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 20 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
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 457 474
Rank change year-on-year -47 +17 +8
Contract jobs citing NetApp 111 63 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.58% 0.46% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 49 65
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £438 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £630 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -2.60% +7.53% -7.00%
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 18,995 13,794 19,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.67% 47.14% 42.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,168 8,632 11,856
10th Percentile £310 £290 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% -2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £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 967 461 1,025
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +18.37% -31.94%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.91 £82.96 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £27.43 £22.58
% change year-on-year -14.31% +21.46% -32.09%

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 20 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 20 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 -48 101 £500 -0.10% 34
UK excluding London -42 77 £487 -2.60% 27
North of England -36 42 £487 +20.25% 1
Midlands -34 31 £595 -5.56% 3
London -39 27 £593 +18.50% 6
North West -13 23 £575 +31.81% 1
Work from Home -27 22 £500 -2.44% 11
West Midlands - 20 - - 3
Yorkshire -43 19 £487 +20.25%
South East -48 13 £494 -20.96% 11
East Midlands -27 11 £595 -5.56%
South West -29 5 £425 -9.57% 8
Scotland +9 4 £463 +8.82%
East of England -33 1 - - 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 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.90%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.62%) Azure
2 19 (17.12%) AWS
3 14 (12.61%) OpenShift
4 11 (9.91%) GCP
5 7 (6.31%) IaaS
6 6 (5.41%) GitHub
6 6 (5.41%) PaaS
6 6 (5.41%) Rubrik
7 4 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.70%) Cohesity
8 3 (2.70%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.70%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.90%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 36 (32.43%) SAN
2 28 (25.23%) DNS
3 24 (21.62%) NAS
4 22 (19.82%) TCP/IP
5 21 (18.92%) SSL
6 20 (18.02%) BIG-IP
6 20 (18.02%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 20 (18.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 20 (18.02%) HTTP
7 19 (17.12%) Wireshark
8 17 (15.32%) Firewall
9 12 (10.81%) Fibre Channel
10 11 (9.91%) VPN
11 9 (8.11%) DHCP
12 7 (6.31%) iSCSI
12 7 (6.31%) SMTP
13 3 (2.70%) Network Security
14 2 (1.80%) VSAN
14 2 (1.80%) WAN
15 1 (0.90%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.90%) MySQL
3 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.90%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 19 (17.12%) Fiddler
2 3 (2.70%) JIRA
3 2 (1.80%) Git
4 1 (0.90%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.90%) GitLab
4 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.90%) MSI
4 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (21.62%) Banking
2 19 (17.12%) Investment Banking
3 13 (11.71%) Military
4 12 (10.81%) Social Skills
5 10 (9.01%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.70%) Finance
7 3 (2.70%) Legal
7 3 (2.70%) Retail
8 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Electronics
9 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.90%) Marketing
9 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Police
9 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (25.23%) Storage Engineer
2 23 (20.72%) Network Engineer
3 20 (18.02%) Web Engineer
4 19 (17.12%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 19 (17.12%) IP Network Engineer
4 19 (17.12%) NetApp Engineer
5 14 (12.61%) Systems Engineer
6 13 (11.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (9.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 10 (9.01%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (9.01%) Architect
9 8 (7.21%) Infrastructure Architect
10 5 (4.50%) Consultant
10 5 (4.50%) Senior
11 4 (3.60%) Administrator
11 4 (3.60%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
11 4 (3.60%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.60%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
12 3 (2.70%) Virtualisation Architect
13 2 (1.80%) Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.70%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.80%) Flash
3 1 (0.90%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.42%) Replication
2 23 (20.72%) Enterprise Storage
3 20 (18.02%) Management Information System
4 11 (9.91%) Clustering
4 11 (9.91%) Data Centre
4 11 (9.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (6.31%) PKI
6 6 (5.41%) FlexPod
7 3 (2.70%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.70%) EPoS
7 3 (2.70%) NVMe
8 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.90%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (0.90%) EMC VNX
9 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.90%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.90%) Symmetrix
9 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (25.23%) Linux
2 24 (21.62%) Windows
3 14 (12.61%) Data ONTAP
4 11 (9.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (9.01%) Windows Server
6 7 (6.31%) VMS
7 6 (5.41%) CoreOS
7 6 (5.41%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (4.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (27.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (27.03%) Disaster Recovery
2 30 (27.03%) Migration
3 22 (19.82%) Data Protection
4 20 (18.02%) Load Balancing
5 19 (17.12%) Data Loss Prevention
5 19 (17.12%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 17 (15.32%) High Availability
7 16 (14.41%) Capacity Planning
8 13 (11.71%) ITIL
8 13 (11.71%) Performance Optimisation
9 11 (9.91%) Change Management
9 11 (9.91%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (7.21%) DevOps
10 8 (7.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (6.31%) Containerisation
12 6 (5.41%) Agile
12 6 (5.41%) ITSM
12 6 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (5.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.92%) PowerShell
2 8 (7.21%) Python
3 5 (4.50%) SQL
4 3 (2.70%) Bash
5 2 (1.80%) Perl
5 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.90%) C
6 1 (0.90%) C++
6 1 (0.90%) Java
6 1 (0.90%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (47.75%) Security Cleared
2 41 (36.94%) DV Cleared
3 11 (9.91%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.41%) NCDA
4 6 (5.41%) OCP
4 6 (5.41%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (4.50%) Degree
6 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.80%) VCP6
6 2 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.90%) CCNP
7 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.90%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.90%) PMP
7 1 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.90%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 53 (47.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (22.52%) Firmware
3 19 (17.12%) NFS
4 13 (11.71%) Active Directory
5 11 (9.91%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (9.01%) Hyper-V
6 10 (9.01%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (8.11%) vSphere
8 8 (7.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (6.31%) BitLocker
9 7 (6.31%) Docker
10 5 (4.50%) VMware NSX
11 4 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.90%) SRDF
12 1 (0.90%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 23 (20.72%) Ansible
2 18 (16.22%) Kubernetes
3 14 (12.61%) Terraform
4 10 (9.01%) SnapMirror
4 10 (9.01%) vMotion
5 9 (8.11%) vCenter Server
6 6 (5.41%) Puppet
7 5 (4.50%) NetBackup
8 3 (2.70%) Avamar
8 3 (2.70%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (2.70%) Grafana
8 3 (2.70%) SCCM
8 3 (2.70%) vRealize
9 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.80%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.90%) Argo
10 1 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.90%) Podman
10 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.90%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 54 (48.65%) VMware
2 21 (18.92%) F5
3 20 (18.02%) Blue Coat
3 20 (18.02%) McAfee
4 18 (16.22%) EMC
5 16 (14.41%) ServiceNow
6 14 (12.61%) Fortinet
6 14 (12.61%) Microsoft
7 9 (8.11%) Cisco
7 9 (8.11%) Citrix
7 9 (8.11%) Google
7 9 (8.11%) Red Hat
8 8 (7.21%) Brocade
8 8 (7.21%) IBM
9 7 (6.31%) Dell
9 7 (6.31%) Veritas
10 5 (4.50%) Pure Storage
10 5 (4.50%) Veeam
11 4 (3.60%) Commvault
11 4 (3.60%) Hitachi