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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 70 99
Rank change year-on-year -53 +29 +19
Contract jobs citing SAN 20 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.99% 0.97% 0.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.03% 5.08% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 8
10th Percentile £366 £419 £296
25th Percentile £406 £443 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £485 £325
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +49.23% -18.75%
75th Percentile £500 £526 £338
90th Percentile £511 £549 £413
England median daily rate £525 £473 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% +2.16% -7.50%

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 249 177 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.32% 19.07% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 102 161
10th Percentile £203 £160 £205
25th Percentile £313 £220 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £390 £405
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% -4.71%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £688 £699 £630
England median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile - £17.94 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.25 £26.40 £13.79
Median hourly rate £15.50 £41.00 £17.35
Median % change year-on-year -62.20% +136.35% +63.19%
75th Percentile £15.75 £41.50 £21.02
90th Percentile - - £24.39
England median hourly rate £28.38 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -12.68% -31.58% +137.50%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -50 17 £455 - 10
West Yorkshire -25 2 - - 5
East Yorkshire - 1 £413 -
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:

Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (90.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) NAS
2 8 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
2 8 (40.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (10.00%) Firewall
3 2 (10.00%) VLAN
4 1 (5.00%) DHCP
4 1 (5.00%) DNS
4 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Advertising
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (10.00%) Automation Specialist
1 2 (10.00%) NetApp Engineer
1 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (10.00%) Senior
1 2 (10.00%) Storage Manager
1 2 (10.00%) Storage Specialist
2 1 (5.00%) Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) IT Support
2 1 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (5.00%) Senior Storage Specialist
2 1 (5.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Replication
2 9 (45.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (10.00%) FlexPod
3 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Clustering
4 1 (5.00%) CMDB
4 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (15.00%) VMS
4 2 (10.00%) CoreOS
4 2 (10.00%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 13 (65.00%) Migration
2 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (45.00%) Data Protection
3 9 (45.00%) High Availability
3 9 (45.00%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.00%) GitOps
6 3 (15.00%) Observability
6 3 (15.00%) Runbook
6 3 (15.00%) Storage Management
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (10.00%) Code Quality
7 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 2 (10.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) OCP
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) CCNA
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) NFS
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.00%) vSphere
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Ansible
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) SnapMirror
4 1 (5.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) NetApp
2 6 (30.00%) EMC
2 6 (30.00%) Pure Storage
3 5 (25.00%) IBM
4 4 (20.00%) VMware
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (10.00%) Cisco
6 2 (10.00%) Google
6 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (5.00%) Brocade
7 1 (5.00%) Commvault
7 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
7 1 (5.00%) HP
7 1 (5.00%) Oracle
7 1 (5.00%) Veeam