SAN Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Storage Area Network (SAN)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 61 60
Rank change year-on-year -26 -1 +37
Contract jobs citing SAN 6 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.50% 0.70% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.00% 4.88% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -18.37% +71.93%
75th Percentile £638 - £619
90th Percentile - - £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £483 £405 £594
% change year-on-year +19.14% -31.79% +75.93%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 120 82 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.00% 14.36% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 46 65
10th Percentile £303 £228 £275
25th Percentile £318 £258 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.84% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £543 £566 £600
90th Percentile £611 £575 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 5
10th Percentile £19.54 - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £24.29 - £13.87
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.32%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - £16.66
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 - £18.27
% change year-on-year - - +71.87%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

SAN job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

SAN
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SAN

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SAN

SAN
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Leeds -23 4 - - 1
Bradford - 1 £625 -
SAN
Yorkshire

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
1 1 (16.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) NAS
2 2 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) DMZ
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Backup Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) IBM Storage Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) SAN Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) SAN Storage Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Storage Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Storage and Backup Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Replication
3 1 (16.67%) Clustering
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) AIX
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Storage Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Data Categorisation
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (16.67%) Server Management
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Firmware
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
3 2 (33.33%) Brocade
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Dell
4 1 (16.67%) HP
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle