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 April 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 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 472 503
Rank change year-on-year -29 +31 -24
Contract jobs citing NetApp 127 56 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.64% 0.41% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 46 55
10th Percentile £392 £400 £400
25th Percentile £451 £415 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -4.71% +3.19%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £700
90th Percentile £638 £640 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £506 £445
% change year-on-year -2.42% +13.76% -11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 14
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £60.50 - £13.51
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +194.55%

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 19,716 13,778 18,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.10% 47.15% 42.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,642 8,710 11,700
10th Percentile £313 £290 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% -0.03% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £617 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.57% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 988 506 1,054
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.35 £12.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.19 £14.40
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -46.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.13 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.40 £80.34 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.21 £27.13 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.08% +26.16% -44.16%

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 April 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 8 April 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 -44 118 £515 +2.80% 33
UK excluding London -41 89 £494 -2.42% 28
North of England -21 46 £487 +1.99% 4
Midlands -32 32 £595 -5.56% 4
London -51 32 £585 +17.00% 4
North West -9 24 £575 +4.55% 3
Work from Home -22 24 £498 -2.93% 11
Yorkshire -33 22 £487 +20.25% 1
West Midlands - 21 - - 4
South East -32 16 £495 -23.92% 9
East Midlands -21 11 £595 -5.56%
South West -31 8 £538 +14.36% 7
Scotland +7 4 £463 +8.82%
East of England -40 3 £438 -13.58% 5

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 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.47%) Azure
2 18 (14.17%) AWS
3 16 (12.60%) OpenShift
4 11 (8.66%) GCP
5 8 (6.30%) IaaS
6 7 (5.51%) GitHub
6 7 (5.51%) PaaS
7 6 (4.72%) Rubrik
8 4 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.36%) Cohesity
9 3 (2.36%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.36%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.79%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 38 (29.92%) SAN
2 32 (25.20%) DNS
3 26 (20.47%) NAS
4 23 (18.11%) Firewall
4 23 (18.11%) TCP/IP
5 22 (17.32%) SSL
6 21 (16.54%) BIG-IP
6 21 (16.54%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 21 (16.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 21 (16.54%) HTTP
7 20 (15.75%) Wireshark
8 13 (10.24%) VPN
9 11 (8.66%) DHCP
9 11 (8.66%) Fibre Channel
10 8 (6.30%) SMTP
11 6 (4.72%) iSCSI
12 3 (2.36%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (2.36%) Network Security
12 3 (2.36%) VSAN
12 3 (2.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.57%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.79%) MySQL
3 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.79%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 20 (15.75%) Fiddler
2 3 (2.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.36%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.57%) Git
3 2 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.79%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.79%) GitLab
4 1 (0.79%) JIRA
4 1 (0.79%) MSI
General
1 26 (20.47%) Banking
2 20 (15.75%) Investment Banking
3 13 (10.24%) Military
4 11 (8.66%) Social Skills
5 9 (7.09%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.94%) Legal
8 3 (2.36%) Finance
8 3 (2.36%) Retail
9 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.79%) Electronics
10 1 (0.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Police
10 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (26.77%) Storage Engineer
2 25 (19.69%) Network Engineer
3 23 (18.11%) NetApp Engineer
4 21 (16.54%) Web Engineer
5 20 (15.75%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 20 (15.75%) IP Network Engineer
6 19 (14.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (11.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 14 (11.02%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (11.02%) Systems Engineer
9 12 (9.45%) Architect
10 8 (6.30%) Infrastructure Architect
11 7 (5.51%) Consultant
11 7 (5.51%) Senior
12 4 (3.15%) Administrator
12 4 (3.15%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
12 4 (3.15%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.15%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
13 3 (2.36%) Backup Engineer
13 3 (2.36%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.57%) Flash
1 2 (1.57%) Middleware
1 2 (1.57%) REST
2 1 (0.79%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.83%) Replication
2 27 (21.26%) Enterprise Storage
3 21 (16.54%) Management Information System
4 14 (11.02%) Data Centre
5 12 (9.45%) Clustering
6 11 (8.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (7.09%) PKI
8 6 (4.72%) FlexPod
9 5 (3.94%) EMC VMAX
10 4 (3.15%) EMC VNX
10 4 (3.15%) Private Cloud
11 3 (2.36%) Driving Licence
11 3 (2.36%) EPoS
11 3 (2.36%) NVMe
11 3 (2.36%) Symmetrix
12 2 (1.57%) Celerra
12 2 (1.57%) CMDB
12 2 (1.57%) EMC Centera
12 2 (1.57%) IBM XIV
12 2 (1.57%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.83%) Linux
2 27 (21.26%) Windows
3 19 (14.96%) Data ONTAP
4 14 (11.02%) Windows Server
5 11 (8.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (5.51%) VMS
6 7 (5.51%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (4.72%) CoreOS
8 3 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (29.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (27.56%) Migration
3 32 (25.20%) Disaster Recovery
4 25 (19.69%) Data Protection
5 23 (18.11%) Load Balancing
6 20 (15.75%) Data Loss Prevention
6 20 (15.75%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 18 (14.17%) Capacity Planning
8 15 (11.81%) High Availability
9 14 (11.02%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (10.24%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (9.45%) ITIL
12 10 (7.87%) Change Management
13 9 (7.09%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (6.30%) Containerisation
15 7 (5.51%) DevOps
15 7 (5.51%) Incident Management
15 7 (5.51%) ITSM
16 6 (4.72%) Problem-Solving
16 6 (4.72%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (15.75%) PowerShell
2 9 (7.09%) Python
3 5 (3.94%) SQL
4 4 (3.15%) Bash
5 2 (1.57%) Perl
5 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.79%) C
6 1 (0.79%) C++
6 1 (0.79%) Java
6 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (48.03%) Security Cleared
2 49 (38.58%) DV Cleared
3 10 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.30%) NCDA
5 6 (4.72%) OCP
5 6 (4.72%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (3.94%) Degree
6 5 (3.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.57%) VCP6
10 1 (0.79%) CCNP
10 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.79%) NCIE
10 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.79%) PMP
10 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.79%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 63 (49.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (19.69%) Firmware
3 19 (14.96%) NFS
4 17 (13.39%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (12.60%) Active Directory
6 13 (10.24%) Hyper-V
6 13 (10.24%) vSphere
7 10 (7.87%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (7.09%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (6.30%) BitLocker
9 8 (6.30%) Docker
9 8 (6.30%) VMware NSX
10 3 (2.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.57%) SRDF
12 1 (0.79%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 27 (21.26%) Ansible
2 21 (16.54%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.81%) Terraform
3 15 (11.81%) vCenter Server
4 12 (9.45%) SnapMirror
5 11 (8.66%) vMotion
6 7 (5.51%) NetBackup
6 7 (5.51%) Puppet
7 5 (3.94%) Avamar
7 5 (3.94%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (3.15%) EMC VPLEX
8 4 (3.15%) Grafana
9 3 (2.36%) SCCM
9 3 (2.36%) SnapVault
9 3 (2.36%) vRealize
10 2 (1.57%) Argo
10 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.57%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.79%) Podman
11 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (51.18%) VMware
2 22 (17.32%) EMC
2 22 (17.32%) F5
3 21 (16.54%) Blue Coat
3 21 (16.54%) McAfee
4 19 (14.96%) Microsoft
5 16 (12.60%) Cisco
6 15 (11.81%) ServiceNow
7 14 (11.02%) Fortinet
8 12 (9.45%) Brocade
9 11 (8.66%) Veeam
10 10 (7.87%) Citrix
10 10 (7.87%) IBM
10 10 (7.87%) Red Hat
11 9 (7.09%) Google
12 7 (5.51%) Dell
12 7 (5.51%) Veritas
13 6 (4.72%) 3PAR
13 6 (4.72%) Pure Storage
14 5 (3.94%) Isilon