SAN Contracts in the West Midlands

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring SAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAN over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 98 101
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 +47
Contract jobs citing SAN 11 12 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.82% 0.62% 1.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.59% 3.09% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 16
10th Percentile £328 £243 £263
25th Percentile £425 £331 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £800 £570
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% +40.35% +107.27%
75th Percentile £488 £913 £731
90th Percentile - £1,000 -
England median daily rate £481 £501 £520
% change year-on-year -3.94% -3.61% +15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -46.67% +213.68%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

SAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 145 388 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.77% 19.96% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 227 220
10th Percentile £145 £200 £263
25th Percentile £263 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £485
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -17.53% +21.25%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £606
90th Percentile £700 £693 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 6
10th Percentile £12.66 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.12 £13.50 £13.13
Median hourly rate £16.23 £19.95 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +19.10% +1.52%
75th Percentile £22.70 £23.75 £20.58
90th Percentile £33.58 £28.75 £21.80
England median hourly rate £28.41 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.98% +116.22% -22.63%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAN in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SAN in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAN in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Solihull - 5 - -
Warwickshire +1 4 £475 -40.63% 3
Birmingham +11 1 - - 1
Coventry +10 1 £275 - 1
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) LAN
1 4 (36.36%) NAS
2 2 (18.18%) DHCP
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) HTTP
2 2 (18.18%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (18.18%) SSL
2 2 (18.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) Maven
1 2 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (36.36%) Manufacturing
1 4 (36.36%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Linux Support
4 2 (18.18%) Linux Support Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) Unix Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Unix Support
4 2 (18.18%) Unix Support Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Unix Systems Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) LDAP
1 2 (18.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 6 (54.55%) Windows
3 4 (36.36%) AIX
3 4 (36.36%) Unix
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
4 2 (18.18%) CentOS
4 2 (18.18%) Debian
4 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Storage Management
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
4 2 (18.18%) Capacity Management
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) ITSM
4 2 (18.18%) Log Aggregation
4 2 (18.18%) Patch Management
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Server Management
4 2 (18.18%) Service Management
5 1 (9.09%) Break/Fix
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
5 1 (9.09%) Hardware Maintenance
5 1 (9.09%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (36.36%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Tivoli
1 4 (36.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Nessus
2 2 (18.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Dell
2 4 (36.36%) IBM
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle
3 2 (18.18%) Sophos
4 1 (9.09%) Aruba
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) EMC
4 1 (9.09%) Meraki
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft