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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 655 548 545
Rank change year-on-year -107 -3 +62
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 15 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.012% 0.040%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.28% 0.089% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 9
10th Percentile £465 £407 £380
25th Percentile £470 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £436 £473
Median % change year-on-year +19.04% -7.72% -6.44%
75th Percentile £553 £454 £500
90th Percentile £588 £465 £503
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £472 £449
% change year-on-year +14.94% +5.18% -12.01%

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 5,362 4,501 5,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.77% 13.63% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,380 2,875 3,270
10th Percentile £193 £185 £200
25th Percentile £313 £281 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £660 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £449
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.24% -0.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 301 250
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.87 £22.65
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -53.43% +23.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £57.38
% change year-on-year +3.38% -56.17% +43.44%

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 7 October 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 9 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 7 October 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 -105 12 £525 +31.13% 10
UK excluding London -99 9 £543 +14.94% 10
North of England - 4 £525 - 2
London - 4 £465 - 3
Yorkshire - 4 £525 -
Work from Home -66 3 £472 - 3
South West - 3 £575 -
Wales - 1 £490 -
South East - 1 £543 - 5

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 (6.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Storage
2 3 (20.00%) Cohesity
2 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (20.00%) Rubrik
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Datadog
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) SAN
2 4 (26.67%) NAS
3 3 (20.00%) DNS
3 3 (20.00%) VSAN
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (13.33%) Firewall
5 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
5 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Storage Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Backup Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Storage and Backup Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) DBA
5 1 (6.67%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) NetApp Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) NetApp Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 7 (46.67%) Replication
3 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
3 4 (26.67%) EMC VMAX
3 4 (26.67%) EMC VNX
4 3 (20.00%) Clustering
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (13.33%) PKI
5 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Capacity Planning
1 8 (53.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (53.33%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (40.00%) Migration
3 5 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 5 (33.33%) High Availability
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Key Management
5 3 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Runbook
6 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Observability
6 2 (13.33%) RBAC
6 2 (13.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Bash
2 2 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Bicep
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (20.00%) NCDA
4 3 (20.00%) NCIE
4 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) CCA
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (46.67%) NFS
3 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 5 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (26.67%) Firmware
4 4 (26.67%) Hyper-V
4 4 (26.67%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (26.67%) vSphere
5 3 (20.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (20.00%) SRDF
6 2 (13.33%) VMware NSX
7 1 (6.67%) DFS Replication
7 1 (6.67%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) SnapMirror
2 5 (33.33%) vCenter Server
3 4 (26.67%) Ansible
3 4 (26.67%) EMC VPLEX
3 4 (26.67%) NetBackup
3 4 (26.67%) SnapVault
4 3 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (13.33%) Argo
5 2 (13.33%) Grafana
5 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) NetApp
2 12 (80.00%) VMware
3 6 (40.00%) Cisco
4 5 (33.33%) EMC
4 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 4 (26.67%) 3PAR
5 4 (26.67%) Brocade
5 4 (26.67%) Veeam
6 3 (20.00%) Dell
6 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (13.33%) Pure Storage
7 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (6.67%) Citrix
8 1 (6.67%) Commvault
8 1 (6.67%) Google
8 1 (6.67%) IBM
8 1 (6.67%) Isilon
8 1 (6.67%) Oracle