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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 522 597
Rank change year-on-year -86 +75 +47
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 17 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.027% 0.014%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.36% 0.19% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 2
10th Percentile £465 £400 -
25th Percentile - £425 £665
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £693
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -27.81% +32.00%
75th Percentile £616 £501 £722
90th Percentile £650 £519 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £500 £693
% change year-on-year +8.00% -27.85% +31.37%

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 4,769 4,121 5,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 14.09% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,128 2,753 3,983
10th Percentile £181 £200 £181
25th Percentile £300 £325 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -9.76%
75th Percentile £568 £600 £594
90th Percentile £653 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £439
% change year-on-year -5.56% +2.45% -7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 168 407
10th Percentile £15.20 £16.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.78 £18.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +12.09% -32.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.05 £68.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £24.42 £20.00
% change year-on-year +2.38% +22.10% -30.31%

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 6 April 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 11 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 6 April 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 -93 16 £500 -0.10% 6
UK excluding London -91 13 £540 +8.00% 5
Work from Home -24 7 £500 +25.00% 1
North of England - 5 £500 -
Yorkshire - 5 £500 -
London -55 3 £465 -7.09% 1
South West - 3 £625 - 3
East Midlands - 2 £595 -
Midlands - 2 £595 -
South East - 2 £650 - 2
East of England - 1 - - 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 (5.88%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 9 (52.94%) AWS
3 7 (41.18%) GCP
4 6 (35.29%) OpenShift
5 3 (17.65%) Cohesity
5 3 (17.65%) Rubrik
6 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) SAN
2 3 (17.65%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) iSCSI
3 1 (5.88%) LAN
3 1 (5.88%) NAS
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) SSL
3 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.88%) VLDB
General
1 5 (29.41%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) NetApp Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Database Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) NetApp Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (35.29%) FlexPod
3 4 (23.53%) Clustering
3 4 (23.53%) Private Cloud
4 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (11.76%) Replication
6 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) CoreOS
2 6 (35.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (35.29%) VMS
3 2 (11.76%) Windows
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (41.18%) Data Protection
2 7 (41.18%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (29.41%) Task Automation
4 4 (23.53%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (23.53%) High Availability
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL
5 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
5 2 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security
6 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (5.88%) Proactive Management
6 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.88%) Security Operations
6 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.88%) Service Management
6 1 (5.88%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) OCP
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle Certification
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (58.82%) NFS
3 7 (41.18%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (41.18%) vSphere
4 3 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (17.65%) VMware NSX
5 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
6 1 (5.88%) Firmware
6 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) SnapMirror
2 8 (47.06%) Ansible
3 7 (41.18%) Terraform
4 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
5 4 (23.53%) vCenter Server
6 1 (5.88%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) NetApp
2 15 (88.24%) VMware
3 7 (41.18%) Google
4 6 (35.29%) Red Hat
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco
6 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle
6 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow