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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 97 85
Rank change year-on-year -10 -12 +89
Contract jobs citing SAN 7 12 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.41% 0.64% 1.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.82% 4.04% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 28
10th Percentile £440 £260 £209
25th Percentile £463 £298 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £300 £425
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% -29.41% -37.04%
75th Percentile £488 - £731
90th Percentile £533 £825 £750
England median daily rate £550 £538 £450
% change year-on-year +2.33% +19.44% -1.37%

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 248 297 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.41% 15.87% 19.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 190 239
10th Percentile £254 £229 £211
25th Percentile £350 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% - -2.30%
75th Percentile £570 £635 £597
90th Percentile £650 £750 £731
England median daily rate £492 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -2.24% +0.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 9
10th Percentile £14.32 £13.40 £16.70
25th Percentile £24.50 £13.63 £18.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -48.15% +54.29%
75th Percentile £37.38 £18.88 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.70 £21.80 £29.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.55% -0.23% +57.14%

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

SAN
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

SAN
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

SAN
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 17 August 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
Warwickshire -5 4 £475 -40.63%
Solihull - 1 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 £550 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) NAS
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Support
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Unix Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Unix Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Unix Linux Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Unix Support
2 2 (28.57%) Unix Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Unix Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) AIX
2 4 (57.14%) Unix
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Storage Management
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Firmware
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Tivoli
1 4 (57.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam