SAN Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring SAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 79 91
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +22
Contract jobs citing SAN 49 14 12
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.85% 1.31% 0.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 7.61% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 6 12
10th Percentile £358 £357 -
25th Percentile £374 £364 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £398 £594
Median % change year-on-year +21.38% -33.05% +75.93%
75th Percentile £519 £477 £619
90th Percentile £540 £569 £681
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring communications or computer networking skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 343 184 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.98% 17.20% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 100 134
10th Percentile £303 £203 £200
25th Percentile £373 £251 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £669 £614 £638
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 0 9
10th Percentile £18.84 - £12.75
25th Percentile £21.33 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.81 - £18.27
Median % change year-on-year - - +71.87%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.39% -3.98% +134.40%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

SAN job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SAN
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SAN

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in Yorkshire

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SAN

SAN
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire -22 41 £487 +24.87% 2
West Yorkshire -31 6 £625 +25.00% 4
East Yorkshire - 2 £344 -
SAN
England

SAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.04%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 30 (61.22%) OpenShift
2 10 (20.41%) Azure
3 6 (12.24%) AWS
4 5 (10.20%) GCP
5 4 (8.16%) GitHub
5 4 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Storage
6 2 (4.08%) Datadog
6 2 (4.08%) IaaS
7 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.04%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 27 (55.10%) NAS
2 14 (28.57%) iSCSI
3 12 (24.49%) Fibre Channel
4 7 (14.29%) Firewall
5 3 (6.12%) DHCP
5 3 (6.12%) DNS
5 3 (6.12%) TCP/IP
5 3 (6.12%) VLAN
6 2 (4.08%) VSAN
7 1 (2.04%) DMZ
7 1 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) JIRA
2 6 (12.24%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Banking
3 3 (6.12%) Finance
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Advertising
5 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (14.29%) Architect
1 7 (14.29%) Data Centre Engineer
1 7 (14.29%) Storage Architect
2 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (10.20%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) ICT Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) NetApp Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) Senior
4 3 (6.12%) Automation Specialist
4 3 (6.12%) IT Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) Storage Specialist
5 2 (4.08%) Administrator
5 2 (4.08%) IBM Storage Administrator
5 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) IT Support
5 2 (4.08%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.08%) SAN Administrator
5 2 (4.08%) Storage Administrator
5 2 (4.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) Redfish
2 1 (2.04%) Kafka
2 1 (2.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 23 (46.94%) Enterprise Storage
2 21 (42.86%) Replication
3 15 (30.61%) Data Centre
4 8 (16.33%) EMC VMAX
5 5 (10.20%) FlexPod
5 5 (10.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (8.16%) EMC VNX
7 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
8 2 (4.08%) CMDB
9 1 (2.04%) Clustering
9 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (40.82%) Linux
2 17 (34.69%) Windows
3 9 (18.37%) Data ONTAP
3 9 (18.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (12.24%) VMS
5 5 (10.20%) CoreOS
6 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
7 2 (4.08%) AIX
7 2 (4.08%) Unix
7 2 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) Migration
2 23 (46.94%) Disaster Recovery
3 22 (44.90%) Capacity Planning
4 16 (32.65%) Data Protection
4 16 (32.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (32.65%) Performance Tuning
5 15 (30.61%) Containerisation
5 15 (30.61%) Runbook
6 13 (26.53%) Test Automation
7 11 (22.45%) High Availability
7 11 (22.45%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (20.41%) CI/CD
8 10 (20.41%) DevOps
8 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (18.37%) Data Centre Operations
10 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure Management
10 8 (16.33%) Storage Management
11 7 (14.29%) Asset Management
11 7 (14.29%) Inventory Management
12 6 (12.24%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) Python
2 7 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.16%) Bash
4 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) OCP
1 5 (10.20%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.12%) Degree
2 3 (6.12%) NCDA
2 3 (6.12%) NCIE
2 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (2.04%) CCNA
3 1 (2.04%) CCNP
3 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.04%) CISSP
3 1 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) GxP
System Software
1 20 (40.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (34.69%) NFS
3 11 (22.45%) vSphere
4 9 (18.37%) Firmware
5 5 (10.20%) SRDF
5 5 (10.20%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (8.16%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (6.12%) Active Directory
7 3 (6.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (44.90%) Kubernetes
2 15 (30.61%) Ansible
3 11 (22.45%) Terraform
4 9 (18.37%) SnapMirror
5 7 (14.29%) Dell DRAC
6 5 (10.20%) NetBackup
7 4 (8.16%) EMC VPLEX
7 4 (8.16%) vCenter Server
8 3 (6.12%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (6.12%) SnapVault
8 3 (6.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (4.08%) Argo
9 2 (4.08%) Grafana
9 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
9 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
9 2 (4.08%) Puppet
10 1 (2.04%) SCCM
10 1 (2.04%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 24 (48.98%) VMware
2 17 (34.69%) NetApp
3 14 (28.57%) Cisco
4 13 (26.53%) Pure Storage
5 11 (22.45%) EMC
6 10 (20.41%) Dell
7 9 (18.37%) Brocade
8 8 (16.33%) IBM
8 8 (16.33%) Red Hat
9 7 (14.29%) HP
10 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
11 5 (10.20%) Google
11 5 (10.20%) Veeam
12 4 (8.16%) 3PAR
12 4 (8.16%) Broadcom
12 4 (8.16%) Juniper
13 2 (4.08%) Commvault
13 2 (4.08%) Fortinet
13 2 (4.08%) SolarWinds
13 2 (4.08%) TOWER Software