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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 85 99
Rank change year-on-year -35 +14 +11
Contract jobs citing SAN 5 12 7
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.28% 0.92% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.51% 5.88% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile - £519 £133
25th Percentile £406 £527 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £558 £270
Median % change year-on-year -22.91% +106.48% -40.00%
75th Percentile £495 £565 £310
90th Percentile £580 - £327
England median daily rate £529 £478 £465
% change year-on-year +10.73% +2.69% +0.54%
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% +55.58%

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 199 204 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.02% 15.60% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 114 166
10th Percentile £203 £186 £213
25th Percentile £290 £243 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +2.04%
75th Percentile £541 £565 £575
90th Percentile £639 £698 £663
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile - £11.97 £15.80
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.30 £17.14
Median hourly rate £15.50 £16.19 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -26.41% +4.07%
75th Percentile £34.13 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £45.15 - £23.43
England median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +26.38%

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 November 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 29 November 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 -45 4 £413 -24.14% 5
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 (20.00%) CICS
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) NAS
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (20.00%) FCoE
4 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) Multicast
4 1 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Migration Specialist
1 3 (60.00%) Server Migration Specialist
1 3 (60.00%) Server Specialist
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) CCTV
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (40.00%) VMS
4 1 (20.00%) MVS
4 1 (20.00%) Solaris
4 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Kanban
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
1 3 (60.00%) Server Migrations
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (60.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (60.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) KVM
3 1 (20.00%) NFS
3 1 (20.00%) SRDF
3 1 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (20.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (60.00%) vRealize
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) F5
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) EMC
4 1 (20.00%) Google
4 1 (20.00%) IBM
4 1 (20.00%) NetApp
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) Pure Storage