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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 508 592
Rank change year-on-year -88 +84 +74
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 14 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.034% 0.023%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.29% 0.24% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 4
10th Percentile £464 £400 -
25th Percentile £474 £431 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £587
Median % change year-on-year - -14.75% +12.25%
75th Percentile - £501 £722
90th Percentile £551 £515 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £486 £587
% change year-on-year +2.83% -17.09% +12.79%

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 4,772 4,225 5,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.90% 14.30% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,132 2,787 3,994
10th Percentile £181 £200 £180
25th Percentile £290 £319 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £457
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.94% -11.26%
75th Percentile £565 £591 £594
90th Percentile £655 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £450 £432
% change year-on-year -7.78% +4.17% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 158 410
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.62 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.51 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.81 £27.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.80% +26.14% -21.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £24.66 £20.00
% change year-on-year -8.76% +23.30% -24.47%

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 23 March 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 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 23 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 -100 12 £500 -0.10% 5
UK excluding London -81 9 £500 +2.83% 5
Work from Home -25 7 £500 +25.00% 1
North of England -62 5 £500 +5.82%
Yorkshire - 5 £500 -
London -42 3 £465 -7.09% 1
East Midlands - 2 £595 -
Midlands - 2 £595 -
South East - 1 - - 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 (7.14%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) AWS
3 7 (50.00%) GCP
4 6 (42.86%) OpenShift
5 3 (21.43%) Cohesity
5 3 (21.43%) Rubrik
6 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) SAN
2 2 (14.29%) iSCSI
2 2 (14.29%) NAS
3 1 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) LAN
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) SSL
3 1 (7.14%) WAN
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
General
1 5 (35.71%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) NetApp Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Database Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 1 (7.14%) NetApp Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (42.86%) FlexPod
3 4 (28.57%) Clustering
4 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (21.43%) Replication
5 1 (7.14%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) CoreOS
2 6 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (42.86%) VMS
3 1 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 6 (42.86%) Migration
4 5 (35.71%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (35.71%) Task Automation
5 3 (21.43%) High Availability
5 3 (21.43%) ITIL
6 2 (14.29%) Change Management
7 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (7.14%) Database Security
7 1 (7.14%) ITSM
7 1 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
7 1 (7.14%) Service Management
7 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (7.14%) Storage Management
7 1 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) OCP
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) NFS
1 11 (78.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (50.00%) vSphere
3 2 (14.29%) Firmware
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) SnapMirror
2 8 (57.14%) Ansible
3 7 (50.00%) Terraform
4 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
5 1 (7.14%) SnapVault
5 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) NetApp
2 11 (78.57%) VMware
3 7 (50.00%) Google
4 6 (42.86%) Red Hat
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 1 (7.14%) Brocade
6 1 (7.14%) Dell
6 1 (7.14%) Dell Compellent
6 1 (7.14%) EMC
6 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
6 1 (7.14%) Hitachi
6 1 (7.14%) Oracle
6 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow