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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 86 92
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +21
Contract jobs citing SAN 46 18 8
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.61% 1.28% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.85% 8.45% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 10 8
10th Percentile £358 £357 £561
25th Percentile £362 £389 £596
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £413 £613
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -32.65% +439.65%
75th Percentile £519 £487 £636
90th Percentile £549 £638 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +13.16%

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 358 213 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.56% 15.11% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 117 115
10th Percentile £303 £235 £185
25th Percentile £373 £373 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £600
90th Percentile £669 £613 £648
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 0 9
10th Percentile £19.74 - £13.65
25th Percentile £21.33 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £25.77 - £18.27
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.95%
75th Percentile - - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -40.62% -5.26% -4.04%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -15 34 £435 +5.45%
West Yorkshire -27 7 £625 +25.00% 2
East Yorkshire - 1 £275 - 1
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 (2.17%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 21 (45.65%) OpenShift
2 9 (19.57%) Azure
3 5 (10.87%) AWS
3 5 (10.87%) GCP
4 4 (8.70%) GitHub
4 4 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Storage
5 2 (4.35%) Datadog
5 2 (4.35%) IaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.17%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) NAS
2 13 (28.26%) Firewall
3 6 (13.04%) iSCSI
4 4 (8.70%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (4.35%) DHCP
5 2 (4.35%) DNS
5 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.35%) VLAN
5 2 (4.35%) VSAN
6 1 (2.17%) DMZ
6 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (36.96%) JIRA
2 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Banking
3 3 (6.52%) Finance
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Advertising
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Data Centre Engineer
2 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Architect
3 7 (15.22%) Storage Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) ICT Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) NetApp Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Automation Specialist
6 3 (6.52%) Storage Specialist
7 2 (4.35%) Administrator
7 2 (4.35%) IBM Storage Administrator
7 2 (4.35%) IT Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.35%) SAN Administrator
7 2 (4.35%) SAN Storage Administrator
7 2 (4.35%) Storage Administrator
7 2 (4.35%) Storage and Backup Administrator
7 2 (4.35%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 22 (47.83%) Data Centre
1 22 (47.83%) Enterprise Storage
2 13 (28.26%) Replication
3 8 (17.39%) EMC VMAX
4 5 (10.87%) FlexPod
4 5 (10.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (8.70%) EMC VNX
6 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
7 2 (4.35%) CMDB
8 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (45.65%) Linux
2 17 (36.96%) Windows
3 9 (19.57%) Data ONTAP
3 9 (19.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (10.87%) CoreOS
4 5 (10.87%) VMS
5 2 (4.35%) AIX
5 2 (4.35%) Unix
5 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) Migration
2 16 (34.78%) Capacity Planning
3 15 (32.61%) Runbook
4 14 (30.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (30.43%) Test Automation
5 11 (23.91%) Data Protection
6 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 10 (21.74%) Data Centre Operations
6 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (19.57%) DevOps
7 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure Management
8 8 (17.39%) Asset Management
8 8 (17.39%) Inventory Management
8 8 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (17.39%) Storage Management
9 7 (15.22%) Validation
9 7 (15.22%) Workflow
10 6 (13.04%) Observability
10 6 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Python
2 6 (13.04%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.70%) Bash
4 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) OCP
1 5 (10.87%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.52%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) NCDA
2 3 (6.52%) NCIE
2 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (2.17%) CCNA
3 1 (2.17%) CCNP
3 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.17%) CISSP
3 1 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) GxP
System Software
1 27 (58.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (21.74%) Firmware
2 10 (21.74%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (21.74%) vSphere
3 9 (19.57%) NFS
4 5 (10.87%) SRDF
4 5 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (6.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
6 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Ansible
1 15 (32.61%) Kubernetes
2 11 (23.91%) Terraform
3 9 (19.57%) SnapMirror
4 8 (17.39%) Dell DRAC
5 5 (10.87%) NetBackup
6 4 (8.70%) EMC VPLEX
6 4 (8.70%) vCenter Server
7 3 (6.52%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (6.52%) SnapVault
7 3 (6.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (4.35%) Argo
8 2 (4.35%) Grafana
8 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
8 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
8 2 (4.35%) Puppet
9 1 (2.17%) SCCM
9 1 (2.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 30 (65.22%) VMware
2 14 (30.43%) Cisco
3 12 (26.09%) NetApp
4 11 (23.91%) Juniper
5 10 (21.74%) Dell
5 10 (21.74%) Pure Storage
6 9 (19.57%) Brocade
7 8 (17.39%) Red Hat
8 6 (13.04%) EMC
8 6 (13.04%) HP
9 5 (10.87%) Google
10 4 (8.70%) 3PAR
10 4 (8.70%) Broadcom
10 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
10 4 (8.70%) Veeam
11 3 (6.52%) IBM
12 2 (4.35%) Commvault
12 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds
12 2 (4.35%) TOWER Software
13 1 (2.17%) Fortinet