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 26 November 2025, 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
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 472 452
Rank change year-on-year -23 -20 +127
Contract jobs citing NetApp 88 76 168
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.21% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.51% 0.46% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 64 88
10th Percentile £393 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £461 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.38% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £580 £541
90th Percentile £650 £610 £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £465
% change year-on-year +4.17% +3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £40.78 - £13.29
25th Percentile £44.94 - £14.08
Median hourly rate £52.25 - £16.00
75th Percentile £59.94 - £46.42
90th Percentile £64.33 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -78.08%

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 17,116 16,421 20,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.49% 45.02% 45.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,799 9,661 13,284
10th Percentile £288 £295 £256
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 871 527 671
10th Percentile £15.33 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.36 £19.59 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% -32.58% +73.08%
75th Percentile £42.63 £63.75 £64.08
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £27.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -38.20% +97.78%

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 26 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NetApp over the 6 months to 26 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for NetApp in the UK

NetApp
Top 12 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 26 November 2025. 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 -6 79 £504 -5.18% 13
UK excluding London -11 70 £500 +4.17% 11
South East +25 33 £600 +26.32% 7
North of England -35 20 £450 -4.76% 4
North West -10 17 £450 +3.15% 1
London -4 15 £600 +9.09% 4
Work from Home -3 14 £500 -10.11% 4
Midlands -23 13 £500 +33.33%
West Midlands - 13 £500 -
Scotland 0 8 £525 +12.30%
South West -4 7 £425 -29.17%
Yorkshire -33 3 - - 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 3 (3.41%) CICS
2 2 (2.27%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.27%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.14%) Confluence
3 1 (1.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (34.09%) Azure
2 18 (20.45%) GitHub
3 13 (14.77%) AWS
4 8 (9.09%) GCP
5 7 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.82%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (4.55%) Azure Storage
7 4 (4.55%) SaaS
8 3 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.14%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.14%) Cloud Run
9 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.14%) PaaS
9 1 (1.14%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (31.82%) SAN
2 20 (22.73%) DNS
2 20 (22.73%) iSCSI
3 17 (19.32%) TCP/IP
4 16 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
4 16 (18.18%) NAS
5 14 (15.91%) Firewall
6 12 (13.64%) BIG-IP
6 12 (13.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 12 (13.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 12 (13.64%) HTTP
6 12 (13.64%) SSL
7 11 (12.50%) Wireshark
8 9 (10.23%) VLAN
9 7 (7.95%) VSAN
10 5 (5.68%) DMZ
10 5 (5.68%) VPN
11 4 (4.55%) WAN
12 2 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (2.27%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.14%) Power BI
4 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (12.50%) Fiddler
2 9 (10.23%) ClearCase
3 7 (7.95%) JIRA
4 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.14%) Git
5 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.64%) Banking
3 11 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 11 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Finance
5 2 (2.27%) French Language
5 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Legal
6 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 28 (31.82%) Architect
2 23 (26.14%) Infrastructure Architect
3 14 (15.91%) Network Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) VMware Architect
5 8 (9.09%) Administrator
5 8 (9.09%) Backup Administrator
5 8 (9.09%) Storage Administrator
5 8 (9.09%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 8 (9.09%) Web Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) IP Network Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Storage Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Security Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) HP Storage Administrator
8 5 (5.68%) Server Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.95%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.27%) LDAP
2 2 (2.27%) Middleware
3 1 (1.14%) CrewAI
3 1 (1.14%) JSON
3 1 (1.14%) LangChain
3 1 (1.14%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.14%) XML
3 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.32%) Replication
2 15 (17.05%) Data Centre
3 13 (14.77%) Management Information System
4 11 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (6.82%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.55%) Clustering
6 4 (4.55%) HP Storage
6 4 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.55%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.41%) Mainframe
7 3 (3.41%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.14%) EMC VNX
8 1 (1.14%) FlexPod
8 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.14%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.14%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 45 (51.14%) Windows
2 28 (31.82%) Linux
3 16 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 16 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (7.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (6.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.55%) Solaris
7 3 (3.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.27%) AIX
8 2 (2.27%) zOS
9 1 (1.14%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (1.14%) MVS
9 1 (1.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.45%) Migration
2 13 (14.77%) High Availability
3 12 (13.64%) Load Balancing
3 12 (13.64%) Mentoring
3 12 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (11.36%) CI/CD
6 9 (10.23%) DevOps
6 9 (10.23%) ITIL
7 8 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
8 7 (7.95%) Agile
8 7 (7.95%) Customer Requirements
8 7 (7.95%) Data Protection
8 7 (7.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (7.95%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 7 (7.95%) Project Delivery
8 7 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (6.82%) Edge Virtualization
9 6 (6.82%) Operational Stability
9 6 (6.82%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (28.41%) SQL
2 15 (17.05%) Shell Script
3 13 (14.77%) PowerShell
4 11 (12.50%) Java
5 9 (10.23%) C
6 6 (6.82%) Python
7 3 (3.41%) C++
8 1 (1.14%) Bash
8 1 (1.14%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 43 (48.86%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 17 (19.32%) DV Cleared
4 13 (14.77%) MCSE
4 13 (14.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (7.95%) VCP5
6 7 (7.95%) VCP6
7 4 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.55%) Degree
8 3 (3.41%) CCNP
8 3 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.14%) CCDP
10 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.14%) Postgraduate
10 1 (1.14%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) GDPR
2 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (48.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (21.59%) vSphere
3 17 (19.32%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (17.05%) NFS
5 8 (9.09%) Active Directory
5 8 (9.09%) Firmware
6 7 (7.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (7.95%) VMware NSX
7 6 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (3.41%) Hyper-V
8 3 (3.41%) KVM
9 2 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (1.14%) Docker
10 1 (1.14%) Squid
10 1 (1.14%) SRDF
10 1 (1.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (1.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (12.50%) Terraform
2 9 (10.23%) Ansible
3 8 (9.09%) NetBackup
4 5 (5.68%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.27%) SCOM
6 1 (1.14%) Argo
6 1 (1.14%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.14%) Podman
6 1 (1.14%) Puppet
6 1 (1.14%) SCCM
6 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 47 (53.41%) VMware
2 23 (26.14%) Microsoft
3 20 (22.73%) Veeam
4 17 (19.32%) F5
5 14 (15.91%) Dell
6 13 (14.77%) Splunk
7 12 (13.64%) Blue Coat
7 12 (13.64%) Cisco
7 12 (13.64%) McAfee
8 11 (12.50%) Oracle
9 10 (11.36%) EMC
10 9 (10.23%) HP
10 9 (10.23%) Veritas
11 8 (9.09%) 3PAR
11 8 (9.09%) Nimble Storage
12 7 (7.95%) Red Hat
13 5 (5.68%) Pure Storage
14 4 (4.55%) SolarWinds
15 3 (3.41%) Commvault
15 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow