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 30 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
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 457 513
Rank change year-on-year -59 +56 -55
Contract jobs citing NetApp 136 75 72
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.65% 0.52% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 63 50
10th Percentile £372 £413 £361
25th Percentile £451 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £700
90th Percentile £663 £650 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £35.99
25th Percentile - - -
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 21,000 14,497 18,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.92% 47.38% 42.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,095 8,886 11,472
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £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 £715 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,085 687 1,156
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.30 £14.72
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.19
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +3.99% -40.35%
75th Percentile £62.00 £53.63 £59.95
90th Percentile £80.79 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.82 £23.50
% change year-on-year +42.45% -2.91% -27.24%

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 30 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 30 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 -63 119 £522 -5.09% 24
UK excluding London -50 101 £500 -9.09% 25
Work from Home -26 37 £500 - 6
North of England -44 36 £500 +4.71% 5
Midlands -31 31 £263 -58.33%
London -68 28 £575 +15.00% 3
West Midlands - 20 £200 -
Yorkshire -36 19 £500 +23.46% 1
South East -65 19 £495 -23.92% 10
North West -30 17 - - 4
South West -18 15 £575 +27.78% 1
East Midlands -7 11 £433 -31.35%
East of England -43 7 £475 -13.64% 6
Wales - 7 £525 - 4
Scotland -12 3 £463 -2.01%

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 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.21%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.79%) Azure
2 22 (16.18%) Rubrik
3 18 (13.24%) AWS
4 13 (9.56%) OpenShift
5 10 (7.35%) GCP
6 7 (5.15%) GitHub
7 6 (4.41%) IaaS
8 5 (3.68%) PaaS
9 4 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.94%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.21%) Azure Storage
10 3 (2.21%) Cohesity
10 3 (2.21%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.47%) Datadog
12 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.74%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (25.00%) DNS
2 31 (22.79%) SAN
3 19 (13.97%) TCP/IP
4 18 (13.24%) Firewall
4 18 (13.24%) SSL
5 17 (12.50%) BIG-IP
5 17 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 17 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 17 (12.50%) HTTP
5 17 (12.50%) Wireshark
6 16 (11.76%) NAS
7 12 (8.82%) VPN
8 10 (7.35%) DHCP
9 6 (4.41%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (4.41%) SMTP
9 6 (4.41%) VLAN
10 5 (3.68%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (3.68%) LAN
10 5 (3.68%) WAN
11 4 (2.94%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.74%) MySQL
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.74%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 17 (12.50%) Fiddler
2 4 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.21%) Git
3 3 (2.21%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.74%) JIRA
5 1 (0.74%) MSI
General
1 24 (17.65%) Banking
2 17 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 16 (11.76%) Finance
4 14 (10.29%) Social Skills
5 13 (9.56%) Military
6 6 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.94%) Legal
9 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.21%) Retail
10 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (23.53%) Storage Engineer
2 30 (22.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (14.71%) Network Engineer
4 19 (13.97%) NetApp Engineer
5 17 (12.50%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 17 (12.50%) IP Network Engineer
5 17 (12.50%) Web Engineer
6 15 (11.03%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 14 (10.29%) Senior
7 14 (10.29%) VMware Specialist
8 13 (9.56%) Systems Engineer
9 11 (8.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 11 (8.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Consultant
11 7 (5.15%) Architect
11 7 (5.15%) Backup Engineer
11 7 (5.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.41%) Storage and Backup Engineer
13 5 (3.68%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.68%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.47%) Flash
1 2 (1.47%) Middleware
1 2 (1.47%) REST
2 1 (0.74%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.59%) Enterprise Storage
2 22 (16.18%) Replication
3 19 (13.97%) Data Centre
3 19 (13.97%) Management Information System
4 11 (8.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (8.09%) PKI
5 10 (7.35%) Clustering
6 7 (5.15%) EMC VMAX
6 7 (5.15%) EMC VNX
7 6 (4.41%) FlexPod
8 4 (2.94%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.21%) Celerra
9 3 (2.21%) Driving Licence
9 3 (2.21%) EMC Centera
9 3 (2.21%) EPoS
9 3 (2.21%) IBM XIV
9 3 (2.21%) NVMe
9 3 (2.21%) Symmetrix
9 3 (2.21%) Symmetrix DMX
10 2 (1.47%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.53%) Windows
2 28 (20.59%) Linux
3 21 (15.44%) Data ONTAP
4 16 (11.76%) Windows Server
5 14 (10.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (4.41%) CoreOS
6 6 (4.41%) VMS
7 5 (3.68%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (2.21%) CentOS
8 3 (2.21%) Rocky
8 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (34.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (26.47%) Migration
3 27 (19.85%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (14.71%) Data Protection
5 19 (13.97%) Load Balancing
6 17 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
6 17 (12.50%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 16 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
8 11 (8.09%) Performance Optimisation
9 10 (7.35%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (6.62%) Storage Management
11 8 (5.88%) Data Migration
11 8 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (5.15%) Change Control
12 7 (5.15%) DevOps
13 6 (4.41%) High Availability
13 6 (4.41%) Platform Engineering
13 6 (4.41%) Roadmaps
13 6 (4.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.91%) PowerShell
2 11 (8.09%) Python
3 5 (3.68%) Bash
4 4 (2.94%) SQL
5 2 (1.47%) Perl
6 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 55 (40.44%) Security Cleared
2 34 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 21 (15.44%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.35%) NCDA
5 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (5.88%) Azure Certification
7 7 (5.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (4.41%) OCP
8 6 (4.41%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (2.94%) Degree
9 4 (2.94%) MCSE
10 3 (2.21%) NCIE
11 2 (1.47%) VCP6
12 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.74%) CCNP
12 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.74%) PMP
12 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.74%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.94%) SLA
2 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 60 (44.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (13.24%) Firmware
3 17 (12.50%) vSphere
4 16 (11.76%) Active Directory
4 16 (11.76%) NFS
5 14 (10.29%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (9.56%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (8.09%) Hyper-V
8 10 (7.35%) VMware NSX
9 7 (5.15%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (4.41%) BitLocker
10 6 (4.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 5 (3.68%) Docker
11 5 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (2.21%) SRDF
13 1 (0.74%) KVM
13 1 (0.74%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.74%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 29 (21.32%) Ansible
2 17 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.03%) SnapMirror
3 15 (11.03%) Terraform
3 15 (11.03%) vCenter Server
4 12 (8.82%) NetBackup
5 9 (6.62%) vMotion
6 7 (5.15%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (4.41%) Avamar
7 6 (4.41%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (3.68%) Grafana
8 5 (3.68%) Puppet
9 4 (2.94%) SnapVault
10 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (2.21%) SCCM
10 3 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.21%) vRealize
11 2 (1.47%) Argo
11 2 (1.47%) PowerCLI
11 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 79 (58.09%) VMware
2 26 (19.12%) Microsoft
3 24 (17.65%) Cisco
4 20 (14.71%) Veeam
5 17 (12.50%) Blue Coat
5 17 (12.50%) Brocade
5 17 (12.50%) F5
5 17 (12.50%) McAfee
6 16 (11.76%) EMC
7 14 (10.29%) ServiceNow
8 13 (9.56%) Fortinet
9 12 (8.82%) Red Hat
10 11 (8.09%) Dell
11 9 (6.62%) 3PAR
12 8 (5.88%) Commvault
12 8 (5.88%) Google
12 8 (5.88%) Pure Storage
13 7 (5.15%) Citrix
13 7 (5.15%) IBM
14 6 (4.41%) SolarWinds