FlexPod Job Trends in England

Cisco/NetApp FlexPod
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FlexPod in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited FlexPod over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 664 - 826
Rank change year-on-year - - +107
Permanent jobs citing FlexPod 9 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.011% - 0.001%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.039% - 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.54%
75th Percentile £53,750 - £58,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £52,500 - £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +23.08%

All Generic Skills
England

FlexPod falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 22,847 15,257 29,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.53% 40.37% 35.23%
Number of salaries quoted 11,978 8,332 20,849
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,950
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

FlexPod
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing FlexPod relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

FlexPod job vacancy trend in England

FlexPod
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing FlexPod.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing FlexPod

FlexPod
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FlexPod within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 9 £52,500 - 1
FlexPod
UK

FlexPod
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
1 9 (100.00%) LAN
1 9 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 9 (100.00%) VLAN
1 9 (100.00%) WAN
1 9 (100.00%) WebEx
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco Firepower
General
1 8 (88.89%) Banking
1 8 (88.89%) Marketing
1 8 (88.89%) Public Sector
1 8 (88.89%) Retail
1 8 (88.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Collaboration Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Voice Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Voice Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 9 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 9 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (66.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (88.89%) Data Management
1 8 (88.89%) Performance Management
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Converged Infrastructure
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (66.67%) vSphere
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 5 (55.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 9 (100.00%) Grafana
2 6 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
1 9 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 9 (100.00%) Splunk
2 6 (66.67%) NetApp
2 6 (66.67%) VMware