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 4 April 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
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 474 509
Rank change year-on-year -42 +35 -36
Contract jobs citing NetApp 120 56 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.41% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 46 58
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £451 £415 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -4.71% +4.48%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £700
90th Percentile £638 £640 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £506 £445
% change year-on-year -2.42% +13.76% -11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 14
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £60.50 - £13.51
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 19,561 13,792 18,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.31% 47.19% 42.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,564 8,713 11,765
10th Percentile £313 £293 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £514
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +0.19% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 969 497 1,044
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £12.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.00 £14.46
Median hourly rate £27.00 £28.60 £22.73
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +25.85% -44.01%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.50 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.35 £80.65 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £26.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.66% +23.26% -42.67%

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 4 April 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 14 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 4 April 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 -39 111 £518 +3.40% 33
UK excluding London -50 84 £494 -2.42% 28
North of England -35 43 £487 +1.99% 4
Midlands -42 31 £595 -5.56% 4
London -39 30 £585 +17.00% 4
North West -23 23 £575 +4.55% 3
Work from Home -29 23 £500 -2.44% 11
Yorkshire -40 20 £483 +19.14% 1
West Midlands - 20 - - 4
South East -38 15 £495 -23.85% 9
East Midlands -22 11 £595 -5.56%
South West -26 7 £550 +17.02% 7
Scotland +7 4 £463 +8.82%
East of England -41 3 £438 -13.58% 5

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 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.00%) Azure
2 18 (15.00%) AWS
3 15 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 11 (9.17%) GCP
5 8 (6.67%) IaaS
6 7 (5.83%) PaaS
7 6 (5.00%) Rubrik
8 5 (4.17%) GitHub
9 4 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.50%) Cohesity
10 3 (2.50%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.50%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.83%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (30.00%) SAN
2 30 (25.00%) DNS
3 24 (20.00%) NAS
4 22 (18.33%) Firewall
4 22 (18.33%) TCP/IP
5 21 (17.50%) SSL
6 20 (16.67%) BIG-IP
6 20 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 20 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 20 (16.67%) HTTP
7 19 (15.83%) Wireshark
8 12 (10.00%) VPN
9 11 (9.17%) Fibre Channel
10 10 (8.33%) DHCP
11 8 (6.67%) SMTP
12 6 (5.00%) iSCSI
13 3 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (2.50%) Network Security
14 2 (1.67%) VSAN
14 2 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.83%) MySQL
3 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.83%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 19 (15.83%) Fiddler
2 2 (1.67%) Git
2 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.83%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.83%) GitLab
3 1 (0.83%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) MSI
General
1 24 (20.00%) Banking
2 19 (15.83%) Investment Banking
3 13 (10.83%) Military
4 10 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 9 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Legal
8 3 (2.50%) Finance
8 3 (2.50%) Retail
9 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.83%) Electronics
10 1 (0.83%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Police
10 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
2 23 (19.17%) Network Engineer
3 21 (17.50%) NetApp Engineer
4 20 (16.67%) Web Engineer
5 19 (15.83%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 19 (15.83%) IP Network Engineer
6 16 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (11.67%) Systems Engineer
8 13 (10.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 12 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (8.33%) Architect
11 8 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
12 7 (5.83%) Senior
13 6 (5.00%) Consultant
14 4 (3.33%) Administrator
14 4 (3.33%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
14 4 (3.33%) Technical Architect
14 4 (3.33%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
15 3 (2.50%) Backup Engineer
15 3 (2.50%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.67%) Flash
1 2 (1.67%) Middleware
1 2 (1.67%) REST
2 1 (0.83%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.50%) Replication
2 25 (20.83%) Enterprise Storage
3 20 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 12 (10.00%) Clustering
5 11 (9.17%) Data Centre
5 11 (9.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (7.50%) PKI
7 6 (5.00%) FlexPod
8 4 (3.33%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.50%) Driving Licence
9 3 (2.50%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (2.50%) EPoS
9 3 (2.50%) NVMe
9 3 (2.50%) Symmetrix
10 2 (1.67%) Celerra
10 2 (1.67%) CMDB
10 2 (1.67%) EMC Centera
10 2 (1.67%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.67%) IBM XIV
10 2 (1.67%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 29 (24.17%) Linux
2 27 (22.50%) Windows
3 17 (14.17%) Data ONTAP
4 14 (11.67%) Windows Server
5 11 (9.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (5.83%) VMS
6 7 (5.83%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (5.00%) CoreOS
8 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (26.67%) Migration
3 31 (25.83%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 22 (18.33%) Load Balancing
6 19 (15.83%) Data Loss Prevention
6 19 (15.83%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 16 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
8 15 (12.50%) High Availability
9 14 (11.67%) Performance Optimisation
10 12 (10.00%) ITIL
11 11 (9.17%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (8.33%) Change Management
13 7 (5.83%) Containerisation
13 7 (5.83%) Incident Management
13 7 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (5.83%) ITSM
14 6 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
15 5 (4.17%) Project Delivery
15 5 (4.17%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.83%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.67%) Python
3 5 (4.17%) SQL
4 3 (2.50%) Bash
5 2 (1.67%) Perl
5 2 (1.67%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.83%) C
6 1 (0.83%) C++
6 1 (0.83%) Java
6 1 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 47 (39.17%) DV Cleared
3 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.83%) NCDA
5 6 (5.00%) OCP
5 6 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (4.17%) Degree
7 4 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.67%) VCP6
9 1 (0.83%) CCNP
9 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.83%) PMP
9 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.83%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 59 (49.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (20.00%) Firmware
3 18 (15.00%) NFS
4 16 (13.33%) Active Directory
5 15 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (10.00%) Hyper-V
7 10 (8.33%) vSphere
8 9 (7.50%) Microsoft App-V
8 9 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (6.67%) BitLocker
9 8 (6.67%) Docker
9 8 (6.67%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.83%) SRDF
11 1 (0.83%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 26 (21.67%) Ansible
2 20 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 13 (10.83%) Terraform
3 13 (10.83%) vCenter Server
4 11 (9.17%) vMotion
5 10 (8.33%) SnapMirror
6 7 (5.83%) Puppet
7 5 (4.17%) Avamar
7 5 (4.17%) NetBackup
8 3 (2.50%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (2.50%) Grafana
8 3 (2.50%) SCCM
8 3 (2.50%) vRealize
9 2 (1.67%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.67%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.83%) Argo
10 1 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.83%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 61 (50.83%) VMware
2 21 (17.50%) F5
3 20 (16.67%) Blue Coat
3 20 (16.67%) EMC
3 20 (16.67%) McAfee
4 16 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 15 (12.50%) ServiceNow
6 14 (11.67%) Fortinet
7 13 (10.83%) Cisco
8 10 (8.33%) Brocade
8 10 (8.33%) Citrix
8 10 (8.33%) IBM
9 9 (7.50%) Google
9 9 (7.50%) Red Hat
10 8 (6.67%) Veeam
11 7 (5.83%) Veritas
12 6 (5.00%) Dell
13 5 (4.17%) Isilon
13 5 (4.17%) Pure Storage
14 4 (3.33%) HP