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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 516 576
Rank change year-on-year -91 +60 +92
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 12 11 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.037% 0.034%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.25% 0.26% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £462 £370 -
25th Percentile £491 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £436 £480
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% -9.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £501 £661
90th Percentile £545 £512 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £587
% change year-on-year +25.00% -31.80% +11.71%

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 4,806 4,285 6,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.34% 14.25% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,160 2,755 4,071
10th Percentile £180 £200 £180
25th Percentile £275 £316 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +5.56% -12.20%
75th Percentile £565 £594 £588
90th Percentile £663 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £438 £425
% change year-on-year -5.71% +2.94% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 156 414
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.38 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.76 £19.63 £15.54
Median hourly rate £22.91 £28.71 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.21% +27.58% -15.03%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.54 £24.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year -9.23% +10.36% -13.46%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Data ONTAP in the UK

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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

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Top 10 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 March 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 -78 10 £500 +2.77% 4
UK excluding London -77 8 £500 +25.00% 3
Work from Home -26 7 £500 +25.00% 1
North of England -57 5 £500 +25.00%
Yorkshire - 5 £500 -
London -46 2 £461 -7.84% 2
East Midlands - 1 £650 -
Midlands - 1 £650 -
South East - 1 - - 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
3 6 (50.00%) GCP
3 6 (50.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (16.67%) Cohesity
4 2 (16.67%) Rubrik
5 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (16.67%) iSCSI
2 2 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) LAN
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security
3 1 (8.33%) SSL
3 1 (8.33%) WAN
General
1 5 (41.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) NetApp Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) NetApp Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (50.00%) FlexPod
3 3 (25.00%) Clustering
3 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (16.67%) Replication
5 1 (8.33%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) CoreOS
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (58.33%) Data Protection
3 6 (50.00%) Migration
4 5 (41.67%) Task Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (25.00%) ITIL
6 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (16.67%) Change Management
7 2 (16.67%) High Availability
8 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
8 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (8.33%) ITSM
8 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
8 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (8.33%) Security Operations
8 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
8 1 (8.33%) Service Management
8 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (8.33%) Storage Management
8 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) OCP
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) NFS
1 10 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (58.33%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (58.33%) vSphere
3 2 (16.67%) Firmware
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) SnapMirror
2 7 (58.33%) Ansible
2 7 (58.33%) Terraform
3 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) SnapVault
4 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) NetApp
2 10 (83.33%) VMware
3 6 (50.00%) Google
3 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.33%) Brocade
4 1 (8.33%) Dell
4 1 (8.33%) Dell Compellent
4 1 (8.33%) EMC
4 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (8.33%) Hitachi
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow