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 16 June 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
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 451 511
Rank change year-on-year -56 +60 -71
Contract jobs citing NetApp 127 68 78
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.62% 0.48% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 58 51
10th Percentile £366 £405 £363
25th Percentile £450 £467 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £700
90th Percentile £655 £650 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile - - £29.98
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - -
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 20,424 14,104 18,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.68% 47.61% 42.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,835 8,673 11,415
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £401 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,048 645 1,150
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.35 £14.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +7.14% -44.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.95 £59.30
90th Percentile £79.65 £69.29 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.25 £23.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +35.87% +2.22% -43.15%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -59 116 £522 -5.09% 28
UK excluding London -63 91 £500 -9.09% 19
Work from Home -10 36 £500 +2.04% 31
North of England -39 36 £500 +4.71% 5
Midlands -28 31 £263 -58.33% 1
London -61 29 £575 +43.75% 8
West Midlands - 20 £200 - 1
Yorkshire -38 19 £500 +23.46%
South East -50 19 £495 -23.92% 7
North West -24 17 - - 5
South West -15 15 £550 +22.22% 5
East Midlands -14 11 £433 -31.35%
Scotland -9 3 £463 -2.01%
East of England -53 3 £438 -20.45% 2
Wales - 1 £490 -

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 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.41%) Azure
2 20 (15.75%) Rubrik
3 18 (14.17%) AWS
4 13 (10.24%) OpenShift
5 11 (8.66%) GCP
6 7 (5.51%) GitHub
6 7 (5.51%) IaaS
7 6 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (4.72%) PaaS
8 4 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.15%) Nutanix
9 3 (2.36%) Azure Storage
9 3 (2.36%) Cohesity
9 3 (2.36%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.57%) Datadog
11 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.79%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (23.62%) DNS
2 26 (20.47%) SAN
3 19 (14.96%) TCP/IP
4 18 (14.17%) SSL
5 17 (13.39%) BIG-IP
5 17 (13.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 17 (13.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 17 (13.39%) HTTP
5 17 (13.39%) Wireshark
6 16 (12.60%) Firewall
6 16 (12.60%) NAS
7 13 (10.24%) DHCP
7 13 (10.24%) VPN
8 7 (5.51%) SMTP
9 6 (4.72%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (3.94%) LAN
10 5 (3.94%) WAN
11 4 (3.15%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (3.15%) VLAN
11 4 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.79%) MySQL
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.79%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 17 (13.39%) Fiddler
2 4 (3.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.36%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.57%) Git
4 2 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.79%) JIRA
5 1 (0.79%) MSI
General
1 24 (18.90%) Banking
2 17 (13.39%) Investment Banking
3 15 (11.81%) Finance
4 13 (10.24%) Military
5 11 (8.66%) Social Skills
6 6 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.72%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.15%) Legal
8 3 (2.36%) Retail
9 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Electronics
10 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (23.62%) Storage Engineer
2 24 (18.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (15.75%) NetApp Engineer
3 20 (15.75%) Network Engineer
4 17 (13.39%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 17 (13.39%) IP Network Engineer
4 17 (13.39%) Web Engineer
5 13 (10.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 13 (10.24%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (10.24%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 13 (10.24%) Systems Engineer
6 12 (9.45%) VMware Specialist
7 8 (6.30%) Consultant
7 8 (6.30%) Senior
8 6 (4.72%) Architect
9 5 (3.94%) Storage Architect
10 4 (3.15%) Administrator
10 4 (3.15%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 3 (2.36%) Server Engineer
11 3 (2.36%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.57%) Flash
1 2 (1.57%) Middleware
1 2 (1.57%) REST
2 1 (0.79%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.26%) Enterprise Storage
2 20 (15.75%) Replication
3 19 (14.96%) Data Centre
3 19 (14.96%) Management Information System
4 11 (8.66%) Clustering
4 11 (8.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (7.09%) PKI
6 6 (4.72%) EMC VMAX
6 6 (4.72%) EMC VNX
6 6 (4.72%) FlexPod
7 4 (3.15%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.36%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.36%) EPoS
8 3 (2.36%) NVMe
9 2 (1.57%) Celerra
9 2 (1.57%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.57%) CMDB
9 2 (1.57%) EMC Centera
9 2 (1.57%) IBM XIV
9 2 (1.57%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.05%) Windows
2 26 (20.47%) Linux
3 21 (16.54%) Data ONTAP
4 13 (10.24%) Windows Server
5 11 (8.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (4.72%) CoreOS
6 6 (4.72%) VMS
6 6 (4.72%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (3.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (31.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (26.77%) Migration
3 26 (20.47%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (15.75%) Data Protection
5 19 (14.96%) Load Balancing
6 17 (13.39%) Data Loss Prevention
6 17 (13.39%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 15 (11.81%) Capacity Planning
8 10 (7.87%) Performance Optimisation
9 9 (7.09%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (6.30%) Data Migration
10 8 (6.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (6.30%) Storage Management
11 7 (5.51%) Change Control
11 7 (5.51%) DevOps
11 7 (5.51%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (4.72%) High Availability
12 6 (4.72%) Incident Management
12 6 (4.72%) Validation
13 5 (3.94%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.96%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.87%) Python
3 5 (3.94%) Bash
4 4 (3.15%) SQL
5 2 (1.57%) Perl
6 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (39.37%) Security Cleared
2 37 (29.13%) DV Cleared
3 14 (11.02%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.87%) NCDA
5 8 (6.30%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 6 (4.72%) OCP
7 6 (4.72%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.15%) Degree
10 3 (2.36%) NCIE
11 2 (1.57%) VCP6
12 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.79%) CCNP
12 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.79%) Dell Certification
12 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.79%) PMP
12 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.79%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 57 (44.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (14.17%) Firmware
3 17 (13.39%) vSphere
4 16 (12.60%) Active Directory
4 16 (12.60%) NFS
5 14 (11.02%) Hyper-V
6 13 (10.24%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (10.24%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (7.87%) VMware NSX
8 8 (6.30%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (5.51%) BitLocker
10 6 (4.72%) Docker
11 5 (3.94%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 5 (3.94%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (2.36%) SRDF
13 1 (0.79%) KVM
13 1 (0.79%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.79%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 26 (20.47%) Ansible
2 18 (14.17%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.81%) SnapMirror
3 15 (11.81%) vCenter Server
4 14 (11.02%) Terraform
5 10 (7.87%) vMotion
6 9 (7.09%) NetBackup
7 6 (4.72%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (4.72%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (4.72%) Puppet
8 5 (3.94%) Avamar
8 5 (3.94%) Grafana
8 5 (3.94%) SCCM
9 4 (3.15%) SnapVault
10 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (2.36%) vRealize
11 2 (1.57%) Argo
11 2 (1.57%) PowerCLI
11 2 (1.57%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 74 (58.27%) VMware
2 25 (19.69%) Microsoft
3 23 (18.11%) Cisco
4 17 (13.39%) Blue Coat
4 17 (13.39%) F5
4 17 (13.39%) McAfee
5 16 (12.60%) Brocade
5 16 (12.60%) Veeam
6 15 (11.81%) EMC
7 14 (11.02%) ServiceNow
8 13 (10.24%) Fortinet
9 12 (9.45%) Red Hat
10 11 (8.66%) Dell
11 9 (7.09%) Google
12 8 (6.30%) 3PAR
12 8 (6.30%) Citrix
12 8 (6.30%) Commvault
12 8 (6.30%) Pure Storage
13 6 (4.72%) IBM
13 6 (4.72%) SolarWinds