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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 100 90
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 +15
Contract jobs citing SAN 39 14 12
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.36% 0.92% 0.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.75% 7.04% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 8 11
10th Percentile - £357 £519
25th Percentile £358 £378 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £613
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -32.65% +439.65%
75th Percentile £530 £495 £619
90th Percentile £556 £638 £688
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.75
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £15.00 £35.73 £13.50
% change year-on-year -58.01% +164.63% -66.25%

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 332 199 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.60% 13.05% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 108 107
10th Percentile £314 £235 £200
25th Percentile £400 £358 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.01% -10.14% +15.56%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £619
90th Percentile £650 £604 £650
England median daily rate £500 £492 £504
% change year-on-year +1.63% -2.38% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 1 9
10th Percentile £19.94 - £13.45
25th Percentile £21.33 £47.50 £13.87
Median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +173.67% -16.95%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £25.83
90th Percentile £25.82 - -
England median hourly rate £27.75 £43.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year -36.21% -20.73% -1.84%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -9 25 £500 +21.21%
West Yorkshire - 9 £525 - 1
East Yorkshire - 1 £275 -
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 (2.56%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) OpenShift
2 9 (23.08%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) AWS
4 3 (7.69%) GCP
4 3 (7.69%) GitHub
4 3 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Storage
5 2 (5.13%) Datadog
5 2 (5.13%) IaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.56%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.90%) Firewall
2 13 (33.33%) NAS
3 8 (20.51%) iSCSI
4 6 (15.38%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (10.26%) DHCP
5 4 (10.26%) DNS
6 3 (7.69%) VLAN
7 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.13%) VSAN
8 1 (2.56%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (38.46%) JIRA
2 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Banking
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Data Centre Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Architect
3 7 (17.95%) Storage Architect
4 5 (12.82%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) ICT Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Backup Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) IBM Storage Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) IT Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) NetApp Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) SAN Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) SAN Storage Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Storage Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Storage and Backup Administrator
7 1 (2.56%) Automation Specialist
7 1 (2.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) Redfish
1 8 (20.51%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 25 (64.10%) Data Centre
2 22 (56.41%) Enterprise Storage
3 11 (28.21%) Replication
4 8 (20.51%) EMC VMAX
5 4 (10.26%) EMC VNX
6 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
6 3 (7.69%) FlexPod
6 3 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.56%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 18 (46.15%) Linux
2 17 (43.59%) Windows
3 7 (17.95%) Data ONTAP
3 7 (17.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (7.69%) CoreOS
5 3 (7.69%) VMS
6 2 (5.13%) AIX
6 2 (5.13%) Unix
7 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Capacity Planning
2 16 (41.03%) Migration
3 14 (35.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (33.33%) Runbook
5 12 (30.77%) Data Centre Operations
5 12 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (28.21%) Test Automation
7 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (23.08%) Validation
9 8 (20.51%) Asset Management
9 8 (20.51%) DevOps
9 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Management
9 8 (20.51%) Inventory Management
9 8 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
10 7 (17.95%) Data Protection
10 7 (17.95%) Workflow
11 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
11 5 (12.82%) Storage Management
12 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) Python
2 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.26%) Bash
4 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 3 (7.69%) NCDA
1 3 (7.69%) NCIE
1 3 (7.69%) OCP
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
1 3 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (5.13%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 27 (69.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 12 (30.77%) Firmware
4 11 (28.21%) vSphere
5 7 (17.95%) NFS
6 5 (12.82%) SRDF
7 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
8 3 (7.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (30.77%) Ansible
2 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
3 9 (23.08%) Dell DRAC
4 7 (17.95%) SnapMirror
4 7 (17.95%) vCenter Server
5 4 (10.26%) EMC VPLEX
5 4 (10.26%) NetBackup
6 3 (7.69%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (7.69%) SnapVault
6 3 (7.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (7.69%) vMotion
7 2 (5.13%) Argo
7 2 (5.13%) Grafana
7 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
7 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
7 2 (5.13%) Puppet
8 1 (2.56%) SCCM
8 1 (2.56%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 30 (76.92%) VMware
2 14 (35.90%) Cisco
3 13 (33.33%) Dell
4 11 (28.21%) Juniper
5 9 (23.08%) NetApp
6 8 (20.51%) Brocade
7 7 (17.95%) HP
7 7 (17.95%) Pure Storage
8 6 (15.38%) Red Hat
9 5 (12.82%) EMC
10 4 (10.26%) 3PAR
10 4 (10.26%) Broadcom
10 4 (10.26%) Veeam
11 3 (7.69%) Google
11 3 (7.69%) IBM
11 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
12 2 (5.13%) SolarWinds
12 2 (5.13%) TOWER Software
13 1 (2.56%) Commvault
13 1 (2.56%) Fortinet