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 3 March 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
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 465 470
Rank change year-on-year -47 +5 +20
Contract jobs citing NetApp 104 61 128
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.20% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 0.56% 0.44% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 47 73
10th Percentile £381 £400 £403
25th Percentile £452 £415 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £619 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £500 £466
% change year-on-year -2.60% +7.41% -6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 18
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £60.50 - £14.04
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £51.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +97.53%

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 18,543 13,917 19,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.45% 46.61% 43.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,886 8,519 12,055
10th Percentile £306 £284 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £514
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -2.47%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 928 434 985
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.62 £12.74
25th Percentile £18.21 £21.25 £15.10
Median hourly rate £24.28 £30.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.08% +18.81% -27.86%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.68 £81.98 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £27.43 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.48% +9.70% -23.08%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -47 93 £538 +7.45% 25
UK excluding London -39 73 £487 -2.60% 19
North of England -25 41 £487 +20.99% 1
Midlands -28 29 £650 +3.17% 3
London -33 24 £600 +19.88% 7
North West -20 23 £575 +43.75%
West Midlands - 19 - - 3
Work from Home -29 18 £500 -9.09% 11
Yorkshire -44 18 £481 +18.77% 1
South East -19 12 £600 +23.08% 9
East Midlands -22 10 £650 +3.17%
Scotland +16 5 £463 +32.14%
South West -20 4 £475 +1.06% 4
East of England -38 1 - - 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 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.31%) Azure
2 15 (14.42%) AWS
3 13 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 8 (7.69%) GCP
5 7 (6.73%) GitHub
6 5 (4.81%) IaaS
6 5 (4.81%) Rubrik
7 4 (3.85%) PaaS
8 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.88%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.92%) Cohesity
9 2 (1.92%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.96%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 35 (33.65%) SAN
2 25 (24.04%) DNS
3 24 (23.08%) NAS
4 22 (21.15%) TCP/IP
5 21 (20.19%) SSL
6 20 (19.23%) BIG-IP
6 20 (19.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 20 (19.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 20 (19.23%) HTTP
7 19 (18.27%) Wireshark
8 16 (15.38%) Firewall
9 14 (13.46%) Fibre Channel
10 9 (8.65%) iSCSI
11 7 (6.73%) VPN
12 6 (5.77%) DHCP
13 4 (3.85%) SMTP
13 4 (3.85%) VSAN
14 3 (2.88%) DMZ
14 3 (2.88%) Network Security
15 2 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.88%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (18.27%) Fiddler
2 3 (2.88%) ClearCase
3 2 (1.92%) Git
3 2 (1.92%) JIRA
4 1 (0.96%) GitLab
4 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (22.12%) Banking
2 19 (18.27%) Investment Banking
3 13 (12.50%) Military
4 11 (10.58%) Social Skills
5 10 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Finance
7 3 (2.88%) Retail
8 2 (1.92%) Legal
9 1 (0.96%) Electronics
9 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.96%) Marketing
9 1 (0.96%) Police
9 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (22.12%) Network Engineer
2 22 (21.15%) Storage Engineer
3 18 (17.31%) Web Engineer
4 17 (16.35%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 17 (16.35%) IP Network Engineer
5 14 (13.46%) NetApp Engineer
5 14 (13.46%) Systems Engineer
6 13 (12.50%) Architect
7 11 (10.58%) Infrastructure Architect
8 9 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Senior
12 4 (3.85%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
12 4 (3.85%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.85%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
13 3 (2.88%) Administrator
13 3 (2.88%) Virtualisation Architect
14 2 (1.92%) Senior Storage Engineer
14 2 (1.92%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.88%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.92%) Flash
3 1 (0.96%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.12%) Replication
2 20 (19.23%) Management Information System
3 19 (18.27%) Enterprise Storage
4 10 (9.62%) Data Centre
4 10 (9.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (6.73%) Clustering
6 5 (4.81%) FlexPod
7 4 (3.85%) PKI
8 3 (2.88%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.88%) EPoS
8 3 (2.88%) NVMe
8 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.96%) CMDB
9 1 (0.96%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (0.96%) EMC VNX
9 1 (0.96%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.96%) Symmetrix
9 1 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.96%) Linux
2 23 (22.12%) Windows
3 11 (10.58%) Data ONTAP
4 10 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (9.62%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.77%) VMS
6 5 (4.81%) CoreOS
6 5 (4.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (4.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.85%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (27.88%) Migration
2 28 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (24.04%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (19.23%) Load Balancing
5 17 (16.35%) Data Loss Prevention
5 17 (16.35%) Data Protection
5 17 (16.35%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 16 (15.38%) High Availability
7 12 (11.54%) Capacity Planning
8 11 (10.58%) ITIL
9 10 (9.62%) Change Management
9 10 (9.62%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (8.65%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (7.69%) DevOps
12 7 (6.73%) Containerisation
12 7 (6.73%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (6.73%) Project Delivery
13 6 (5.77%) ITSM
13 6 (5.77%) Technical Leadership
14 5 (4.81%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 10 (9.62%) Python
3 7 (6.73%) SQL
4 4 (3.85%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.88%) Bash
5 3 (2.88%) C
5 3 (2.88%) C++
5 3 (2.88%) Java
6 2 (1.92%) Perl
Qualifications
1 48 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 38 (36.54%) DV Cleared
3 9 (8.65%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.81%) OCP
4 5 (4.81%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (3.85%) NCDA
6 3 (2.88%) Degree
7 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.92%) MCSE
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.92%) VCP6
7 2 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.96%) CCNP
8 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.96%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 47 (45.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (22.12%) Firmware
3 19 (18.27%) NFS
4 10 (9.62%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (9.62%) vSphere
5 9 (8.65%) Active Directory
5 9 (8.65%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (6.73%) Hyper-V
6 7 (6.73%) VMware NSX
7 5 (4.81%) Docker
8 4 (3.85%) BitLocker
8 4 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (2.88%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.96%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 21 (20.19%) Ansible
2 15 (14.42%) Kubernetes
3 12 (11.54%) Terraform
4 8 (7.69%) SnapMirror
5 7 (6.73%) vMotion
6 6 (5.77%) vCenter Server
7 5 (4.81%) NetBackup
8 4 (3.85%) Puppet
9 3 (2.88%) Avamar
9 3 (2.88%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (2.88%) Grafana
9 3 (2.88%) SCCM
9 3 (2.88%) vRealize
10 2 (1.92%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.96%) Argo
11 1 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.96%) Podman
11 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.96%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 50 (48.08%) VMware
2 21 (20.19%) F5
3 20 (19.23%) Blue Coat
3 20 (19.23%) McAfee
4 17 (16.35%) EMC
5 15 (14.42%) ServiceNow
6 14 (13.46%) Fortinet
7 10 (9.62%) Cisco
7 10 (9.62%) Microsoft
8 8 (7.69%) Brocade
8 8 (7.69%) IBM
9 7 (6.73%) Red Hat
10 6 (5.77%) Dell
10 6 (5.77%) Google
10 6 (5.77%) Veritas
11 5 (4.81%) Citrix
11 5 (4.81%) Pure Storage
12 4 (3.85%) Hitachi
12 4 (3.85%) Veeam
13 3 (2.88%) Commvault