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 28 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
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 471 441
Rank change year-on-year -16 -30 +136
Contract jobs citing NetApp 97 69 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.21% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.56% 0.45% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 61 89
10th Percentile £393 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £501 £483
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +3.62% +1.68%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £610 £605
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 12
10th Percentile £42.50 - -
25th Percentile £49.25 - £13.29
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £14.08
75th Percentile £64.38 - £45.00
90th Percentile £66.10 - £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £14.08
% change year-on-year - - -80.71%

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 17,331 15,375 19,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.91% 45.82% 44.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,059 9,171 12,306
10th Percentile £294 £285 £252
25th Percentile £409 £409 £406
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 £717 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 451 667
10th Percentile £15.15 £15.50 £14.26
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.51 £19.19
Median hourly rate £23.79 £27.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% -38.89% +74.76%
75th Percentile £44.69 £61.25 £64.70
90th Percentile £73.90 £76.25 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £45.55
% change year-on-year -14.00% -45.11% +102.42%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -3 88 £550 +9.89% 91
UK excluding London -18 72 £500 +5.26% 77
North of England -17 32 £475 +0.53% 14
North West -6 24 £475 +8.88% 8
South East +4 22 £600 +36.52% 22
London -6 21 £609 +13.23% 16
Midlands -26 17 £500 +33.33% 13
West Midlands - 16 £500 - 6
Work from Home -11 13 £500 -10.11% 59
Scotland +9 8 £525 +12.30% 1
Yorkshire -39 8 £481 -10.51% 4
South West -2 7 £425 -11.46% 11
East Midlands -23 1 £650 +73.33% 6

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 (3.09%) CICS
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.06%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.06%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.80%) Azure
2 17 (17.53%) GitHub
3 11 (11.34%) AWS
4 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.19%) GCP
4 6 (6.19%) OpenShift
5 5 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (4.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (4.12%) SaaS
7 3 (3.09%) IaaS
7 3 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.09%) PaaS
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.03%) Cloud Run
8 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 34 (35.05%) SAN
2 24 (24.74%) DNS
3 20 (20.62%) iSCSI
3 20 (20.62%) TCP/IP
4 18 (18.56%) NAS
5 17 (17.53%) Firewall
6 15 (15.46%) BIG-IP
6 15 (15.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 15 (15.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 15 (15.46%) Fibre Channel
6 15 (15.46%) HTTP
6 15 (15.46%) SSL
7 14 (14.43%) Wireshark
8 8 (8.25%) VPN
9 7 (7.22%) VLAN
9 7 (7.22%) VSAN
10 5 (5.15%) DHCP
10 5 (5.15%) DMZ
11 4 (4.12%) WAN
12 3 (3.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.28%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.06%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.03%) Power BI
4 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (14.43%) Fiddler
2 9 (9.28%) ClearCase
3 6 (6.19%) JIRA
4 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.03%) Git
5 1 (1.03%) GitLab
5 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (25.77%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.46%) Banking
3 14 (14.43%) Investment Banking
4 11 (11.34%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.09%) Finance
6 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Legal
7 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Electronics
8 1 (1.03%) French Language
8 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.03%) Marketing
8 1 (1.03%) Police
8 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (23.71%) Architect
2 18 (18.56%) Infrastructure Architect
2 18 (18.56%) Network Engineer
3 17 (17.53%) Storage Engineer
4 11 (11.34%) Web Engineer
5 10 (10.31%) Administrator
5 10 (10.31%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 10 (10.31%) IP Network Engineer
6 8 (8.25%) Backup Administrator
6 8 (8.25%) Storage Administrator
6 8 (8.25%) Storage and Backup Administrator
6 8 (8.25%) VMware Architect
7 7 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.19%) Security Engineer
8 6 (6.19%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) HP Storage Administrator
9 5 (5.15%) NetApp Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Server Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.06%) LDAP
2 2 (2.06%) Middleware
3 1 (1.03%) CrewAI
3 1 (1.03%) JSON
3 1 (1.03%) LangChain
3 1 (1.03%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.03%) XML
3 1 (1.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.80%) Replication
2 18 (18.56%) Enterprise Storage
3 16 (16.49%) Management Information System
4 14 (14.43%) Data Centre
5 6 (6.19%) Clustering
6 5 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
7 4 (4.12%) HP Storage
8 3 (3.09%) Mainframe
9 2 (2.06%) PKI
9 2 (2.06%) Private Cloud
9 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.03%) AI Agents
10 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.03%) FlexPod
10 1 (1.03%) IBM Mainframe
10 1 (1.03%) Smartphone
10 1 (1.03%) Symmetrix
10 1 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (1.03%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 42 (43.30%) Windows
2 30 (30.93%) Linux
3 15 (15.46%) Windows Server
4 12 (12.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (8.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (7.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (4.12%) Solaris
8 3 (3.09%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (3.09%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.06%) AIX
9 2 (2.06%) VMS
9 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (2.06%) zOS
10 1 (1.03%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.71%) Migration
2 20 (20.62%) High Availability
3 16 (16.49%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (15.46%) ITIL
4 15 (15.46%) Load Balancing
5 12 (12.37%) Data Protection
5 12 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (11.34%) Data Loss Prevention
7 10 (10.31%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 10 (10.31%) Project Delivery
8 9 (9.28%) Change Management
8 9 (9.28%) CI/CD
8 9 (9.28%) DevOps
8 9 (9.28%) Mentoring
9 8 (8.25%) Containerisation
9 8 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (7.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (6.19%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (6.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.59%) SQL
2 16 (16.49%) PowerShell
3 15 (15.46%) Shell Script
4 11 (11.34%) Java
5 9 (9.28%) C
6 6 (6.19%) Python
7 3 (3.09%) C++
8 1 (1.03%) Bash
8 1 (1.03%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 45 (46.39%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.74%) DV Cleared
3 17 (17.53%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.22%) MCSE
4 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.12%) Degree
5 4 (4.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.09%) VCP5
6 3 (3.09%) VCP6
7 2 (2.06%) CCNP
7 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.03%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 43 (44.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (15.46%) Firmware
2 15 (15.46%) NFS
3 13 (13.40%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (12.37%) vSphere
5 10 (10.31%) Active Directory
6 7 (7.22%) Hyper-V
6 7 (7.22%) VMware NSX
7 6 (6.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (5.15%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (3.09%) Docker
9 3 (3.09%) KVM
10 2 (2.06%) BitLocker
10 2 (2.06%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (2.06%) SRDF
10 2 (2.06%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (1.03%) Squid
11 1 (1.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (1.03%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (11.34%) Ansible
1 11 (11.34%) Terraform
2 9 (9.28%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.25%) NetBackup
4 7 (7.22%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.09%) Puppet
5 3 (3.09%) SCCM
6 2 (2.06%) SCOM
6 2 (2.06%) vMotion
7 1 (1.03%) Argo
7 1 (1.03%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.03%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.03%) Podman
7 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.03%) SnapMirror
7 1 (1.03%) SnapVault
7 1 (1.03%) vRealize
Vendors
1 46 (47.42%) VMware
2 18 (18.56%) F5
3 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
4 15 (15.46%) Blue Coat
4 15 (15.46%) EMC
4 15 (15.46%) McAfee
5 13 (13.40%) Veeam
5 13 (13.40%) Veritas
6 12 (12.37%) Dell
7 11 (11.34%) Oracle
8 10 (10.31%) Cisco
9 9 (9.28%) HP
10 8 (8.25%) 3PAR
10 8 (8.25%) Nimble Storage
11 7 (7.22%) Red Hat
11 7 (7.22%) Splunk
12 6 (6.19%) IBM
13 4 (4.12%) ServiceNow
13 4 (4.12%) SolarWinds
14 3 (3.09%) Google