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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 550 574
Rank change year-on-year -30 +24 +222
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 2 16 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.045% 0.068%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.042% 0.32% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 19
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile - £400 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +37.57% -5.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile - £501 £560
90th Percentile - £511 £601
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £449 £505
% change year-on-year +44.85% -11.14% -1.56%

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 4,743 5,020 6,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 14.07% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,063 3,069 4,673
10th Percentile £180 £200 £181
25th Percentile £263 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -6.34%
75th Percentile £563 £583 £608
90th Percentile £660 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £440 £440
% change year-on-year -9.04% -0.06% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 204 347
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.44 £17.88
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +66.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% +85.19% +20.00%

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 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 2 December 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
England -48 1 £650 +33.68% 2
UK excluding London -53 1 £650 +44.85% 2
East Midlands - 1 £650 -
Midlands - 1 £650 -

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 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) EMC VNX
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Dell Compellent
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Hitachi
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow