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 3 May 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
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 479 512
Rank change year-on-year -23 +33 -53
Contract jobs citing NetApp 126 51 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.64% 0.37% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 41 42
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £700
90th Percentile £638 £650 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.60% -2.53% +2.60%
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 19,831 13,905 18,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.84% 47.47% 42.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,650 8,718 11,422
10th Percentile £313 £289 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £627
90th Percentile £703 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 992 567 1,096
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £30.88 £26.34 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +17.04% -48.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.73 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £21.50
% change year-on-year +13.73% +12.47% -46.25%

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 3 May 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 14 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 3 May 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 -36 118 £515 +2.90% 19
UK excluding London -42 86 £487 -2.60% 15
North of England -21 44 £487 +1.99% 2
London -38 34 £585 +37.65% 4
Midlands -40 32 £540 -14.29%
Work from Home -19 27 £498 +3.65% 11
North West -15 23 £575 +4.55% 1
Yorkshire -32 21 £487 +20.25% 1
West Midlands - 20 - -
South East -49 14 £490 -24.69% 6
East Midlands -23 12 £540 -14.29%
South West -20 9 £525 +19.32% 4
Scotland -6 3 £463 -2.01%
East of England -45 3 £438 -12.50% 2

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 (3.97%) 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 29 (23.02%) Azure
2 17 (13.49%) AWS
3 15 (11.90%) OpenShift
4 11 (8.73%) GCP
5 8 (6.35%) IaaS
6 7 (5.56%) PaaS
6 7 (5.56%) Rubrik
7 6 (4.76%) GitHub
8 5 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.17%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.17%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.38%) Cohesity
10 3 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.79%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.79%) Datadog
12 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 37 (29.37%) SAN
2 30 (23.81%) DNS
3 24 (19.05%) NAS
4 21 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 20 (15.87%) Firewall
5 20 (15.87%) SSL
6 19 (15.08%) BIG-IP
6 19 (15.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 19 (15.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (15.08%) HTTP
6 19 (15.08%) Wireshark
7 14 (11.11%) VPN
8 11 (8.73%) DHCP
8 11 (8.73%) Fibre Channel
9 8 (6.35%) SMTP
10 6 (4.76%) iSCSI
11 4 (3.17%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (3.17%) Network Security
12 3 (2.38%) WAN
13 2 (1.59%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.38%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.79%) MySQL
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.79%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 19 (15.08%) Fiddler
2 3 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.59%) Git
3 2 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.79%) GitLab
4 1 (0.79%) JIRA
4 1 (0.79%) MSI
General
1 26 (20.63%) Banking
2 19 (15.08%) Investment Banking
3 13 (10.32%) Military
4 11 (8.73%) Social Skills
5 8 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.76%) Legal
7 3 (2.38%) Finance
7 3 (2.38%) Retail
8 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.79%) Electronics
9 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Marketing
9 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Police
9 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (27.78%) Storage Engineer
2 23 (18.25%) NetApp Engineer
2 23 (18.25%) Network Engineer
3 21 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (15.08%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 19 (15.08%) IP Network Engineer
4 19 (15.08%) Web Engineer
5 15 (11.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 14 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (10.32%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (7.14%) Architect
9 8 (6.35%) Senior
10 7 (5.56%) Consultant
11 6 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
12 4 (3.17%) Administrator
12 4 (3.17%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
12 4 (3.17%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.17%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
13 3 (2.38%) Backup Engineer
13 3 (2.38%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.59%) Flash
1 2 (1.59%) Middleware
1 2 (1.59%) REST
2 1 (0.79%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (23.02%) Enterprise Storage
2 27 (21.43%) Replication
3 21 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 16 (12.70%) Data Centre
5 12 (9.52%) Clustering
5 12 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (7.94%) PKI
7 6 (4.76%) FlexPod
8 5 (3.97%) EMC VMAX
9 4 (3.17%) EMC VNX
9 4 (3.17%) Private Cloud
10 3 (2.38%) Driving Licence
10 3 (2.38%) EPoS
10 3 (2.38%) NVMe
10 3 (2.38%) Symmetrix
11 2 (1.59%) Celerra
11 2 (1.59%) CMDB
11 2 (1.59%) EMC Centera
11 2 (1.59%) IBM XIV
11 2 (1.59%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 27 (21.43%) Windows
2 25 (19.84%) Linux
3 19 (15.08%) Data ONTAP
4 15 (11.90%) Windows Server
5 10 (7.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (5.56%) VMS
6 7 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (4.76%) CoreOS
8 4 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (32.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (27.78%) Migration
3 32 (25.40%) Disaster Recovery
4 25 (19.84%) Data Protection
5 21 (16.67%) Load Balancing
6 19 (15.08%) Data Loss Prevention
6 19 (15.08%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 18 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
8 15 (11.90%) High Availability
9 14 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (10.32%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (9.52%) ITIL
12 10 (7.94%) Change Management
13 8 (6.35%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (6.35%) Storage Management
14 7 (5.56%) Containerisation
14 7 (5.56%) Incident Management
14 7 (5.56%) ITSM
14 7 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 9 (7.14%) Python
3 5 (3.97%) SQL
4 4 (3.17%) Bash
5 2 (1.59%) Perl
6 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 60 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 49 (38.89%) DV Cleared
3 11 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.35%) NCDA
5 6 (4.76%) Degree
5 6 (4.76%) OCP
5 6 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (3.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.17%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.59%) CCNP
9 2 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.59%) VCP6
10 1 (0.79%) NCIE
10 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.79%) PMP
10 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.79%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 59 (46.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (19.05%) Firmware
3 19 (15.08%) NFS
4 17 (13.49%) Active Directory
5 16 (12.70%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (11.90%) Hyper-V
7 13 (10.32%) vSphere
8 10 (7.94%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (6.35%) BitLocker
11 7 (5.56%) Docker
11 7 (5.56%) VMware NSX
12 3 (2.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (1.59%) SRDF
14 1 (0.79%) KVM
14 1 (0.79%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 26 (20.63%) Ansible
2 21 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 14 (11.11%) Terraform
3 14 (11.11%) vCenter Server
4 12 (9.52%) SnapMirror
5 11 (8.73%) vMotion
6 7 (5.56%) NetBackup
6 7 (5.56%) Puppet
7 5 (3.97%) Avamar
7 5 (3.97%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (3.17%) EMC VPLEX
8 4 (3.17%) Grafana
8 4 (3.17%) SCCM
9 3 (2.38%) SnapVault
9 3 (2.38%) vRealize
10 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.59%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (49.21%) VMware
2 22 (17.46%) EMC
3 20 (15.87%) Microsoft
4 19 (15.08%) Blue Coat
4 19 (15.08%) F5
4 19 (15.08%) McAfee
5 17 (13.49%) Cisco
6 15 (11.90%) ServiceNow
7 14 (11.11%) Fortinet
8 12 (9.52%) Brocade
9 11 (8.73%) IBM
9 11 (8.73%) Veeam
10 10 (7.94%) Citrix
11 9 (7.14%) Google
11 9 (7.14%) Red Hat
12 8 (6.35%) Veritas
13 7 (5.56%) Dell
14 6 (4.76%) 3PAR
14 6 (4.76%) Pure Storage
15 5 (3.97%) Isilon