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 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 573 630
Rank change year-on-year +68 +57 +178
Contract jobs citing iSCSI 37 15 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.035% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.92% 0.28% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 29
10th Percentile £478 £300 £381
25th Percentile £600 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £388 £525
Median % change year-on-year +67.74% -26.19% +10.53%
75th Percentile - £584 £585
90th Percentile £698 £1,000 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £363 £456
% change year-on-year +79.31% -20.55% -3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £64.50
90th Percentile - - £82.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.00

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 4,001 5,360 7,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 12.53% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,410 3,158 4,628
10th Percentile £235 £213 £230
25th Percentile £363 £350 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £463
% change year-on-year -3.06% +5.95% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 425 366
10th Percentile £14.69 £13.64 £10.63
25th Percentile £20.89 £17.69 £11.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 £43.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +56.36% -5.17%
75th Percentile £63.63 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.11 £73.55 £75.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -13.68% +5.56% +95.65%

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 14 July 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 9 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 14 July 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 +51 35 £650 +67.74% 26
UK excluding London +39 28 £650 +79.31% 18
South East +48 16 £650 +79.31% 10
London +41 8 £625 +11.11% 9
East of England +20 6 £250 -16.67% 5
West Midlands +9 5 £695 -30.55% 1
Midlands +6 5 £695 -30.55% 1
Work from Home +32 3 £700 +133.33% 3
Scotland - 1 £472 -

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 4 (10.81%) OpenStack
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.70%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) AWS
2 5 (13.51%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.70%) AWS KMS
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.70%) IaaS
5 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.70%) PaaS
5 1 (2.70%) Route 53
5 1 (2.70%) Serverless
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (56.76%) Fibre Channel
2 12 (32.43%) SAN
3 7 (18.92%) DNS
4 4 (10.81%) Firewall
5 3 (8.11%) FCoE
5 3 (8.11%) NAS
5 3 (8.11%) VLAN
6 2 (5.41%) DHCP
6 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
6 2 (5.41%) VSAN
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.70%) IPsec
7 1 (2.70%) LAN
7 1 (2.70%) Network Security
7 1 (2.70%) SSL
7 1 (2.70%) VPN
7 1 (2.70%) WAN
7 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.70%) DB2
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) GitLab
2 4 (10.81%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Architect
1 15 (40.54%) Infrastructure Architect
2 14 (37.84%) VMware Architect
3 8 (21.62%) Administrator
4 6 (16.22%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (13.51%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (8.11%) Senior
6 3 (8.11%) Storage Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Cisco Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Implementation Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Migration Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Network Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) SAN Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) SAN Storage Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Security Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Cisco Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) Flash
1 1 (2.70%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Data Centre
1 6 (16.22%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.41%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.41%) FlexPod
3 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.41%) Replication
3 2 (5.41%) SCADA
4 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.70%) Clustering
4 1 (2.70%) NVMe
4 1 (2.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (51.35%) Windows
2 17 (45.95%) Windows Server
3 15 (40.54%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (27.03%) Linux
5 7 (18.92%) CentOS
6 6 (16.22%) Ubuntu
7 4 (10.81%) VMS
8 2 (5.41%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (2.70%) SUSE
9 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Edge Virtualization
1 11 (29.73%) Performance Analysis
2 8 (21.62%) ITSM
3 5 (13.51%) Computer Science
3 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
3 5 (13.51%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (13.51%) ITIL
3 5 (13.51%) Storage Management
3 5 (13.51%) Storage Virtualisation
4 4 (10.81%) Mentoring
4 4 (10.81%) Problem Management
4 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (8.11%) Change Management
5 3 (8.11%) Data Protection
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (8.11%) Migration
5 3 (8.11%) Operational Stability
5 3 (8.11%) Service Management
5 3 (8.11%) Task Automation
6 2 (5.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) SQL
2 11 (29.73%) Python
3 5 (13.51%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (56.76%) Security Cleared
2 17 (45.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 15 (40.54%) MCSE
3 15 (40.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (37.84%) DV Cleared
5 12 (32.43%) VCP5
5 12 (32.43%) VCP6
6 5 (13.51%) Degree
6 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.70%) CCNP
7 1 (2.70%) CCSE
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.70%) NCSIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (70.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (48.65%) VMware ESXi
3 17 (45.95%) NFS
4 15 (40.54%) vSphere
5 9 (24.32%) Active Directory
6 6 (16.22%) Hyper-V
7 2 (5.41%) VMware NSX
8 1 (2.70%) Docker
8 1 (2.70%) Firmware
8 1 (2.70%) GPFS
8 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (5.41%) PowerCLI
2 2 (5.41%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) SnapMirror
3 1 (2.70%) SnapVault
3 1 (2.70%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (2.70%) vMotion
Vendors
1 31 (83.78%) VMware
2 24 (64.86%) Microsoft
3 18 (48.65%) NetApp
4 17 (45.95%) Veeam
5 15 (40.54%) Splunk
6 7 (18.92%) ServiceNow
7 3 (8.11%) Cisco
7 3 (8.11%) Hitachi
8 2 (5.41%) Dell
8 2 (5.41%) F5
8 2 (5.41%) HP
8 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.70%) 3PAR
9 1 (2.70%) Aruba
9 1 (2.70%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (2.70%) Brocade
9 1 (2.70%) Foundry
9 1 (2.70%) Google
9 1 (2.70%) Trend Micro
9 1 (2.70%) Veritas