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 19 November 2025, 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
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 475 461
Rank change year-on-year -26 -14 +110
Contract jobs citing NetApp 89 80 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.22% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 0.53% 0.49% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 68 89
10th Percentile £394 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £461 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +9.38% -4.00%
75th Percentile £641 £580 £544
90th Percentile £650 £610 £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £485 £466
% change year-on-year +4.64% +4.19% +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile £40.78 - £13.03
25th Percentile £44.94 - £13.82
Median hourly rate £52.25 - £15.08
75th Percentile £59.94 - £45.71
90th Percentile £64.33 - £74.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £15.08
% change year-on-year - - -79.34%

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 16,949 16,285 21,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.47% 44.93% 45.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,664 9,571 13,497
10th Percentile £288 £300 £259
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.45%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 879 512 677
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.62 £15.03
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.75% -32.12% +73.08%
75th Percentile £42.50 £62.51 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.18% -38.20% +100.00%

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 19 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NetApp over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for NetApp in the UK

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 19 November 2025. 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 -24 79 £516 -1.67% 19
UK excluding London -12 71 £508 +4.64% 17
South East +33 33 £600 +26.32% 10
North of England -27 20 £450 -4.76% 3
North West -13 17 £450 +3.15% 1
Work from Home -10 15 £500 -11.11% 17
London -11 14 £604 +11.14% 1
Midlands -27 13 £500 +33.33% 3
West Midlands - 13 £500 - 3
Scotland +3 8 £525 +12.30% 1
South West +3 7 £425 -29.17%
Yorkshire -40 3 - - 2
East of England -31 1 £550 -

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 3 (3.37%) CICS
2 2 (2.25%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.25%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.12%) Confluence
3 1 (1.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (31.46%) Azure
2 18 (20.22%) GitHub
3 13 (14.61%) AWS
4 8 (8.99%) GCP
5 7 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.74%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (4.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (4.49%) Azure Storage
7 4 (4.49%) SaaS
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.25%) Cohesity
9 2 (2.25%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.12%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.12%) Cloud Run
10 1 (1.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.12%) IaaS
10 1 (1.12%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.12%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (32.58%) SAN
2 21 (23.60%) DNS
2 21 (23.60%) iSCSI
3 17 (19.10%) Fibre Channel
4 16 (17.98%) NAS
4 16 (17.98%) TCP/IP
5 14 (15.73%) Firewall
6 12 (13.48%) BIG-IP
6 12 (13.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 12 (13.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 12 (13.48%) HTTP
6 12 (13.48%) SSL
7 11 (12.36%) Wireshark
8 9 (10.11%) VLAN
9 7 (7.87%) VSAN
10 5 (5.62%) DMZ
11 4 (4.49%) VPN
11 4 (4.49%) WAN
12 2 (2.25%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (2.25%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.11%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.25%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.12%) Power BI
3 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (12.36%) Fiddler
2 9 (10.11%) ClearCase
3 7 (7.87%) JIRA
4 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.12%) Git
5 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (31.46%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.61%) Banking
3 11 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.36%) Investment Banking
3 11 (12.36%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.25%) Finance
5 2 (2.25%) French Language
5 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.12%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (33.71%) Architect
2 25 (28.09%) Infrastructure Architect
3 14 (15.73%) VMware Architect
4 13 (14.61%) Network Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Administrator
5 8 (8.99%) Backup Administrator
5 8 (8.99%) Storage Administrator
5 8 (8.99%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 8 (8.99%) Web Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) IP Network Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Storage Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Security Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) HP Storage Administrator
8 5 (5.62%) Server Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Junior Network Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.87%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.37%) Middleware
3 2 (2.25%) LDAP
4 1 (1.12%) CrewAI
4 1 (1.12%) JSON
4 1 (1.12%) LangChain
4 1 (1.12%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.12%) XML
4 1 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.10%) Replication
2 14 (15.73%) Data Centre
3 13 (14.61%) Management Information System
4 11 (12.36%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (6.74%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.49%) Clustering
6 4 (4.49%) HP Storage
6 4 (4.49%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.37%) Mainframe
7 3 (3.37%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.12%) EMC VNX
8 1 (1.12%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.12%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.12%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 46 (51.69%) Windows
2 28 (31.46%) Linux
3 18 (20.22%) Windows Server 2019
4 17 (19.10%) Windows Server
5 7 (7.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (7.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.49%) Solaris
7 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.25%) AIX
8 2 (2.25%) zOS
9 1 (1.12%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (1.12%) MVS
9 1 (1.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.22%) Migration
2 12 (13.48%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (13.48%) High Availability
2 12 (13.48%) Load Balancing
2 12 (13.48%) Mentoring
3 11 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (11.24%) CI/CD
5 9 (10.11%) DevOps
6 8 (8.99%) Data Loss Prevention
6 8 (8.99%) ITIL
7 7 (7.87%) Agile
7 7 (7.87%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (7.87%) Data Protection
7 7 (7.87%) Edge Virtualization
7 7 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (7.87%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 7 (7.87%) Performance Analysis
7 7 (7.87%) Project Delivery
7 7 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (6.74%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 25 (28.09%) SQL
2 15 (16.85%) Shell Script
3 13 (14.61%) PowerShell
4 11 (12.36%) Java
5 9 (10.11%) C
6 6 (6.74%) Python
7 3 (3.37%) C++
8 1 (1.12%) Bash
8 1 (1.12%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 45 (50.56%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 19 (21.35%) DV Cleared
4 14 (15.73%) MCSE
4 14 (15.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (10.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (8.99%) VCP5
6 8 (8.99%) VCP6
7 4 (4.49%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.49%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.49%) Degree
8 2 (2.25%) CCNP
8 2 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.12%) CCDP
9 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.12%) Postgraduate
9 1 (1.12%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) GDPR
2 4 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (50.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (22.47%) vSphere
3 18 (20.22%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (17.98%) NFS
5 8 (8.99%) Active Directory
5 8 (8.99%) Firmware
6 7 (7.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (7.87%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (7.87%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.37%) KVM
7 3 (3.37%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (2.25%) Hyper-V
9 1 (1.12%) Docker
9 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (1.12%) Squid
9 1 (1.12%) SRDF
9 1 (1.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (1.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (12.36%) Terraform
2 10 (11.24%) Ansible
3 8 (8.99%) NetBackup
4 5 (5.62%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.25%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.25%) SCOM
6 1 (1.12%) Argo
6 1 (1.12%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.12%) Podman
6 1 (1.12%) Puppet
6 1 (1.12%) SCCM
6 1 (1.12%) vRealize
6 1 (1.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 49 (55.06%) VMware
2 24 (26.97%) Microsoft
3 21 (23.60%) Veeam
4 17 (19.10%) F5
5 15 (16.85%) Splunk
6 14 (15.73%) Dell
7 12 (13.48%) Blue Coat
7 12 (13.48%) McAfee
8 11 (12.36%) Cisco
8 11 (12.36%) Oracle
9 10 (11.24%) EMC
10 9 (10.11%) HP
10 9 (10.11%) Veritas
11 8 (8.99%) 3PAR
11 8 (8.99%) Nimble Storage
12 7 (7.87%) Red Hat
13 5 (5.62%) Pure Storage
14 4 (4.49%) Commvault
14 4 (4.49%) SolarWinds
15 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow