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 21 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
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 463 505
Rank change year-on-year -52 +42 -37
Contract jobs citing NetApp 150 89 66
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.27% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% 0.57% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 69 51
10th Percentile £413 £400 £363
25th Percentile £463 £500 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £597
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
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 21,737 15,481 17,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.23% 47.51% 43.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,491 9,458 11,258
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,083 765 984
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £12.90
25th Percentile £19.29 £17.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £34.94 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.93% -3.27% -36.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +51.07% -10.00% -22.24%

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 21 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 15 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 21 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 -36 133 £540 -1.82% 24
UK excluding London -60 111 £525 -4.55% 21
Work from Home -38 38 £500 - 12
North of England -39 38 £500 +4.71% 5
London -43 34 £550 +10.00% 3
Midlands -18 30 £263 -58.33%
Yorkshire -34 22 £500 +23.46% 2
South East -79 20 £550 -8.33% 11
West Midlands - 19 £200 -
North West -32 16 - - 3
South West -25 15 £575 +27.78%
East of England -32 12 £600 +9.09% 4
East Midlands -2 11 £433 -31.35%
Wales - 9 £550 - 1
Scotland -16 3 £463 -2.01%

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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (1.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 36 (24.00%) Azure
2 23 (15.33%) Rubrik
3 20 (13.33%) AWS
4 13 (8.67%) OpenShift
5 11 (7.33%) GCP
6 7 (4.67%) GitHub
7 6 (4.00%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.33%) IaaS
9 4 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.67%) Nutanix
9 4 (2.67%) PaaS
10 3 (2.00%) Azure Storage
10 3 (2.00%) Cohesity
11 2 (1.33%) Datadog
12 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.67%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (24.00%) SAN
2 35 (23.33%) DNS
3 23 (15.33%) Firewall
4 20 (13.33%) TCP/IP
5 17 (11.33%) SSL
6 16 (10.67%) BIG-IP
6 16 (10.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 16 (10.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 16 (10.67%) HTTP
6 16 (10.67%) NAS
6 16 (10.67%) Wireshark
7 11 (7.33%) VPN
8 9 (6.00%) DHCP
8 9 (6.00%) VLAN
9 6 (4.00%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (4.00%) WAN
10 5 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (3.33%) LAN
10 5 (3.33%) SMTP
11 4 (2.67%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.33%) SQLite
5 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.67%) MySQL
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.67%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 16 (10.67%) Fiddler
2 7 (4.67%) Git
3 6 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.67%) JIRA
6 1 (0.67%) MSI
6 1 (0.67%) Subversion
General
1 27 (18.00%) Banking
2 20 (13.33%) Finance
3 18 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.67%) Investment Banking
5 13 (8.67%) Military
6 9 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.67%) Legal
8 4 (2.67%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.00%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (25.33%) Storage Engineer
2 34 (22.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (12.67%) NetApp Engineer
3 19 (12.67%) Network Engineer
4 18 (12.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 18 (12.00%) Senior
5 16 (10.67%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 16 (10.67%) IP Network Engineer
5 16 (10.67%) Web Engineer
6 15 (10.00%) VMware Specialist
7 13 (8.67%) Systems Engineer
8 10 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 10 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (6.67%) Backup Engineer
9 9 (6.00%) Storage and Backup Engineer
10 8 (5.33%) Architect
10 8 (5.33%) Consultant
10 8 (5.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.00%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.00%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.33%) Flash
1 2 (1.33%) Middleware
1 2 (1.33%) Mojolicious
1 2 (1.33%) Moose
1 2 (1.33%) REST
1 2 (1.33%) SPNEGO
2 1 (0.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (22.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 31 (20.67%) Replication
3 20 (13.33%) Management Information System
4 19 (12.67%) Data Centre
5 11 (7.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (6.67%) PKI
7 9 (6.00%) Clustering
8 7 (4.67%) EMC VMAX
8 7 (4.67%) EMC VNX
9 6 (4.00%) FlexPod
10 4 (2.67%) Private Cloud
11 3 (2.00%) Celerra
11 3 (2.00%) EMC Centera
11 3 (2.00%) IBM XIV
11 3 (2.00%) NVMe
11 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
11 3 (2.00%) Symmetrix
11 3 (2.00%) Symmetrix DMX
12 2 (1.33%) Cloud Native
12 2 (1.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 42 (28.00%) Windows
2 41 (27.33%) Linux
3 22 (14.67%) Windows Server
4 21 (14.00%) Data ONTAP
5 19 (12.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (6.00%) VMS
7 7 (4.67%) CentOS
7 7 (4.67%) Rocky
8 6 (4.00%) CoreOS
9 4 (2.67%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (2.00%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.67%) AIX
12 1 (0.67%) HPUX
12 1 (0.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (37.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (24.00%) Migration
3 29 (19.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 23 (15.33%) Data Protection
5 18 (12.00%) Load Balancing
6 16 (10.67%) Capacity Planning
6 16 (10.67%) Data Loss Prevention
6 16 (10.67%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 12 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (7.33%) Performance Optimisation
9 10 (6.67%) CI/CD
9 10 (6.67%) DevOps
10 9 (6.00%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (6.00%) Storage Management
11 8 (5.33%) Data Migration
11 8 (5.33%) Roadmaps
11 8 (5.33%) Runbook
12 7 (4.67%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 31 (20.67%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.67%) Python
3 10 (6.67%) Bash
4 6 (4.00%) SQL
5 4 (2.67%) Perl
6 2 (1.33%) Java
6 2 (1.33%) Korn
7 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 62 (41.33%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.33%) DV Cleared
3 26 (17.33%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.67%) NCDA
5 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.67%) Degree
7 7 (4.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (4.00%) OCP
8 6 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (2.67%) MCSE
10 3 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.00%) NCIE
11 2 (1.33%) VCP6
12 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.67%) CCNP
12 1 (0.67%) Dell Certification
12 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.67%) PMP
12 1 (0.67%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.67%) SLA
2 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 65 (43.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (13.33%) vSphere
3 18 (12.00%) Active Directory
4 17 (11.33%) Firmware
4 17 (11.33%) NFS
4 17 (11.33%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (9.33%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (7.33%) VMware NSX
7 10 (6.67%) Hyper-V
8 6 (4.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 6 (4.00%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (3.33%) BitLocker
9 5 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (2.67%) Docker
11 3 (2.00%) SRDF
12 1 (0.67%) KVM
12 1 (0.67%) Samba
12 1 (0.67%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.67%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 36 (24.00%) Ansible
2 18 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (12.00%) Terraform
3 16 (10.67%) vCenter Server
4 15 (10.00%) NetBackup
4 15 (10.00%) SnapMirror
5 8 (5.33%) vMotion
6 7 (4.67%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (4.00%) Avamar
7 6 (4.00%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (4.00%) Puppet
8 5 (3.33%) Grafana
9 4 (2.67%) SnapVault
10 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (2.00%) Prometheus
10 3 (2.00%) SCCM
10 3 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.00%) vRealize
11 2 (1.33%) PowerCLI
11 2 (1.33%) systemd
Vendors
1 88 (58.67%) VMware
2 29 (19.33%) Microsoft
3 25 (16.67%) Cisco
4 24 (16.00%) Veeam
5 17 (11.33%) Brocade
6 16 (10.67%) Blue Coat
6 16 (10.67%) EMC
6 16 (10.67%) F5
6 16 (10.67%) McAfee
7 14 (9.33%) Red Hat
7 14 (9.33%) ServiceNow
8 13 (8.67%) Fortinet
9 12 (8.00%) Dell
10 8 (5.33%) Commvault
10 8 (5.33%) Google
10 8 (5.33%) Meraki
10 8 (5.33%) Pure Storage
11 7 (4.67%) 3PAR
11 7 (4.67%) SolarWinds
12 6 (4.00%) Citrix