SRDF Contract Job Trends

EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SRDF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 524 585
Rank change year-on-year -90 +61 +124
Contract jobs citing SRDF 10 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the System Software category 0.21% 0.026% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £459 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -13.84% -4.17%
75th Percentile £494 - £588
90th Percentile £500 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £575
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.70 - -
25th Percentile £68.50 - -
Median hourly rate £78.00 - -
75th Percentile £89.13 - -
90th Percentile £94.90 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All System Software Skills
UK

SRDF falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,876 3,831 4,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.97% 13.18% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,325 2,609 3,244
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £596 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £707 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.53% +5.56% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 93 228
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.35 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.46 £16.00
Median hourly rate £48.72 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.00% +16.00% -47.86%
75th Percentile £74.26 £66.00 £60.94
90th Percentile £85.60 £85.50 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £37.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +29.92% +20.00% +13.64%

SRDF
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SRDF job vacancy trend in the UK

SRDF
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SRDF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

SRDF
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SRDF over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SRDF in the UK

SRDF
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SRDF within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 -110 5 £500 +0.93% 1
Work from Home - 4 £500 -
UK excluding London - 2 £500 - 1
North of England - 2 £500 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1

SRDF
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 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) SAN
2 7 (70.00%) iSCSI
2 7 (70.00%) VSAN
3 5 (50.00%) FCoE
3 5 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (10.00%) VLAN
4 1 (10.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) SAN Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) EMC VMAX
2 6 (60.00%) Replication
3 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (20.00%) Symmetrix
6 1 (10.00%) HP Storage
6 1 (10.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Storage Management
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) Build Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CCNP
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (40.00%) HP ASE
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) VCAP
3 1 (10.00%) VCDX
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) EMC TimeFinder
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Dell
2 8 (80.00%) Cisco
3 6 (60.00%) Brocade
4 5 (50.00%) EMC
5 4 (40.00%) Pure Storage
6 3 (30.00%) Broadcom
6 3 (30.00%) HP
6 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (30.00%) VMware
7 2 (20.00%) TOWER Software
8 1 (10.00%) NetApp