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 5 November 2025, 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
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 472 458
Rank change year-on-year +4 -14 +144
Contract jobs citing NetApp 102 86 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.24% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 0.62% 0.52% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 74 89
10th Percentile £406 £363 £400
25th Percentile £469 £462 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +11.98% -4.95%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £611 £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £513 £473
% change year-on-year +7.32% +8.35% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile £40.78 - £13.03
25th Percentile £44.94 - £13.82
Median hourly rate £52.25 - £15.08
75th Percentile £59.94 - £45.71
90th Percentile £64.33 - £74.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £15.08
% change year-on-year - - -79.34%

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 16,461 16,408 21,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.61% 44.93% 45.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,296 9,661 13,519
10th Percentile £281 £293 £260
25th Percentile £404 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.80% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 511 665
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.91 £17.00 £19.76
Median hourly rate £25.04 £31.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -20.52% -28.25% +75.60%
75th Percentile £39.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.75 £71.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £28.50 £42.75
% change year-on-year -21.70% -33.33% +94.32%

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 5 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NetApp over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for NetApp in the UK

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 5 November 2025. 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 +12 92 £550 +2.33% 36
UK excluding London 0 86 £550 +7.32% 37
South East +28 33 £600 +26.32% 12
East of England -14 18 £550 -
North of England -33 18 £450 -4.76% 10
North West -19 15 £450 +3.15% 5
Work from Home -15 14 £500 -11.11% 24
London 0 12 £625 +13.64% 6
West Midlands -7 11 £500 +135.29% 4
Midlands -16 11 £500 +33.33% 6
Scotland +3 8 £525 +12.30% 8
South West +8 7 £425 -29.17% 3
Yorkshire -27 3 - -

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 3 (2.94%) CICS
2 2 (1.96%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.96%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.98%) Confluence
3 1 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (27.45%) Azure
2 19 (18.63%) Cohesity
3 18 (17.65%) GitHub
4 13 (12.75%) AWS
5 8 (7.84%) GCP
6 7 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Storage
8 4 (3.92%) SaaS
9 3 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.96%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.98%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.98%) IaaS
11 1 (0.98%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.98%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (42.16%) SAN
2 36 (35.29%) DNS
3 22 (21.57%) iSCSI
4 18 (17.65%) Fibre Channel
5 14 (13.73%) TCP/IP
6 13 (12.75%) NAS
7 11 (10.78%) Firewall
8 10 (9.80%) BIG-IP
8 10 (9.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 10 (9.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 10 (9.80%) HTTP
8 10 (9.80%) SSL
9 9 (8.82%) VLAN
9 9 (8.82%) Wireshark
10 7 (6.86%) VSAN
11 5 (4.90%) DMZ
12 4 (3.92%) VPN
12 4 (3.92%) WAN
13 2 (1.96%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (1.96%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.82%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.96%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.98%) Power BI
3 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (8.82%) ClearCase
1 9 (8.82%) Fiddler
2 7 (6.86%) JIRA
3 2 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.98%) Git
4 1 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (10.78%) Banking
3 10 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.82%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.96%) Finance
6 2 (1.96%) French Language
6 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (27.45%) Architect
2 23 (22.55%) Infrastructure Architect
3 15 (14.71%) VMware Architect
4 11 (10.78%) Network Engineer
5 8 (7.84%) Administrator
5 8 (7.84%) Backup Administrator
5 8 (7.84%) Storage Administrator
5 8 (7.84%) Storage and Backup Administrator
6 7 (6.86%) Storage Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Security Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Web Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Blue Coat Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) HP Storage Administrator
8 5 (4.90%) IP Network Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Server Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Python Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Junior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.86%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.94%) Middleware
3 2 (1.96%) LDAP
4 1 (0.98%) CrewAI
4 1 (0.98%) JSON
4 1 (0.98%) LangChain
4 1 (0.98%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.98%) XML
4 1 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.73%) Data Centre
1 14 (13.73%) Replication
2 11 (10.78%) Enterprise Storage
2 11 (10.78%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.92%) Clustering
4 4 (3.92%) HP Storage
4 4 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.94%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.94%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.98%) EMC VNX
6 1 (0.98%) FlexPod
6 1 (0.98%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.98%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 64 (62.75%) Windows
2 36 (35.29%) Windows Server 2019
3 35 (34.31%) Windows Server
4 27 (26.47%) Linux
5 24 (23.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (6.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.92%) Solaris
8 3 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.96%) AIX
9 2 (1.96%) zOS
10 1 (0.98%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.98%) MVS
10 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (17.65%) Build Automation
1 18 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
1 18 (17.65%) Migration
1 18 (17.65%) Operations Management
1 18 (17.65%) SIEM
2 12 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (11.76%) High Availability
2 12 (11.76%) Mentoring
3 11 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (9.80%) CI/CD
4 10 (9.80%) Load Balancing
5 9 (8.82%) DevOps
6 8 (7.84%) Edge Virtualization
6 8 (7.84%) ITIL
6 8 (7.84%) Performance Analysis
7 7 (6.86%) Agile
7 7 (6.86%) Data Protection
7 7 (6.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (6.86%) Project Delivery
7 7 (6.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 26 (25.49%) SQL
3 15 (14.71%) Shell Script
4 11 (10.78%) Java
5 9 (8.82%) C
6 6 (5.88%) Python
7 3 (2.94%) C++
8 1 (0.98%) Bash
8 1 (0.98%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 60 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 34 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 21 (20.59%) SC Cleared
4 15 (14.71%) MCSE
4 15 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (9.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 9 (8.82%) VCP5
6 9 (8.82%) VCP6
7 4 (3.92%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.92%) Degree
8 2 (1.96%) CCNP
8 2 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.98%) CCDP
9 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.98%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.98%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.88%) GDPR
2 4 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 58 (56.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (24.51%) Active Directory
3 21 (20.59%) vSphere
4 20 (19.61%) Virtual Servers
5 18 (17.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 17 (16.67%) NFS
6 17 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (6.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (6.86%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (6.86%) VMware NSX
8 6 (5.88%) Firmware
9 3 (2.94%) KVM
10 2 (1.96%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.98%) Docker
11 1 (0.98%) Squid
11 1 (0.98%) SRDF
11 1 (0.98%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.98%) Xen
Systems Management
1 27 (26.47%) Ansible
2 18 (17.65%) SCCM
2 18 (17.65%) WSUS
3 11 (10.78%) Terraform
4 8 (7.84%) NetBackup
5 5 (4.90%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.96%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.96%) SCOM
7 1 (0.98%) Argo
7 1 (0.98%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.98%) Podman
7 1 (0.98%) Puppet
7 1 (0.98%) vRealize
Vendors
1 62 (60.78%) VMware
2 42 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 33 (32.35%) Splunk
4 22 (21.57%) Veeam
5 15 (14.71%) F5
6 14 (13.73%) Dell
7 11 (10.78%) Cisco
7 11 (10.78%) Oracle
8 10 (9.80%) Blue Coat
8 10 (9.80%) EMC
8 10 (9.80%) McAfee
9 9 (8.82%) HP
9 9 (8.82%) Veritas
10 8 (7.84%) 3PAR
10 8 (7.84%) Nimble Storage
11 7 (6.86%) Red Hat
12 5 (4.90%) Pure Storage
13 4 (3.92%) Commvault
13 4 (3.92%) SolarWinds
14 3 (2.94%) ServiceNow