Hybrid/Remote FlexPod Contract Job Trends

Cisco/NetApp FlexPod
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FlexPod in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FlexPod over the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FlexPod 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.027% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.080% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £500 - -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

FlexPod falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,768 3,395 4,770
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.54% 32.04% 28.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,342 2,219 3,186
10th Percentile £328 £328 £325
25th Percentile £421 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 56 188
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.75 £16.03
25th Percentile £21.25 £27.72 £23.58
Median hourly rate £45.46 £41.00 £42.40
Median % change year-on-year +10.88% -3.31% -32.69%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.90 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.11 £34.50 £32.31
% change year-on-year -12.74% +6.79% +43.68%

FlexPod
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

FlexPod job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

FlexPod
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

FlexPod
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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) CoreOS
1 3 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) OCP
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) NFS
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) SnapMirror
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) VMware