FlexPod Contract Job Trends

Cisco/NetApp FlexPod
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FlexPod in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FlexPod over the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 528 -
Rank change year-on-year -61 - -
Contract jobs citing FlexPod 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.003% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.022% 0.010% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

FlexPod falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,545 10,063 13,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.68% 33.03% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,552 6,048 8,790
10th Percentile £273 £264 £258
25th Percentile £402 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 657 309 824
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.59 £16.63
Median hourly rate £30.11 £34.50 £32.31
Median % change year-on-year -12.74% +6.79% +43.68%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £34.21
% change year-on-year -7.69% -5.00% +55.50%

FlexPod
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FlexPod relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

FlexPod job vacancy trend in the UK

FlexPod
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FlexPod.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FlexPod

FlexPod
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FlexPod within the UK over the 6 months to 17 February 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
Work from Home - 3 £500 - 1
UK excluding London - 2 £500 - 1
North of England - 2 £500 -
Yorkshire - 2 £500 -
England - 2 £500 - 1

FlexPod
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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) CoreOS
1 3 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) OCP
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) NFS
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) SnapMirror
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) VMware