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 21 December 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
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 463 445
Rank change year-on-year -22 -18 +128
Contract jobs citing NetApp 101 72 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.21% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.58% 0.46% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 62 89
10th Percentile £396 £363 £400
25th Percentile £453 £440 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £507 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +5.52% +1.05%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £544
90th Percentile £650 £610 £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £466
% change year-on-year +5.26% +1.93% +3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 11
10th Percentile £42.50 - -
25th Percentile £49.25 - £13.29
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £14.16
75th Percentile £64.38 - £45.00
90th Percentile £66.10 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £14.16
% change year-on-year - - -80.60%

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 17,343 15,525 19,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.21% 45.72% 45.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,031 9,252 12,570
10th Percentile £293 £284 £252
25th Percentile £408 £410 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £721 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.20% - +0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 862 460 658
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.60 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.28 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% -38.62% +75.85%
75th Percentile £44.01 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.21 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.97 £25.86 £45.21
% change year-on-year -15.06% -42.79% +100.93%

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 21 December 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 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for NetApp in the UK

NetApp
Top 13 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 21 December 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 +2 92 £508 +0.20% 25
UK excluding London +8 77 £500 +5.26% 21
North of England -16 31 £475 +0.53% 6
South East +8 27 £600 +36.52% 9
North West -13 23 £475 +8.88% 3
London -5 20 £604 +12.43% 8
Work from Home -18 16 £500 -9.09% 7
Midlands -22 16 £500 +33.33% 2
West Midlands - 15 £500 - 1
Scotland +8 8 £525 +12.30%
South West -13 8 £425 -11.46% 2
Yorkshire -38 8 £481 -10.51% 2
East Midlands -22 1 £650 +73.33% 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 3 (2.97%) CICS
2 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.98%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.98%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.99%) Confluence
3 1 (0.99%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (31.68%) Azure
2 17 (16.83%) GitHub
3 15 (14.85%) AWS
4 10 (9.90%) GCP
5 6 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.94%) OpenShift
6 5 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.96%) Azure Storage
7 4 (3.96%) SaaS
8 3 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.98%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.98%) IaaS
9 2 (1.98%) PaaS
10 1 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.99%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.99%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 39 (38.61%) SAN
2 23 (22.77%) NAS
3 22 (21.78%) DNS
4 21 (20.79%) iSCSI
5 19 (18.81%) TCP/IP
6 16 (15.84%) Fibre Channel
6 16 (15.84%) Firewall
7 14 (13.86%) BIG-IP
7 14 (13.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 14 (13.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 14 (13.86%) HTTP
7 14 (13.86%) SSL
8 13 (12.87%) Wireshark
9 7 (6.93%) VLAN
9 7 (6.93%) VPN
9 7 (6.93%) VSAN
10 5 (4.95%) DMZ
11 4 (3.96%) DHCP
11 4 (3.96%) WAN
12 3 (2.97%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.91%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.98%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.99%) Power BI
4 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (12.87%) Fiddler
2 9 (8.91%) ClearCase
3 6 (5.94%) JIRA
4 2 (1.98%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.99%) Git
5 1 (0.99%) GitLab
5 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.86%) Banking
3 13 (12.87%) Investment Banking
4 11 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.89%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.97%) Finance
5 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Legal
6 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Electronics
7 1 (0.99%) French Language
7 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.99%) Marketing
7 1 (0.99%) Police
7 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (24.75%) Architect
2 20 (19.80%) Infrastructure Architect
3 17 (16.83%) Network Engineer
4 15 (14.85%) Storage Engineer
5 10 (9.90%) Administrator
5 10 (9.90%) Web Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) IP Network Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) VMware Architect
7 8 (7.92%) Backup Administrator
7 8 (7.92%) Storage Administrator
7 8 (7.92%) Storage and Backup Administrator
8 6 (5.94%) Security Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) HP Storage Administrator
9 5 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Server Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.94%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.98%) LDAP
2 2 (1.98%) Middleware
3 1 (0.99%) CrewAI
3 1 (0.99%) JSON
3 1 (0.99%) LangChain
3 1 (0.99%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.99%) XML
3 1 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.74%) Replication
2 17 (16.83%) Enterprise Storage
3 15 (14.85%) Data Centre
3 15 (14.85%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.95%) Clustering
4 5 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.96%) HP Storage
6 3 (2.97%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.98%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.99%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (0.99%) EMC VNX
8 1 (0.99%) FlexPod
8 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.99%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (42.57%) Windows
2 30 (29.70%) Linux
3 15 (14.85%) Windows Server
4 13 (12.87%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (7.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (6.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.96%) Solaris
8 3 (2.97%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (2.97%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.98%) AIX
9 2 (1.98%) VMS
9 2 (1.98%) zOS
10 1 (0.99%) MVS
10 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (22.77%) Migration
2 20 (19.80%) Disaster Recovery
2 20 (19.80%) High Availability
3 16 (15.84%) ITIL
4 14 (13.86%) Load Balancing
5 12 (11.88%) Data Protection
5 12 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (9.90%) Data Loss Prevention
6 10 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (9.90%) Mentoring
6 10 (9.90%) Project Delivery
7 9 (8.91%) Change Management
7 9 (8.91%) CI/CD
7 9 (8.91%) DevOps
7 9 (8.91%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 8 (7.92%) Containerisation
8 8 (7.92%) Performance Optimisation
8 8 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (6.93%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.80%) SQL
2 15 (14.85%) PowerShell
2 15 (14.85%) Shell Script
3 11 (10.89%) Java
4 9 (8.91%) C
5 6 (5.94%) Python
6 3 (2.97%) C++
7 1 (0.99%) Bash
7 1 (0.99%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 48 (47.52%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.77%) DV Cleared
3 21 (20.79%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.92%) MCSE
4 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.96%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.96%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.96%) Degree
5 4 (3.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.97%) VCP5
6 3 (2.97%) VCP6
7 2 (1.98%) CCNP
7 2 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.99%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) GDPR
2 4 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (42.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (15.84%) NFS
3 14 (13.86%) Firmware
4 13 (12.87%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (12.87%) vSphere
5 10 (9.90%) Active Directory
6 7 (6.93%) VMware NSX
7 6 (5.94%) Hyper-V
7 6 (5.94%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (2.97%) KVM
10 2 (1.98%) Docker
10 2 (1.98%) SRDF
10 2 (1.98%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.99%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.99%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.99%) Squid
11 1 (0.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.99%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (10.89%) Terraform
2 10 (9.90%) Ansible
3 8 (7.92%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.92%) NetBackup
4 6 (5.94%) vCenter Server
5 3 (2.97%) SCCM
6 2 (1.98%) Puppet
6 2 (1.98%) SCOM
7 1 (0.99%) Argo
7 1 (0.99%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.99%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.99%) Podman
7 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.99%) SnapMirror
7 1 (0.99%) SnapVault
7 1 (0.99%) vMotion
7 1 (0.99%) vRealize
Vendors
1 46 (45.54%) VMware
2 19 (18.81%) EMC
2 19 (18.81%) Microsoft
3 18 (17.82%) F5
4 14 (13.86%) Blue Coat
4 14 (13.86%) McAfee
4 14 (13.86%) Veeam
5 13 (12.87%) Dell
5 13 (12.87%) Veritas
6 11 (10.89%) Cisco
6 11 (10.89%) Oracle
7 9 (8.91%) HP
8 8 (7.92%) 3PAR
8 8 (7.92%) Nimble Storage
8 8 (7.92%) Splunk
9 7 (6.93%) Red Hat
10 6 (5.94%) IBM
11 5 (4.95%) Pure Storage
12 4 (3.96%) ServiceNow
12 4 (3.96%) SolarWinds