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 22 January 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
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 469 436
Rank change year-on-year -31 -33 +99
Contract jobs citing NetApp 87 68 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.21% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.50% 0.47% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 59 88
10th Percentile £390 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £426 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% +0.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £632 £600 £569
90th Percentile £650 £612 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £475 £466
% change year-on-year +2.53% +1.93% +3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 14
10th Percentile £61.03 - -
25th Percentile £61.81 - £13.29
Median hourly rate £63.75 - £14.16
75th Percentile £65.81 - £40.00
90th Percentile £66.68 - £66.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £14.16
% change year-on-year - - -80.60%

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 17,349 14,541 18,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.90% 45.87% 44.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,193 8,605 11,952
10th Percentile £300 £285 £253
25th Percentile £410 £409 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 819 432 804
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.15
25th Percentile £17.93 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% -21.43% +11.01%
75th Percentile £48.75 £61.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.00% -28.57% +35.11%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -29 74 £550 +9.89% 12
UK excluding London -45 66 £487 +2.53% 15
North of England -35 34 £475 +0.53% 5
North West -9 26 £475 +8.88%
Midlands -31 20 £500 -20.63% 2
West Midlands - 18 £500 - 1
London -19 17 £617 +14.75% 4
Work from Home -10 12 £500 -16.67% 12
South East -24 11 £613 +51.61% 1
Scotland +7 10 £513 +9.63% 6
Yorkshire -45 8 £481 -10.51% 4
South West -13 7 £425 -7.61%
East Midlands -23 2 £650 +3.17% 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 2 (2.30%) CICS
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.30%) Tomcat
1 2 (2.30%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (24.14%) Azure
2 17 (19.54%) GitHub
3 10 (11.49%) AWS
4 6 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.90%) GCP
4 6 (6.90%) OpenShift
5 5 (5.75%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.45%) IaaS
6 3 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.45%) Nutanix
6 3 (3.45%) PaaS
6 3 (3.45%) SaaS
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.15%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.15%) Cloud Run
8 1 (1.15%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 31 (35.63%) SAN
2 26 (29.89%) DNS
3 22 (25.29%) TCP/IP
4 17 (19.54%) BIG-IP
4 17 (19.54%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 17 (19.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 17 (19.54%) Firewall
4 17 (19.54%) HTTP
4 17 (19.54%) SSL
5 16 (18.39%) NAS
5 16 (18.39%) Wireshark
6 14 (16.09%) iSCSI
7 11 (12.64%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (6.90%) VLAN
8 6 (6.90%) VPN
9 5 (5.75%) DHCP
9 5 (5.75%) DMZ
10 4 (4.60%) VSAN
11 3 (3.45%) Network Security
11 3 (3.45%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (18.39%) Fiddler
2 9 (10.34%) ClearCase
3 6 (6.90%) JIRA
4 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.15%) Git
5 1 (1.15%) GitLab
5 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Banking
3 16 (18.39%) Investment Banking
4 11 (12.64%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Finance
6 2 (2.30%) Legal
6 2 (2.30%) Retail
7 1 (1.15%) Electronics
7 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.15%) Marketing
7 1 (1.15%) Military
7 1 (1.15%) Police
7 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (22.99%) Network Engineer
2 18 (20.69%) Storage Engineer
3 14 (16.09%) Architect
4 13 (14.94%) Web Engineer
5 12 (13.79%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 12 (13.79%) Infrastructure Architect
5 12 (13.79%) IP Network Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) NetApp Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Security Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Server Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Administrator
9 4 (4.60%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
10 3 (3.45%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (3.45%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.30%) LDAP
2 2 (2.30%) Middleware
3 1 (1.15%) CrewAI
3 1 (1.15%) JSON
3 1 (1.15%) LangChain
3 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.74%) Replication
2 17 (19.54%) Management Information System
3 12 (13.79%) Enterprise Storage
4 11 (12.64%) Data Centre
5 7 (8.05%) Clustering
6 5 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.75%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.45%) PKI
8 2 (2.30%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.30%) EPoS
8 2 (2.30%) HP Storage
8 2 (2.30%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.30%) NVMe
8 2 (2.30%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.15%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (1.15%) EMC VNX
9 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (37.93%) Windows
2 27 (31.03%) Linux
3 11 (12.64%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.45%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (3.45%) Solaris
6 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.30%) VMS
7 2 (2.30%) zOS
8 1 (1.15%) AIX
8 1 (1.15%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.14%) Migration
2 19 (21.84%) High Availability
3 17 (19.54%) Load Balancing
4 13 (14.94%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (14.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (13.79%) Data Loss Prevention
5 12 (13.79%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 11 (12.64%) DevOps
7 10 (11.49%) ITIL
7 10 (11.49%) Project Delivery
8 9 (10.34%) Change Management
8 9 (10.34%) CI/CD
8 9 (10.34%) Data Protection
8 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (9.20%) Agile
9 8 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (8.05%) Containerisation
11 6 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
11 6 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.69%) PowerShell
2 13 (14.94%) SQL
3 11 (12.64%) Java
4 10 (11.49%) Shell Script
5 9 (10.34%) C
6 8 (9.20%) Python
7 3 (3.45%) C++
8 2 (2.30%) Bash
9 1 (1.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (43.68%) Security Cleared
2 21 (24.14%) DV Cleared
3 14 (16.09%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) Degree
5 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.30%) MCSE
5 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.15%) CCNP
6 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.15%) NCDA
6 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.15%) VCAP
6 1 (1.15%) VCP6
6 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 40 (45.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (19.54%) Firmware
3 11 (12.64%) Active Directory
4 10 (11.49%) NFS
5 9 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (9.20%) Hyper-V
7 6 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (6.90%) VMware NSX
8 5 (5.75%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (4.60%) Docker
9 4 (4.60%) vSphere
10 3 (3.45%) BitLocker
10 3 (3.45%) KVM
10 3 (3.45%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (2.30%) SRDF
11 2 (2.30%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (1.15%) Squid
12 1 (1.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (1.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (16.09%) Ansible
2 11 (12.64%) Terraform
3 10 (11.49%) Kubernetes
4 8 (9.20%) vCenter Server
5 5 (5.75%) vMotion
6 4 (4.60%) NetBackup
6 4 (4.60%) Puppet
7 3 (3.45%) SCCM
8 2 (2.30%) Grafana
8 2 (2.30%) PowerCLI
8 2 (2.30%) vRealize
9 1 (1.15%) Argo
9 1 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.15%) Podman
9 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.15%) SnapMirror
9 1 (1.15%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 42 (48.28%) VMware
2 20 (22.99%) F5
3 17 (19.54%) Blue Coat
3 17 (19.54%) McAfee
4 15 (17.24%) EMC
5 13 (14.94%) Cisco
6 12 (13.79%) Dell
7 11 (12.64%) Oracle
8 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
9 8 (9.20%) IBM
9 8 (9.20%) Veeam
9 8 (9.20%) Veritas
10 5 (5.75%) ServiceNow
11 4 (4.60%) Brocade
11 4 (4.60%) Citrix
11 4 (4.60%) HP
11 4 (4.60%) SolarWinds
12 3 (3.45%) 3PAR
12 3 (3.45%) Google
12 3 (3.45%) Hitachi