NetApp Contract Job Trends

NetApp
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of NetApp products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NetApp over the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Network Appliance Corporation.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 453 489
Rank change year-on-year -82 +36 0
Contract jobs citing NetApp 138 99 72
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.65% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 74 63
10th Percentile £418 £402 £363
25th Percentile £465 £467 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £594 £575
90th Percentile £663 £650 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £52.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £66.50 -

All Vendors
UK

NetApp falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,608 15,316 16,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.81% 47.18% 44.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,927 9,368 10,231
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,186 772 693
10th Percentile £14.24 £14.65 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -18.87% -27.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.43 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.75 £21.29 £30.00
% change year-on-year +30.34% -29.03% -25.30%

NetApp
Job Vacancy Trend

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

NetApp job vacancy trend in the UK

NetApp
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

NetApp
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NetApp over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NetApp in the UK

NetApp
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetApp.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetApp

NetApp
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetApp within the UK over the 6 months to 8 September 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 -86 124 £550 - 74
UK excluding London -85 101 £550 - 58
London -48 34 £550 +10.00% 21
Work from Home -56 26 £550 +10.00% 29
North of England -61 25 £525 +10.42% 7
Midlands -38 22 £325 -35.00% 3
South West -30 20 £575 +31.43% 8
West Midlands -30 20 £200 -60.00% 1
East of England -25 19 £600 +9.09% 8
South East -86 18 £550 -8.33% 30
North West -49 14 - - 4
Yorkshire -33 11 £525 - 3
Wales - 9 £550 - 1
Scotland -33 2 - - 4
East Midlands - 2 £433 - 2

NetApp
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 8 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.17%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (2.17%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.64%) Azure
2 19 (13.77%) Rubrik
3 16 (11.59%) AWS
4 8 (5.80%) GCP
5 7 (5.07%) OpenShift
6 6 (4.35%) GitHub
7 5 (3.62%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.17%) Azure Storage
8 3 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.45%) Cohesity
9 2 (1.45%) Datadog
9 2 (1.45%) IaaS
9 2 (1.45%) PaaS
10 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.72%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.72%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.72%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (26.81%) DNS
1 37 (26.81%) SAN
2 24 (17.39%) Firewall
3 23 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 14 (10.14%) BIG-IP
4 14 (10.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 14 (10.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 14 (10.14%) HTTP
4 14 (10.14%) SSL
4 14 (10.14%) Wireshark
5 11 (7.97%) VLAN
6 10 (7.25%) NAS
6 10 (7.25%) VPN
7 9 (6.52%) DHCP
8 8 (5.80%) Kerberos
9 7 (5.07%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (3.62%) WAN
11 4 (2.90%) LAN
11 4 (2.90%) Network Security
11 4 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.80%) SQLite
3 7 (5.07%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.72%) MySQL
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.72%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 14 (10.14%) Fiddler
2 12 (8.70%) Git
3 11 (7.97%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.45%) JIRA
5 2 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.72%) MSI
6 1 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 27 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.84%) Finance
3 21 (15.22%) Banking
4 14 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.14%) Investment Banking
5 13 (9.42%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.62%) Legal
7 4 (2.90%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.45%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 44 (31.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (26.81%) Storage Engineer
3 21 (15.22%) Senior
4 18 (13.04%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 18 (13.04%) Network Engineer
5 15 (10.87%) VMware Specialist
6 14 (10.14%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 14 (10.14%) IP Network Engineer
6 14 (10.14%) Web Engineer
7 13 (9.42%) NetApp Engineer
8 11 (7.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (7.25%) Architect
9 10 (7.25%) Backup Engineer
10 9 (6.52%) Linux Engineer
10 9 (6.52%) Storage and Backup Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Storage Architect
12 6 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 6 (4.35%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.35%) NetApp Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.97%) Terraform
2 8 (5.80%) SPNEGO
3 3 (2.17%) REST
4 2 (1.45%) Middleware
4 2 (1.45%) Mojolicious
4 2 (1.45%) Moose
Miscellaneous
1 44 (31.88%) Enterprise Storage
2 33 (23.91%) Replication
3 20 (14.49%) Data Centre
4 18 (13.04%) Management Information System
5 12 (8.70%) PKI
6 7 (5.07%) EMC VMAX
6 7 (5.07%) EMC VNX
7 5 (3.62%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.90%) Clustering
8 4 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.17%) Celerra
9 3 (2.17%) EMC Centera
9 3 (2.17%) IBM XIV
9 3 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (2.17%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.17%) Symmetrix
9 3 (2.17%) Symmetrix DMX
10 2 (1.45%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.45%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 49 (35.51%) Windows
2 46 (33.33%) Linux
3 33 (23.91%) Windows Server
4 25 (18.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (10.14%) CentOS
5 14 (10.14%) Data ONTAP
6 12 (8.70%) Rocky
7 5 (3.62%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.62%) VMS
8 4 (2.90%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.45%) AIX
9 2 (1.45%) HPUX
9 2 (1.45%) Solaris
9 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (38.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (15.94%) Migration
3 21 (15.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 19 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (12.32%) CI/CD
5 17 (12.32%) Load Balancing
6 15 (10.87%) Data Protection
7 14 (10.14%) Data Loss Prevention
7 14 (10.14%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 14 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (9.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (7.97%) Capacity Planning
10 9 (6.52%) Business Continuity
10 9 (6.52%) Containerisation
10 9 (6.52%) DevOps
10 9 (6.52%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (6.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (5.80%) Storage Management
12 7 (5.07%) Runbook
12 7 (5.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.01%) PowerShell
2 18 (13.04%) Python
3 13 (9.42%) Bash
4 9 (6.52%) Perl
5 8 (5.80%) Korn
6 7 (5.07%) SQL
7 3 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.45%) Java
9 1 (0.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 31 (22.46%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.49%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.80%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.35%) Degree
7 5 (3.62%) NCDA
7 5 (3.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (2.90%) MCSE
9 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.17%) NCIE
10 2 (1.45%) CCNP
10 2 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.45%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.45%) PMP
11 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.72%) Dell Certification
11 1 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.90%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (44.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (13.77%) Active Directory
2 19 (13.77%) vSphere
3 16 (11.59%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (10.87%) Firmware
5 12 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (7.25%) Hyper-V
7 8 (5.80%) NFS
7 8 (5.80%) VMware NSX
8 6 (4.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 5 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (2.90%) Docker
10 4 (2.90%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (2.17%) BitLocker
11 3 (2.17%) SRDF
12 2 (1.45%) GPFS
13 1 (0.72%) KVM
13 1 (0.72%) Samba
13 1 (0.72%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.72%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 28 (20.29%) Ansible
2 18 (13.04%) NetBackup
3 13 (9.42%) vCenter Server
4 11 (7.97%) Kubernetes
5 7 (5.07%) EMC VPLEX
5 7 (5.07%) SnapMirror
6 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.90%) Puppet
6 4 (2.90%) SCCM
6 4 (2.90%) SnapVault
7 3 (2.17%) Avamar
7 3 (2.17%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.17%) vMotion
8 2 (1.45%) Argo
8 2 (1.45%) Grafana
8 2 (1.45%) systemd
9 1 (0.72%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.72%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 84 (60.87%) VMware
2 29 (21.01%) Microsoft
3 28 (20.29%) Veeam
4 25 (18.12%) Cisco
5 17 (12.32%) EMC
6 16 (11.59%) Dell
7 14 (10.14%) Blue Coat
7 14 (10.14%) F5
7 14 (10.14%) McAfee
8 12 (8.70%) Brocade
9 9 (6.52%) Meraki
10 8 (5.80%) Red Hat
11 7 (5.07%) 3PAR
11 7 (5.07%) SolarWinds
12 6 (4.35%) CheckPoint
12 6 (4.35%) IBM
12 6 (4.35%) Veritas
13 5 (3.62%) Commvault
13 5 (3.62%) Oracle
13 5 (3.62%) Pure Storage