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 10 March 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
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 456 484
Rank change year-on-year -50 +28 -11
Contract jobs citing NetApp 106 62 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Vendors category 0.57% 0.45% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 48 68
10th Percentile £378 £400 £400
25th Percentile £451 £414 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year - -3.61% +3.75%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £581
90th Percentile £638 £627 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -2.60% +7.53% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 16
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £60.50 - £13.82
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £29.98
75th Percentile £61.50 - £40.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £29.98
% change year-on-year - - +48.02%

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 18,681 13,883 19,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.03% 46.96% 43.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,975 8,628 12,043
10th Percentile £306 £285 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% -2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.56% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 936 450 1,032
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.02 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +17.65% -29.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £53.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.93 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.68 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.53% +19.57% -29.23%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -49 95 £500 -0.05% 25
UK excluding London -47 74 £487 -2.60% 24
North of England -24 43 £487 +20.99% 1
Midlands -37 31 £650 +3.17% 3
London -29 25 £593 +18.44% 4
North West -15 24 £575 +43.75% 1
West Midlands - 21 - - 3
Work from Home -23 20 £500 -4.76% 12
Yorkshire -38 19 £487 +20.25%
East Midlands -23 10 £650 +3.17%
South East -34 10 £494 -17.67% 12
Scotland +11 5 £463 +32.14%
South West -30 4 £475 +1.06% 5
East of England -44 1 - - 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 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.87%) Azure
2 17 (16.04%) AWS
3 14 (13.21%) OpenShift
4 9 (8.49%) GCP
5 7 (6.60%) GitHub
6 6 (5.66%) IaaS
7 5 (4.72%) PaaS
7 5 (4.72%) Rubrik
8 4 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.83%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.83%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.89%) Cohesity
11 1 (0.94%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (33.02%) SAN
2 27 (25.47%) DNS
3 23 (21.70%) NAS
3 23 (21.70%) TCP/IP
4 22 (20.75%) SSL
5 21 (19.81%) BIG-IP
5 21 (19.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 21 (19.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 21 (19.81%) HTTP
6 20 (18.87%) Wireshark
7 15 (14.15%) Firewall
8 12 (11.32%) Fibre Channel
9 9 (8.49%) VPN
10 7 (6.60%) DHCP
10 7 (6.60%) iSCSI
11 5 (4.72%) SMTP
12 3 (2.83%) DMZ
12 3 (2.83%) Network Security
13 2 (1.89%) VSAN
13 2 (1.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.83%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (18.87%) Fiddler
2 3 (2.83%) ClearCase
3 2 (1.89%) Git
3 2 (1.89%) JIRA
4 1 (0.94%) GitLab
4 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.94%) MSI
General
1 25 (23.58%) Banking
2 20 (18.87%) Investment Banking
3 13 (12.26%) Military
4 11 (10.38%) Social Skills
5 10 (9.43%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Finance
7 3 (2.83%) Retail
8 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Legal
9 1 (0.94%) Electronics
9 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.94%) Police
9 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (22.64%) Network Engineer
1 24 (22.64%) Storage Engineer
2 19 (17.92%) Web Engineer
3 18 (16.98%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 18 (16.98%) IP Network Engineer
4 16 (15.09%) NetApp Engineer
5 14 (13.21%) Systems Engineer
6 10 (9.43%) Architect
6 10 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (8.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Infrastructure Architect
9 5 (4.72%) Senior
10 4 (3.77%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
10 4 (3.77%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.77%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
11 3 (2.83%) Administrator
11 3 (2.83%) Consultant
11 3 (2.83%) Virtualisation Architect
12 2 (1.89%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.83%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.89%) Flash
3 1 (0.94%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.70%) Replication
2 21 (19.81%) Enterprise Storage
2 21 (19.81%) Management Information System
3 11 (10.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (9.43%) Data Centre
5 8 (7.55%) Clustering
6 6 (5.66%) FlexPod
7 5 (4.72%) PKI
8 3 (2.83%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.83%) EPoS
8 3 (2.83%) NVMe
8 3 (2.83%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.94%) CMDB
9 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.94%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (0.94%) EMC VNX
9 1 (0.94%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.94%) Symmetrix
9 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.47%) Linux
2 22 (20.75%) Windows
3 12 (11.32%) Data ONTAP
4 11 (10.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (7.55%) Windows Server
6 7 (6.60%) VMS
7 6 (5.66%) CoreOS
8 5 (4.72%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (4.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.30%) Migration
2 29 (27.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 27 (25.47%) Disaster Recovery
4 21 (19.81%) Load Balancing
5 20 (18.87%) Data Protection
6 18 (16.98%) Data Loss Prevention
6 18 (16.98%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 16 (15.09%) High Availability
8 13 (12.26%) Capacity Planning
9 12 (11.32%) ITIL
10 11 (10.38%) Performance Optimisation
11 10 (9.43%) Change Management
12 9 (8.49%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (7.55%) DevOps
14 7 (6.60%) Containerisation
14 7 (6.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 7 (6.60%) Project Delivery
15 6 (5.66%) Agile
15 6 (5.66%) ITSM
15 6 (5.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.98%) PowerShell
2 10 (9.43%) Python
3 6 (5.66%) SQL
4 4 (3.77%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.83%) Bash
5 3 (2.83%) C
5 3 (2.83%) C++
5 3 (2.83%) Java
6 2 (1.89%) Perl
7 1 (0.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (45.28%) Security Cleared
2 38 (35.85%) DV Cleared
3 9 (8.49%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.66%) OCP
4 6 (5.66%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (4.72%) NCDA
6 3 (2.83%) Degree
7 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.89%) VCP6
7 2 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.94%) CCNP
8 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.94%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 49 (46.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (22.64%) Firmware
3 18 (16.98%) NFS
4 10 (9.43%) Active Directory
4 10 (9.43%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (8.49%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (8.49%) vSphere
6 8 (7.55%) Hyper-V
7 6 (5.66%) Docker
7 6 (5.66%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (4.72%) BitLocker
8 5 (4.72%) VMware NSX
9 3 (2.83%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.94%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 23 (21.70%) Ansible
2 17 (16.04%) Kubernetes
3 13 (12.26%) Terraform
4 9 (8.49%) SnapMirror
5 8 (7.55%) vMotion
6 7 (6.60%) vCenter Server
7 5 (4.72%) NetBackup
7 5 (4.72%) Puppet
8 3 (2.83%) Avamar
8 3 (2.83%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (2.83%) Grafana
8 3 (2.83%) SCCM
8 3 (2.83%) vRealize
9 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.89%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.94%) Argo
10 1 (0.94%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.94%) Podman
10 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.94%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 50 (47.17%) VMware
2 22 (20.75%) F5
3 21 (19.81%) Blue Coat
3 21 (19.81%) McAfee
4 17 (16.04%) EMC
5 15 (14.15%) ServiceNow
6 14 (13.21%) Fortinet
7 10 (9.43%) Microsoft
8 9 (8.49%) Cisco
9 8 (7.55%) Brocade
9 8 (7.55%) IBM
9 8 (7.55%) Red Hat
10 7 (6.60%) Citrix
10 7 (6.60%) Google
11 6 (5.66%) Dell
11 6 (5.66%) Veritas
12 5 (4.72%) Pure Storage
13 4 (3.77%) Hitachi
14 3 (2.83%) Commvault
14 3 (2.83%) Oracle