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 29 September 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
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 453 484
Rank change year-on-year -101 +31 -22
Contract jobs citing NetApp 139 98 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.63% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 70 70
10th Percentile £389 £399 £363
25th Percentile £465 £467 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £663 £650 £616
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £483
% change year-on-year - +13.99% -3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £52.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £66.50 -

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 22,749 15,514 16,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.65% 47.59% 44.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,847 9,563 9,961
10th Percentile £310 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £613 £625
90th Percentile £705 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,319 804 634
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.75 £14.59
25th Percentile £16.44 £17.74 £15.65
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -19.52% -28.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.50 £64.25
90th Percentile £78.30 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.37% -29.00% -30.23%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -98 122 £550 - 75
UK excluding London -83 100 £550 - 54
London -63 35 £550 -12.00% 20
North of England -61 26 £519 +15.33% 12
East of England -24 23 £600 +9.09% 6
Work from Home -52 23 £550 +10.00% 34
Midlands -30 19 £263 -47.50% 5
West Midlands -33 18 £200 -60.00% 2
South West -28 16 £575 +31.43% 2
South East -85 15 £550 -8.33% 27
Yorkshire -28 14 £519 - 1
North West -49 12 - - 12
Wales - 9 £550 -
Scotland -31 4 £145 -71.00% 3
East Midlands - 1 £325 - 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 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.88%) Confluence
3 3 (2.16%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (2.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (20.86%) Azure
2 21 (15.11%) Rubrik
3 13 (9.35%) AWS
4 7 (5.04%) GCP
4 7 (5.04%) OpenShift
5 6 (4.32%) Cohesity
6 5 (3.60%) GitHub
6 5 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.88%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.16%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.44%) Datadog
9 2 (1.44%) IaaS
9 2 (1.44%) PaaS
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.72%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 40 (28.78%) SAN
2 37 (26.62%) DNS
3 22 (15.83%) Firewall
3 22 (15.83%) TCP/IP
4 15 (10.79%) VLAN
5 12 (8.63%) BIG-IP
5 12 (8.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 12 (8.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 12 (8.63%) HTTP
5 12 (8.63%) SSL
5 12 (8.63%) Wireshark
6 11 (7.91%) NAS
7 9 (6.47%) DHCP
7 9 (6.47%) VPN
8 8 (5.76%) Kerberos
9 6 (4.32%) WAN
10 5 (3.60%) LAN
10 5 (3.60%) Network Security
10 5 (3.60%) SD-WAN
10 5 (3.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (5.76%) SQLite
2 7 (5.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (9.35%) Git
2 12 (8.63%) Fiddler
3 11 (7.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.88%) JIRA
5 1 (0.72%) Subversion
5 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.42%) Finance
3 19 (13.67%) Banking
3 19 (13.67%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.63%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.60%) Retail
7 4 (2.88%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.88%) Legal
8 2 (1.44%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (33.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 38 (27.34%) Storage Engineer
3 21 (15.11%) Senior
4 18 (12.95%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 17 (12.23%) Network Engineer
6 15 (10.79%) VMware Specialist
7 12 (8.63%) Backup Engineer
7 12 (8.63%) Blue Coat Engineer
7 12 (8.63%) IP Network Engineer
7 12 (8.63%) NetApp Engineer
7 12 (8.63%) Web Engineer
8 11 (7.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (7.91%) Storage and Backup Engineer
9 10 (7.19%) Architect
9 10 (7.19%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) Storage Architect
11 6 (4.32%) NetApp Specialist
11 6 (4.32%) VMware Engineer
12 5 (3.60%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.19%) Terraform
2 8 (5.76%) SPNEGO
3 2 (1.44%) Mojolicious
3 2 (1.44%) Moose
4 1 (0.72%) LDAP
4 1 (0.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 46 (33.09%) Enterprise Storage
2 30 (21.58%) Replication
3 23 (16.55%) Data Centre
4 16 (11.51%) Management Information System
5 10 (7.19%) PKI
6 6 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.60%) Driving Licence
7 5 (3.60%) EMC VMAX
7 5 (3.60%) EMC VNX
8 4 (2.88%) Clustering
8 4 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.16%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (2.16%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.16%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.44%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.44%) Fat Client
10 2 (1.44%) Thin Client
11 1 (0.72%) AS400
11 1 (0.72%) EMC Centera
11 1 (0.72%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 48 (34.53%) Windows
2 47 (33.81%) Linux
3 31 (22.30%) Windows Server
4 28 (20.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (10.07%) CentOS
6 13 (9.35%) Data ONTAP
6 13 (9.35%) Rocky
7 5 (3.60%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.60%) VMS
8 4 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (2.16%) AIX
9 3 (2.16%) Solaris
10 2 (1.44%) HPUX
10 2 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.72%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.72%) Unix
11 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (43.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (15.83%) Disaster Recovery
3 19 (13.67%) Migration
3 19 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (12.95%) CI/CD
5 15 (10.79%) Load Balancing
5 15 (10.79%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (8.63%) Capacity Planning
6 12 (8.63%) Data Loss Prevention
6 12 (8.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (8.63%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 11 (7.91%) Business Continuity
7 11 (7.91%) Data Protection
8 10 (7.19%) Containerisation
8 10 (7.19%) DevOps
8 10 (7.19%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (7.19%) Service Management
9 9 (6.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (6.47%) Storage Management
10 8 (5.76%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 26 (18.71%) PowerShell
2 19 (13.67%) Python
3 14 (10.07%) Bash
4 9 (6.47%) Perl
5 8 (5.76%) Korn
6 6 (4.32%) SQL
7 3 (2.16%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.44%) Java
9 1 (0.72%) Ruby
9 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (36.69%) Security Cleared
2 31 (22.30%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.23%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.32%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.88%) Degree
6 4 (2.88%) MCSE
7 3 (2.16%) CCNP
7 3 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.16%) NCDA
7 3 (2.16%) NCIE
7 3 (2.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.72%) Dell Certification
8 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.72%) PMP
8 1 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.72%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.88%) SLA
2 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 63 (45.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (16.55%) vSphere
3 18 (12.95%) Firmware
4 16 (11.51%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (10.07%) Active Directory
5 14 (10.07%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (7.91%) NFS
7 8 (5.76%) Hyper-V
8 6 (4.32%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.88%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 4 (2.88%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (2.16%) Docker
10 3 (2.16%) SRDF
11 2 (1.44%) GPFS
12 1 (0.72%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.72%) KVM
12 1 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.72%) Samba
12 1 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.72%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 25 (17.99%) Ansible
2 19 (13.67%) NetBackup
3 10 (7.19%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.47%) SnapMirror
4 9 (6.47%) vCenter Server
5 5 (3.60%) EMC VPLEX
5 5 (3.60%) Puppet
5 5 (3.60%) SCCM
6 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.88%) SnapVault
7 3 (2.16%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (2.16%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.44%) Argo
8 2 (1.44%) Grafana
8 2 (1.44%) systemd
9 1 (0.72%) Avamar
9 1 (0.72%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.72%) Salt
9 1 (0.72%) vMotion
Vendors
1 85 (61.15%) VMware
2 30 (21.58%) Cisco
3 28 (20.14%) Veeam
4 26 (18.71%) Microsoft
5 23 (16.55%) Dell
6 21 (15.11%) EMC
7 12 (8.63%) Blue Coat
7 12 (8.63%) F5
7 12 (8.63%) McAfee
8 11 (7.91%) Brocade
8 11 (7.91%) Meraki
9 9 (6.47%) IBM
9 9 (6.47%) Red Hat
10 8 (5.76%) SolarWinds
11 7 (5.04%) CheckPoint
12 6 (4.32%) Commvault
12 6 (4.32%) Hitachi
12 6 (4.32%) Veritas
13 5 (3.60%) 3PAR
13 5 (3.60%) BT