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 7 July 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
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 455 527
Rank change year-on-year -54 +72 -67
Contract jobs citing NetApp 143 84 69
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.26% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.67% 0.56% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 69 50
10th Percentile £380 £400 £361
25th Percentile £456 £465 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £621 £600 £700
90th Percentile £663 £650 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.45% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £35.99
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - -
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 21,399 15,126 18,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.10% 47.53% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,317 9,264 11,573
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,102 719 1,152
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.84 £12.41
25th Percentile £19.08 £17.33 £15.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +0.60% -38.27%
75th Percentile £63.08 £53.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.13 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.18
% change year-on-year +43.61% -6.41% -23.24%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -56 125 £528 -4.09% 27
UK excluding London -72 106 £515 -6.45% 27
Work from Home -34 38 £500 - 19
North of England -37 36 £500 +4.71% 6
Midlands -28 31 £263 -58.33%
London -61 30 £575 +15.00% 3
South East -71 20 £495 -17.50% 11
West Midlands - 20 £200 -
Yorkshire -32 19 £500 +23.46% 2
North West -26 17 - - 4
South West -22 15 £575 +27.78%
East Midlands -6 11 £433 -31.35%
East of England -42 10 £600 +9.09% 7
Wales - 8 £538 - 4
Scotland -14 3 £463 -2.01%

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 3 (2.10%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (1.40%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 32 (22.38%) Azure
2 23 (16.08%) Rubrik
3 19 (13.29%) AWS
4 13 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 11 (7.69%) GCP
6 7 (4.90%) GitHub
7 6 (4.20%) IaaS
8 5 (3.50%) PaaS
9 4 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.80%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.10%) Azure Storage
10 3 (2.10%) Cohesity
10 3 (2.10%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.40%) Datadog
12 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.70%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.70%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (24.48%) DNS
2 33 (23.08%) SAN
3 19 (13.29%) Firewall
3 19 (13.29%) TCP/IP
4 18 (12.59%) SSL
5 17 (11.89%) BIG-IP
5 17 (11.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 17 (11.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 17 (11.89%) HTTP
5 17 (11.89%) Wireshark
6 16 (11.19%) NAS
7 12 (8.39%) VPN
8 10 (6.99%) DHCP
9 7 (4.90%) VLAN
10 6 (4.20%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (4.20%) SMTP
10 6 (4.20%) WAN
11 5 (3.50%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (3.50%) LAN
12 4 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.40%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.70%) MySQL
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.70%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 17 (11.89%) Fiddler
2 5 (3.50%) Git
3 4 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.10%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.70%) JIRA
6 1 (0.70%) MSI
6 1 (0.70%) Subversion
General
1 24 (16.78%) Banking
2 17 (11.89%) Finance
2 17 (11.89%) Investment Banking
3 16 (11.19%) Social Skills
4 13 (9.09%) Military
5 6 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.50%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.80%) Legal
8 3 (2.10%) Retail
9 2 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (23.78%) Storage Engineer
2 32 (22.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (13.99%) NetApp Engineer
3 20 (13.99%) Network Engineer
4 18 (12.59%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 17 (11.89%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 17 (11.89%) IP Network Engineer
5 17 (11.89%) Web Engineer
6 16 (11.19%) Senior
7 15 (10.49%) VMware Specialist
8 13 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
9 11 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 11 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) Backup Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) Consultant
10 8 (5.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Architect
11 7 (4.90%) Storage and Backup Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.50%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.40%) Flash
1 2 (1.40%) Middleware
1 2 (1.40%) REST
2 1 (0.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.28%) Enterprise Storage
2 24 (16.78%) Replication
3 19 (13.29%) Data Centre
3 19 (13.29%) Management Information System
4 11 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (7.69%) PKI
5 10 (6.99%) Clustering
6 7 (4.90%) EMC VMAX
6 7 (4.90%) EMC VNX
7 6 (4.20%) FlexPod
8 4 (2.80%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.10%) Celerra
9 3 (2.10%) Driving Licence
9 3 (2.10%) EMC Centera
9 3 (2.10%) EPoS
9 3 (2.10%) IBM XIV
9 3 (2.10%) NVMe
9 3 (2.10%) Symmetrix
9 3 (2.10%) Symmetrix DMX
10 2 (1.40%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 36 (25.17%) Windows
2 33 (23.08%) Linux
3 21 (14.69%) Data ONTAP
4 18 (12.59%) Windows Server
5 16 (11.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (4.20%) CoreOS
6 6 (4.20%) VMS
7 5 (3.50%) CentOS
7 5 (3.50%) Rocky
7 5 (3.50%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (25.17%) Migration
3 27 (18.88%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (13.99%) Data Protection
5 19 (13.29%) Load Balancing
6 17 (11.89%) Data Loss Prevention
6 17 (11.89%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 16 (11.19%) Capacity Planning
8 12 (8.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
10 10 (6.99%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (6.29%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (6.29%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (6.29%) Storage Management
12 8 (5.59%) CI/CD
12 8 (5.59%) Data Migration
12 8 (5.59%) DevOps
13 7 (4.90%) Change Control
13 7 (4.90%) High Availability
13 7 (4.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.88%) PowerShell
2 14 (9.79%) Python
3 7 (4.90%) Bash
4 4 (2.80%) SQL
5 2 (1.40%) Java
5 2 (1.40%) Perl
6 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 60 (41.96%) Security Cleared
2 36 (25.17%) DV Cleared
3 24 (16.78%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.99%) NCDA
5 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (5.59%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (4.20%) OCP
8 6 (4.20%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (2.80%) Degree
9 4 (2.80%) MCSE
10 3 (2.10%) NCIE
11 2 (1.40%) VCP6
12 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.70%) CCNP
12 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.70%) PMP
12 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.70%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.80%) SLA
2 1 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 62 (43.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (12.59%) Firmware
3 17 (11.89%) NFS
3 17 (11.89%) vSphere
4 16 (11.19%) Active Directory
5 15 (10.49%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (9.79%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (7.69%) Hyper-V
7 11 (7.69%) VMware NSX
8 7 (4.90%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (4.20%) BitLocker
9 6 (4.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 5 (3.50%) Docker
10 5 (3.50%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (2.10%) SRDF
12 1 (0.70%) KVM
12 1 (0.70%) Samba
12 1 (0.70%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.70%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 34 (23.78%) Ansible
2 19 (13.29%) Kubernetes
3 18 (12.59%) Terraform
4 17 (11.89%) vCenter Server
5 15 (10.49%) SnapMirror
6 14 (9.79%) NetBackup
7 9 (6.29%) vMotion
8 7 (4.90%) EMC VPLEX
8 7 (4.90%) Puppet
9 6 (4.20%) Avamar
9 6 (4.20%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (3.50%) Grafana
11 4 (2.80%) SnapVault
12 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (2.10%) Prometheus
12 3 (2.10%) SCCM
12 3 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (2.10%) vRealize
13 2 (1.40%) Argo
13 2 (1.40%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 82 (57.34%) VMware
2 27 (18.88%) Microsoft
3 24 (16.78%) Cisco
4 22 (15.38%) Veeam
5 18 (12.59%) EMC
6 17 (11.89%) Blue Coat
6 17 (11.89%) Brocade
6 17 (11.89%) F5
6 17 (11.89%) McAfee
7 14 (9.79%) ServiceNow
8 13 (9.09%) Fortinet
9 12 (8.39%) Dell
9 12 (8.39%) Red Hat
10 9 (6.29%) 3PAR
11 8 (5.59%) Commvault
11 8 (5.59%) Google
11 8 (5.59%) Pure Storage
12 7 (4.90%) Citrix
12 7 (4.90%) IBM
12 7 (4.90%) SolarWinds