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 2 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
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 454 497
Rank change year-on-year -45 +43 -53
Contract jobs citing NetApp 136 72 78
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.68% 0.52% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 62 50
10th Percentile £395 £403 £361
25th Percentile £452 £440 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £599 £575 £700
90th Percentile £650 £650 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £60.50 - £18.29
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
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 19,908 13,817 18,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.82% 47.75% 42.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,510 8,565 11,346
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £514
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.78% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +0.92% -2.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 597 1,121
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +13.03% -47.53%
75th Percentile £58.75 £55.49 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.29 £22.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +30.16% +4.65% -45.98%

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 2 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 2 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 -59 127 £519 -5.64% 30
UK excluding London -53 95 £494 -10.18% 21
North of England -35 46 £500 +4.71% 3
London -44 35 £575 +39.39% 9
Work from Home -21 34 £500 +2.04% 36
Midlands -29 30 £433 -31.35% 1
Yorkshire -40 24 £500 +23.46%
North West -19 22 £575 +4.55% 3
West Midlands - 19 - - 1
South East -50 17 £480 -26.15% 11
South West -21 13 £540 +22.73% 3
East Midlands -19 11 £433 -31.35%
Scotland -2 3 £463 -2.01%
East of England -61 3 £438 -20.45% 2
Wales - 1 £490 - 1

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 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
2 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 18 (13.24%) OpenShift
3 17 (12.50%) AWS
4 15 (11.03%) Rubrik
5 11 (8.09%) GCP
6 8 (5.88%) IaaS
7 7 (5.15%) GitHub
7 7 (5.15%) PaaS
8 4 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.94%) Nutanix
9 3 (2.21%) Cohesity
9 3 (2.21%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.47%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.47%) Datadog
11 1 (0.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.74%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 38 (27.94%) SAN
2 32 (23.53%) DNS
3 24 (17.65%) NAS
4 20 (14.71%) Firewall
5 19 (13.97%) SSL
5 19 (13.97%) TCP/IP
6 18 (13.24%) BIG-IP
6 18 (13.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 18 (13.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 18 (13.24%) HTTP
6 18 (13.24%) Wireshark
7 16 (11.76%) VPN
8 14 (10.29%) DHCP
9 11 (8.09%) Fibre Channel
10 8 (5.88%) SMTP
11 6 (4.41%) iSCSI
11 6 (4.41%) WAN
12 5 (3.68%) LAN
13 4 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (2.94%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.15%) 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 18 (13.24%) Fiddler
2 4 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.21%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.47%) Git
4 2 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.74%) GitLab
5 1 (0.74%) JIRA
5 1 (0.74%) MSI
General
1 25 (18.38%) Banking
2 18 (13.24%) Investment Banking
3 13 (9.56%) Military
4 12 (8.82%) Social Skills
5 10 (7.35%) Finance
6 7 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.15%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.94%) Legal
8 3 (2.21%) Retail
9 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.74%) Electronics
10 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Marketing
10 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (27.94%) Storage Engineer
2 24 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 23 (16.91%) NetApp Engineer
4 21 (15.44%) Network Engineer
5 18 (13.24%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 18 (13.24%) IP Network Engineer
5 18 (13.24%) Web Engineer
6 15 (11.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 14 (10.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (9.56%) Systems Engineer
9 9 (6.62%) Architect
9 9 (6.62%) Senior
10 7 (5.15%) Consultant
10 7 (5.15%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 7 (5.15%) VMware Specialist
11 5 (3.68%) Storage Architect
12 4 (2.94%) Administrator
12 4 (2.94%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
13 3 (2.21%) Infrastructure Architect
13 3 (2.21%) Technical Consultant
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 33 (24.26%) Enterprise Storage
2 28 (20.59%) Replication
3 20 (14.71%) Data Centre
3 20 (14.71%) Management Information System
4 12 (8.82%) Clustering
5 11 (8.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (7.35%) PKI
7 7 (5.15%) EMC VMAX
8 6 (4.41%) EMC VNX
8 6 (4.41%) FlexPod
9 4 (2.94%) Private Cloud
10 3 (2.21%) Driving Licence
10 3 (2.21%) EPoS
10 3 (2.21%) NVMe
10 3 (2.21%) Symmetrix
11 2 (1.47%) Celerra
11 2 (1.47%) CMDB
11 2 (1.47%) EMC Centera
11 2 (1.47%) IBM XIV
11 2 (1.47%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.85%) Windows
2 26 (19.12%) Linux
3 21 (15.44%) Data ONTAP
4 14 (10.29%) Windows Server
5 11 (8.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (5.15%) VMS
6 7 (5.15%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (4.41%) CoreOS
8 4 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (33.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 39 (28.68%) Migration
3 35 (25.74%) Disaster Recovery
4 26 (19.12%) Data Protection
5 20 (14.71%) Capacity Planning
5 20 (14.71%) Load Balancing
6 18 (13.24%) Data Loss Prevention
6 18 (13.24%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 15 (11.03%) High Availability
7 15 (11.03%) Performance Tuning
8 14 (10.29%) Performance Optimisation
9 10 (7.35%) Change Management
9 10 (7.35%) ITIL
10 9 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (6.62%) Storage Management
11 8 (5.88%) Containerisation
11 8 (5.88%) Data Migration
11 8 (5.88%) DevOps
11 8 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (5.15%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.44%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.35%) 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 59 (43.38%) Security Cleared
2 45 (33.09%) DV Cleared
3 14 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.35%) NCDA
5 8 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 6 (4.41%) Degree
7 6 (4.41%) OCP
7 6 (4.41%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.21%) NCIE
10 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.47%) VCP6
11 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.74%) CCNP
11 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.74%) PMP
11 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.74%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 62 (45.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (16.91%) Firmware
3 21 (15.44%) NFS
4 18 (13.24%) vSphere
5 16 (11.76%) Active Directory
6 15 (11.03%) Hyper-V
6 15 (11.03%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (9.56%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (8.09%) VMware NSX
9 9 (6.62%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (5.88%) BitLocker
11 7 (5.15%) Docker
12 5 (3.68%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 5 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (2.94%) SRDF
14 1 (0.74%) KVM
14 1 (0.74%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.74%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 27 (19.85%) Ansible
2 24 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 16 (11.76%) vCenter Server
4 15 (11.03%) SnapMirror
4 15 (11.03%) Terraform
5 11 (8.09%) vMotion
6 8 (5.88%) NetBackup
7 7 (5.15%) Puppet
8 6 (4.41%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (4.41%) EMC VPLEX
9 5 (3.68%) Avamar
9 5 (3.68%) Grafana
9 5 (3.68%) SnapVault
10 3 (2.21%) SCCM
10 3 (2.21%) vRealize
11 2 (1.47%) Argo
11 2 (1.47%) PowerCLI
11 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 72 (52.94%) VMware
2 24 (17.65%) EMC
2 24 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 23 (16.91%) Cisco
4 18 (13.24%) Blue Coat
4 18 (13.24%) F5
4 18 (13.24%) McAfee
5 16 (11.76%) Brocade
5 16 (11.76%) Veeam
6 14 (10.29%) ServiceNow
7 13 (9.56%) Fortinet
8 12 (8.82%) Red Hat
9 11 (8.09%) IBM
10 10 (7.35%) Dell
11 9 (6.62%) Citrix
11 9 (6.62%) Google
12 8 (5.88%) 3PAR
12 8 (5.88%) Commvault
12 8 (5.88%) Pure Storage
12 8 (5.88%) Veritas