Cisco/NetApp FlexPod
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FlexPod in permanent job vacancies. 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 701 - 864
Rank change year-on-year - - +101
Permanent jobs citing FlexPod 9 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.010% - 0.003%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.036% - 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £61,000
25th Percentile £51,250 - £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.08%
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 25,337 17,054 34,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.14% 40.35% 36.08%
Number of salaries quoted 13,151 9,242 23,023
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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

FlexPod
Job Vacancy Trend

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

FlexPod job vacancy trend in the UK

FlexPod
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FlexPod.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FlexPod

FlexPod
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FlexPod within the UK 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
England - 9 £52,500 - 1
UK excluding London - 9 £52,500 - 1
Work from Home - 8 - - 1

FlexPod
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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