Hybrid/Remote Data ONTAP Contract Job Trends

NetApp Data ONTAP Operating System, including Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data ONTAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 303 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing Data ONTAP 7 3 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.062% 0.029% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.65% 0.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £477 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £436 £480
% change year-on-year +14.61% -9.11% -7.25%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Data ONTAP falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,069 1,283 1,732
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.44% 12.34% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 742 858 1,197
10th Percentile £204 £254 £232
25th Percentile £365 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £583 £588
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £445 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -6.32% +5.56% -12.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 19 64
10th Percentile £20.94 £30.00 £14.08
25th Percentile £28.51 £35.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £42.50 £35.92
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% +18.32% -44.74%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £74.93 £65.75 £73.38
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £28.71 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.87% +27.58% -15.09%

Data ONTAP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data ONTAP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data ONTAP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data ONTAP
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data ONTAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data ONTAP

Data ONTAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
1 6 (85.71%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Cohesity
2 1 (14.29%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) SAN
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) NetApp Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Storage Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) FlexPod
1 6 (85.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) CoreOS
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (85.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (85.71%) Data Protection
2 6 (85.71%) Migration
3 5 (71.43%) Task Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) OCP
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) NFS
1 7 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (85.71%) vSphere
3 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) SnapMirror
2 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) NetApp
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) Google
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat