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 October 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
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 458 478
Rank change year-on-year -82 +20 -8
Contract jobs citing NetApp 143 102 85
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.63% 0.65% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 72 70
10th Percentile £350 £401 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year - +1.15% +10.63%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £663 £650 £616
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £519
% change year-on-year - +6.02% +3.75%
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 22,723 15,631 16,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.58% 47.63% 44.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,722 9,617 9,871
10th Percentile £310 £277 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £613 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,380 806 615
10th Percentile £13.93 £14.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.81 £16.00
Median hourly rate £25.04 £25.15 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -20.17% -26.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.19 £64.30
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.19 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.57% -29.00% -29.41%

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 October 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 6 October 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 -87 125 £550 - 88
UK excluding London -84 105 £550 - 58
London -70 33 £538 -14.00% 28
East of England -20 25 £600 +9.09% 5
North of England -61 25 £519 +15.33% 9
Work from Home -61 24 £550 +10.00% 38
Midlands -27 22 £319 -36.25% 3
West Midlands -35 19 £270 -46.00% 2
South West -26 16 £575 +35.29% 1
South East -72 16 £550 -8.33% 37
Yorkshire -25 13 £519 -
North West -47 12 - - 9
Wales - 9 £550 -
Scotland -28 4 £145 -71.00% 3
East Midlands - 3 £319 - 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 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.50%) Confluence
3 3 (2.10%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (2.10%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (23.08%) Azure
2 21 (14.69%) Rubrik
3 17 (11.89%) AWS
4 8 (5.59%) GCP
5 7 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.20%) Cohesity
6 6 (4.20%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.50%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.80%) GitHub
9 3 (2.10%) Azure Storage
9 3 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.40%) Datadog
10 2 (1.40%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.70%) IaaS
11 1 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (28.67%) SAN
2 38 (26.57%) DNS
3 25 (17.48%) Firewall
4 22 (15.38%) TCP/IP
5 17 (11.89%) VLAN
6 12 (8.39%) BIG-IP
6 12 (8.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 12 (8.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 12 (8.39%) HTTP
6 12 (8.39%) SSL
6 12 (8.39%) Wireshark
7 10 (6.99%) NAS
7 10 (6.99%) VPN
8 9 (6.29%) DHCP
8 9 (6.29%) Kerberos
9 7 (4.90%) WAN
10 6 (4.20%) LAN
10 6 (4.20%) SD-WAN
10 6 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (3.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (6.99%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.59%) SQLite
3 2 (1.40%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.40%) MySQL
4 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 13 (9.09%) Git
2 12 (8.39%) Fiddler
3 10 (6.99%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.20%) JIRA
5 1 (0.70%) Subversion
5 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (21.68%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.58%) Finance
3 19 (13.29%) Banking
3 19 (13.29%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.39%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.50%) Retail
7 4 (2.80%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.80%) Legal
8 2 (1.40%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.40%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (34.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 35 (24.48%) Storage Engineer
3 21 (14.69%) Senior
4 19 (13.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 17 (11.89%) Network Engineer
6 15 (10.49%) VMware Specialist
7 12 (8.39%) Backup Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) Blue Coat Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) IP Network Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) Web Engineer
8 11 (7.69%) Storage and Backup Engineer
9 10 (6.99%) Architect
9 10 (6.99%) Linux Engineer
9 10 (6.99%) NetApp Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) Storage Architect
11 6 (4.20%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) NetApp Specialist
11 6 (4.20%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.99%) Terraform
2 8 (5.59%) SPNEGO
3 2 (1.40%) Mojolicious
3 2 (1.40%) Moose
4 1 (0.70%) LDAP
4 1 (0.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 45 (31.47%) Enterprise Storage
2 31 (21.68%) Replication
3 24 (16.78%) Data Centre
4 16 (11.19%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.59%) PKI
6 7 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.50%) Driving Licence
7 5 (3.50%) EMC VMAX
7 5 (3.50%) EMC VNX
8 4 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.10%) Clustering
9 3 (2.10%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.40%) Fat Client
10 2 (1.40%) NVMe
10 2 (1.40%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.40%) Thin Client
11 1 (0.70%) IBM XIV
11 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (35.66%) Windows
2 50 (34.97%) Linux
3 30 (20.98%) Windows Server
4 28 (19.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (10.49%) Data ONTAP
6 14 (9.79%) CentOS
7 13 (9.09%) Rocky
8 5 (3.50%) Ubuntu
8 5 (3.50%) VMS
9 4 (2.80%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (2.10%) AIX
10 3 (2.10%) Solaris
11 2 (1.40%) HPUX
11 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.70%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (42.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (17.48%) Disaster Recovery
3 20 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (12.59%) Migration
5 17 (11.89%) CI/CD
6 15 (10.49%) Load Balancing
6 15 (10.49%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
7 13 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (8.39%) Data Loss Prevention
8 12 (8.39%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 12 (8.39%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (7.69%) Business Continuity
9 11 (7.69%) Data Protection
10 10 (6.99%) Containerisation
10 10 (6.99%) DevOps
10 10 (6.99%) Service Management
11 9 (6.29%) Change Control
11 9 (6.29%) High Availability
11 9 (6.29%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (19.58%) PowerShell
2 18 (12.59%) Python
3 14 (9.79%) Bash
4 9 (6.29%) Perl
4 9 (6.29%) SQL
5 8 (5.59%) Korn
6 3 (2.10%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.40%) Java
8 1 (0.70%) Bicep
8 1 (0.70%) Ruby
8 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 35 (24.48%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.49%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.20%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (2.80%) Degree
7 4 (2.80%) MCSE
8 3 (2.10%) CCNP
8 3 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.10%) NCDA
8 3 (2.10%) NCIE
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.70%) CCA
9 1 (0.70%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.70%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.80%) SLA
2 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 64 (44.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (18.18%) vSphere
3 19 (13.29%) Firmware
4 18 (12.59%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (11.19%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (9.79%) Active Directory
7 11 (7.69%) NFS
8 7 (4.90%) VMware NSX
9 6 (4.20%) Hyper-V
10 4 (2.80%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 4 (2.80%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (2.10%) SRDF
12 2 (1.40%) Docker
12 2 (1.40%) GPFS
13 1 (0.70%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.70%) KVM
13 1 (0.70%) Samba
13 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.70%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 26 (18.18%) Ansible
2 20 (13.99%) NetBackup
3 10 (6.99%) vCenter Server
4 9 (6.29%) SnapMirror
5 8 (5.59%) Kubernetes
6 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (4.90%) SCCM
7 5 (3.50%) EMC VPLEX
7 5 (3.50%) SnapVault
8 4 (2.80%) Puppet
9 3 (2.10%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (2.10%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.40%) Argo
10 2 (1.40%) Grafana
10 2 (1.40%) systemd
10 2 (1.40%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.70%) Nagios
11 1 (0.70%) OpenNMS
11 1 (0.70%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 89 (62.24%) VMware
2 31 (21.68%) Veeam
3 30 (20.98%) Microsoft
4 29 (20.28%) Cisco
5 23 (16.08%) Dell
6 21 (14.69%) EMC
7 12 (8.39%) Blue Coat
7 12 (8.39%) F5
7 12 (8.39%) McAfee
7 12 (8.39%) Meraki
8 10 (6.99%) Brocade
8 10 (6.99%) IBM
9 9 (6.29%) Red Hat
9 9 (6.29%) SolarWinds
10 8 (5.59%) CheckPoint
10 8 (5.59%) Commvault
11 6 (4.20%) BT
11 6 (4.20%) Hitachi
11 6 (4.20%) Veritas
11 6 (4.20%) Xerox