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 May 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
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 456 497
Rank change year-on-year -45 +41 -52
Contract jobs citing NetApp 134 70 79
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.67% 0.51% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 60 51
10th Percentile £392 £402 £363
25th Percentile £451 £440 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £609 £575 £700
90th Percentile £650 £650 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.91% - +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 19,907 13,659 18,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.00% 47.76% 42.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,578 8,512 11,244
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £625
90th Percentile £700 £714 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +0.06% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,021 563 1,105
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +12.11% -47.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.40 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.75 £22.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +35.23% +2.52% -45.81%

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 May 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 26 May 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 -58 125 £519 -5.64% 22
UK excluding London -71 93 £490 -10.91% 16
North of England -33 44 £494 +3.35% 2
London -40 35 £575 +39.39% 6
Work from Home -28 32 £500 - 29
Midlands -33 31 £540 -14.29% 1
North West -15 22 £575 +4.55%
Yorkshire -37 22 £487 +20.25% 2
West Midlands - 19 - - 1
South East -53 16 £478 -26.54% 8
South West -21 13 £540 +22.73% 2
East Midlands -19 12 £540 -14.29%
Scotland -2 3 £463 -2.01%
East of England -63 3 £438 -20.45% 2
Wales - 1 £490 - 1

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 (3.73%) 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 29 (21.64%) Azure
2 17 (12.69%) AWS
3 16 (11.94%) OpenShift
4 14 (10.45%) Rubrik
5 11 (8.21%) GCP
6 8 (5.97%) IaaS
7 7 (5.22%) PaaS
8 6 (4.48%) GitHub
9 4 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.99%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.24%) Cohesity
10 3 (2.24%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.75%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.75%) Datadog
12 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (26.87%) SAN
2 32 (23.88%) DNS
3 22 (16.42%) NAS
4 20 (14.93%) Firewall
5 19 (14.18%) SSL
5 19 (14.18%) TCP/IP
6 18 (13.43%) BIG-IP
6 18 (13.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 18 (13.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 18 (13.43%) HTTP
6 18 (13.43%) Wireshark
7 16 (11.94%) VPN
8 14 (10.45%) DHCP
9 11 (8.21%) Fibre Channel
10 8 (5.97%) SMTP
11 6 (4.48%) iSCSI
11 6 (4.48%) WAN
12 5 (3.73%) LAN
13 4 (2.99%) VLAN
13 4 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.22%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.49%) 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 (13.43%) Fiddler
2 3 (2.24%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.24%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.49%) Git
3 2 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.75%) GitLab
4 1 (0.75%) JIRA
4 1 (0.75%) MSI
General
1 25 (18.66%) Banking
2 18 (13.43%) Investment Banking
3 13 (9.70%) Military
4 12 (8.96%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.72%) Finance
6 7 (5.22%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.73%) Legal
9 3 (2.24%) Retail
10 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.75%) Electronics
11 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Marketing
11 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (26.87%) Storage Engineer
2 24 (17.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 23 (17.16%) NetApp Engineer
4 22 (16.42%) Network Engineer
5 18 (13.43%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 18 (13.43%) IP Network Engineer
5 18 (13.43%) Web Engineer
6 15 (11.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 14 (10.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (9.70%) Systems Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) Senior
10 7 (5.22%) Architect
10 7 (5.22%) Consultant
11 6 (4.48%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 6 (4.48%) VMware Specialist
12 4 (2.99%) Administrator
12 4 (2.99%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
13 3 (2.24%) Infrastructure Architect
13 3 (2.24%) Server Engineer
13 3 (2.24%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.49%) Flash
1 2 (1.49%) Middleware
1 2 (1.49%) REST
2 1 (0.75%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.13%) Enterprise Storage
2 26 (19.40%) Replication
3 20 (14.93%) Management Information System
4 18 (13.43%) Data Centre
5 12 (8.96%) Clustering
6 11 (8.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (7.46%) PKI
8 6 (4.48%) FlexPod
9 5 (3.73%) EMC VMAX
10 4 (2.99%) EMC VNX
10 4 (2.99%) Private Cloud
11 3 (2.24%) Driving Licence
11 3 (2.24%) EPoS
11 3 (2.24%) NVMe
11 3 (2.24%) Symmetrix
12 2 (1.49%) Celerra
12 2 (1.49%) CMDB
12 2 (1.49%) EMC Centera
12 2 (1.49%) IBM XIV
12 2 (1.49%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.15%) Windows
2 26 (19.40%) Linux
3 20 (14.93%) Data ONTAP
4 14 (10.45%) Windows Server
5 11 (8.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (5.22%) VMS
6 7 (5.22%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (4.48%) CoreOS
8 4 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (33.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (27.61%) Migration
3 33 (24.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 26 (19.40%) Data Protection
5 20 (14.93%) Load Balancing
6 18 (13.43%) Capacity Planning
6 18 (13.43%) Data Loss Prevention
6 18 (13.43%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 15 (11.19%) High Availability
8 14 (10.45%) Performance Optimisation
9 13 (9.70%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (8.21%) ITIL
11 10 (7.46%) Change Management
12 8 (5.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (5.97%) Storage Management
13 7 (5.22%) Change Control
13 7 (5.22%) Containerisation
13 7 (5.22%) Incident Management
13 7 (5.22%) ITSM
13 7 (5.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.93%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.72%) Python
3 4 (2.99%) Bash
3 4 (2.99%) SQL
4 2 (1.49%) Perl
5 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 60 (44.78%) Security Cleared
2 46 (34.33%) DV Cleared
3 14 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.97%) NCDA
5 6 (4.48%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.48%) Degree
5 6 (4.48%) OCP
5 6 (4.48%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.49%) VCP6
8 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.75%) CCNP
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.75%) NCIE
8 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PMP
8 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.75%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 60 (44.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (17.16%) Firmware
3 20 (14.93%) NFS
4 17 (12.69%) vSphere
5 16 (11.94%) Active Directory
6 14 (10.45%) Hyper-V
6 14 (10.45%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (9.70%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (8.21%) VMware NSX
9 9 (6.72%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (5.97%) BitLocker
11 7 (5.22%) Docker
12 5 (3.73%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (2.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (1.49%) SRDF
15 1 (0.75%) KVM
15 1 (0.75%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.75%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 26 (19.40%) Ansible
2 22 (16.42%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.19%) vCenter Server
4 14 (10.45%) Terraform
5 13 (9.70%) SnapMirror
6 11 (8.21%) vMotion
7 7 (5.22%) NetBackup
7 7 (5.22%) Puppet
8 5 (3.73%) Avamar
8 5 (3.73%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (2.99%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (2.99%) Grafana
9 4 (2.99%) SnapVault
10 3 (2.24%) SCCM
10 3 (2.24%) vRealize
11 2 (1.49%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.75%) Argo
12 1 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (51.49%) VMware
2 24 (17.91%) Microsoft
3 22 (16.42%) EMC
4 21 (15.67%) Cisco
5 18 (13.43%) Blue Coat
5 18 (13.43%) F5
5 18 (13.43%) McAfee
6 15 (11.19%) ServiceNow
6 15 (11.19%) Veeam
7 14 (10.45%) Brocade
7 14 (10.45%) Fortinet
8 11 (8.21%) IBM
9 10 (7.46%) Red Hat
10 9 (6.72%) Citrix
10 9 (6.72%) Google
11 8 (5.97%) Commvault
11 8 (5.97%) Dell
11 8 (5.97%) Veritas
12 7 (5.22%) Pure Storage
13 6 (4.48%) 3PAR