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 1 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
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 454 511
Rank change year-on-year -75 +57 -11
Contract jobs citing NetApp 138 100 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.31% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.62% 0.65% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 75 62
10th Percentile £418 £400 £363
25th Percentile £465 £464 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £575
90th Percentile £663 £650 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +0.24%
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 22,420 15,451 16,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.79% 47.18% 44.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,807 9,462 10,397
10th Percentile £313 £275 £287
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,170 786 740
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.67 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -13.28% -31.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £62.51
90th Percentile £81.36 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.28 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.58% -22.62% -30.90%

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 1 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

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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 1 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 -83 125 £550 - 76
UK excluding London -78 100 £550 - 62
London -52 35 £550 +10.00% 19
Work from Home -45 26 £550 +10.00% 32
North of England -55 26 £525 +10.42% 9
Midlands -35 23 £325 -35.00% 5
West Midlands -32 21 £200 -60.00% 2
South West -23 20 £575 +31.43% 9
East of England -25 18 £600 +9.09% 11
South East -75 18 £550 -8.33% 26
North West -49 15 - - 4
Yorkshire -29 11 £525 - 5
Wales - 9 £550 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £433 - 3
Scotland -28 1 - - 4

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 8 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.17%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (2.17%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (23.91%) Azure
2 19 (13.77%) Rubrik
3 15 (10.87%) AWS
4 7 (5.07%) GCP
5 6 (4.35%) GitHub
5 6 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 5 (3.62%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.17%) Azure Storage
7 3 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.45%) Cohesity
8 2 (1.45%) Datadog
8 2 (1.45%) IaaS
8 2 (1.45%) PaaS
9 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.72%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.72%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.72%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (27.54%) DNS
2 35 (25.36%) SAN
3 24 (17.39%) Firewall
3 24 (17.39%) TCP/IP
4 15 (10.87%) BIG-IP
4 15 (10.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 15 (10.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 15 (10.87%) HTTP
4 15 (10.87%) SSL
4 15 (10.87%) Wireshark
5 11 (7.97%) VLAN
6 10 (7.25%) VPN
7 9 (6.52%) DHCP
7 9 (6.52%) NAS
8 8 (5.80%) Kerberos
9 7 (5.07%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (3.62%) WAN
11 4 (2.90%) LAN
11 4 (2.90%) Network Security
11 4 (2.90%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.80%) SQLite
3 7 (5.07%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.72%) MySQL
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.72%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 15 (10.87%) Fiddler
2 12 (8.70%) Git
3 11 (7.97%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.45%) JIRA
5 2 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.72%) MSI
6 1 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 26 (18.84%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.12%) Finance
3 22 (15.94%) Banking
4 15 (10.87%) Investment Banking
5 14 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.62%) Legal
8 4 (2.90%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.45%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 44 (31.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (26.81%) Storage Engineer
3 21 (15.22%) Senior
4 19 (13.77%) Network Engineer
5 18 (13.04%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 15 (10.87%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 15 (10.87%) IP Network Engineer
6 15 (10.87%) VMware Specialist
6 15 (10.87%) Web Engineer
7 13 (9.42%) NetApp Engineer
8 11 (7.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (7.25%) Architect
9 10 (7.25%) Backup Engineer
10 9 (6.52%) Linux Engineer
10 9 (6.52%) Storage and Backup Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Storage Architect
12 7 (5.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 7 (5.07%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (4.35%) NetApp Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.97%) Terraform
2 8 (5.80%) SPNEGO
3 2 (1.45%) Middleware
3 2 (1.45%) Mojolicious
3 2 (1.45%) Moose
3 2 (1.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 43 (31.16%) Enterprise Storage
2 32 (23.19%) Replication
3 20 (14.49%) Data Centre
4 19 (13.77%) Management Information System
5 12 (8.70%) PKI
6 7 (5.07%) EMC VMAX
6 7 (5.07%) EMC VNX
7 5 (3.62%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.90%) Clustering
8 4 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.17%) Celerra
9 3 (2.17%) EMC Centera
9 3 (2.17%) IBM XIV
9 3 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (2.17%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.17%) Symmetrix
9 3 (2.17%) Symmetrix DMX
10 2 (1.45%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.45%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 48 (34.78%) Windows
2 44 (31.88%) Linux
3 32 (23.19%) Windows Server
4 23 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (10.14%) Data ONTAP
6 13 (9.42%) CentOS
7 11 (7.97%) Rocky
8 5 (3.62%) Ubuntu
8 5 (3.62%) VMS
9 4 (2.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.45%) AIX
10 2 (1.45%) HPUX
10 2 (1.45%) Solaris
10 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (38.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (15.94%) Migration
3 21 (15.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 19 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (13.04%) Load Balancing
6 16 (11.59%) CI/CD
7 15 (10.87%) Data Loss Prevention
7 15 (10.87%) Data Protection
7 15 (10.87%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 14 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (9.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (7.97%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (6.52%) Business Continuity
11 9 (6.52%) Containerisation
11 9 (6.52%) DevOps
11 9 (6.52%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (6.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (5.80%) Storage Management
13 7 (5.07%) Roadmaps
13 7 (5.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (20.29%) PowerShell
2 17 (12.32%) Python
3 13 (9.42%) Bash
4 9 (6.52%) Perl
5 8 (5.80%) Korn
6 6 (4.35%) SQL
7 3 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.45%) Java
9 1 (0.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 30 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 21 (15.22%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.80%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.35%) Degree
7 5 (3.62%) NCDA
7 5 (3.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (2.90%) MCSE
9 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.17%) NCIE
10 2 (1.45%) CCNP
10 2 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.45%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.45%) PMP
11 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.72%) Dell Certification
11 1 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.90%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (44.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (13.77%) Active Directory
2 19 (13.77%) vSphere
3 16 (11.59%) Firmware
3 16 (11.59%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (7.25%) Hyper-V
6 8 (5.80%) VMware NSX
7 7 (5.07%) NFS
8 6 (4.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 5 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (2.90%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (2.17%) BitLocker
11 3 (2.17%) Docker
11 3 (2.17%) SRDF
12 1 (0.72%) GPFS
12 1 (0.72%) KVM
12 1 (0.72%) Samba
12 1 (0.72%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.72%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 27 (19.57%) Ansible
2 17 (12.32%) NetBackup
3 13 (9.42%) vCenter Server
4 10 (7.25%) Kubernetes
5 7 (5.07%) EMC VPLEX
5 7 (5.07%) SnapMirror
6 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.90%) Puppet
6 4 (2.90%) SCCM
6 4 (2.90%) SnapVault
7 3 (2.17%) Avamar
7 3 (2.17%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.17%) vMotion
8 2 (1.45%) Argo
8 2 (1.45%) Grafana
8 2 (1.45%) systemd
9 1 (0.72%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.72%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 85 (61.59%) VMware
2 29 (21.01%) Microsoft
3 27 (19.57%) Veeam
4 25 (18.12%) Cisco
5 16 (11.59%) Dell
5 16 (11.59%) EMC
6 15 (10.87%) Blue Coat
6 15 (10.87%) F5
6 15 (10.87%) McAfee
7 11 (7.97%) Brocade
8 9 (6.52%) Meraki
9 8 (5.80%) Red Hat
10 7 (5.07%) 3PAR
10 7 (5.07%) SolarWinds
11 6 (4.35%) CheckPoint
11 6 (4.35%) Veritas
12 5 (3.62%) Commvault
12 5 (3.62%) IBM
12 5 (3.62%) Oracle
12 5 (3.62%) Pure Storage