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 17 February 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
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 463 473
Rank change year-on-year -32 +10 +22
Contract jobs citing NetApp 97 66 132
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Vendors category 0.54% 0.47% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 52 74
10th Percentile £371 £400 £404
25th Percentile £413 £415 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -1.04% +1.10%
75th Percentile £626 £602 £573
90th Percentile £650 £613 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £466
% change year-on-year +2.11% +2.04% -6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 18
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £60.50 - £14.04
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £51.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.49%

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 17,996 14,131 19,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.75% 46.39% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,531 8,441 12,170
10th Percentile £300 £275 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -0.94%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 891 400 925
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.91
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +12.02% -18.85%
75th Percentile £57.25 £63.75 £58.48
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.29 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.82% +4.33% -11.26%

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 17 February 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 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 17 February 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 -45 87 £550 +10.00% 18
UK excluding London -42 71 £485 +2.11% 25
North of England -30 38 £475 +17.28% 4
Midlands -29 28 £575 -8.73% 4
North West -13 22 £575 +31.81% 1
London -25 20 £609 +21.66% 4
West Midlands - 19 £500 - 4
Yorkshire -36 16 £463 +14.32% 3
Work from Home -33 15 £475 -20.83% 14
South East -18 11 £613 +51.61% 4
East Midlands -16 9 £650 +3.17%
South West -22 7 £425 -9.57% 1
Scotland +7 5 £463 +32.14% 9

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 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.56%) Azure
2 12 (12.37%) AWS
3 11 (11.34%) OpenShift
4 10 (10.31%) GitHub
5 7 (7.22%) GCP
6 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.12%) IaaS
8 4 (4.12%) PaaS
9 3 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.09%) Nutanix
10 2 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.03%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (1.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (1.03%) Cloud Run
11 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 31 (31.96%) SAN
2 24 (24.74%) DNS
3 21 (21.65%) TCP/IP
4 20 (20.62%) NAS
5 19 (19.59%) BIG-IP
5 19 (19.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 19 (19.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (19.59%) HTTP
5 19 (19.59%) SSL
6 18 (18.56%) Wireshark
7 16 (16.49%) Firewall
8 11 (11.34%) Fibre Channel
9 9 (9.28%) iSCSI
10 7 (7.22%) VPN
11 6 (6.19%) DHCP
12 4 (4.12%) DMZ
12 4 (4.12%) SMTP
12 4 (4.12%) VSAN
13 3 (3.09%) Network Security
14 1 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.09%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (18.56%) Fiddler
2 4 (4.12%) JIRA
3 3 (3.09%) ClearCase
4 2 (2.06%) Git
5 1 (1.03%) GitLab
5 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (20.62%) Banking
2 18 (18.56%) Investment Banking
3 13 (13.40%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.37%) Military
5 10 (10.31%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Retail
8 2 (2.06%) Finance
8 2 (2.06%) Legal
9 1 (1.03%) Electronics
9 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.03%) Marketing
9 1 (1.03%) Police
9 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (22.68%) Network Engineer
2 16 (16.49%) Storage Engineer
2 16 (16.49%) Web Engineer
3 15 (15.46%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 15 (15.46%) IP Network Engineer
4 13 (13.40%) Systems Engineer
5 12 (12.37%) Architect
6 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure Architect
6 10 (10.31%) NetApp Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Administrator
11 3 (3.09%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
11 3 (3.09%) Python Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) Senior
11 3 (3.09%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.09%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
11 3 (3.09%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.03%) CrewAI
2 1 (1.03%) JSON
2 1 (1.03%) LangChain
2 1 (1.03%) LDAP
2 1 (1.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.59%) Management Information System
1 19 (19.59%) Replication
2 13 (13.40%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (7.22%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.12%) Clustering
4 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.12%) PKI
5 3 (3.09%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.09%) EPoS
5 3 (3.09%) FlexPod
5 3 (3.09%) NVMe
6 2 (2.06%) HP Storage
7 1 (1.03%) CMDB
7 1 (1.03%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (1.03%) EMC VNX
7 1 (1.03%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.03%) Symmetrix
7 1 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.03%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.77%) Linux
1 25 (25.77%) Windows
2 10 (10.31%) Windows Server
3 8 (8.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (6.19%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (5.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.12%) VMS
6 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.09%) CoreOS
8 1 (1.03%) AIX
8 1 (1.03%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.87%) Migration
2 25 (25.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 19 (19.59%) Load Balancing
4 18 (18.56%) High Availability
5 17 (17.53%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (15.46%) Data Loss Prevention
6 15 (15.46%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 12 (12.37%) DevOps
8 11 (11.34%) Data Protection
9 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (10.31%) ITIL
10 9 (9.28%) Agile
10 9 (9.28%) Change Management
11 8 (8.25%) CI/CD
11 8 (8.25%) Containerisation
12 7 (7.22%) Capacity Planning
12 7 (7.22%) Performance Optimisation
12 7 (7.22%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (7.22%) Project Delivery
13 6 (6.19%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.53%) PowerShell
2 11 (11.34%) Python
3 6 (6.19%) SQL
4 5 (5.15%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.09%) Bash
5 3 (3.09%) C
5 3 (3.09%) C++
5 3 (3.09%) Java
6 2 (2.06%) Perl
Qualifications
1 49 (50.52%) Security Cleared
2 34 (35.05%) DV Cleared
3 12 (12.37%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.09%) OCP
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.06%) Degree
5 2 (2.06%) MCSE
5 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.06%) NCDA
5 2 (2.06%) VCP6
5 2 (2.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.03%) CCNP
6 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.03%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 39 (40.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (20.62%) Firmware
3 15 (15.46%) NFS
4 10 (10.31%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (8.25%) Active Directory
5 8 (8.25%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (7.22%) Hyper-V
6 7 (7.22%) VMware NSX
6 7 (7.22%) vSphere
7 6 (6.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (5.15%) Docker
9 4 (4.12%) BitLocker
9 4 (4.12%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (1.03%) KVM
10 1 (1.03%) Squid
10 1 (1.03%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 19 (19.59%) Ansible
2 13 (13.40%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.40%) Terraform
3 7 (7.22%) vMotion
4 5 (5.15%) vCenter Server
5 4 (4.12%) NetBackup
5 4 (4.12%) Puppet
5 4 (4.12%) SnapMirror
6 3 (3.09%) Grafana
6 3 (3.09%) SCCM
6 3 (3.09%) vRealize
7 2 (2.06%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.03%) Argo
8 1 (1.03%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.03%) Podman
8 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.03%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 41 (42.27%) VMware
2 20 (20.62%) F5
3 19 (19.59%) Blue Coat
3 19 (19.59%) McAfee
4 15 (15.46%) EMC
4 15 (15.46%) ServiceNow
5 13 (13.40%) Fortinet
6 10 (10.31%) Cisco
7 9 (9.28%) Microsoft
8 8 (8.25%) IBM
8 8 (8.25%) Veritas
9 7 (7.22%) Dell
10 6 (6.19%) Brocade
11 5 (5.15%) Citrix
11 5 (5.15%) Google
11 5 (5.15%) Red Hat
12 4 (4.12%) Hitachi
12 4 (4.12%) HP
13 3 (3.09%) Commvault
13 3 (3.09%) Oracle