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 22 September 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
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 441 482
Rank change year-on-year -100 +41 -2
Contract jobs citing NetApp 141 99 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.30% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.62% 0.64% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 72 68
10th Percentile £389 £401 £363
25th Percentile £465 £470 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +4.37%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £663 £650 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £483
% change year-on-year - +13.99% -5.39%
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 22,776 15,426 16,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.50% 44.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,912 9,454 10,092
10th Percentile £310 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £701 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,288 793 656
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -18.87% -30.34%
75th Percentile £60.75 £43.75 £63.84
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £21.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +22.33% -29.83% -29.82%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -102 125 £550 - 58
UK excluding London -82 102 £550 - 44
London -53 36 £550 -12.00% 18
North of England -56 26 £519 +9.26% 9
East of England -29 23 £600 +9.09% 6
Work from Home -50 23 £550 +10.00% 30
South West -23 19 £575 +31.43% 3
Midlands -37 19 £263 -47.50% 3
West Midlands -36 18 £200 -60.00% 3
Yorkshire -32 14 £519 - 1
South East -82 14 £550 -8.33% 18
North West -50 12 - - 9
Wales - 9 £550 - 1
Scotland -29 4 £145 -71.00% 5
East Midlands - 1 £325 -

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 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.13%) Confluence
2 3 (2.13%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (2.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.99%) Azure
2 21 (14.89%) Rubrik
3 14 (9.93%) AWS
4 7 (4.96%) OpenShift
5 6 (4.26%) GCP
6 5 (3.55%) Cohesity
6 5 (3.55%) GitHub
6 5 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.84%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.13%) Azure Storage
8 3 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.42%) Datadog
10 1 (0.71%) IaaS
10 1 (0.71%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (26.95%) SAN
2 35 (24.82%) DNS
3 24 (17.02%) Firewall
4 22 (15.60%) TCP/IP
5 13 (9.22%) VLAN
6 12 (8.51%) BIG-IP
6 12 (8.51%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 12 (8.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 12 (8.51%) HTTP
6 12 (8.51%) SSL
6 12 (8.51%) Wireshark
7 10 (7.09%) NAS
8 8 (5.67%) DHCP
8 8 (5.67%) Kerberos
8 8 (5.67%) VPN
9 7 (4.96%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (3.55%) Network Security
10 5 (3.55%) WAN
11 4 (2.84%) LAN
11 4 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (5.67%) SQLite
2 6 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (8.51%) Fiddler
1 12 (8.51%) Git
2 11 (7.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.13%) JIRA
4 2 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.71%) Subversion
General
1 30 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.44%) Finance
3 19 (13.48%) Banking
4 18 (12.77%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (8.51%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.55%) Legal
7 5 (3.55%) Retail
8 4 (2.84%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.42%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (31.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (25.53%) Storage Engineer
3 22 (15.60%) Senior
4 18 (12.77%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 17 (12.06%) Network Engineer
6 15 (10.64%) VMware Specialist
7 12 (8.51%) Blue Coat Engineer
7 12 (8.51%) IP Network Engineer
7 12 (8.51%) Web Engineer
8 11 (7.80%) Backup Engineer
8 11 (7.80%) NetApp Engineer
8 11 (7.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (7.09%) Architect
9 10 (7.09%) Linux Engineer
9 10 (7.09%) Storage and Backup Engineer
10 8 (5.67%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.67%) Storage Architect
11 6 (4.26%) NetApp Specialist
12 5 (3.55%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.55%) Backup Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.09%) Terraform
2 8 (5.67%) SPNEGO
3 3 (2.13%) REST
4 2 (1.42%) Middleware
4 2 (1.42%) Mojolicious
4 2 (1.42%) Moose
5 1 (0.71%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (31.91%) Enterprise Storage
2 29 (20.57%) Replication
3 21 (14.89%) Data Centre
4 16 (11.35%) Management Information System
5 10 (7.09%) PKI
6 7 (4.96%) EMC VMAX
6 7 (4.96%) EMC VNX
7 5 (3.55%) Driving Licence
7 5 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.55%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.84%) Clustering
8 4 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.13%) Celerra
9 3 (2.13%) EMC Centera
9 3 (2.13%) IBM XIV
9 3 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.13%) Symmetrix
9 3 (2.13%) Symmetrix DMX
10 2 (1.42%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 51 (36.17%) Windows
2 46 (32.62%) Linux
3 32 (22.70%) Windows Server
4 27 (19.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (10.64%) Data ONTAP
6 14 (9.93%) CentOS
7 12 (8.51%) Rocky
8 5 (3.55%) Ubuntu
8 5 (3.55%) VMS
9 4 (2.84%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (2.13%) AIX
10 3 (2.13%) Solaris
11 2 (1.42%) HPUX
11 2 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.71%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.71%) Unix
12 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (39.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (15.60%) Migration
3 21 (14.89%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (12.06%) CI/CD
6 16 (11.35%) Load Balancing
7 14 (9.93%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (8.51%) Data Loss Prevention
8 12 (8.51%) Data Protection
8 12 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (8.51%) Malware Detection/Protection
9 11 (7.80%) Capacity Planning
10 10 (7.09%) Business Continuity
10 10 (7.09%) DevOps
10 10 (7.09%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (6.38%) Containerisation
11 9 (6.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (6.38%) Storage Management
12 8 (5.67%) High Availability
12 8 (5.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.73%) PowerShell
2 18 (12.77%) Python
3 13 (9.22%) Bash
4 9 (6.38%) Perl
5 8 (5.67%) Korn
6 5 (3.55%) SQL
7 3 (2.13%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.42%) Java
Qualifications
1 51 (36.17%) Security Cleared
2 31 (21.99%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.06%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.96%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (2.84%) Degree
7 4 (2.84%) MCSE
8 3 (2.13%) CCNP
8 3 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.13%) NCDA
8 3 (2.13%) NCIE
9 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.71%) Dell Certification
9 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.71%) PMP
9 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.71%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.84%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (43.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (14.89%) vSphere
3 17 (12.06%) Firmware
4 16 (11.35%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (10.64%) Active Directory
5 15 (10.64%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (7.80%) NFS
7 8 (5.67%) Hyper-V
7 8 (5.67%) VMware NSX
8 6 (4.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 4 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (2.13%) Docker
10 3 (2.13%) SRDF
11 2 (1.42%) GPFS
12 1 (0.71%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.71%) KVM
12 1 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.71%) Samba
12 1 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.71%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 27 (19.15%) Ansible
2 19 (13.48%) NetBackup
3 11 (7.80%) vCenter Server
4 10 (7.09%) Kubernetes
5 9 (6.38%) SnapMirror
6 7 (4.96%) EMC VPLEX
7 5 (3.55%) SCCM
8 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (2.84%) Puppet
8 4 (2.84%) SnapVault
9 3 (2.13%) Avamar
9 3 (2.13%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (2.13%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.42%) Argo
10 2 (1.42%) Grafana
10 2 (1.42%) systemd
11 1 (0.71%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.71%) Salt
11 1 (0.71%) vMotion
Vendors
1 85 (60.28%) VMware
2 31 (21.99%) Cisco
3 27 (19.15%) Veeam
4 25 (17.73%) Microsoft
5 22 (15.60%) Dell
5 22 (15.60%) EMC
6 13 (9.22%) Brocade
7 12 (8.51%) Blue Coat
7 12 (8.51%) F5
7 12 (8.51%) McAfee
8 11 (7.80%) IBM
9 10 (7.09%) Meraki
10 8 (5.67%) Red Hat
11 7 (4.96%) 3PAR
11 7 (4.96%) SolarWinds
12 6 (4.26%) CheckPoint
12 6 (4.26%) Hitachi
12 6 (4.26%) Veritas
13 5 (3.55%) Pure Storage
14 4 (2.84%) Commvault