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 13 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
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 461 524
Rank change year-on-year -54 +63 -70
Contract jobs citing NetApp 145 89 69
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.27% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.67% 0.57% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 71 50
10th Percentile £381 £400 £361
25th Percentile £463 £482 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £675
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £35.99
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +194.55%

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 21,707 15,531 18,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.20% 47.52% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,493 9,513 11,510
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 741 1,118
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £34.61 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.62% +0.60% -38.27%
75th Percentile £63.94 £53.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.31
% change year-on-year +43.61% -6.91% -21.58%

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 13 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 13 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 -66 128 £528 -4.09% 30
UK excluding London -51 108 £519 -5.64% 29
Work from Home -35 38 £500 - 16
North of England -43 37 £500 +4.71% 8
Midlands -20 31 £263 -58.33%
London -49 31 £575 +15.00% 4
Yorkshire -35 20 £500 +23.46% 3
South East -83 20 £495 -17.50% 13
West Midlands - 20 £200 -
North West -36 17 - - 5
South West -21 15 £575 +27.78%
East Midlands -5 11 £433 -31.35%
East of England -33 11 £600 +9.09% 5
Wales - 8 £538 - 4
Scotland -14 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 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.07%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (1.38%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 34 (23.45%) Azure
2 23 (15.86%) Rubrik
3 19 (13.10%) AWS
4 13 (8.97%) OpenShift
5 11 (7.59%) GCP
6 7 (4.83%) GitHub
7 5 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.45%) IaaS
8 4 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.76%) Nutanix
8 4 (2.76%) PaaS
9 3 (2.07%) Azure Storage
9 3 (2.07%) Cohesity
10 2 (1.38%) Datadog
11 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.69%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.69%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (24.14%) DNS
2 34 (23.45%) SAN
3 21 (14.48%) Firewall
4 19 (13.10%) TCP/IP
5 18 (12.41%) SSL
6 17 (11.72%) BIG-IP
6 17 (11.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 17 (11.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 17 (11.72%) HTTP
6 17 (11.72%) Wireshark
7 16 (11.03%) NAS
8 11 (7.59%) VPN
9 9 (6.21%) DHCP
10 8 (5.52%) VLAN
11 6 (4.14%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (4.14%) WAN
12 5 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (3.45%) LAN
12 5 (3.45%) SMTP
13 4 (2.76%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (2.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.69%) MySQL
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.69%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 17 (11.72%) Fiddler
2 5 (3.45%) Git
3 4 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.07%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.69%) JIRA
6 1 (0.69%) MSI
6 1 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 26 (17.93%) Banking
2 19 (13.10%) Finance
3 18 (12.41%) Social Skills
4 17 (11.72%) Investment Banking
5 13 (8.97%) Military
6 8 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.45%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.76%) Legal
10 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.38%) Retail
11 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (23.45%) Storage Engineer
2 32 (22.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (13.79%) Network Engineer
4 19 (13.10%) NetApp Engineer
5 18 (12.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 17 (11.72%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 17 (11.72%) IP Network Engineer
6 17 (11.72%) Senior
6 17 (11.72%) Web Engineer
7 15 (10.34%) VMware Specialist
8 13 (8.97%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) Backup Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) Consultant
10 8 (5.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Architect
11 7 (4.83%) Storage and Backup Engineer
12 6 (4.14%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.45%) Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.38%) Flash
1 2 (1.38%) Middleware
1 2 (1.38%) REST
2 1 (0.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 26 (17.93%) Replication
3 21 (14.48%) Management Information System
4 19 (13.10%) Data Centre
5 11 (7.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (6.90%) PKI
7 9 (6.21%) Clustering
8 7 (4.83%) EMC VMAX
8 7 (4.83%) EMC VNX
9 6 (4.14%) FlexPod
10 4 (2.76%) Private Cloud
11 3 (2.07%) Celerra
11 3 (2.07%) EMC Centera
11 3 (2.07%) IBM XIV
11 3 (2.07%) NVMe
11 3 (2.07%) Symmetrix
11 3 (2.07%) Symmetrix DMX
12 2 (1.38%) CMDB
12 2 (1.38%) Driving Licence
12 2 (1.38%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 38 (26.21%) Windows
2 35 (24.14%) Linux
3 21 (14.48%) Data ONTAP
4 20 (13.79%) Windows Server
5 17 (11.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (4.83%) VMS
7 6 (4.14%) CentOS
7 6 (4.14%) CoreOS
7 6 (4.14%) Rocky
8 4 (2.76%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.38%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (24.83%) Migration
3 27 (18.62%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (13.79%) Data Protection
5 19 (13.10%) Load Balancing
6 17 (11.72%) Data Loss Prevention
6 17 (11.72%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 16 (11.03%) Capacity Planning
8 12 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (7.59%) Performance Optimisation
9 11 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (6.21%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (6.21%) Storage Management
12 8 (5.52%) CI/CD
12 8 (5.52%) Data Migration
12 8 (5.52%) DevOps
13 7 (4.83%) Change Control
13 7 (4.83%) High Availability
13 7 (4.83%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 14 (9.66%) Python
3 9 (6.21%) Bash
4 4 (2.76%) SQL
5 2 (1.38%) Java
5 2 (1.38%) Perl
6 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 60 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 35 (24.14%) DV Cleared
3 25 (17.24%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.90%) NCDA
5 9 (6.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (5.52%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (4.14%) Degree
8 6 (4.14%) OCP
8 6 (4.14%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (2.76%) MCSE
10 3 (2.07%) NCIE
11 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.38%) VCP6
12 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.69%) Dell Certification
12 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.69%) PMP
12 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.69%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.76%) SLA
2 1 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 62 (42.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (12.41%) Firmware
2 18 (12.41%) vSphere
3 17 (11.72%) Active Directory
3 17 (11.72%) NFS
4 15 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (9.66%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (7.59%) VMware NSX
7 10 (6.90%) Hyper-V
8 6 (4.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 6 (4.14%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (3.45%) BitLocker
9 5 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (2.76%) Docker
11 3 (2.07%) SRDF
12 1 (0.69%) KVM
12 1 (0.69%) Samba
12 1 (0.69%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.69%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 34 (23.45%) Ansible
2 18 (12.41%) Kubernetes
2 18 (12.41%) Terraform
3 16 (11.03%) vCenter Server
4 15 (10.34%) NetBackup
4 15 (10.34%) SnapMirror
5 8 (5.52%) vMotion
6 7 (4.83%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (4.14%) Avamar
7 6 (4.14%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (4.14%) Puppet
8 5 (3.45%) Grafana
9 4 (2.76%) SnapVault
10 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (2.07%) Prometheus
10 3 (2.07%) SCCM
10 3 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.07%) vRealize
11 2 (1.38%) Argo
11 2 (1.38%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 84 (57.93%) VMware
2 28 (19.31%) Microsoft
3 25 (17.24%) Cisco
4 23 (15.86%) Veeam
5 17 (11.72%) Blue Coat
5 17 (11.72%) Brocade
5 17 (11.72%) EMC
5 17 (11.72%) F5
5 17 (11.72%) McAfee
6 14 (9.66%) Red Hat
6 14 (9.66%) ServiceNow
7 13 (8.97%) Fortinet
8 12 (8.28%) Dell
9 9 (6.21%) 3PAR
10 8 (5.52%) Commvault
10 8 (5.52%) Google
10 8 (5.52%) Pure Storage
11 7 (4.83%) Meraki
11 7 (4.83%) SolarWinds
12 6 (4.14%) Citrix