SnapVault Contract Job Trends

Dell SnapVault Manager
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 523 -
Rank change year-on-year -110 - -
Contract jobs citing SnapVault 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.003% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.062% 0.022% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £492 - -
25th Percentile £502 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £537 - -
90th Percentile £548 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SnapVault 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 6,477 4,597 5,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.60% 15.68% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,457 3,150 3,655
10th Percentile £325 £313 £258
25th Percentile £413 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.00% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 56 122
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £20.21 £17.73
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.50 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +113.21% -2.75% -52.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £71.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £34.25
% change year-on-year +107.55% -22.63% -23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

SnapVault job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SnapVault within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
UK excluding London - 4 £519 - 1
England - 3 £537 -
North of England - 2 £537 -
Yorkshire - 2 £537 -
South East - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £490 - 1

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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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (25.00%) Datadog
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) NAS
3 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Architect
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Replication
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (50.00%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (50.00%) EMC VNX
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Key Management
3 1 (25.00%) Network Design
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) NCDA
2 1 (25.00%) NCIE
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) NFS
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) vSphere
4 1 (25.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (25.00%) SRDF
4 1 (25.00%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) SnapMirror
2 2 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (50.00%) EMC VPLEX
2 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Argo
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) NetApp
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Veeam
3 2 (50.00%) 3PAR
3 2 (50.00%) Brocade
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) EMC
4 1 (25.00%) Dell
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Pure Storage
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds