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 6 February 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
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 454 443
Rank change year-on-year -55 -11 +56
Contract jobs citing NetApp 92 73 143
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.23% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 0.52% 0.51% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 60 80
10th Percentile £372 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £432 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £501
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.20% +0.10%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £569
90th Percentile £650 £613 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £465
% change year-on-year +2.11% +2.15% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 18
10th Percentile £61.03 - £13.29
25th Percentile £61.81 - £14.04
Median hourly rate £63.75 - £40.00
75th Percentile £65.81 - -
90th Percentile £66.68 - £51.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.57%

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 17,731 14,389 19,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.28% 46.18% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,409 8,554 12,376
10th Percentile £300 £275 £255
25th Percentile £411 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 849 421 919
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.62 £12.96
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.70% -4.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £59.71
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.10 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.13 £26.66
% change year-on-year -15.79% -2.01% +3.29%

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 6 February 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 13 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 6 February 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 -39 83 £525 +4.90% 16
UK excluding London -46 70 £485 +2.11% 19
North of England -24 39 £463 -2.01% 5
Midlands -30 26 £500 -20.63% 5
North West -9 25 £500 +14.61% 1
West Midlands - 20 £500 - 3
London -32 17 £617 +14.75% 3
Work from Home -33 15 £488 -18.75% 12
Yorkshire -44 14 £463 -13.86% 4
South East -23 11 £613 +51.61% 1
South West -18 7 £425 -11.46%
East Midlands -22 6 £650 +3.17% 2
Scotland +7 5 £463 -1.07% 6

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 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.65%) Azure
2 11 (11.96%) AWS
3 10 (10.87%) GitHub
3 10 (10.87%) OpenShift
4 6 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.52%) GCP
5 5 (5.43%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (4.35%) Nutanix
7 3 (3.26%) IaaS
7 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.26%) PaaS
8 2 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.09%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.09%) Cloud Run
9 1 (1.09%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (34.78%) SAN
2 25 (27.17%) DNS
3 23 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 19 (20.65%) BIG-IP
4 19 (20.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 19 (20.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (20.65%) HTTP
4 19 (20.65%) NAS
4 19 (20.65%) SSL
5 18 (19.57%) Wireshark
6 15 (16.30%) Firewall
7 11 (11.96%) Fibre Channel
7 11 (11.96%) iSCSI
8 6 (6.52%) VPN
9 5 (5.43%) DHCP
9 5 (5.43%) DMZ
10 4 (4.35%) VSAN
11 3 (3.26%) Network Security
11 3 (3.26%) SMTP
11 3 (3.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (3.26%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (19.57%) Fiddler
2 4 (4.35%) JIRA
3 3 (3.26%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.09%) Git
4 1 (1.09%) GitLab
4 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (21.74%) Banking
2 18 (19.57%) Investment Banking
3 13 (14.13%) Social Skills
4 11 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.61%) Military
6 6 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.26%) Retail
8 2 (2.17%) Finance
8 2 (2.17%) Legal
9 1 (1.09%) Electronics
9 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.09%) Marketing
9 1 (1.09%) Police
9 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (23.91%) Network Engineer
2 17 (18.48%) Storage Engineer
3 15 (16.30%) Web Engineer
4 14 (15.22%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 14 (15.22%) IP Network Engineer
5 12 (13.04%) Architect
6 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Architect
7 8 (8.70%) NetApp Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Administrator
10 4 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Python Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) Junior
11 3 (3.26%) Junior Network Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) Server Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.26%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.52%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.09%) CrewAI
2 1 (1.09%) JSON
2 1 (1.09%) LangChain
2 1 (1.09%) LDAP
2 1 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.91%) Replication
2 19 (20.65%) Management Information System
3 12 (13.04%) Enterprise Storage
4 9 (9.78%) Data Centre
5 7 (7.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.43%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.26%) Clustering
7 3 (3.26%) Driving Licence
7 3 (3.26%) EPoS
7 3 (3.26%) NVMe
7 3 (3.26%) PKI
8 2 (2.17%) FlexPod
8 2 (2.17%) HP Storage
9 1 (1.09%) CMDB
9 1 (1.09%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.09%) Smartphone
9 1 (1.09%) Symmetrix
9 1 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (1.09%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.09%) Windows
2 23 (25.00%) Linux
3 9 (9.78%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.43%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (5.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.35%) VMS
6 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (2.17%) CoreOS
9 1 (1.09%) AIX
9 1 (1.09%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.35%) Migration
2 19 (20.65%) Load Balancing
3 18 (19.57%) High Availability
3 18 (19.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (15.22%) Data Loss Prevention
5 14 (15.22%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 12 (13.04%) DevOps
7 11 (11.96%) Data Protection
8 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (10.87%) ITIL
9 9 (9.78%) Agile
9 9 (9.78%) Change Management
10 8 (8.70%) CI/CD
10 8 (8.70%) Containerisation
10 8 (8.70%) Project Delivery
11 7 (7.61%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (7.61%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (6.52%) Capacity Planning
12 6 (6.52%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.48%) PowerShell
2 11 (11.96%) Python
3 6 (6.52%) SQL
4 5 (5.43%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.26%) Bash
5 3 (3.26%) C
5 3 (3.26%) C++
5 3 (3.26%) Java
6 2 (2.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 27 (29.35%) DV Cleared
3 14 (15.22%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.17%) Degree
4 2 (2.17%) MCSE
4 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.17%) NCDA
4 2 (2.17%) OCP
4 2 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (2.17%) VCP6
4 2 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.09%) CCNP
5 1 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.09%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 40 (43.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (20.65%) Firmware
3 14 (15.22%) NFS
4 9 (9.78%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (7.61%) Active Directory
5 7 (7.61%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (7.61%) VMware NSX
6 6 (6.52%) Hyper-V
6 6 (6.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (6.52%) vSphere
7 4 (4.35%) Docker
8 3 (3.26%) BitLocker
8 3 (3.26%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.09%) KVM
9 1 (1.09%) Squid
9 1 (1.09%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 17 (18.48%) Ansible
2 12 (13.04%) Terraform
3 11 (11.96%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.61%) vCenter Server
5 6 (6.52%) vMotion
6 4 (4.35%) NetBackup
7 3 (3.26%) Grafana
7 3 (3.26%) Puppet
7 3 (3.26%) SCCM
7 3 (3.26%) SnapMirror
7 3 (3.26%) vRealize
8 2 (2.17%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.09%) Argo
9 1 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.09%) Podman
9 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.09%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 42 (45.65%) VMware
2 20 (21.74%) F5
3 19 (20.65%) Blue Coat
3 19 (20.65%) McAfee
4 15 (16.30%) EMC
5 12 (13.04%) Cisco
6 11 (11.96%) ServiceNow
7 10 (10.87%) Dell
8 8 (8.70%) Fortinet
8 8 (8.70%) IBM
8 8 (8.70%) Microsoft
8 8 (8.70%) Veritas
9 6 (6.52%) Brocade
10 5 (5.43%) Veeam
11 4 (4.35%) Citrix
11 4 (4.35%) Google
11 4 (4.35%) Hitachi
11 4 (4.35%) HP
11 4 (4.35%) Red Hat
12 3 (3.26%) Commvault