iSCSI Contracts

iSCSI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring iSCSI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iSCSI over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 572 644
Rank change year-on-year +81 +72 +161
Contract jobs citing iSCSI 28 28 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.064% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.75% 0.50% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 32
10th Percentile £234 £350 £381
25th Percentile £516 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £588
90th Percentile £700 £889 £632
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £618 £525
% change year-on-year -6.88% +17.62% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £72.13
90th Percentile - - £85.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £61.50
% change year-on-year - - +136.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

iSCSI falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

iSCSI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing iSCSI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for iSCSI in the UK

iSCSI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing iSCSI.

Daily rate trend for iSCSI in the UK

iSCSI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing iSCSI over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for iSCSI in the UK

iSCSI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing iSCSI.

Hourly rate trend for iSCSI in the UK

iSCSI
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iSCSI within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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 +70 26 £575 +48.39% 14
UK excluding London +54 21 £575 -6.88% 15
South East +44 11 £575 +53.33% 4
Work from Home +55 7 £525 +27.27% 11
London +35 6 £625 +11.11% 1
Midlands +26 4 £700 -30.00%
West Midlands +18 4 £700 -30.00%
North of England +30 3 £215 -28.33% 5
North West +13 3 £215 -28.33% 4
South West - 2 £625 - 3
Scotland +2 1 £472 -25.84% 1

iSCSI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) PaaS
3 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (39.29%) SAN
2 6 (21.43%) Fibre Channel
2 6 (21.43%) Firewall
3 5 (17.86%) VLAN
4 4 (14.29%) DHCP
4 4 (14.29%) DNS
4 4 (14.29%) Wireless
5 3 (10.71%) FCoE
5 3 (10.71%) Internet
5 3 (10.71%) LAN
5 3 (10.71%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (10.71%) WAN
5 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (3.57%) IPsec
6 1 (3.57%) NAS
6 1 (3.57%) Network Security
6 1 (3.57%) SSL
6 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 10 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Electronics
3 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.71%) Marketing
3 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Architect
1 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Architect
1 5 (17.86%) VMware Architect
2 3 (10.71%) Designer
2 3 (10.71%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Administrator
3 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Technical Support
3 2 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Field Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Flash
2 1 (3.57%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.71%) IVR
3 2 (7.14%) Clustering
3 2 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (7.14%) PKI
3 2 (7.14%) SCADA
4 1 (3.57%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.57%) FlexPod
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 11 (39.29%) Windows
2 9 (32.14%) Linux
2 9 (32.14%) Windows Server
3 6 (21.43%) VMS
4 3 (10.71%) Android
4 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (7.14%) CentOS
5 2 (7.14%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) ITIL
2 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
2 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (17.86%) Storage Management
2 5 (17.86%) Storage Virtualisation
3 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 4 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 4 (14.29%) RBAC
3 4 (14.29%) Service Management
3 4 (14.29%) SIEM
4 3 (10.71%) Agile
4 3 (10.71%) BCP
4 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
4 3 (10.71%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (10.71%) Information Security
4 3 (10.71%) Problem Management
4 3 (10.71%) Programme Management
4 3 (10.71%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Python
1 4 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) Perl
2 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 14 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (32.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (17.86%) DV Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) MCSE
4 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (10.71%) CCNP
5 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (10.71%) Degree
5 3 (10.71%) VCP5
5 3 (10.71%) VCP6
6 2 (7.14%) CCNA
6 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
6 2 (7.14%) MCSA
7 1 (3.57%) CCSE
7 1 (3.57%) NCSIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (35.71%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (32.14%) NFS
4 7 (25.00%) vSphere
5 6 (21.43%) VMware NSX
6 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
7 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (10.71%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (3.57%) Docker
8 1 (3.57%) GPFS
8 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) vRealize
1 4 (14.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 2 (7.14%) SCOM
3 2 (7.14%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.57%) SnapMirror
4 1 (3.57%) SnapVault
4 1 (3.57%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) VMware
2 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.86%) NetApp
4 3 (10.71%) Apple
4 3 (10.71%) Cisco
4 3 (10.71%) Hitachi
4 3 (10.71%) SAP
4 3 (10.71%) Splunk
4 3 (10.71%) Veeam
5 2 (7.14%) Atlassian
5 2 (7.14%) Dell
5 2 (7.14%) F5
5 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.57%) EMC
6 1 (3.57%) Forcepoint
6 1 (3.57%) HP
6 1 (3.57%) IBM
6 1 (3.57%) Juniper