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 11 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
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 475 507
Rank change year-on-year -59 +32 -31
Contract jobs citing NetApp 137 91 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.28% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.62% 0.58% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 71 49
10th Percentile £443 £400 £360
25th Percentile £475 £482 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 22,171 15,556 17,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.51% 47.24% 43.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,699 9,514 10,605
10th Percentile £313 £280 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.38% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,153 794 841
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.46 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.33 £17.13 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -30.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £48.44 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.54 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £21.39 £28.00
% change year-on-year +49.60% -23.61% -19.42%

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 11 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 11 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 -71 124 £550 - 42
UK excluding London -71 98 £550 - 34
London -59 35 £563 +12.50% 8
Work from Home -45 32 £522 +4.40% 24
North of England -55 30 £519 +9.26% 3
Midlands - 22 £263 - 4
South East -83 21 £550 -8.33% 20
West Midlands - 19 £200 - 2
South West -22 16 £575 +27.78% 3
East of England -25 16 £600 +9.09% 5
North West -28 16 - - 1
Yorkshire -35 14 £519 - 2
Wales - 9 £550 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £433 - 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 6 (4.38%) 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 36 (26.28%) Azure
2 24 (17.52%) Rubrik
3 18 (13.14%) AWS
4 10 (7.30%) GCP
5 9 (6.57%) OpenShift
6 6 (4.38%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.38%) GitHub
7 4 (2.92%) IaaS
7 4 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.19%) Azure Storage
8 3 (2.19%) Cohesity
8 3 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.19%) PaaS
9 2 (1.46%) Datadog
10 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.73%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.73%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.73%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (25.55%) DNS
1 35 (25.55%) SAN
2 23 (16.79%) Firewall
3 19 (13.87%) TCP/IP
4 17 (12.41%) SSL
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%) Wireshark
6 12 (8.76%) NAS
7 10 (7.30%) VLAN
7 10 (7.30%) VPN
8 8 (5.84%) DHCP
9 6 (4.38%) WAN
10 5 (3.65%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (3.65%) LAN
11 4 (2.92%) SD-WAN
11 4 (2.92%) SMTP
11 4 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.65%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.46%) SQLite
4 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.73%) MySQL
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.73%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.73%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 16 (11.68%) Fiddler
2 8 (5.84%) Git
3 5 (3.65%) 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%) Banking
2 23 (16.79%) Finance
3 22 (16.06%) Social Skills
4 16 (11.68%) Investment Banking
5 9 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.57%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.92%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.92%) Legal
7 2 (1.46%) Military
7 2 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.46%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (29.93%) Storage Engineer
2 37 (27.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (13.87%) Network Engineer
4 18 (13.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 18 (13.14%) NetApp Engineer
4 18 (13.14%) Senior
5 16 (11.68%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 16 (11.68%) IP Network Engineer
5 16 (11.68%) Web Engineer
6 15 (10.95%) VMware Specialist
7 10 (7.30%) Architect
7 10 (7.30%) Backup Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) Storage and Backup Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) Consultant
9 8 (5.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Storage Architect
11 6 (4.38%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) NetApp Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.46%) Flash
1 2 (1.46%) Middleware
1 2 (1.46%) Mojolicious
1 2 (1.46%) Moose
1 2 (1.46%) REST
1 2 (1.46%) SPNEGO
Miscellaneous
1 37 (27.01%) Enterprise Storage
2 33 (24.09%) Replication
3 20 (14.60%) Management Information System
4 18 (13.14%) Data Centre
5 9 (6.57%) PKI
6 8 (5.84%) Clustering
6 8 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (5.11%) EMC VMAX
7 7 (5.11%) EMC VNX
8 4 (2.92%) FlexPod
8 4 (2.92%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.19%) Celerra
9 3 (2.19%) EMC Centera
9 3 (2.19%) IBM XIV
9 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.19%) Symmetrix
9 3 (2.19%) Symmetrix DMX
10 2 (1.46%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.46%) Fat Client
10 2 (1.46%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 43 (31.39%) Windows
2 39 (28.47%) Linux
3 25 (18.25%) Windows Server
4 19 (13.87%) Data ONTAP
5 17 (12.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (7.30%) CentOS
6 10 (7.30%) Rocky
7 8 (5.84%) VMS
8 4 (2.92%) CoreOS
9 3 (2.19%) Ubuntu
9 3 (2.19%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.46%) AIX
10 2 (1.46%) HPUX
10 2 (1.46%) Solaris
10 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (21.17%) Migration
3 28 (20.44%) Disaster Recovery
4 22 (16.06%) Data Protection
5 18 (13.14%) Load Balancing
6 16 (11.68%) Capacity Planning
6 16 (11.68%) Data Loss Prevention
6 16 (11.68%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 12 (8.76%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (8.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (8.03%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (7.30%) CI/CD
10 9 (6.57%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (6.57%) Storage Management
11 8 (5.84%) Data Migration
11 8 (5.84%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (5.11%) DevOps
12 7 (5.11%) High Availability
12 7 (5.11%) Roadmaps
12 7 (5.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 31 (22.63%) PowerShell
2 12 (8.76%) Python
3 7 (5.11%) Bash
4 6 (4.38%) SQL
5 2 (1.46%) Java
5 2 (1.46%) Korn
5 2 (1.46%) Perl
5 2 (1.46%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.73%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (39.42%) Security Cleared
2 30 (21.90%) SC Cleared
3 23 (16.79%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.84%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.84%) NCDA
6 7 (5.11%) Degree
7 5 (3.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (2.92%) MCSE
8 4 (2.92%) OCP
8 4 (2.92%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.19%) NCIE
10 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.73%) CCNP
10 1 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.73%) Dell Certification
10 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.92%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (45.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (14.60%) vSphere
3 17 (12.41%) Active Directory
3 17 (12.41%) Firmware
4 16 (11.68%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (10.22%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (8.76%) NFS
7 9 (6.57%) Hyper-V
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 33 (24.09%) Ansible
2 19 (13.87%) NetBackup
3 16 (11.68%) Terraform
4 15 (10.95%) vCenter Server
5 14 (10.22%) Kubernetes
6 13 (9.49%) SnapMirror
7 7 (5.11%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (4.38%) Avamar
8 6 (4.38%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (3.65%) Puppet
10 4 (2.92%) SnapVault
10 4 (2.92%) vMotion
11 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (2.19%) Prometheus
11 3 (2.19%) SCCM
11 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.46%) Argo
12 2 (1.46%) Grafana
12 2 (1.46%) systemd
13 1 (0.73%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 85 (62.04%) VMware
2 28 (20.44%) Microsoft
3 27 (19.71%) Veeam
4 20 (14.60%) Cisco
5 16 (11.68%) Blue Coat
5 16 (11.68%) F5
5 16 (11.68%) McAfee
6 15 (10.95%) EMC
7 14 (10.22%) Dell
8 13 (9.49%) Brocade
9 12 (8.76%) Red Hat
10 9 (6.57%) Pure Storage
11 8 (5.84%) Meraki
12 7 (5.11%) 3PAR
12 7 (5.11%) SolarWinds
13 6 (4.38%) Google
14 5 (3.65%) Citrix
14 5 (3.65%) Commvault
14 5 (3.65%) Oracle
14 5 (3.65%) Veritas