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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 271 292
Rank change year-on-year -10 +21 +113
Contract jobs citing SAN 28 71 171
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.48% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.54% 4.60% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 59 122
10th Percentile £378 £313 £313
25th Percentile £414 £354 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £425 £523
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -18.66% +16.11%
75th Percentile £602 £575 £675
90th Percentile £603 £619 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.68% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - £63.60
UK median hourly rate £52.58 £40.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +31.46% -20.00% +109.12%

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 1,104 1,543 2,814
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.98% 10.51% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 998 1,857
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 71 106
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £19.00
25th Percentile £40.50 £14.27 £31.25
Median hourly rate £63.00 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £87.46 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +114.29% -27.74%

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 3 July 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 1 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.57%) nginx
1 1 (3.57%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) IaaS
3 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.57%) Cohesity
5 1 (3.57%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.57%) PaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Rubrik
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) DNS
2 5 (17.86%) DHCP
2 5 (17.86%) Firewall
2 5 (17.86%) NAS
3 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.57%) FCoE
4 1 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.57%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.57%) VLAN
4 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Law
4 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (17.86%) Senior
2 4 (14.29%) Administrator
2 4 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Consultant
3 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (10.71%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Linux Support
4 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Unix Support
4 2 (7.14%) Unix Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.57%) CCTV
2 1 (3.57%) Clustering
2 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.57%) Replication
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Linux
1 14 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (21.43%) Unix
2 6 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 4 (14.29%) AIX
3 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (7.14%) Debian
4 2 (7.14%) Solaris
4 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.57%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (3.57%) HPUX
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) ITIL
2 6 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.86%) Storage Management
4 4 (14.29%) Agile
4 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (14.29%) DevOps
4 4 (14.29%) Security Patching
5 3 (10.71%) Business Strategy
5 3 (10.71%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (7.14%) Capacity Management
6 2 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (7.14%) Change Management
6 2 (7.14%) Data Protection
6 2 (7.14%) Migration
6 2 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (7.14%) Proactive Management
6 2 (7.14%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) C#
3 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.57%) CCNA
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) SLA
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 4 (14.29%) DFS Replication
3 4 (14.29%) vSphere
4 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.57%) Docker
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.57%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Tivoli
1 4 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
2 3 (10.71%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) NetBackup
2 3 (10.71%) SCCM
3 2 (7.14%) EMC VPLEX
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.57%) Backup Exec
4 1 (3.57%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (3.57%) Netcool
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (3.57%) Terraform
4 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) VMware
2 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 7 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 6 (21.43%) IBM
4 6 (21.43%) NetApp
5 5 (17.86%) Cisco
5 5 (17.86%) EMC
6 4 (14.29%) Dell
6 4 (14.29%) HP
6 4 (14.29%) Isilon
6 4 (14.29%) Oracle
7 3 (10.71%) Brocade
8 2 (7.14%) Splunk
8 2 (7.14%) Veritas
9 1 (3.57%) 3PAR
9 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
9 1 (3.57%) F5
9 1 (3.57%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (3.57%) Pure Storage
9 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow