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 28 July 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
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 462 511
Rank change year-on-year -58 +49 -41
Contract jobs citing NetApp 147 84 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.67% 0.54% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 69 50
10th Percentile £425 £400 £361
25th Percentile £475 £500 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £589
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £38.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +150.00%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +150.00%

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 21,831 15,499 17,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.30% 47.33% 43.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,562 9,484 10,956
10th Percentile £313 £280 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £710 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,092 777 916
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.67 £13.28
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.08 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.11 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.60% -6.85% -35.41%
75th Percentile £65.33 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.00 £22.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +52.36% -10.74% -28.06%

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 28 July 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 14 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 28 July 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 -57 134 £550 - 19
UK excluding London -49 108 £535 -2.73% 18
North of England -40 37 £500 -2.44% 3
Work from Home -40 35 £510 +2.00% 9
London -43 35 £563 +12.50% 2
Midlands - 29 £263 -
Yorkshire -22 21 £500 - 2
South East -80 20 £550 -8.33% 10
West Midlands - 19 £200 -
North West -33 16 - - 1
South West -23 15 £575 +27.78% 2
East of England -28 14 £600 +9.09% 2
East Midlands - 10 £433 -
Wales - 9 £550 - 1

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 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.04%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 36 (24.49%) Azure
2 23 (15.65%) Rubrik
3 18 (12.24%) AWS
4 11 (7.48%) GCP
4 11 (7.48%) OpenShift
5 6 (4.08%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.08%) GitHub
6 5 (3.40%) IaaS
7 4 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.72%) PaaS
8 3 (2.04%) Azure Storage
8 3 (2.04%) Cohesity
8 3 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.36%) Datadog
10 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.68%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.68%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (24.49%) DNS
2 35 (23.81%) SAN
3 24 (16.33%) Firewall
4 19 (12.93%) TCP/IP
5 17 (11.56%) SSL
6 16 (10.88%) BIG-IP
6 16 (10.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 16 (10.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 16 (10.88%) HTTP
6 16 (10.88%) Wireshark
7 14 (9.52%) NAS
8 11 (7.48%) VPN
9 10 (6.80%) VLAN
10 9 (6.12%) DHCP
11 6 (4.08%) WAN
12 5 (3.40%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (3.40%) LAN
12 5 (3.40%) SMTP
13 4 (2.72%) SD-WAN
13 4 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.40%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.36%) SQLite
5 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.68%) MySQL
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.68%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 16 (10.88%) Fiddler
2 7 (4.76%) Git
3 5 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.68%) JIRA
6 1 (0.68%) MSI
6 1 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 27 (18.37%) Banking
2 21 (14.29%) Finance
3 19 (12.93%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.88%) Investment Banking
5 12 (8.16%) Military
6 9 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.44%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.72%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.72%) Legal
9 3 (2.04%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (26.53%) Storage Engineer
2 36 (24.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (13.61%) NetApp Engineer
4 19 (12.93%) Network Engineer
4 19 (12.93%) Senior
5 18 (12.24%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 16 (10.88%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 16 (10.88%) IP Network Engineer
6 16 (10.88%) Web Engineer
7 15 (10.20%) VMware Specialist
8 12 (8.16%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (6.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 10 (6.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.80%) Backup Engineer
10 9 (6.12%) Architect
10 9 (6.12%) Storage and Backup Engineer
11 8 (5.44%) Consultant
11 8 (5.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.08%) NetApp Specialist
12 6 (4.08%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.36%) Flash
1 2 (1.36%) Middleware
1 2 (1.36%) Mojolicious
1 2 (1.36%) Moose
1 2 (1.36%) REST
1 2 (1.36%) SPNEGO
Miscellaneous
1 36 (24.49%) Enterprise Storage
2 32 (21.77%) Replication
3 20 (13.61%) Management Information System
4 16 (10.88%) Data Centre
5 10 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (6.80%) PKI
6 9 (6.12%) Clustering
7 7 (4.76%) EMC VMAX
7 7 (4.76%) EMC VNX
8 6 (4.08%) FlexPod
9 4 (2.72%) Private Cloud
10 3 (2.04%) Celerra
10 3 (2.04%) EMC Centera
10 3 (2.04%) IBM XIV
10 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
10 3 (2.04%) Symmetrix
10 3 (2.04%) Symmetrix DMX
11 2 (1.36%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.36%) Fat Client
11 2 (1.36%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 42 (28.57%) Windows
2 39 (26.53%) Linux
3 25 (17.01%) Windows Server
4 21 (14.29%) Data ONTAP
5 18 (12.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (6.80%) VMS
7 9 (6.12%) CentOS
7 9 (6.12%) Rocky
8 6 (4.08%) CoreOS
9 4 (2.72%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (2.04%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.68%) AIX
12 1 (0.68%) HPUX
12 1 (0.68%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (40.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (22.45%) Migration
3 27 (18.37%) Disaster Recovery
4 22 (14.97%) Data Protection
5 18 (12.24%) Load Balancing
6 16 (10.88%) Capacity Planning
6 16 (10.88%) Data Loss Prevention
6 16 (10.88%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 12 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (7.48%) Performance Optimisation
8 11 (7.48%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (6.12%) CI/CD
9 9 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (6.12%) Storage Management
10 8 (5.44%) Data Migration
11 7 (4.76%) Change Control
11 7 (4.76%) DevOps
11 7 (4.76%) Runbook
12 6 (4.08%) High Availability
12 6 (4.08%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (20.41%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.48%) Python
3 7 (4.76%) Bash
4 6 (4.08%) SQL
5 2 (1.36%) Java
5 2 (1.36%) Korn
5 2 (1.36%) Perl
6 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 64 (43.54%) Security Cleared
2 34 (23.13%) DV Cleared
3 29 (19.73%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.44%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.44%) NCDA
6 7 (4.76%) Degree
7 6 (4.08%) OCP
7 6 (4.08%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (3.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (2.72%) MCSE
10 3 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.04%) NCIE
11 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.68%) CCNP
11 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.68%) Dell Certification
11 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.72%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (43.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (14.97%) vSphere
3 18 (12.24%) Active Directory
3 18 (12.24%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (11.56%) Firmware
5 16 (10.88%) NFS
6 15 (10.20%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (6.80%) Hyper-V
8 8 (5.44%) VMware NSX
9 6 (4.08%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 6 (4.08%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (3.40%) BitLocker
10 5 (3.40%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (2.72%) Docker
12 3 (2.04%) SRDF
13 1 (0.68%) KVM
13 1 (0.68%) Samba
13 1 (0.68%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.68%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 33 (22.45%) Ansible
2 17 (11.56%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.56%) NetBackup
2 17 (11.56%) Terraform
3 16 (10.88%) vCenter Server
4 15 (10.20%) SnapMirror
5 7 (4.76%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (4.08%) Avamar
6 6 (4.08%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (4.08%) Puppet
7 5 (3.40%) vMotion
8 4 (2.72%) SnapVault
9 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (2.04%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.04%) SCCM
9 3 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.36%) Argo
10 2 (1.36%) Grafana
10 2 (1.36%) systemd
11 1 (0.68%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 87 (59.18%) VMware
2 29 (19.73%) Microsoft
3 26 (17.69%) Veeam
4 20 (13.61%) Cisco
5 16 (10.88%) Blue Coat
5 16 (10.88%) F5
5 16 (10.88%) McAfee
6 15 (10.20%) EMC
7 14 (9.52%) Red Hat
8 13 (8.84%) Brocade
8 13 (8.84%) ServiceNow
9 12 (8.16%) Dell
9 12 (8.16%) Fortinet
10 9 (6.12%) Pure Storage
11 8 (5.44%) Google
11 8 (5.44%) Meraki
12 7 (4.76%) 3PAR
12 7 (4.76%) SolarWinds
13 6 (4.08%) Citrix
14 5 (3.40%) Commvault