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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 486 488
Rank change year-on-year +19 +2 +121
Contract jobs citing NetApp 101 73 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.19% 0.34%
As % of the Vendors category 0.65% 0.43% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 64 81
10th Percentile £402 £363 £388
25th Percentile £473 £461 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% +1.74%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £610 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +8.91% -3.81% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile £40.78 - -
25th Percentile £44.94 - £13.00
Median hourly rate £52.25 - £31.50
75th Percentile £59.94 - £50.56
90th Percentile £64.33 - £76.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £31.50
% change year-on-year - - -56.85%

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 15,579 17,006 21,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.28% 44.16% 44.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,565 10,199 14,188
10th Percentile £275 £281 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 796 678 648
10th Percentile £14.72 £14.26 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.45 £15.62 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -31.66% +83.61%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.28 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.07% -29.41% +112.50%

NetApp
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NetApp as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NetApp 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +44 89 £550 +2.33% 22
UK excluding London +30 83 £550 +8.91% 17
South East +49 33 £600 +49.25% 10
East of England +5 20 £550 -
Work from Home +20 17 £500 -11.11% 10
North of England -4 13 £475 -11.63% 4
London +14 11 £625 +13.64% 9
North West -5 11 £475 +0.53% 4
Scotland +4 10 £500 +6.10%
West Midlands -5 6 £500 +135.29% 1
Midlands -18 6 £500 +33.33% 2
South West +27 5 £438 -8.85%
Yorkshire -15 2 - -

NetApp
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.97%) CICS
2 2 (1.98%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.98%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.99%) Confluence
3 1 (0.99%) IIS
3 1 (0.99%) SAS
3 1 (0.99%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.74%) Azure
2 21 (20.79%) Cohesity
3 14 (13.86%) GitHub
4 10 (9.90%) AWS
5 7 (6.93%) GCP
6 5 (4.95%) Azure Storage
7 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (3.96%) SaaS
8 3 (2.97%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.98%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.99%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.99%) Cloud Run
10 1 (0.99%) IaaS
10 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.99%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.99%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (45.54%) SAN
2 32 (31.68%) DNS
3 24 (23.76%) iSCSI
4 20 (19.80%) Fibre Channel
5 11 (10.89%) NAS
6 10 (9.90%) VLAN
7 9 (8.91%) Firewall
8 8 (7.92%) TCP/IP
9 6 (5.94%) VSAN
10 5 (4.95%) VPN
11 4 (3.96%) BIG-IP
11 4 (3.96%) DMZ
11 4 (3.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 4 (3.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (3.96%) HTTP
11 4 (3.96%) SSL
11 4 (3.96%) WAN
11 4 (3.96%) Wireshark
12 3 (2.97%) DHCP
13 2 (1.98%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.92%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.98%) DB2
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%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.99%) Power BI
4 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (7.92%) ClearCase
2 5 (4.95%) JIRA
3 4 (3.96%) Fiddler
4 3 (2.97%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.99%) Git
5 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (7.92%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.94%) Banking
4 4 (3.96%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Finance
6 2 (1.98%) French Language
6 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (26.73%) Architect
2 23 (22.77%) Infrastructure Architect
3 17 (16.83%) VMware Architect
4 8 (7.92%) Administrator
4 8 (7.92%) Backup Administrator
4 8 (7.92%) Storage Administrator
4 8 (7.92%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 6 (5.94%) Security Engineer
5 6 (5.94%) Storage Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) HP Storage Administrator
6 5 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Python Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Server Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Network Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Consultant
8 3 (2.97%) Junior
8 3 (2.97%) Junior Network Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.96%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.97%) Middleware
3 2 (1.98%) LDAP
4 1 (0.99%) CrewAI
4 1 (0.99%) Flash
4 1 (0.99%) JSON
4 1 (0.99%) LangChain
4 1 (0.99%) POSIX
4 1 (0.99%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.99%) REST
4 1 (0.99%) XML
4 1 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.86%) Data Centre
2 11 (10.89%) Enterprise Storage
2 11 (10.89%) Replication
3 6 (5.94%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.96%) Clustering
5 4 (3.96%) HP Storage
5 4 (3.96%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.97%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.97%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.99%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.99%) FlexPod
8 1 (0.99%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.99%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (0.99%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 68 (67.33%) Windows
2 42 (41.58%) Windows Server
3 40 (39.60%) Windows Server 2019
4 28 (27.72%) Linux
5 23 (22.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (7.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.96%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (3.96%) Solaris
8 3 (2.97%) Unix
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 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (19.80%) Build Automation
1 20 (19.80%) Deployment Automation
1 20 (19.80%) Operations Management
1 20 (19.80%) SIEM
2 14 (13.86%) Migration
3 13 (12.87%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (10.89%) Mentoring
5 10 (9.90%) Edge Virtualization
5 10 (9.90%) High Availability
5 10 (9.90%) Performance Analysis
5 10 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (7.92%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (7.92%) ITIL
7 7 (6.93%) Agile
7 7 (6.93%) CI/CD
7 7 (6.93%) Project Delivery
7 7 (6.93%) Storage Management
8 6 (5.94%) DevOps
8 6 (5.94%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (5.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (30.69%) PowerShell
2 29 (28.71%) SQL
3 15 (14.85%) Shell Script
4 10 (9.90%) Java
5 8 (7.92%) C
5 8 (7.92%) Python
6 2 (1.98%) Bash
6 2 (1.98%) C++
6 2 (1.98%) Perl
7 1 (0.99%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 59 (58.42%) Security Cleared
2 37 (36.63%) DV Cleared
3 18 (17.82%) SC Cleared
4 17 (16.83%) MCSE
4 17 (16.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (11.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (10.89%) VCP5
6 11 (10.89%) VCP6
7 4 (3.96%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.96%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.96%) Degree
8 2 (1.98%) CCNP
8 2 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.99%) CCDP
9 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.99%) NCSIE
9 1 (0.99%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.99%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) GDPR
2 5 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 55 (54.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (27.72%) Active Directory
3 22 (21.78%) Virtual Servers
3 22 (21.78%) vSphere
4 20 (19.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 19 (18.81%) NFS
6 18 (17.82%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (5.94%) VMware NSX
8 5 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (3.96%) Hyper-V
9 4 (3.96%) KVM
9 4 (3.96%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.98%) GPFS
11 1 (0.99%) Docker
11 1 (0.99%) Squid
11 1 (0.99%) SRDF
11 1 (0.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.99%) Xen
Systems Management
1 30 (29.70%) Ansible
2 20 (19.80%) SCCM
2 20 (19.80%) WSUS
3 8 (7.92%) NetBackup
4 7 (6.93%) Terraform
5 4 (3.96%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.97%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.97%) SCOM
7 2 (1.98%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 1 (0.99%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.99%) Grafana
8 1 (0.99%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.99%) Nagios
8 1 (0.99%) Puppet
8 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.99%) vRealize
Vendors
1 60 (59.41%) VMware
2 46 (45.54%) Microsoft
3 37 (36.63%) Splunk
4 26 (25.74%) Veeam
5 13 (12.87%) Dell
5 13 (12.87%) EMC
6 12 (11.88%) Cisco
6 12 (11.88%) Veritas
7 11 (10.89%) Oracle
8 10 (9.90%) HP
9 8 (7.92%) 3PAR
9 8 (7.92%) F5
9 8 (7.92%) Nimble Storage
10 7 (6.93%) Red Hat
11 5 (4.95%) Commvault
11 5 (4.95%) Pure Storage
12 4 (3.96%) Blue Coat
12 4 (3.96%) McAfee
12 4 (3.96%) SolarWinds
13 3 (2.97%) Google