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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 109 90
Rank change year-on-year -20 -19 +22
Contract jobs citing SAN 29 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.00% 0.71% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.81% 6.11% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 12
10th Percentile - £381 £522
25th Percentile £358 £406 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £430 £589
Median % change year-on-year +21.47% -27.01% +74.44%
75th Percentile £542 £590 £619
90th Percentile £568 £638 £681
England median daily rate £478 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +10.00% +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 £13.50
% change year-on-year +54.41% +151.85% -66.25%

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 329 180 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.34% 11.59% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 103 115
10th Percentile £320 £190 £178
25th Percentile £413 £341 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -6.90% +14.29%
75th Percentile £573 £538 £612
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
England median daily rate £500 £488 £508
% change year-on-year +2.56% -3.94% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 1 5
10th Percentile £16.99 - £12.60
25th Percentile £21.33 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +260.49% -36.95%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £17.16
90th Percentile £25.79 - £17.83
England median hourly rate £43.50 £41.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +4.82% -27.64% +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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -26 14 £478 +11.23% 1
West Yorkshire - 11 £525 - 4
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 (3.45%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
1 7 (24.14%) OpenShift
2 3 (10.34%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) GitHub
2 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Storage
3 2 (6.90%) Datadog
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 14 (48.28%) Firewall
2 11 (37.93%) NAS
3 5 (17.24%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (13.79%) DHCP
4 4 (13.79%) DNS
4 4 (13.79%) iSCSI
5 3 (10.34%) VLAN
6 2 (6.90%) VSAN
7 1 (3.45%) DMZ
7 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (51.72%) JIRA
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Data Centre Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Architect
3 6 (20.69%) Storage Architect
4 5 (17.24%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) ICT Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Data Centre Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Data Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Lead
7 2 (6.90%) Senior
8 1 (3.45%) Automation Specialist
8 1 (3.45%) Backup Administrator
8 1 (3.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
8 1 (3.45%) IBM Storage Administrator
8 1 (3.45%) IT Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) IT Technical Manager
8 1 (3.45%) SAN Storage Administrator
8 1 (3.45%) Storage Administrator
8 1 (3.45%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Redfish
1 6 (20.69%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 25 (86.21%) Data Centre
2 19 (65.52%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (27.59%) Replication
4 4 (13.79%) EMC VMAX
4 4 (13.79%) EMC VNX
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.45%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Windows
2 9 (31.03%) Linux
3 5 (17.24%) Windows Server
4 4 (13.79%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (3.45%) AIX
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Capacity Planning
2 12 (41.38%) Validation
3 10 (34.48%) Data Centre Operations
3 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (34.48%) Runbook
4 8 (27.59%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (24.14%) Migration
5 7 (24.14%) Test Automation
5 7 (24.14%) Workflow
6 6 (20.69%) Asset Management
6 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (20.69%) Inventory Management
6 6 (20.69%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (17.24%) High Availability
8 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (13.79%) Server Management
8 4 (13.79%) Storage Management
8 4 (13.79%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.79%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
1 3 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (10.34%) NCDA
1 3 (10.34%) NCIE
1 3 (10.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 23 (79.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (48.28%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (34.48%) Firmware
4 8 (27.59%) vSphere
5 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
6 3 (10.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (10.34%) NFS
6 3 (10.34%) SRDF
7 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Dell DRAC
2 8 (27.59%) vCenter Server
3 6 (20.69%) Ansible
3 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
4 4 (13.79%) EMC VPLEX
4 4 (13.79%) SnapMirror
4 4 (13.79%) vMotion
5 3 (10.34%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (10.34%) NetBackup
5 3 (10.34%) SnapVault
6 2 (6.90%) Argo
6 2 (6.90%) Grafana
6 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.90%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (3.45%) SCCM
7 1 (3.45%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 24 (82.76%) VMware
2 12 (41.38%) Dell
3 11 (37.93%) Juniper
4 10 (34.48%) Cisco
5 7 (24.14%) Brocade
6 6 (20.69%) NetApp
7 5 (17.24%) EMC
8 4 (13.79%) 3PAR
8 4 (13.79%) Pure Storage
9 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
9 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
9 3 (10.34%) Veeam
10 2 (6.90%) HP
10 2 (6.90%) IBM
10 2 (6.90%) SolarWinds