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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 664 550 558
Rank change year-on-year -114 +8 +51
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 14 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.012% 0.029%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.26% 0.091% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 6
10th Percentile £492 £414 £425
25th Percentile £519 £436 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £472 £488
Median % change year-on-year +16.53% -3.18% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £486 £500
90th Percentile £648 £494 £506
UK excluding London median daily rate £553 £486 £473
% change year-on-year +13.68% +2.86% -12.09%

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 5,290 4,411 5,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.77% 13.48% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,344 2,812 3,533
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £306 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £451 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.33% -5.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £675 £675 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 266 294
10th Percentile £14.49 £15.53 £14.26
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.59 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -44.11% +2.02%
75th Percentile £65.22 £58.73 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.43 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.92 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +3.06% -49.70% +20.74%

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

Data ONTAP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data ONTAP over the 6 months to 7 September 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 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 7 September 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
UK excluding London -84 12 £553 +13.68% 3
England -93 12 £553 +38.13% 3
South West - 5 £575 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £525 -
North of England - 4 £525 -
Work from Home -57 2 £519 +3.80% 2
London - 1 £465 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £540 -
Midlands - 1 £540 -
South East - 1 £650 -
Wales - 1 £490 - 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 (7.14%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Storage
2 3 (21.43%) OpenShift
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Datadog
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Cohesity
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) SAN
2 4 (28.57%) NAS
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (21.43%) DNS
4 2 (14.29%) Firewall
4 2 (14.29%) VSAN
5 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.14%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Storage Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Database Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) DBA
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) NetApp Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) NetApp Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (7.14%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Enterprise Storage
2 7 (50.00%) Replication
3 5 (35.71%) Private Cloud
4 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
4 4 (28.57%) EMC VMAX
4 4 (28.57%) EMC VNX
5 3 (21.43%) PKI
6 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
7 1 (7.14%) Clustering
7 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Data Migration
1 6 (42.86%) Migration
1 6 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (35.71%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (21.43%) High Availability
4 3 (21.43%) Key Management
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Runbook
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (14.29%) Low Latency
5 2 (14.29%) Observability
5 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) RBAC
5 2 (14.29%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
3 3 (21.43%) NCDA
3 3 (21.43%) NCIE
4 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (35.71%) Hyper-V
3 5 (35.71%) NFS
4 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
5 3 (21.43%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (21.43%) SRDF
5 3 (21.43%) VMware NSX
5 3 (21.43%) vSphere
6 1 (7.14%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) SnapMirror
2 6 (42.86%) vCenter Server
3 4 (28.57%) EMC VPLEX
3 4 (28.57%) SnapVault
4 3 (21.43%) Ansible
4 3 (21.43%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
4 3 (21.43%) NetBackup
5 2 (14.29%) Argo
5 2 (14.29%) Grafana
5 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) NetApp
2 12 (85.71%) VMware
3 7 (50.00%) Cisco
4 4 (28.57%) 3PAR
4 4 (28.57%) Brocade
4 4 (28.57%) EMC
4 4 (28.57%) Veeam
5 3 (21.43%) Dell
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
5 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
6 2 (14.29%) Pure Storage
6 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
7 1 (7.14%) Google
7 1 (7.14%) Oracle