Hybrid/Remote NCIE Contract Job Trends

NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer (NCIE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for NCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NCIE 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.008% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.022% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
UK median daily rate £519 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

NCIE 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 4,491 2,751 3,878
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.19% 28.40% 26.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,091 1,822 2,496
10th Percentile £361 £350 £329
25th Percentile £431 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -0.38% -4.02%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 99 258
10th Percentile £21.25 £15.22 £15.56
25th Percentile £36.00 £27.14 £24.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +26.74% -31.20%
75th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £96.50 £87.05 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -25.00% -27.27%

NCIE
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

NCIE job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

NCIE
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

NCIE
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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (100.00%) EMC VNX
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) NCDA
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) SRDF
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (100.00%) EMC VPLEX
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) SnapMirror
1 1 (100.00%) SnapVault
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) 3PAR
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware