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 25 August 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
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 452 490
Rank change year-on-year -81 +38 -22
Contract jobs citing NetApp 137 98 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.30% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.63% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 74 61
10th Percentile £427 £402 £363
25th Percentile £475 £467 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +2.87%
75th Percentile £625 £594 £575
90th Percentile £663 £650 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £531
% change year-on-year - +3.53% +6.25%
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 22,372 15,460 16,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.71% 47.22% 43.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,803 9,448 10,476
10th Percentile £313 £275 £286
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £611 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,160 806 783
10th Percentile £14.36 £14.67 £13.30
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.73 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.21% -10.18% -36.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.30 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.03 £67.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.24 £26.13
% change year-on-year +31.83% -18.70% -34.03%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -76 124 £550 - 67
UK excluding London -79 98 £550 - 52
London -47 35 £550 +10.00% 18
Work from Home -53 29 £533 +6.50% 30
North of England -49 28 £519 +9.26% 8
Midlands -41 24 £325 -35.00% 3
West Midlands -26 22 £200 -60.00% 2
South West -28 19 £575 +31.43% 8
South East -78 19 £550 -8.33% 23
North West -30 16 - - 4
East of England -27 15 £600 +9.09% 10
Yorkshire -30 12 £519 - 4
Wales - 9 £550 -
East Midlands - 2 £433 - 1

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 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.19%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (2.19%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.73%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.82%) Azure
2 24 (17.52%) Rubrik
3 16 (11.68%) AWS
4 7 (5.11%) GCP
5 6 (4.38%) GitHub
5 6 (4.38%) OpenShift
6 5 (3.65%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.19%) Azure Storage
7 3 (2.19%) Cohesity
7 3 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.19%) IaaS
7 3 (2.19%) PaaS
8 2 (1.46%) Datadog
9 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.73%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.73%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.73%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (27.74%) DNS
2 32 (23.36%) SAN
3 24 (17.52%) Firewall
4 21 (15.33%) TCP/IP
5 16 (11.68%) BIG-IP
5 16 (11.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 16 (11.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 16 (11.68%) HTTP
5 16 (11.68%) SSL
5 16 (11.68%) Wireshark
6 11 (8.03%) VPN
7 10 (7.30%) DHCP
7 10 (7.30%) NAS
7 10 (7.30%) VLAN
8 6 (4.38%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (3.65%) WAN
10 4 (2.92%) Kerberos
10 4 (2.92%) LAN
10 4 (2.92%) Network Security
10 4 (2.92%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.92%) SQLite
4 3 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.73%) MySQL
6 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.73%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.73%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 16 (11.68%) Fiddler
2 8 (5.84%) Git
3 7 (5.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.19%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.73%) JIRA
6 1 (0.73%) MSI
6 1 (0.73%) Subversion
General
1 25 (18.25%) Finance
2 24 (17.52%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.79%) Banking
4 16 (11.68%) Investment Banking
5 11 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (7.30%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.65%) Legal
8 4 (2.92%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.46%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 42 (30.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (29.20%) Storage Engineer
3 20 (14.60%) Network Engineer
3 20 (14.60%) Senior
4 18 (13.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 16 (11.68%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 16 (11.68%) IP Network Engineer
5 16 (11.68%) Web Engineer
6 15 (10.95%) NetApp Engineer
6 15 (10.95%) VMware Specialist
7 10 (7.30%) Architect
7 10 (7.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) Backup Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) Storage and Backup Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) Storage Architect
10 7 (5.11%) Consultant
11 6 (4.38%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.76%) Terraform
2 4 (2.92%) SPNEGO
3 2 (1.46%) Flash
3 2 (1.46%) Middleware
3 2 (1.46%) Mojolicious
3 2 (1.46%) Moose
3 2 (1.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 42 (30.66%) Enterprise Storage
2 33 (24.09%) Replication
3 21 (15.33%) Data Centre
4 20 (14.60%) Management Information System
5 12 (8.76%) PKI
6 7 (5.11%) Clustering
6 7 (5.11%) EMC VMAX
6 7 (5.11%) EMC VNX
7 5 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.65%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.19%) Celerra
8 3 (2.19%) EMC Centera
8 3 (2.19%) IBM XIV
8 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.19%) Symmetrix
8 3 (2.19%) Symmetrix DMX
9 2 (1.46%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.46%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.46%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 47 (34.31%) Windows
2 41 (29.93%) Linux
3 29 (21.17%) Windows Server
4 18 (13.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (11.68%) Data ONTAP
6 12 (8.76%) CentOS
7 10 (7.30%) Rocky
8 6 (4.38%) VMS
9 5 (3.65%) Ubuntu
10 4 (2.92%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (2.19%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (1.46%) AIX
12 2 (1.46%) HPUX
12 2 (1.46%) Solaris
12 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.73%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (36.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (18.25%) Migration
3 23 (16.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 19 (13.87%) Data Protection
4 19 (13.87%) Load Balancing
5 16 (11.68%) Data Loss Prevention
5 16 (11.68%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 16 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (9.49%) Capacity Planning
6 13 (9.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (8.76%) CI/CD
8 11 (8.03%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (7.30%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (6.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (5.84%) Business Continuity
11 8 (5.84%) Data Migration
11 8 (5.84%) DevOps
11 8 (5.84%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (5.11%) ITIL
12 7 (5.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (20.44%) PowerShell
2 12 (8.76%) Python
3 9 (6.57%) Bash
4 5 (3.65%) SQL
5 4 (2.92%) Korn
5 4 (2.92%) Perl
6 2 (1.46%) Java
6 2 (1.46%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.73%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 52 (37.96%) Security Cleared
2 28 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 21 (15.33%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.84%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.38%) Degree
6 6 (4.38%) NCDA
7 5 (3.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (2.92%) MCSE
9 3 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.19%) NCIE
10 2 (1.46%) CCNP
10 2 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.73%) Dell Certification
11 1 (0.73%) OCP
11 1 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.92%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (46.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (13.87%) Active Directory
2 19 (13.87%) vSphere
3 17 (12.41%) Firmware
4 16 (11.68%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (10.22%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (7.30%) Hyper-V
7 9 (6.57%) NFS
8 8 (5.84%) VMware NSX
9 6 (4.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 5 (3.65%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (3.65%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (2.92%) BitLocker
12 3 (2.19%) Docker
12 3 (2.19%) SRDF
13 1 (0.73%) KVM
13 1 (0.73%) Samba
13 1 (0.73%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.73%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 27 (19.71%) Ansible
2 19 (13.87%) NetBackup
3 14 (10.22%) vCenter Server
4 11 (8.03%) Kubernetes
5 10 (7.30%) SnapMirror
6 7 (5.11%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (4.38%) Avamar
7 6 (4.38%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (3.65%) Puppet
9 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.92%) SCCM
9 4 (2.92%) SnapVault
9 4 (2.92%) vMotion
10 3 (2.19%) Prometheus
10 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.46%) Argo
11 2 (1.46%) Grafana
11 2 (1.46%) systemd
12 1 (0.73%) OpenNMS
12 1 (0.73%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 88 (64.23%) VMware
2 30 (21.90%) Microsoft
3 26 (18.98%) Veeam
4 24 (17.52%) Cisco
5 18 (13.14%) EMC
6 16 (11.68%) Blue Coat
6 16 (11.68%) F5
6 16 (11.68%) McAfee
7 15 (10.95%) Dell
8 13 (9.49%) Brocade
9 9 (6.57%) Meraki
9 9 (6.57%) Red Hat
10 8 (5.84%) Pure Storage
11 7 (5.11%) 3PAR
11 7 (5.11%) SolarWinds
12 6 (4.38%) CheckPoint
13 5 (3.65%) Citrix
13 5 (3.65%) Commvault
13 5 (3.65%) Oracle
13 5 (3.65%) Veritas