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 3 February 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
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 461 449
Rank change year-on-year -42 -12 +59
Contract jobs citing NetApp 90 73 145
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.24% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 0.51% 0.51% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 60 80
10th Percentile £371 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £432 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £501
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.20% +0.10%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £569
90th Percentile £650 £613 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 18
10th Percentile £61.03 - £13.29
25th Percentile £61.81 - £14.04
Median hourly rate £63.75 - £40.00
75th Percentile £65.81 - -
90th Percentile £66.68 - £51.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.57%

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 17,621 14,255 19,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.50% 46.18% 43.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,341 8,417 12,458
10th Percentile £300 £278 £252
25th Percentile £410 £408 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.33%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 835 417 922
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £15.75
Median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.70% -4.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £53.88 £61.50 £59.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.30 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.72 £25.56 £27.33
% change year-on-year -15.04% -6.48% +6.15%

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 3 February 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 13 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 3 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
England -49 81 £538 +7.39% 14
UK excluding London -39 68 £475 - 19
North of England -30 38 £425 -10.05% 5
North West -13 26 £425 -2.58%
Midlands -33 25 £500 -20.63% 4
West Midlands - 20 £500 - 2
London -22 17 £617 +14.75% 2
Work from Home -16 13 £463 -22.83% 11
Yorkshire -40 12 £438 -18.51% 5
South East -19 11 £613 +51.61% 1
South West -21 7 £425 -11.46%
Scotland +7 5 £463 -1.07% 7
East Midlands -24 5 £650 +3.17% 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 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.89%) Azure
2 10 (11.11%) GitHub
3 9 (10.00%) AWS
4 8 (8.89%) OpenShift
5 6 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (4.44%) GCP
7 4 (4.44%) Nutanix
8 3 (3.33%) IaaS
8 3 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.33%) PaaS
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.11%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (1.11%) Cloud Run
10 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (33.33%) SAN
2 26 (28.89%) DNS
3 23 (25.56%) TCP/IP
4 19 (21.11%) BIG-IP
4 19 (21.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 19 (21.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (21.11%) HTTP
4 19 (21.11%) NAS
4 19 (21.11%) SSL
5 18 (20.00%) Wireshark
6 15 (16.67%) Firewall
7 11 (12.22%) Fibre Channel
7 11 (12.22%) iSCSI
8 6 (6.67%) VPN
9 5 (5.56%) DHCP
9 5 (5.56%) DMZ
10 4 (4.44%) VLAN
10 4 (4.44%) VSAN
11 3 (3.33%) Network Security
11 3 (3.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (3.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (20.00%) Fiddler
2 4 (4.44%) JIRA
3 3 (3.33%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.11%) Git
4 1 (1.11%) GitLab
4 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (20.00%) Banking
1 18 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 13 (14.44%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.67%) Military
5 3 (3.33%) Retail
6 2 (2.22%) Finance
6 2 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (1.11%) Electronics
7 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.11%) Marketing
7 1 (1.11%) Police
7 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (24.44%) Network Engineer
2 17 (18.89%) Storage Engineer
3 15 (16.67%) Web Engineer
4 14 (15.56%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 14 (15.56%) IP Network Engineer
5 12 (13.33%) Architect
6 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
7 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) NetApp Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Administrator
10 4 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Python Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Junior
11 3 (3.33%) Server Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.11%) CrewAI
2 1 (1.11%) JSON
2 1 (1.11%) LangChain
2 1 (1.11%) LDAP
2 1 (1.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.56%) Replication
2 19 (21.11%) Management Information System
3 12 (13.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 10 (11.11%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.56%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.33%) Clustering
6 3 (3.33%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.33%) EPoS
6 3 (3.33%) NVMe
6 3 (3.33%) PKI
7 2 (2.22%) HP Storage
7 2 (2.22%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.11%) CMDB
8 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Smartphone
8 1 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.11%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.67%) Windows
2 21 (23.33%) Linux
3 9 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.33%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.22%) VMS
8 1 (1.11%) AIX
8 1 (1.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.78%) Migration
2 19 (21.11%) Load Balancing
3 18 (20.00%) High Availability
3 18 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (15.56%) Data Loss Prevention
4 14 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (15.56%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 12 (13.33%) DevOps
6 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (11.11%) ITIL
7 9 (10.00%) Agile
7 9 (10.00%) Change Management
7 9 (10.00%) Data Protection
8 8 (8.89%) CI/CD
8 8 (8.89%) Containerisation
8 8 (8.89%) Project Delivery
9 7 (7.78%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (7.78%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
10 6 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.89%) PowerShell
2 11 (12.22%) Python
3 6 (6.67%) SQL
4 5 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.33%) Bash
5 3 (3.33%) C
5 3 (3.33%) C++
5 3 (3.33%) Java
6 2 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (47.78%) Security Cleared
2 26 (28.89%) DV Cleared
3 14 (15.56%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.22%) Degree
4 2 (2.22%) MCSE
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.22%) NCDA
4 2 (2.22%) VCP6
4 2 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.11%) CCNP
5 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.11%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 39 (43.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (21.11%) Firmware
3 12 (13.33%) NFS
4 9 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (7.78%) Active Directory
5 7 (7.78%) VMware NSX
6 6 (6.67%) Hyper-V
6 6 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (4.44%) Docker
8 4 (4.44%) vSphere
9 3 (3.33%) BitLocker
9 3 (3.33%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (1.11%) KVM
10 1 (1.11%) Squid
10 1 (1.11%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 15 (16.67%) Ansible
2 10 (11.11%) Terraform
3 9 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 8 (8.89%) vCenter Server
5 6 (6.67%) vMotion
6 4 (4.44%) NetBackup
7 3 (3.33%) Grafana
7 3 (3.33%) Puppet
7 3 (3.33%) SCCM
7 3 (3.33%) vRealize
8 2 (2.22%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.11%) Argo
9 1 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.11%) Podman
9 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.11%) SnapMirror
9 1 (1.11%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 41 (45.56%) VMware
2 20 (22.22%) F5
3 19 (21.11%) Blue Coat
3 19 (21.11%) McAfee
4 15 (16.67%) EMC
5 12 (13.33%) Cisco
6 11 (12.22%) Dell
7 10 (11.11%) ServiceNow
8 8 (8.89%) IBM
8 8 (8.89%) Microsoft
8 8 (8.89%) Veritas
9 7 (7.78%) Fortinet
10 6 (6.67%) Brocade
10 6 (6.67%) Veeam
11 4 (4.44%) Citrix
11 4 (4.44%) Hitachi
11 4 (4.44%) HP
12 3 (3.33%) 3PAR
12 3 (3.33%) Commvault
12 3 (3.33%) Oracle