £472 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.96% -5.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £551 £486 -
90th Percentile £644 £494 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £486 -
% change year-on-year +9.05% - -

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 5,205 4,373 5,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.71% 13.29% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,288 2,799 3,615
10th Percentile £191 £198 £200
25th Percentile £319 £313 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £457 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.44% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 258 335
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.50 £12.45
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.13 £17.69
Median hourly rate £25.92 £24.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -12.73% -35.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.05 £67.30 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £22.53 £42.50
% change year-on-year +18.33% -46.99% +45.05%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data ONTAP over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data ONTAP in the UK

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 12 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 8 August 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
England -94 16 £519 +29.75% 1
UK excluding London -85 14 £530 +9.05%
Work from Home -59 7 £500 - 1
Yorkshire - 7 £519 -
North of England - 7 £519 -
South West - 3 £625 -
London - 3 £465 - 1
Wales - 1 £490 -
East Midlands - 1 £540 -
Midlands - 1 £540 -
South East - 1 £650 -
East of England - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) OpenShift
3 5 (26.32%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Storage
4 3 (15.79%) Cohesity
4 3 (15.79%) Rubrik
5 2 (10.53%) Datadog
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) SAN
2 4 (21.05%) NAS
3 3 (15.79%) Firewall
4 2 (10.53%) VSAN
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (5.26%) DNS
5 1 (5.26%) LAN
5 1 (5.26%) SSL
5 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.26%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (21.05%) Banking
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Storage Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 5 (26.32%) NetApp Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Storage Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Senior
5 2 (10.53%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Administrator
6 1 (5.26%) Data Migration Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Database Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) DBA
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) NetApp Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) NetApp Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Storage Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Server Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Enterprise Storage
2 7 (36.84%) Replication
3 6 (31.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (21.05%) Clustering
4 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
4 4 (21.05%) EMC VMAX
4 4 (21.05%) EMC VNX
4 4 (21.05%) FlexPod
4 4 (21.05%) Private Cloud
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
6 1 (5.26%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) CoreOS
2 4 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (21.05%) VMS
2 4 (21.05%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (52.63%) Migration
2 8 (42.11%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (36.84%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (31.58%) Data Migration
5 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
5 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
5 4 (21.05%) DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) High Availability
5 4 (21.05%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Runbook
6 3 (15.79%) Task Automation
7 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (10.53%) Key Management
7 2 (10.53%) Observability
7 2 (10.53%) RBAC
7 2 (10.53%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) Bash
2 2 (10.53%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) OCP
3 4 (21.05%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
4 3 (15.79%) NCDA
4 3 (15.79%) NCIE
4 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Degree
System Software
1 17 (89.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (57.89%) NFS
3 8 (42.11%) vSphere
4 6 (31.58%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (26.32%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
6 3 (15.79%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
6 3 (15.79%) SRDF
6 3 (15.79%) VMware NSX
7 1 (5.26%) Firmware
7 1 (5.26%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) SnapMirror
2 8 (42.11%) Ansible
3 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 7 (36.84%) Terraform
3 7 (36.84%) vCenter Server
4 4 (21.05%) EMC VPLEX
4 4 (21.05%) SnapVault
5 3 (15.79%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (15.79%) NetBackup
6 2 (10.53%) Argo
6 2 (10.53%) Grafana
6 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) NetApp
2 17 (89.47%) VMware
3 7 (36.84%) Red Hat
4 5 (26.32%) Cisco
4 5 (26.32%) Google
5 4 (21.05%) 3PAR
5 4 (21.05%) Brocade
5 4 (21.05%) EMC
5 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
5 4 (21.05%) Veeam
6 3 (15.79%) Dell
7 2 (10.53%) Pure Storage
7 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
8 1 (5.26%) Oracle