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 14 March 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
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 461 482
Rank change year-on-year -57 +21 -1
Contract jobs citing NetApp 108 63 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Vendors category 0.57% 0.45% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 47 67
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £438 £414 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £627 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -2.60% +7.53% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 16
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £60.50 - £13.82
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £29.98
75th Percentile £61.50 - £40.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £29.98
% change year-on-year - - +89.84%

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 18,995 13,894 19,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.01% 47.08% 43.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,130 8,646 11,977
10th Percentile £308 £285 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +0.49% -2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 971 454 1,024
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.02 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +17.65% -30.13%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £53.13
90th Percentile £76.75 £84.39 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £27.50 £23.11
% change year-on-year -14.55% +19.01% -29.98%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -50 98 £500 -0.10% 33
UK excluding London -38 75 £487 -2.60% 29
North of England -32 44 £487 +20.99%
Midlands -26 32 £650 +3.17% 4
London -49 26 £600 +19.94% 7
North West -15 25 £575 +43.75%
West Midlands - 22 - - 4
Work from Home -24 20 £500 -4.76% 17
Yorkshire -40 19 £487 +20.25%
South East -42 11 £490 -18.42% 14
East Midlands -22 10 £650 +3.17%
Scotland +14 4 £463 +32.14%
South West -30 4 £475 +1.06% 7
East of England -38 1 - - 4

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 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.44%) Azure
2 17 (15.74%) AWS
3 14 (12.96%) OpenShift
4 10 (9.26%) GCP
5 7 (6.48%) IaaS
6 6 (5.56%) PaaS
7 5 (4.63%) GitHub
7 5 (4.63%) Rubrik
8 4 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.78%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.78%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.85%) Cohesity
11 1 (0.93%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 36 (33.33%) SAN
2 30 (27.78%) DNS
3 24 (22.22%) NAS
3 24 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 23 (21.30%) SSL
5 22 (20.37%) BIG-IP
5 22 (20.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 22 (20.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 22 (20.37%) HTTP
6 21 (19.44%) Wireshark
7 17 (15.74%) Firewall
8 12 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
9 11 (10.19%) VPN
10 9 (8.33%) DHCP
11 7 (6.48%) iSCSI
11 7 (6.48%) SMTP
12 3 (2.78%) DMZ
12 3 (2.78%) Network Security
13 2 (1.85%) VSAN
13 2 (1.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (19.44%) Fiddler
2 3 (2.78%) JIRA
3 2 (1.85%) Git
4 1 (0.93%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.93%) GitLab
4 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.93%) MSI
General
1 26 (24.07%) Banking
2 21 (19.44%) Investment Banking
3 13 (12.04%) Military
4 11 (10.19%) Social Skills
5 10 (9.26%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Finance
7 3 (2.78%) Retail
8 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Electronics
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Marketing
9 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Police
9 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (23.15%) Network Engineer
1 25 (23.15%) Storage Engineer
2 20 (18.52%) Web Engineer
3 19 (17.59%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 19 (17.59%) IP Network Engineer
4 17 (15.74%) NetApp Engineer
5 14 (12.96%) Systems Engineer
6 12 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (10.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 10 (9.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (9.26%) Architect
9 8 (7.41%) Infrastructure Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Senior
11 4 (3.70%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
11 4 (3.70%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.70%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
12 3 (2.78%) Administrator
12 3 (2.78%) Consultant
12 3 (2.78%) Virtualisation Architect
13 2 (1.85%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.78%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.85%) Flash
3 1 (0.93%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.22%) Replication
2 22 (20.37%) Enterprise Storage
2 22 (20.37%) Management Information System
3 11 (10.19%) Data Centre
3 11 (10.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (9.26%) Clustering
5 7 (6.48%) PKI
6 6 (5.56%) FlexPod
7 3 (2.78%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.78%) EPoS
7 3 (2.78%) NVMe
7 3 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.93%) CMDB
9 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.93%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (0.93%) EMC VNX
9 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.00%) Linux
2 23 (21.30%) Windows
3 12 (11.11%) Data ONTAP
4 11 (10.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (9.26%) Windows Server
6 7 (6.48%) VMS
7 6 (5.56%) CoreOS
7 6 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (4.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (28.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 31 (28.70%) Migration
2 28 (25.93%) Disaster Recovery
3 22 (20.37%) Load Balancing
4 20 (18.52%) Data Protection
5 19 (17.59%) Data Loss Prevention
5 19 (17.59%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 16 (14.81%) High Availability
7 14 (12.96%) Capacity Planning
8 13 (12.04%) ITIL
9 12 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
10 11 (10.19%) Change Management
11 9 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (7.41%) DevOps
13 7 (6.48%) Containerisation
13 7 (6.48%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (6.48%) Project Delivery
14 6 (5.56%) Agile
14 6 (5.56%) Incident Management
14 6 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.52%) PowerShell
2 10 (9.26%) Python
3 4 (3.70%) SQL
4 3 (2.78%) Bash
5 2 (1.85%) Perl
5 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.93%) C
6 1 (0.93%) C++
6 1 (0.93%) Java
6 1 (0.93%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (46.30%) Security Cleared
2 40 (37.04%) DV Cleared
3 9 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.56%) OCP
4 6 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (4.63%) Degree
5 5 (4.63%) NCDA
6 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.85%) VCP6
6 2 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.93%) CCNP
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.93%) PMP
7 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.93%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 52 (48.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (23.15%) Firmware
3 18 (16.67%) NFS
4 13 (12.04%) Active Directory
5 11 (10.19%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (9.26%) Hyper-V
6 10 (9.26%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (8.33%) vSphere
8 8 (7.41%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (6.48%) BitLocker
9 7 (6.48%) Docker
10 5 (4.63%) VMware NSX
11 3 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.93%) SRDF
12 1 (0.93%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 24 (22.22%) Ansible
2 18 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 13 (12.04%) Terraform
4 10 (9.26%) vMotion
5 9 (8.33%) SnapMirror
5 9 (8.33%) vCenter Server
6 6 (5.56%) Puppet
7 5 (4.63%) NetBackup
8 3 (2.78%) Avamar
8 3 (2.78%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (2.78%) Grafana
8 3 (2.78%) SCCM
8 3 (2.78%) vRealize
9 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.85%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.93%) Argo
10 1 (0.93%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.93%) Podman
10 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.93%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 53 (49.07%) VMware
2 23 (21.30%) F5
3 22 (20.37%) Blue Coat
3 22 (20.37%) McAfee
4 18 (16.67%) EMC
5 16 (14.81%) ServiceNow
6 14 (12.96%) Fortinet
7 12 (11.11%) Microsoft
8 9 (8.33%) Cisco
8 9 (8.33%) Citrix
8 9 (8.33%) Red Hat
9 8 (7.41%) Brocade
9 8 (7.41%) Google
9 8 (7.41%) IBM
10 7 (6.48%) Dell
10 7 (6.48%) Veritas
11 5 (4.63%) Pure Storage
12 4 (3.70%) Commvault
12 4 (3.70%) Hitachi
12 4 (3.70%) Veeam