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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 88 103
Rank change year-on-year -34 +15 0
Contract jobs citing SAN 6 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.33% 0.86% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.82% 6.35% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile - £519 £128
25th Percentile £406 £527 £167
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £558 £239
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +133.02% -40.19%
75th Percentile £638 £565 £317
90th Percentile - - £359
England median daily rate £550 £485 £450
% change year-on-year +13.40% +7.78% -5.26%
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 213 189 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.77% 13.61% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 106 167
10th Percentile £203 £169 £190
25th Percentile £350 £220 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% - -
75th Percentile £538 £555 £575
90th Percentile £619 £638 £675
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile - £11.86 £16.17
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.03 £17.22
Median hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -38.64% +4.07%
75th Percentile £34.13 £16.21 -
90th Percentile £45.15 £16.78 £30.32
England median hourly rate £31.39 £53.75 £55.70
% change year-on-year -41.61% -3.50% +28.05%

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 7 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 7 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 -36 5 £430 -20.97% 2
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 (16.67%) CICS
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) NAS
3 3 (50.00%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (16.67%) FCoE
5 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
5 1 (16.67%) LAN
5 1 (16.67%) Multicast
5 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Migration Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Server Migration Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Server Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) CCTV
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) VMS
4 1 (16.67%) MVS
4 1 (16.67%) Solaris
4 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (50.00%) Kanban
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) Server Migrations
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (50.00%) vSphere
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) KVM
3 1 (16.67%) NFS
3 1 (16.67%) SRDF
3 1 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (16.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (50.00%) vRealize
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) F5
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Pure Storage