NetApp Job Trends

NetApp
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of NetApp products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NetApp over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Network Appliance Corporation.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 600 575
Rank change year-on-year -1 -25 +161
Permanent jobs citing NetApp 50 111 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.085% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 0.26% 0.54% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 34 62 103
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,750 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,875 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £85,188 £69,688 £78,125
90th Percentile £118,500 £85,000 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £54,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -1.36% +29.41%

All Vendors
UK

NetApp falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,213 20,443 20,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.48% 37.02% 40.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10,903 10,602 15,911
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,750 £77,250 £73,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +2.04% -2.00%

NetApp
Job Vacancy Trend

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

NetApp job vacancy trend in the UK

NetApp
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetApp.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetApp

NetApp
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NetApp over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for NetApp in the UK

NetApp
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NetApp within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 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
England +21 49 £55,875 -2.83% 30
UK excluding London +32 34 £46,500 -14.29% 23
South East +28 20 £47,500 -19.15% 7
Work from Home +47 18 £42,500 -19.05% 9
London +5 14 £97,000 +43.70% 7
East of England +13 12 £43,000 -20.00% 6
North West +18 1 - - 6
North of England +13 1 - - 7
South West +8 1 £57,000 -5.00% 5

NetApp
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) Cohesity
3 8 (16.00%) Rubrik
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.00%) AWS
6 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.00%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.00%) Datadog
7 1 (2.00%) GitHub
7 1 (2.00%) IaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.00%) PaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (70.00%) SAN
2 18 (36.00%) DNS
3 17 (34.00%) DHCP
4 9 (18.00%) NAS
5 7 (14.00%) Firewall
6 5 (10.00%) iSCSI
7 4 (8.00%) VPN
8 3 (6.00%) Ethernet
8 3 (6.00%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (6.00%) InfiniBand
8 3 (6.00%) VLAN
9 2 (4.00%) BGP
9 2 (4.00%) NetScaler
9 2 (4.00%) OSPF
9 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
9 2 (4.00%) VSAN
10 1 (2.00%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (2.00%) Miracast
10 1 (2.00%) VRRP
10 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) ClearCase
General
1 22 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Advertising
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Electronics
5 1 (2.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (24.00%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Support Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) Linux Support
4 8 (16.00%) Linux Support Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Backup Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior
7 2 (4.00%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) IT Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.00%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.00%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Clustering
2 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.00%) CCTV
3 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.00%) EMC VNX
3 1 (2.00%) FMCG
3 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) PKI
3 1 (2.00%) Replication
3 1 (2.00%) SCADA
3 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (48.00%) Windows
2 18 (36.00%) Windows Server
3 17 (34.00%) Linux
4 12 (24.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (24.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (18.00%) Solaris
6 8 (16.00%) Debian
6 8 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (16.00%) Unix
7 1 (2.00%) AIX
7 1 (2.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (26.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (26.00%) DevOps
4 12 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (24.00%) Security Operations
5 9 (18.00%) Service Delivery
6 8 (16.00%) Data Protection
6 8 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (16.00%) Storage Management
7 7 (14.00%) Capacity Planning
7 7 (14.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (12.00%) Service Management
9 5 (10.00%) ITIL
10 4 (8.00%) Presales
11 3 (6.00%) Agile
11 3 (6.00%) Converged Infrastructure
11 3 (6.00%) Information Security
11 3 (6.00%) Patch Management
11 3 (6.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.00%) Python
2 14 (28.00%) PowerShell
3 13 (26.00%) Bash
4 8 (16.00%) Korn
5 5 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.00%) Bicep
6 1 (2.00%) C
6 1 (2.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (10.00%) Degree
5 3 (6.00%) CCNA
5 3 (6.00%) CCNP
5 3 (6.00%) RHCE
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.00%) CCDA
7 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.00%) MCSE
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) SLA
2 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (42.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (34.00%) VMware ESXi
2 17 (34.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.00%) Firmware
3 3 (6.00%) Lustre
3 3 (6.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (4.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.00%) Docker
5 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.00%) NFS
5 1 (2.00%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 22 (44.00%) Ansible
2 19 (38.00%) vCenter Server
3 15 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (24.00%) SCCM
5 6 (12.00%) Avamar
6 3 (6.00%) VxRail
7 2 (4.00%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (2.00%) Backup Exec
8 1 (2.00%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
8 1 (2.00%) NetBackup
8 1 (2.00%) Podman
8 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (70.00%) VMware
2 22 (44.00%) Microsoft
3 20 (40.00%) Veeam
4 14 (28.00%) SolarWinds
5 12 (24.00%) 3PAR
5 12 (24.00%) Dell
6 6 (12.00%) Cisco
6 6 (12.00%) Pure Storage
7 5 (10.00%) Red Hat
8 4 (8.00%) EMC
8 4 (8.00%) Fortinet
8 4 (8.00%) IBM
9 3 (6.00%) Mellanox
9 3 (6.00%) Splunk
10 2 (4.00%) Citrix
10 2 (4.00%) Hitachi
10 2 (4.00%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (4.00%) Oracle
11 1 (2.00%) HP
11 1 (2.00%) Siemens