SnapMirror Contract Job Trends

NetApp SnapMirror
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SnapMirror skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 526 -
Rank change year-on-year -71 - -
Contract jobs citing SnapMirror 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.003% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.11% 0.021% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £472 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SnapMirror falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,287 4,776 5,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.14% 15.69% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,371 3,122 3,859
10th Percentile £315 £313 £262
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £634
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 53 153
10th Percentile £18.38 £15.80 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.76% -36.25% -21.57%
75th Percentile £65.25 £49.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £73.55 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £24.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +125.00% -48.03% -1.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SnapMirror relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SnapMirror job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SnapMirror.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SnapMirror

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SnapMirror.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SnapMirror

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Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SnapMirror within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 - 6 £500 - 3
Work from Home - 6 £500 - 2
UK excluding London - 5 £500 - 1
North of England - 4 £500 -
Yorkshire - 4 £500 -
South East - 1 - - 1
London - 1 £458 - 2

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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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) GCP
1 5 (71.43%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Cohesity
2 1 (14.29%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
2 1 (14.29%) NAS
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) NetApp Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) FlexPod
1 5 (71.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
2 5 (71.43%) CoreOS
2 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (71.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Protection
1 6 (85.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (71.43%) Migration
3 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) OCP
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) NFS
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (85.71%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (71.43%) vSphere
4 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) NetApp
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Google
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat