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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 456 522
Rank change year-on-year -55 +66 -64
Contract jobs citing NetApp 133 68 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.66% 0.49% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 58 50
10th Percentile £381 £402 £361
25th Percentile £451 £446 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £610 £575 £700
90th Percentile £650 £650 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £60.50 - £18.29
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
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 20,204 13,941 18,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.67% 47.62% 42.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,713 8,584 11,394
10th Percentile £313 £280 £267
25th Percentile £413 £404 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £514
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -2.63% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,037 620 1,132
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.34 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +13.93% -45.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.06 £58.49
90th Percentile £78.63 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.27 £22.94 £21.75
% change year-on-year +31.97% +5.46% -45.04%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -64 123 £525 -4.55% 17
UK excluding London -55 92 £498 -9.55% 11
North of England -34 42 £500 +4.71% 1
Work from Home -31 36 £500 +4.17% 28
London -51 34 £578 +40.00% 4
Midlands -31 31 £325 -48.41% 1
North West -14 22 £575 +4.55% 1
Yorkshire -42 20 £500 +23.46%
West Midlands - 20 £200 - 1
South East -50 17 £487 -25.08% 3
South West -17 13 £540 +20.00% 4
East Midlands -19 11 £433 -31.35%
Scotland -8 3 £463 -2.01%
East of England -54 3 £438 -20.45% 2
Wales - 1 £490 -

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 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.31%) Azure
2 17 (12.78%) AWS
3 16 (12.03%) Rubrik
4 14 (10.53%) OpenShift
5 11 (8.27%) GCP
6 8 (6.02%) IaaS
7 7 (5.26%) GitHub
7 7 (5.26%) PaaS
8 5 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.01%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.26%) Azure Storage
10 3 (2.26%) Cohesity
10 3 (2.26%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.50%) Datadog
12 1 (0.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.75%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.75%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (24.81%) SAN
2 32 (24.06%) DNS
3 20 (15.04%) TCP/IP
4 19 (14.29%) Firewall
4 19 (14.29%) NAS
4 19 (14.29%) SSL
5 18 (13.53%) BIG-IP
5 18 (13.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 18 (13.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 18 (13.53%) HTTP
5 18 (13.53%) Wireshark
6 15 (11.28%) VPN
7 14 (10.53%) DHCP
8 8 (6.02%) SMTP
9 7 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (4.51%) WAN
11 5 (3.76%) LAN
12 4 (3.01%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (3.01%) SD-WAN
12 4 (3.01%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.75%) MySQL
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.75%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 18 (13.53%) Fiddler
2 4 (3.01%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.26%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.50%) Git
4 2 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.75%) JIRA
5 1 (0.75%) MSI
General
1 25 (18.80%) Banking
2 18 (13.53%) Investment Banking
3 13 (9.77%) Military
4 12 (9.02%) Social Skills
5 11 (8.27%) Finance
6 7 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.01%) Legal
8 3 (2.26%) Retail
9 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Electronics
10 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Marketing
10 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (27.07%) Storage Engineer
2 25 (18.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (16.54%) NetApp Engineer
4 21 (15.79%) Network Engineer
5 18 (13.53%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 18 (13.53%) IP Network Engineer
5 18 (13.53%) Web Engineer
6 15 (11.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 14 (10.53%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (9.77%) Systems Engineer
9 9 (6.77%) Architect
10 8 (6.02%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 8 (6.02%) Senior
10 8 (6.02%) VMware Specialist
11 7 (5.26%) Consultant
12 5 (3.76%) Storage Architect
13 4 (3.01%) Administrator
13 4 (3.01%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
14 3 (2.26%) Data Centre Engineer
14 3 (2.26%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.50%) Flash
1 2 (1.50%) Middleware
1 2 (1.50%) REST
2 1 (0.75%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.80%) Enterprise Storage
2 24 (18.05%) Replication
3 20 (15.04%) Data Centre
3 20 (15.04%) Management Information System
4 12 (9.02%) Clustering
4 12 (9.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (7.52%) PKI
6 7 (5.26%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (4.51%) EMC VNX
7 6 (4.51%) FlexPod
8 4 (3.01%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.26%) Driving Licence
9 3 (2.26%) EPoS
9 3 (2.26%) NVMe
9 3 (2.26%) Symmetrix
10 2 (1.50%) Celerra
10 2 (1.50%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.50%) CMDB
10 2 (1.50%) EMC Centera
10 2 (1.50%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.05%) Windows
2 26 (19.55%) Linux
3 21 (15.79%) Data ONTAP
4 14 (10.53%) Windows Server
5 11 (8.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (4.51%) CoreOS
7 6 (4.51%) VMS
8 4 (3.01%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (27.07%) Migration
3 31 (23.31%) Disaster Recovery
4 21 (15.79%) Data Protection
5 20 (15.04%) Load Balancing
6 18 (13.53%) Data Loss Prevention
6 18 (13.53%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 16 (12.03%) Capacity Planning
8 11 (8.27%) High Availability
8 11 (8.27%) Performance Optimisation
9 10 (7.52%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (6.77%) Data Migration
10 9 (6.77%) ITIL
11 8 (6.02%) Change Management
11 8 (6.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (6.02%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (6.02%) Storage Management
12 7 (5.26%) Change Control
12 7 (5.26%) DevOps
12 7 (5.26%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (15.04%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.52%) Python
3 5 (3.76%) Bash
4 4 (3.01%) SQL
5 2 (1.50%) Perl
6 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 59 (44.36%) Security Cleared
2 45 (33.83%) DV Cleared
3 14 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.52%) NCDA
5 8 (6.02%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 6 (4.51%) Degree
7 6 (4.51%) OCP
7 6 (4.51%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.26%) NCIE
10 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.50%) VCP6
11 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.75%) CCNP
11 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.75%) PMP
11 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.75%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 61 (45.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (17.29%) Firmware
3 18 (13.53%) vSphere
4 17 (12.78%) Active Directory
4 17 (12.78%) NFS
5 15 (11.28%) Hyper-V
5 15 (11.28%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (9.77%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (8.27%) VMware NSX
8 9 (6.77%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (6.02%) BitLocker
10 7 (5.26%) Docker
11 5 (3.76%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 5 (3.76%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (3.01%) SRDF
13 1 (0.75%) KVM
13 1 (0.75%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.75%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 27 (20.30%) Ansible
2 20 (15.04%) Kubernetes
3 16 (12.03%) vCenter Server
4 15 (11.28%) SnapMirror
5 14 (10.53%) Terraform
6 11 (8.27%) vMotion
7 8 (6.02%) NetBackup
8 7 (5.26%) Puppet
9 6 (4.51%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (4.51%) EMC VPLEX
10 5 (3.76%) Avamar
10 5 (3.76%) Grafana
11 4 (3.01%) SCCM
11 4 (3.01%) SnapVault
12 3 (2.26%) vRealize
13 2 (1.50%) Argo
13 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (1.50%) PowerCLI
13 2 (1.50%) Prometheus
14 1 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 73 (54.89%) VMware
2 25 (18.80%) Microsoft
3 23 (17.29%) Cisco
4 20 (15.04%) EMC
5 18 (13.53%) Blue Coat
5 18 (13.53%) F5
5 18 (13.53%) McAfee
6 16 (12.03%) Brocade
6 16 (12.03%) Veeam
7 14 (10.53%) ServiceNow
8 13 (9.77%) Fortinet
9 12 (9.02%) Red Hat
10 10 (7.52%) Dell
11 9 (6.77%) Citrix
11 9 (6.77%) Google
12 8 (6.02%) 3PAR
12 8 (6.02%) Commvault
12 8 (6.02%) Pure Storage
12 8 (6.02%) Veritas
13 7 (5.26%) IBM