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 13 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
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 458 461
Rank change year-on-year -78 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing NetApp 140 102 89
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.31% 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.65% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 71 74
10th Percentile £347 £400 £363
25th Percentile £465 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.58%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £663 £650 £614
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +9.38%
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 22,916 15,709 16,713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.72% 47.71% 44.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,818 9,689 9,822
10th Percentile £310 £275 £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 £712 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,421 799 583
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.84 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.87 £16.25
Median hourly rate £24.25 £25.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -24.24% -24.79%
75th Percentile £56.43 £38.59 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £21.35 £30.21
% change year-on-year +8.60% -29.33% -29.76%

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 13 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 13 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 -92 120 £550 - 71
UK excluding London -71 101 £550 - 52
London -58 33 £550 -12.00% 20
East of England -19 25 £600 +9.09% 3
Work from Home -55 24 £550 +10.00% 38
North of England -50 22 £332 -26.22% 7
Midlands -30 21 £319 -36.25% 4
West Midlands -39 18 £270 -46.00% 1
South West -24 15 £575 +35.29% 1
South East -83 15 £550 -8.33% 33
Yorkshire -25 11 £332 - 1
North West -50 11 - - 6
Wales - 9 £550 -
Scotland -31 5 £145 -71.00% 4
East Midlands - 3 £319 - 3

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 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.57%) Confluence
3 3 (2.14%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (2.14%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (22.86%) Azure
2 21 (15.00%) Rubrik
3 18 (12.86%) AWS
4 9 (6.43%) GCP
5 7 (5.00%) Cohesity
5 7 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.29%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.57%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.43%) GitHub
8 2 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.43%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.71%) Datadog
9 1 (0.71%) IaaS
9 1 (0.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (29.29%) SAN
2 36 (25.71%) DNS
3 24 (17.14%) Firewall
4 21 (15.00%) TCP/IP
5 16 (11.43%) VLAN
6 11 (7.86%) BIG-IP
6 11 (7.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 11 (7.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 11 (7.86%) HTTP
6 11 (7.86%) SSL
6 11 (7.86%) Wireshark
7 9 (6.43%) Kerberos
7 9 (6.43%) NAS
7 9 (6.43%) VPN
8 8 (5.71%) DHCP
9 6 (4.29%) Network Security
9 6 (4.29%) WAN
10 5 (3.57%) iSCSI
10 5 (3.57%) LAN
10 5 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.71%) SQLite
3 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.43%) MySQL
4 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 13 (9.29%) Git
2 11 (7.86%) Fiddler
3 9 (6.43%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.29%) JIRA
5 1 (0.71%) Subversion
General
1 31 (22.14%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.43%) Finance
3 19 (13.57%) Documentation Skills
4 17 (12.14%) Banking
5 14 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (7.86%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.57%) Retail
8 4 (2.86%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.14%) Legal
10 2 (1.43%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.43%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (34.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (22.86%) Storage Engineer
3 21 (15.00%) Senior
4 19 (13.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 15 (10.71%) Network Engineer
5 15 (10.71%) VMware Specialist
6 12 (8.57%) Backup Engineer
6 12 (8.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (7.86%) Blue Coat Engineer
7 11 (7.86%) IP Network Engineer
7 11 (7.86%) Storage and Backup Engineer
7 11 (7.86%) Web Engineer
8 10 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
9 9 (6.43%) NetApp Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Architect
10 8 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) NetApp Specialist
11 6 (4.29%) Storage Architect
12 5 (3.57%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.57%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.71%) SPNEGO
1 8 (5.71%) Terraform
2 2 (1.43%) Mojolicious
2 2 (1.43%) Moose
3 1 (0.71%) LDAP
3 1 (0.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 45 (32.14%) Enterprise Storage
2 30 (21.43%) Replication
3 22 (15.71%) Data Centre
4 15 (10.71%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.71%) PKI
6 7 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.57%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.14%) Clustering
9 3 (2.14%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (2.14%) EMC VNX
9 3 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.43%) Fat Client
10 2 (1.43%) NVMe
10 2 (1.43%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.43%) Thin Client
11 1 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (36.43%) Linux
1 51 (36.43%) Windows
2 30 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 29 (20.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (10.00%) CentOS
5 13 (9.29%) Data ONTAP
5 13 (9.29%) Rocky
6 5 (3.57%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.57%) VMS
7 4 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.14%) AIX
8 3 (2.14%) Solaris
9 2 (1.43%) HPUX
9 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.71%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (42.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 19 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (11.43%) CI/CD
4 16 (11.43%) Migration
5 14 (10.00%) Load Balancing
5 14 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (8.57%) Capacity Planning
7 11 (7.86%) Business Continuity
7 11 (7.86%) Data Loss Prevention
7 11 (7.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (7.86%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 10 (7.14%) Containerisation
8 10 (7.14%) Data Protection
8 10 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (7.14%) Service Management
9 9 (6.43%) High Availability
9 9 (6.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (5.71%) Change Control
10 8 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 28 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 19 (13.57%) Python
3 13 (9.29%) Bash
4 10 (7.14%) Perl
4 10 (7.14%) SQL
5 8 (5.71%) Korn
6 3 (2.14%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.43%) Java
8 1 (0.71%) Bicep
8 1 (0.71%) Go
8 1 (0.71%) Ruby
8 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (36.43%) Security Cleared
2 35 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.86%) Degree
5 4 (2.86%) MCSE
5 4 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (2.14%) CCNP
6 3 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.43%) NCDA
7 2 (1.43%) NCIE
8 1 (0.71%) CCA
8 1 (0.71%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.71%) Dell Certification
8 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.71%) PMP
8 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.71%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.86%) SLA
2 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 60 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (16.43%) vSphere
3 18 (12.86%) Firmware
4 16 (11.43%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (10.00%) Active Directory
7 12 (8.57%) NFS
8 7 (5.00%) VMware NSX
9 5 (3.57%) Hyper-V
10 3 (2.14%) Docker
10 3 (2.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.43%) GPFS
11 2 (1.43%) SRDF
12 1 (0.71%) Ceph
12 1 (0.71%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.71%) KVM
12 1 (0.71%) Samba
12 1 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.71%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 25 (17.86%) Ansible
2 18 (12.86%) NetBackup
3 9 (6.43%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.71%) vCenter Server
5 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (5.00%) SCCM
5 7 (5.00%) SnapMirror
6 4 (2.86%) Puppet
7 3 (2.14%) EMC VPLEX
7 3 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.14%) SnapVault
8 2 (1.43%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.43%) systemd
8 2 (1.43%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.71%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.71%) Nagios
9 1 (0.71%) OpenNMS
9 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.71%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 86 (61.43%) VMware
2 28 (20.00%) Veeam
3 27 (19.29%) Microsoft
4 26 (18.57%) Cisco
5 22 (15.71%) Dell
6 21 (15.00%) EMC
7 11 (7.86%) Blue Coat
7 11 (7.86%) F5
7 11 (7.86%) IBM
7 11 (7.86%) McAfee
7 11 (7.86%) Meraki
8 9 (6.43%) Brocade
9 8 (5.71%) Red Hat
10 7 (5.00%) CheckPoint
10 7 (5.00%) Commvault
10 7 (5.00%) SolarWinds
10 7 (5.00%) Veritas
11 6 (4.29%) Hitachi
12 5 (3.57%) BT
12 5 (3.57%) Oracle