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 December 2025, 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 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 469 435
Rank change year-on-year -31 -34 +144
Contract jobs citing NetApp 94 78 167
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.54% 0.48% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 67 91
10th Percentile £394 £363 £400
25th Percentile £434 £449 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +9.38% -4.00%
75th Percentile £631 £575 £547
90th Percentile £650 £610 £592
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £466
% change year-on-year +4.17% +3.11% +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £40.78 - £13.26
25th Percentile £44.94 - £14.04
Median hourly rate £52.25 - £15.08
75th Percentile £59.94 - £45.00
90th Percentile £64.33 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £15.08
% change year-on-year - - -79.34%

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 17,279 16,328 20,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.40% 45.37% 45.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,984 9,674 13,046
10th Percentile £290 £291 £255
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £718 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 865 509 678
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £19.38 £19.82
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -32.58% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.21 £63.75 £64.85
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%

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 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NetApp over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for NetApp in the UK

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 December 2025. 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 +4 85 £500 -4.76% 46
UK excluding London -19 75 £500 +4.17% 37
South East +26 33 £600 +26.32% 16
North of England -30 25 £475 +0.53% 15
North West -13 18 £450 +3.15% 9
London -4 16 £575 +4.55% 10
Midlands -26 15 £500 +33.33% 3
West Midlands - 14 £500 - 1
Work from Home -14 13 £500 -9.09% 19
Scotland +6 8 £525 +12.30%
Yorkshire -30 7 £487 -9.40% 6
South West -6 6 £425 -11.46%
East Midlands -20 1 £650 +73.33% 2

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 3 (3.19%) CICS
2 2 (2.13%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.13%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.06%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (32.98%) Azure
2 17 (18.09%) GitHub
3 14 (14.89%) AWS
4 8 (8.51%) GCP
5 6 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (5.32%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.26%) Azure Storage
7 4 (4.26%) SaaS
8 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.06%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.06%) Cloud Run
9 1 (1.06%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (35.11%) SAN
2 24 (25.53%) iSCSI
3 21 (22.34%) DNS
3 21 (22.34%) NAS
4 19 (20.21%) Fibre Channel
5 18 (19.15%) TCP/IP
6 15 (15.96%) Firewall
7 13 (13.83%) BIG-IP
7 13 (13.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 13 (13.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 13 (13.83%) HTTP
7 13 (13.83%) SSL
8 12 (12.77%) Wireshark
9 9 (9.57%) VLAN
10 7 (7.45%) VSAN
11 6 (6.38%) VPN
12 5 (5.32%) DMZ
13 4 (4.26%) WAN
14 2 (2.13%) DHCP
14 2 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.57%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.06%) Power BI
4 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (12.77%) Fiddler
2 9 (9.57%) ClearCase
3 6 (6.38%) JIRA
4 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.06%) Git
5 1 (1.06%) GitLab
5 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.83%) Banking
3 12 (12.77%) Investment Banking
4 11 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.70%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Finance
6 2 (2.13%) French Language
6 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.13%) Legal
6 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (28.72%) Architect
2 22 (23.40%) Infrastructure Architect
3 16 (17.02%) Network Engineer
4 12 (12.77%) VMware Architect
5 9 (9.57%) Storage Engineer
5 9 (9.57%) Web Engineer
6 8 (8.51%) Administrator
6 8 (8.51%) Backup Administrator
6 8 (8.51%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 8 (8.51%) IP Network Engineer
6 8 (8.51%) Storage Administrator
6 8 (8.51%) Storage and Backup Administrator
7 6 (6.38%) Security Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) HP Storage Administrator
8 5 (5.32%) Server Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Junior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.38%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.13%) LDAP
2 2 (2.13%) Middleware
3 1 (1.06%) CrewAI
3 1 (1.06%) JSON
3 1 (1.06%) LangChain
3 1 (1.06%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.06%) XML
3 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.40%) Replication
2 15 (15.96%) Data Centre
2 15 (15.96%) Enterprise Storage
3 14 (14.89%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.38%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.26%) Clustering
5 4 (4.26%) HP Storage
5 4 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.26%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.19%) Mainframe
6 3 (3.19%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.06%) EMC VNX
7 1 (1.06%) FlexPod
7 1 (1.06%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.06%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.06%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 44 (46.81%) Windows
2 29 (30.85%) Linux
3 15 (15.96%) Windows Server
3 15 (15.96%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (7.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.26%) Solaris
7 3 (3.19%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (3.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.13%) AIX
8 2 (2.13%) VMS
8 2 (2.13%) zOS
9 1 (1.06%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.34%) Migration
2 17 (18.09%) High Availability
3 15 (15.96%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (13.83%) Load Balancing
5 12 (12.77%) Data Protection
5 12 (12.77%) Mentoring
5 12 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (11.70%) ITIL
7 9 (9.57%) CI/CD
7 9 (9.57%) Data Loss Prevention
7 9 (9.57%) DevOps
8 8 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (8.51%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 8 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (7.45%) Containerisation
9 7 (7.45%) Customer Requirements
9 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (7.45%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (7.45%) Project Delivery
9 7 (7.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.53%) SQL
2 15 (15.96%) Shell Script
3 13 (13.83%) PowerShell
4 11 (11.70%) Java
5 9 (9.57%) C
6 6 (6.38%) Python
7 3 (3.19%) C++
8 1 (1.06%) Bash
8 1 (1.06%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 42 (44.68%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 17 (18.09%) DV Cleared
4 12 (12.77%) MCSE
4 12 (12.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (7.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (6.38%) VCP5
6 6 (6.38%) VCP6
7 4 (4.26%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.26%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.26%) Degree
8 3 (3.19%) CCNP
8 3 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.06%) CCDP
10 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.06%) Postgraduate
10 1 (1.06%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) GDPR
2 4 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (46.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (20.21%) NFS
3 18 (19.15%) vSphere
4 16 (17.02%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (9.57%) Firmware
6 8 (8.51%) Active Directory
7 7 (7.45%) VMware NSX
8 6 (6.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (5.32%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (3.19%) Hyper-V
10 3 (3.19%) KVM
11 2 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (1.06%) Docker
12 1 (1.06%) Squid
12 1 (1.06%) SRDF
12 1 (1.06%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (1.06%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (11.70%) Terraform
2 9 (9.57%) Ansible
3 8 (8.51%) NetBackup
4 6 (6.38%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.32%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.13%) SCOM
7 1 (1.06%) Argo
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.06%) Podman
7 1 (1.06%) Puppet
7 1 (1.06%) SCCM
7 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.06%) SnapMirror
7 1 (1.06%) SnapVault
7 1 (1.06%) vRealize
Vendors
1 48 (51.06%) VMware
2 22 (23.40%) Microsoft
3 19 (20.21%) Veeam
4 18 (19.15%) F5
5 14 (14.89%) Dell
5 14 (14.89%) EMC
6 13 (13.83%) Blue Coat
6 13 (13.83%) McAfee
7 12 (12.77%) Cisco
7 12 (12.77%) Splunk
8 11 (11.70%) Oracle
9 9 (9.57%) HP
9 9 (9.57%) Veritas
10 8 (8.51%) 3PAR
10 8 (8.51%) Nimble Storage
11 7 (7.45%) Red Hat
12 5 (5.32%) IBM
12 5 (5.32%) Pure Storage
13 4 (4.26%) ServiceNow
13 4 (4.26%) SolarWinds