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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 90 116
Rank change year-on-year -15 +26 -13
Contract jobs citing SAN 11 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.71% 0.93% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.18% 7.14% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 3
10th Percentile £381 £522 £148
25th Percentile £406 £561 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £589 £338
Median % change year-on-year -27.01% +74.44% -15.63%
75th Percentile £590 £619 £366
90th Percentile £638 £681 £379
England median daily rate £550 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £13.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +151.85% -66.25% +67.29%

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 178 196 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.43% 13.03% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 115 177
10th Percentile £188 £178 £190
25th Percentile £336 £291 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £612 £588
90th Percentile £600 £650 £680
England median daily rate £490 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £12.60 £15.60
25th Percentile £47.50 - £19.61
Median hourly rate £50.00 £13.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +260.49% -36.95% +2.33%
75th Percentile £52.50 £17.16 £24.39
90th Percentile - £17.83 £33.87
England median hourly rate £40.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -29.38% +1.52% +36.12%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SAN 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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 2025. 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 -11 9 £430 -20.97%
North Yorkshire - 1 £363 -
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (9.09%) CICS
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) NAS
2 7 (63.64%) DNS
3 6 (54.55%) Firewall
4 2 (18.18%) VPN
4 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (9.09%) FCoE
5 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
5 1 (9.09%) LAN
5 1 (9.09%) Multicast
5 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
1 7 (63.64%) GitLab
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Migration Specialist
1 3 (27.27%) Server Migration Specialist
1 3 (27.27%) Server Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Network Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Virtualisation Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
3 2 (18.18%) CCTV
4 1 (9.09%) Clustering
4 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
4 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (18.18%) VMS
4 1 (9.09%) MVS
4 1 (9.09%) Solaris
4 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
1 7 (63.64%) Kanban
1 7 (63.64%) Migration
1 7 (63.64%) Scrum
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Automation
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
4 3 (27.27%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (27.27%) Server Migrations
5 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 2 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
6 1 (9.09%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
1 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (63.64%) VMware NSX
2 7 (63.64%) vSphere
3 6 (54.55%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
5 1 (9.09%) KVM
5 1 (9.09%) NFS
5 1 (9.09%) SRDF
5 1 (9.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (9.09%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Ansible
2 7 (63.64%) vCenter Server
2 7 (63.64%) vRealize
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) F5
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) EMC
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) IBM
4 1 (9.09%) NetApp
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) Pure Storage