SAN Contracts with Work from Home Options

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAN over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 299 448
Rank change year-on-year +35 +149 -76
Contract jobs citing SAN 81 161 177
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.66% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.27% 5.69% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 103 119
10th Percentile £313 £303 £273
25th Percentile £350 £406 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £435
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% +19.54% -5.95%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £550
90th Percentile £619 £731 £660
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 7
10th Percentile - - £46.55
25th Percentile - £47.50 £54.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.93
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.58% -1.33%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £63.00
90th Percentile - £82.43 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £53.75 £23.91
% change year-on-year -55.72% +124.80% -52.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

SAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,538 2,832 4,377
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.46% 11.55% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 1,880 2,971
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £676
UK median daily rate £488 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.93% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 95 105
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.14 £42.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £57.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.52% +21.05% +18.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +6.94%

SAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SAN trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing SAN over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 15 (18.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.41%) Confluence
3 3 (3.70%) IIS
4 1 (1.23%) Apache
4 1 (1.23%) EPiServer
4 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.46%) Azure
2 7 (8.64%) AWS
2 7 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (7.41%) GCP
3 6 (7.41%) IaaS
3 6 (7.41%) Nutanix
3 6 (7.41%) PaaS
3 6 (7.41%) Rubrik
3 6 (7.41%) SaaS
4 5 (6.17%) Entra ID
4 5 (6.17%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 28 (34.57%) Firewall
2 21 (25.93%) NAS
3 19 (23.46%) TCP/IP
4 13 (16.05%) DNS
5 12 (14.81%) DHCP
6 10 (12.35%) LAN
7 8 (9.88%) VLAN
8 7 (8.64%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (7.41%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (7.41%) Internet
9 6 (7.41%) Kerberos
10 5 (6.17%) WAN
11 2 (2.47%) SD-WAN
11 2 (2.47%) SNMP
12 1 (1.23%) BIG-IP
12 1 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 1 (1.23%) iSCSI
12 1 (1.23%) Network Security
12 1 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) Big Data
2 3 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.47%) DB2
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Git
1 7 (8.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.41%) JIRA
2 6 (7.41%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (20.99%) Finance
2 12 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.64%) Banking
4 4 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.94%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Local Government
7 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 13 (16.05%) Support Engineer
2 12 (14.81%) Developer
2 12 (14.81%) Python Developer
3 10 (12.35%) Storage Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Data Centre Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Senior
5 6 (7.41%) IT Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) Backend Developer
6 4 (4.94%) Data Migration Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) IT Support
6 4 (4.94%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) Migration Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Architect
7 3 (3.70%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.47%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.41%) LDAP
2 5 (6.17%) REST
3 2 (2.47%) ADSI
3 2 (2.47%) Middleware
4 1 (1.23%) .NET
4 1 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.52%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.88%) Replication
3 7 (8.64%) Clustering
3 7 (8.64%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (2.47%) HP Storage
4 2 (2.47%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (2.47%) LPAR
4 2 (2.47%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.47%) PKI
4 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.47%) Tandem
5 1 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.23%) NHS
5 1 (1.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (51.85%) Windows
2 32 (39.51%) Linux
3 25 (30.86%) Windows Server
4 13 (16.05%) Ubuntu
5 12 (14.81%) Debian
5 12 (14.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (12.35%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (11.11%) Solaris
8 7 (8.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (7.41%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (7.41%) VMS
10 3 (3.70%) AIX
11 2 (2.47%) Unix
11 2 (2.47%) zOS
12 1 (1.23%) CentOS
12 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
12 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.16%) ITIL
2 20 (24.69%) Agile
3 19 (23.46%) Customer Service
4 18 (22.22%) Migration
5 16 (19.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (16.05%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (16.05%) Matrix Organization
7 12 (14.81%) Data Modelling
8 11 (13.58%) Configuration Management
8 11 (13.58%) Data Engineering
8 11 (13.58%) Prototyping
8 11 (13.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 10 (12.35%) DevOps
9 10 (12.35%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (11.11%) Data Security
10 9 (11.11%) Software Engineering
11 8 (9.88%) High Availability
12 7 (8.64%) Business Continuity
12 7 (8.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (7.41%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.46%) Python
2 16 (19.75%) PowerShell
3 8 (9.88%) Bash
3 8 (9.88%) SQL
4 1 (1.23%) Java
4 1 (1.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 20 (24.69%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.58%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.17%) Degree
5 4 (4.94%) MCSA
5 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.94%) PMP
6 2 (2.47%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.47%) CCENT
6 2 (2.47%) CCNA
6 2 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.47%) MCSE
6 2 (2.47%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.23%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) GDPR
1 6 (7.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (43.21%) Active Directory
2 31 (38.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.41%) Docker
3 6 (7.41%) VMware NSX
4 5 (6.17%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.17%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (6.17%) vSphere
5 2 (2.47%) KVM
5 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.23%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 12 (14.81%) Ansible
2 11 (13.58%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.11%) EMC NetWorker
3 9 (11.11%) Terraform
4 7 (8.64%) SCCM
5 6 (7.41%) Netcool
5 6 (7.41%) Tivoli
5 6 (7.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (6.17%) Avamar
7 3 (3.70%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.47%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (2.47%) Puppet
9 1 (1.23%) Grafana
9 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 49 (60.49%) VMware
2 40 (49.38%) Microsoft
3 24 (29.63%) Cisco
4 22 (27.16%) HP
5 20 (24.69%) EMC
6 14 (17.28%) Dell
7 12 (14.81%) Citrix
7 12 (14.81%) Red Hat
8 11 (13.58%) CyberArk
9 9 (11.11%) IBM
10 8 (9.88%) Oracle
11 7 (8.64%) Avaya
11 7 (8.64%) CheckPoint
12 6 (7.41%) Isilon
12 6 (7.41%) Qualys
12 6 (7.41%) Serena
12 6 (7.41%) ServiceNow
12 6 (7.41%) Splunk
13 5 (6.17%) Brocade
14 2 (2.47%) Symantec