SAN Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 254 316
Rank change year-on-year -29 +62 +141
Contract jobs citing SAN 21 91 164
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.59% 0.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.01% 5.65% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 74 102
10th Percentile £368 £313 £276
25th Percentile £411 £367 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £520
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +3.37% +17.18%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £603 £619 £731
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -7.32% -1.35% +15.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 9
10th Percentile - £50.85 -
25th Percentile - £52.13 £47.50
Median hourly rate - £56.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -24.67% +23.09%
75th Percentile - £63.13 £80.25
90th Percentile - £65.75 £87.50
UK median hourly rate - £31.90 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -44.52% +140.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

SAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SAN trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SAN
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SAN.

SAN daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SAN over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SAN daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SAN.

SAN hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (9.52%) Skype for Business
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (4.76%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) IaaS
3 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (9.52%) Cohesity
3 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) PaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Rubrik
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) DNS
1 5 (23.81%) Firewall
2 4 (19.05%) DHCP
3 2 (9.52%) NAS
3 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.76%) FCoE
4 1 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (4.76%) IMAP
4 1 (4.76%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.76%) Kerberos
4 1 (4.76%) Skype
4 1 (4.76%) SMTP
4 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Law
3 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
2 3 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Unix Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Linux Support
3 2 (9.52%) Linux Support Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Unix Support
3 2 (9.52%) Unix Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Blackberry
1 1 (4.76%) Clustering
1 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Linux
3 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 5 (23.81%) Unix
5 4 (19.05%) AIX
6 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (9.52%) Solaris
7 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (4.76%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (4.76%) HPUX
8 1 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) ITIL
2 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (19.05%) Storage Management
4 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (14.29%) Security Patching
5 2 (9.52%) Business Strategy
5 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
5 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (9.52%) ITSM
5 2 (9.52%) Migration
5 2 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (9.52%) Proactive Management
5 2 (9.52%) Service Management
6 1 (4.76%) Agile
6 1 (4.76%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (4.76%) Incident Management
6 1 (4.76%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Active Directory
1 8 (38.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (14.29%) DFS Replication
2 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 3 (14.29%) vSphere
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.76%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Tivoli
1 4 (19.05%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (9.52%) NetBackup
3 2 (9.52%) SCCM
4 1 (4.76%) Backup Exec
4 1 (4.76%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (4.76%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (4.76%) Netcool
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (4.76%) Terraform
4 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) VMware
2 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (28.57%) IBM
4 4 (19.05%) NetApp
4 4 (19.05%) Oracle
5 3 (14.29%) HP
6 2 (9.52%) EMC
6 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
6 2 (9.52%) Splunk
7 1 (4.76%) Brocade
7 1 (4.76%) Cisco
7 1 (4.76%) Citrix
7 1 (4.76%) Dell
7 1 (4.76%) Hitachi
7 1 (4.76%) ICL
7 1 (4.76%) Isilon
7 1 (4.76%) Qualys
7 1 (4.76%) Serena
7 1 (4.76%) Sybase
7 1 (4.76%) Veritas