Hybrid/Remote NCDA Contract Job Trends

NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for NCDA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 311 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing NCDA 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.019% 0.009% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.055% 0.035% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £610 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.18% - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £463 £538 -
% change year-on-year -13.95% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

NCDA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,642 2,887 4,715
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.10% 26.44% 28.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,509 1,822 2,936
10th Percentile £350 £340 £350
25th Percentile £431 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £715 £713
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 91 217
10th Percentile £19.90 £20.50 £16.81
25th Percentile £31.25 £24.38 £24.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £40.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.65% -20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £64.75 £65.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £93.88 £75.00 £78.17
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.52 £47.75
% change year-on-year -36.36% -17.24% +6.11%

NCDA
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

NCDA job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

NCDA
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

NCDA
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) VCP6
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) vMotion
1 2 (100.00%) vRealize
2 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Brocade
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Commvault
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) VMware