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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 80 92
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 +29
Contract jobs citing SAN 42 13 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.72% 1.27% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.58% 7.03% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 5 14
10th Percentile £358 £357 -
25th Percentile £366 £358 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £390 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.79% -13.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £500 £408 £619
90th Percentile £534 £463 £667
England median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -3.80%

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 288 185 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.77% 18.12% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 96 136
10th Percentile £206 £196 £200
25th Percentile £358 £235 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £403 £459
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -12.25% -3.37%
75th Percentile £529 £575 £578
90th Percentile £669 £675 £641
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 9
10th Percentile £20.53 - £12.75
25th Percentile £21.33 £40.50 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.81 £41.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year -44.37% +124.41% +71.87%
75th Percentile £24.29 £41.50 £25.83
90th Percentile £25.77 - -
England median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -18.75% +116.22%

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 5 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 5 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 -24 37 £478 +26.62% 2
West Yorkshire -24 3 - - 5
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:

Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 27 (64.29%) OpenShift
2 7 (16.67%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) AWS
4 5 (11.90%) GCP
5 3 (7.14%) GitHub
5 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.76%) IaaS
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 23 (54.76%) NAS
2 14 (33.33%) iSCSI
3 11 (26.19%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (11.90%) Firewall
5 3 (7.14%) VLAN
6 2 (4.76%) DHCP
6 2 (4.76%) DNS
6 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.38%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.38%) VPN
7 1 (2.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) JIRA
2 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Banking
3 2 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (2.38%) Advertising
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (14.29%) Data Centre Engineer
2 4 (9.52%) Architect
2 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (9.52%) NetApp Engineer
2 4 (9.52%) Storage Architect
3 3 (7.14%) Automation Specialist
3 3 (7.14%) ICT Engineer
3 3 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 3 (7.14%) Senior
3 3 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (7.14%) Storage Specialist
4 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) IT Support
4 2 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Project Manager
4 2 (4.76%) Storage Manager
4 2 (4.76%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) Redfish
2 1 (2.38%) Kafka
2 1 (2.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (42.86%) Enterprise Storage
2 17 (40.48%) Replication
3 9 (21.43%) Data Centre
4 6 (14.29%) EMC VMAX
5 5 (11.90%) FlexPod
5 5 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.76%) CMDB
6 2 (4.76%) EMC VNX
7 1 (2.38%) Clustering
7 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 19 (45.24%) Linux
2 15 (35.71%) Windows
3 9 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (16.67%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (14.29%) VMS
6 5 (11.90%) CoreOS
7 2 (4.76%) Unix
7 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
7 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.38%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (64.29%) Migration
2 20 (47.62%) Disaster Recovery
3 19 (45.24%) Capacity Planning
4 15 (35.71%) Data Protection
4 15 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 13 (30.95%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (28.57%) Runbook
7 12 (28.57%) Test Automation
8 11 (26.19%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (23.81%) High Availability
10 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
10 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (19.05%) DevOps
12 7 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
12 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
13 6 (14.29%) Asset Management
13 6 (14.29%) Inventory Management
13 6 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
14 5 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.81%) Python
2 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.76%) Bash
3 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) OCP
1 5 (11.90%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CCNA
4 1 (2.38%) CCNP
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CISSP
4 1 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.38%) NCDA
4 1 (2.38%) NCIE
4 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) GxP
System Software
1 16 (38.10%) NFS
2 14 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (21.43%) vSphere
4 7 (16.67%) Firmware
5 5 (11.90%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (7.14%) SRDF
7 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
7 2 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (2.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (45.24%) Kubernetes
2 14 (33.33%) Ansible
3 10 (23.81%) Terraform
4 7 (16.67%) SnapMirror
5 6 (14.29%) Dell DRAC
6 4 (9.52%) NetBackup
7 2 (4.76%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (4.76%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
7 2 (4.76%) Puppet
7 2 (4.76%) SnapVault
7 2 (4.76%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.38%) Argo
8 1 (2.38%) Grafana
8 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 17 (40.48%) VMware
2 14 (33.33%) NetApp
3 11 (26.19%) Cisco
3 11 (26.19%) Pure Storage
4 9 (21.43%) EMC
5 6 (14.29%) Brocade
5 6 (14.29%) Dell
5 6 (14.29%) HP
5 6 (14.29%) IBM
5 6 (14.29%) Red Hat
6 5 (11.90%) Google
6 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
7 4 (9.52%) Broadcom
7 4 (9.52%) Veeam
8 2 (4.76%) 3PAR
8 2 (4.76%) Commvault
8 2 (4.76%) Fortinet
8 2 (4.76%) Juniper
8 2 (4.76%) TOWER Software
9 1 (2.38%) Oracle