SAN Contracts in Scotland

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAN over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 104 150
Rank change year-on-year +2 +46 -39
Contract jobs citing SAN 23 56 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.07% 2.07% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.66% 15.82% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 15
10th Percentile £410 £183 £300
25th Percentile £436 £378 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +2.78% -
75th Percentile £623 £575 £475
90th Percentile £693 £631 -
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £450
% change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £12.00 £56.68 -
25th Percentile £12.63 £57.33 -
Median hourly rate £15.00 £59.03 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.59% - -
75th Percentile £18.75 £60.10 -
90th Percentile - £60.37 -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £53.75 £23.91
% change year-on-year -55.72% +124.80% -52.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

SAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 238 354 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.06% 13.10% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 220 186
10th Percentile £182 £160 £208
25th Percentile £240 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £459 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +1.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £538
90th Percentile £638 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 22 17
10th Percentile £13.13 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £41.75
Median hourly rate £18.27 £11.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.59% -74.96% -24.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.55 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £59.00 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +7.21%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in Scotland

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAN in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for SAN in Scotland

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in Scotland

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAN in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for SAN in Scotland

SAN
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Glasgow -19 11 £615 +32.97% 3
Edinburgh +37 9 £354 +17.83% 1
Stirling - 3 £420 -
SAN
UK

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) SAS
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) EPiServer
2 1 (4.35%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) OpenShift
2 7 (30.43%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) NAS
2 4 (17.39%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (17.39%) iSCSI
3 3 (13.04%) Firewall
4 1 (4.35%) BIG-IP
4 1 (4.35%) DNS
4 1 (4.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (4.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (4.35%) Internet
4 1 (4.35%) Network Security
4 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
1 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 10 (43.48%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (34.78%) Banking
4 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
5 5 (21.74%) Investment Banking
6 3 (13.04%) Finance
6 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Field Engineer
1 8 (34.78%) Field Service Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) IT Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Python Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Site Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Network Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Network Security Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Security Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Flash
1 4 (17.39%) POSIX
1 4 (17.39%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Analytical Mindset
1 8 (34.78%) Data Centre
2 4 (17.39%) Client/Server
2 4 (17.39%) NVMe
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Unix
2 8 (34.78%) Windows Server
3 6 (26.09%) Linux
4 4 (17.39%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Customer Service
2 9 (39.13%) Observability
3 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (30.43%) Break/Fix
4 7 (30.43%) Data Deduplication
4 7 (30.43%) Data Protection
4 7 (30.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (26.09%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
7 4 (17.39%) Capacity Management
7 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 4 (17.39%) High Availability
7 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (17.39%) OO
7 4 (17.39%) Preventative Maintenance
7 4 (17.39%) Problem Management
7 4 (17.39%) SDLC
7 4 (17.39%) Storage Management
8 3 (13.04%) Data Security
8 3 (13.04%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Perl
3 5 (21.74%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) A+ Certification
1 8 (34.78%) CCNA
1 8 (34.78%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (34.78%) MCSE
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (34.78%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
1 4 (17.39%) GPFS
1 4 (17.39%) NFS
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 6 (26.09%) Ansible
3 5 (21.74%) Grafana
3 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
3 5 (21.74%) Terraform
4 4 (17.39%) NetBackup
4 4 (17.39%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Dell
1 8 (34.78%) Veritas
2 4 (17.39%) Brocade
2 4 (17.39%) EMC
2 4 (17.39%) Google
2 4 (17.39%) IBM
2 4 (17.39%) NetApp
2 4 (17.39%) Sybase
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco
3 3 (13.04%) Citrix
3 3 (13.04%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) CA
4 1 (4.35%) F5