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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 533 601
Rank change year-on-year -32 +68 +208
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 1 16 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.044% 0.064%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.021% 0.32% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 12 18
10th Percentile - £401 £425
25th Percentile - £431 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £488 £492
Median % change year-on-year - -0.81% -3.39%
75th Percentile - £501 £547
90th Percentile - £511 £580
UK excluding London median daily rate - £449 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.25% -1.72%

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 5,069 7,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.59% 14.07% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,048 3,111 4,859
10th Percentile £185 £200 £182
25th Percentile £270 £325 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -4.95%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £613
90th Percentile £657 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £450 £442
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.75% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 211 360
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.38 £18.45
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% +43.88% +43.30%
75th Percentile £42.55 £68.46 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.57 £50.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -54.87% +81.82% +22.22%

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
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 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) EMC VNX
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Dell Compellent
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Hitachi
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp