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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 117 89
Rank change year-on-year -17 -28 +25
Contract jobs citing SAN 26 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.90% 0.37% 0.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.90% 3.30% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 8
10th Percentile - - £519
25th Percentile £358 £406 £542
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £447 £565
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% -20.88% +67.41%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £578
90th Percentile £571 - £619
England median daily rate £500 £548 £500
% change year-on-year -8.68% +9.50% +11.11%
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 £52.50 £34.00 £18.65
% change year-on-year +54.41% +82.31% -53.38%

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 329 182 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.36% 11.36% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 109 111
10th Percentile £357 £201 £160
25th Percentile £419 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £586
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
England median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 1 5
10th Percentile £13.45 - £11.97
25th Percentile £21.33 £47.50 £12.30
Median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +260.49% -36.95%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £15.25
90th Percentile £25.78 - £16.40
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +24.29% -38.97% +1.52%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 11 £442 +2.85% 1
West Yorkshire - 11 £525 - 6
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 (3.85%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) OpenShift
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Storage
4 2 (7.69%) Datadog
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.85%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) Firewall
2 9 (34.62%) NAS
3 4 (15.38%) DHCP
3 4 (15.38%) DNS
3 4 (15.38%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (11.54%) iSCSI
4 3 (11.54%) VLAN
5 2 (7.69%) VSAN
6 1 (3.85%) DMZ
6 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Data Centre Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Architect
3 6 (23.08%) Storage Architect
4 5 (19.23%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) ICT Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Data Centre Manager
6 3 (11.54%) Data Manager
7 2 (7.69%) Lead
8 1 (3.85%) Administrator
8 1 (3.85%) IBM Storage Administrator
8 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Manager
8 1 (3.85%) IT Manager
8 1 (3.85%) SAN Administrator
8 1 (3.85%) Senior
8 1 (3.85%) Storage Administrator
8 1 (3.85%) Storage and Backup Administrator
8 1 (3.85%) Technical Manager
8 1 (3.85%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Redfish
1 5 (19.23%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 24 (92.31%) Data Centre
2 18 (69.23%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (23.08%) Replication
4 4 (15.38%) EMC VMAX
4 4 (15.38%) EMC VNX
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Windows
2 8 (30.77%) Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
4 4 (15.38%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (3.85%) AIX
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Capacity Planning
1 12 (46.15%) Validation
2 9 (34.62%) Data Centre Operations
2 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (30.77%) Runbook
4 7 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (26.92%) Workflow
5 5 (19.23%) Asset Management
5 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (19.23%) Inventory Management
5 5 (19.23%) Migration
5 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
6 4 (15.38%) Budget Management
6 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 4 (15.38%) DevOps
6 4 (15.38%) High Availability
6 4 (15.38%) Server Management
6 4 (15.38%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.54%) Bash
2 3 (11.54%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
1 3 (11.54%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (11.54%) NCDA
1 3 (11.54%) NCIE
1 3 (11.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 23 (88.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (53.85%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (34.62%) Firmware
4 8 (30.77%) vSphere
5 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
6 3 (11.54%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (11.54%) SRDF
7 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
7 2 (7.69%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Dell DRAC
1 8 (30.77%) vCenter Server
2 5 (19.23%) Ansible
3 4 (15.38%) EMC VPLEX
3 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) SnapMirror
3 4 (15.38%) vMotion
4 3 (11.54%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (11.54%) NetBackup
4 3 (11.54%) SnapVault
5 2 (7.69%) Argo
5 2 (7.69%) Grafana
5 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (3.85%) SCCM
6 1 (3.85%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 24 (92.31%) VMware
2 11 (42.31%) Dell
2 11 (42.31%) Juniper
3 8 (30.77%) Cisco
4 5 (19.23%) Brocade
4 5 (19.23%) NetApp
5 4 (15.38%) 3PAR
5 4 (15.38%) EMC
6 3 (11.54%) Pure Storage
6 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
6 3 (11.54%) Veeam
7 2 (7.69%) HP
7 2 (7.69%) IBM
7 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
7 2 (7.69%) SolarWinds