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 19 May 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
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 439 497
Rank change year-on-year -62 +58 -47
Contract jobs citing NetApp 132 70 74
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.67% 0.50% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 60 45
10th Percentile £390 £400 £400
25th Percentile £451 £434 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £700
90th Percentile £644 £650 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.45% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £60.50 - £18.29
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 - - +194.55%

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 19,721 13,922 18,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.05% 47.67% 42.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,493 8,702 11,225
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -0.41% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 987 568 1,096
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £14.46
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.49% +15.91% -48.02%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.13 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £22.53 £21.42
% change year-on-year +24.28% +5.21% -44.38%

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 19 May 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 15 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 19 May 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 -41 123 £505 -8.18% 16
UK excluding London -61 92 £487 -11.45% 12
North of England -27 44 £494 +3.35% 1
London -37 34 £575 +35.29% 3
Work from Home -28 31 £500 +4.17% 10
Midlands -33 31 £540 -14.29%
North West -18 22 £575 +4.55%
Yorkshire -33 22 £487 +20.25% 1
West Midlands - 19 - -
South East -51 16 £478 -26.54% 6
South West -17 12 £533 +21.02% 2
East Midlands -20 12 £540 -14.29%
Scotland -4 3 £463 -2.01%
East of England -54 3 £438 -20.45% 2
Wales - 1 £490 - 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 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.48%) Azure
2 17 (12.88%) AWS
3 16 (12.12%) OpenShift
4 11 (8.33%) GCP
5 10 (7.58%) Rubrik
6 8 (6.06%) IaaS
7 7 (5.30%) PaaS
8 6 (4.55%) GitHub
9 5 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.03%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.03%) Nutanix
11 3 (2.27%) Cohesity
11 3 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 1 (0.76%) Azure Storage
13 1 (0.76%) Datadog
13 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
13 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
13 1 (0.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (27.27%) SAN
2 32 (24.24%) DNS
3 22 (16.67%) NAS
4 20 (15.15%) Firewall
4 20 (15.15%) TCP/IP
5 19 (14.39%) SSL
6 18 (13.64%) BIG-IP
6 18 (13.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 18 (13.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 18 (13.64%) HTTP
6 18 (13.64%) Wireshark
7 17 (12.88%) VPN
8 14 (10.61%) DHCP
9 11 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
10 8 (6.06%) SMTP
11 6 (4.55%) iSCSI
11 6 (4.55%) WAN
12 5 (3.79%) LAN
12 5 (3.79%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (3.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.76%) MySQL
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.76%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 18 (13.64%) Fiddler
2 3 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.52%) Git
3 2 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.76%) GitLab
4 1 (0.76%) JIRA
4 1 (0.76%) MSI
General
1 25 (18.94%) Banking
2 18 (13.64%) Investment Banking
3 13 (9.85%) Military
4 12 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 7 (5.30%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.55%) Finance
6 6 (4.55%) Legal
7 3 (2.27%) Retail
8 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.76%) Electronics
9 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (27.27%) Storage Engineer
2 24 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 23 (17.42%) NetApp Engineer
3 23 (17.42%) Network Engineer
4 18 (13.64%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 18 (13.64%) IP Network Engineer
4 18 (13.64%) Web Engineer
5 15 (11.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 14 (10.61%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (9.85%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (6.82%) Senior
9 7 (5.30%) Architect
9 7 (5.30%) Consultant
10 4 (3.03%) Administrator
10 4 (3.03%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 3 (2.27%) Backup Engineer
11 3 (2.27%) Data Centre Engineer
11 3 (2.27%) Storage Architect
11 3 (2.27%) Storage Specialist
11 3 (2.27%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.52%) Flash
1 2 (1.52%) Middleware
1 2 (1.52%) REST
2 1 (0.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.48%) Enterprise Storage
2 26 (19.70%) Replication
3 20 (15.15%) Management Information System
4 19 (14.39%) Data Centre
5 12 (9.09%) Clustering
5 12 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (7.58%) PKI
7 6 (4.55%) FlexPod
8 5 (3.79%) EMC VMAX
9 4 (3.03%) EMC VNX
9 4 (3.03%) Private Cloud
10 3 (2.27%) Driving Licence
10 3 (2.27%) EPoS
10 3 (2.27%) NVMe
10 3 (2.27%) Symmetrix
11 2 (1.52%) Celerra
11 2 (1.52%) CMDB
11 2 (1.52%) EMC Centera
11 2 (1.52%) IBM XIV
11 2 (1.52%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.21%) Windows
2 25 (18.94%) Linux
3 20 (15.15%) Data ONTAP
4 15 (11.36%) Windows Server
5 10 (7.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (5.30%) VMS
6 7 (5.30%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (4.55%) CoreOS
8 4 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (28.03%) Migration
3 33 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 26 (19.70%) Data Protection
5 20 (15.15%) Load Balancing
6 18 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
6 18 (13.64%) Data Loss Prevention
6 18 (13.64%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 16 (12.12%) High Availability
8 14 (10.61%) Performance Optimisation
9 13 (9.85%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (9.09%) ITIL
11 10 (7.58%) Change Management
12 8 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (6.06%) Storage Management
13 7 (5.30%) Change Control
13 7 (5.30%) Containerisation
13 7 (5.30%) Incident Management
13 7 (5.30%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.91%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.82%) Python
3 5 (3.79%) SQL
4 4 (3.03%) Bash
5 2 (1.52%) Perl
6 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 60 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 46 (34.85%) DV Cleared
3 14 (10.61%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.06%) NCDA
5 6 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.55%) Degree
5 6 (4.55%) OCP
5 6 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.52%) CCNP
7 2 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.52%) VCP6
8 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.76%) NCIE
8 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.76%) PMP
8 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.76%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 60 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (17.42%) Firmware
3 20 (15.15%) NFS
4 17 (12.88%) Active Directory
4 17 (12.88%) vSphere
5 15 (11.36%) Hyper-V
6 14 (10.61%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (9.85%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (7.58%) VMware NSX
9 9 (6.82%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (6.06%) BitLocker
11 7 (5.30%) Docker
12 5 (3.79%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (2.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (1.52%) SRDF
15 1 (0.76%) KVM
15 1 (0.76%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.76%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 26 (19.70%) Ansible
2 22 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.36%) vCenter Server
4 14 (10.61%) Terraform
5 13 (9.85%) SnapMirror
6 11 (8.33%) vMotion
7 7 (5.30%) NetBackup
7 7 (5.30%) Puppet
8 5 (3.79%) Avamar
8 5 (3.79%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (3.03%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (3.03%) Grafana
9 4 (3.03%) SCCM
9 4 (3.03%) SnapVault
10 3 (2.27%) vRealize
11 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.52%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.76%) Argo
12 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (50.00%) VMware
2 25 (18.94%) Microsoft
3 22 (16.67%) Cisco
3 22 (16.67%) EMC
4 18 (13.64%) Blue Coat
4 18 (13.64%) F5
4 18 (13.64%) McAfee
5 15 (11.36%) ServiceNow
5 15 (11.36%) Veeam
6 14 (10.61%) Brocade
6 14 (10.61%) Fortinet
7 11 (8.33%) IBM
8 10 (7.58%) Citrix
9 9 (6.82%) Google
9 9 (6.82%) Red Hat
10 8 (6.06%) Commvault
10 8 (6.06%) Dell
10 8 (6.06%) Veritas
11 7 (5.30%) Pure Storage
12 6 (4.55%) Meraki