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 1 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
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 464 505
Rank change year-on-year -40 +41 -33
Contract jobs citing NetApp 121 55 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.62% 0.40% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 46 60
10th Percentile £387 £400 £400
25th Percentile £444 £415 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -4.71% +3.96%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £700
90th Percentile £638 £640 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £506 £455
% change year-on-year -3.80% +11.26% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £60.50 - £13.73
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 - - +153.32%

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 19,377 13,685 18,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.37% 47.12% 42.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,439 8,647 11,818
10th Percentile £313 £293 £255
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £514
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.29% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 966 482 1,045
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.46 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.07 £14.48
Median hourly rate £26.50 £28.75 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +23.84% -41.96%
75th Percentile £58.88 £62.50 £56.25
90th Percentile £78.25 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.13 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.83% +26.16% -38.62%

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 1 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 1 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 -44 112 £500 -0.10% 33
UK excluding London -41 85 £487 -3.80% 28
North of England -31 43 £487 +1.99% 4
Midlands -42 31 £595 -5.56% 4
London -49 30 £585 +17.00% 4
Work from Home -35 24 £500 -2.44% 11
North West -20 23 £575 +4.55% 3
Yorkshire -37 20 £483 +19.14% 1
West Midlands - 20 - - 4
South East -42 14 £495 -23.92% 9
East Midlands -23 11 £595 -5.56%
South West -24 9 £525 +11.70% 7
Scotland +10 4 £463 +8.82%
East of England -37 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 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 27 (22.31%) Azure
2 21 (17.36%) AWS
3 15 (12.40%) OpenShift
4 11 (9.09%) GCP
5 8 (6.61%) GitHub
5 8 (6.61%) IaaS
6 7 (5.79%) PaaS
7 6 (4.96%) Rubrik
8 4 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.48%) Cohesity
9 3 (2.48%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.48%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.83%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.83%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (29.75%) SAN
2 30 (24.79%) DNS
3 24 (19.83%) NAS
4 22 (18.18%) Firewall
4 22 (18.18%) TCP/IP
5 21 (17.36%) SSL
6 20 (16.53%) BIG-IP
6 20 (16.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 20 (16.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 20 (16.53%) HTTP
7 19 (15.70%) Wireshark
8 12 (9.92%) VPN
9 11 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
10 10 (8.26%) DHCP
11 8 (6.61%) SMTP
12 6 (4.96%) iSCSI
13 3 (2.48%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (2.48%) Network Security
14 2 (1.65%) VSAN
14 2 (1.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.65%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.83%) MySQL
3 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.83%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 19 (15.70%) Fiddler
2 3 (2.48%) JIRA
3 2 (1.65%) Git
3 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.83%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.83%) GitLab
4 1 (0.83%) MSI
General
1 24 (19.83%) Banking
2 19 (15.70%) Investment Banking
3 13 (10.74%) Military
4 12 (9.92%) Social Skills
5 10 (8.26%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.31%) Legal
8 3 (2.48%) Finance
8 3 (2.48%) Retail
9 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.83%) Electronics
10 1 (0.83%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Police
10 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (23.97%) Storage Engineer
2 23 (19.01%) Network Engineer
3 20 (16.53%) NetApp Engineer
3 20 (16.53%) Web Engineer
4 19 (15.70%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 19 (15.70%) IP Network Engineer
5 15 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (11.57%) Systems Engineer
7 12 (9.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 11 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (8.26%) Architect
10 8 (6.61%) Infrastructure Architect
11 6 (4.96%) Consultant
11 6 (4.96%) Senior
12 4 (3.31%) Administrator
12 4 (3.31%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
12 4 (3.31%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.31%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
13 3 (2.48%) Storage Specialist
13 3 (2.48%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.48%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.65%) Flash
2 2 (1.65%) Middleware
2 2 (1.65%) REST
3 1 (0.83%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.31%) Replication
2 25 (20.66%) Enterprise Storage
3 20 (16.53%) Management Information System
4 12 (9.92%) Clustering
5 11 (9.09%) Data Centre
5 11 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (7.44%) PKI
7 6 (4.96%) FlexPod
8 3 (2.48%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.48%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (2.48%) EPoS
8 3 (2.48%) NVMe
8 3 (2.48%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.48%) Symmetrix
9 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.65%) Celerra
9 2 (1.65%) CMDB
9 2 (1.65%) EMC Centera
9 2 (1.65%) IBM XIV
9 2 (1.65%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 30 (24.79%) Windows
2 29 (23.97%) Linux
3 16 (13.22%) Data ONTAP
4 14 (11.57%) Windows Server
5 11 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (5.79%) VMS
6 7 (5.79%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (4.96%) CoreOS
8 5 (4.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.93%) Migration
2 33 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 31 (25.62%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (19.83%) Data Protection
5 21 (17.36%) Load Balancing
6 19 (15.70%) Data Loss Prevention
6 19 (15.70%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 18 (14.88%) High Availability
8 16 (13.22%) Capacity Planning
9 14 (11.57%) Performance Optimisation
10 12 (9.92%) ITIL
11 11 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (8.26%) Change Management
13 9 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (6.61%) DevOps
15 7 (5.79%) Containerisation
15 7 (5.79%) Incident Management
15 7 (5.79%) ITSM
16 6 (4.96%) Agile
16 6 (4.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.61%) Python
3 5 (4.13%) SQL
4 3 (2.48%) Bash
5 2 (1.65%) Perl
5 2 (1.65%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.83%) C
6 1 (0.83%) C++
6 1 (0.83%) Java
6 1 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 58 (47.93%) Security Cleared
2 45 (37.19%) DV Cleared
3 12 (9.92%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.79%) NCDA
5 6 (4.96%) OCP
5 6 (4.96%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (4.13%) Degree
7 4 (3.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.65%) VCP6
9 1 (0.83%) CCNP
9 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.83%) PMP
9 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.83%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 58 (47.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (19.83%) Firmware
3 18 (14.88%) NFS
4 16 (13.22%) Active Directory
5 14 (11.57%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (9.92%) Hyper-V
6 12 (9.92%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (8.26%) vSphere
8 9 (7.44%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (6.61%) BitLocker
9 8 (6.61%) Docker
10 7 (5.79%) VMware NSX
11 5 (4.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (1.65%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.83%) SRDF
13 1 (0.83%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 26 (21.49%) Ansible
2 20 (16.53%) Kubernetes
3 16 (13.22%) Terraform
4 12 (9.92%) vCenter Server
5 11 (9.09%) vMotion
6 10 (8.26%) SnapMirror
7 7 (5.79%) Puppet
8 5 (4.13%) Avamar
8 5 (4.13%) NetBackup
9 3 (2.48%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (2.48%) Grafana
9 3 (2.48%) SCCM
9 3 (2.48%) vRealize
10 2 (1.65%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.65%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.83%) Argo
11 1 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.83%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 60 (49.59%) VMware
2 21 (17.36%) F5
3 20 (16.53%) Blue Coat
3 20 (16.53%) EMC
3 20 (16.53%) McAfee
4 16 (13.22%) Microsoft
4 16 (13.22%) ServiceNow
5 14 (11.57%) Fortinet
6 13 (10.74%) Cisco
7 10 (8.26%) Brocade
7 10 (8.26%) Citrix
7 10 (8.26%) IBM
8 9 (7.44%) Google
8 9 (7.44%) Red Hat
9 8 (6.61%) Veeam
10 7 (5.79%) Veritas
11 6 (4.96%) Dell
12 5 (4.13%) Isilon
12 5 (4.13%) Pure Storage
13 4 (3.31%) HP