Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 374 471
Rank change year-on-year +65 +97 -113
Contract jobs citing SAN 309 391 446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.66% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.59% 5.35% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 257 283
10th Percentile £280 £192 £250
25th Percentile £363 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +15.44% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £550
90th Percentile £722 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £512 £425 £444
% change year-on-year +20.41% -4.23% +4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 37
10th Percentile £13.25 £44.13 £21.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £23.80 £53.75 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -55.72% +124.80% -52.18%
75th Percentile £40.00 £80.25 £47.40
90th Percentile - - £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £69.53 £46.83
% change year-on-year -42.47% +48.48% -1.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,525 7,311 9,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.80% 12.38% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,306 4,755 6,321
10th Percentile £205 £240 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 473 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.54% -31.56% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the UK

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SAN in the UK

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the UK

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the UK

SAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAN over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SAN in the UK

SAN
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +85 275 £500 -3.85% 124
UK excluding London +63 232 £512 +20.41% 96
South East +71 105 £500 +33.33% 26
Work from Home +60 94 £540 +3.85% 52
London +46 66 £488 -11.36% 31
Midlands +30 35 £550 +5.77% 25
South West +32 33 £500 +11.11% 12
North of England +35 28 £400 +23.55% 19
Scotland +10 25 £575 +24.32% 3
East Midlands +32 18 £550 +55.20% 9
West Midlands +10 16 £300 -47.37% 16
Yorkshire +28 14 £450 +41.18% 7
North West +27 13 £413 -2.94% 9
East of England +4 4 £425 -30.61% 8
Wales +16 3 £365 +241.12% 3
North East +12 1 £180 -21.74% 3

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 50 (16.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.85%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.21%) IIS
4 8 (2.59%) Confluence
5 4 (1.29%) SAS
6 3 (0.97%) nginx
6 3 (0.97%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.97%) WordPress
7 2 (0.65%) Apache
7 2 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.65%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.32%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.32%) Site Server
Applications
1 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.65%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 84 (27.18%) Azure
2 33 (10.68%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (10.36%) AWS
4 19 (6.15%) Nutanix
5 16 (5.18%) OpenShift
6 15 (4.85%) OCI
7 14 (4.53%) GCP
8 13 (4.21%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (3.88%) Rubrik
10 11 (3.56%) SaaS
11 10 (3.24%) IaaS
11 10 (3.24%) PaaS
12 9 (2.91%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.29%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 3 (0.97%) GitHub
15 2 (0.65%) Azure Stack
15 2 (0.65%) Mimecast
16 1 (0.32%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 82 (26.54%) NAS
2 77 (24.92%) Firewall
3 70 (22.65%) DNS
4 61 (19.74%) DHCP
5 43 (13.92%) LAN
6 42 (13.59%) TCP/IP
7 38 (12.30%) WAN
8 31 (10.03%) Fibre Channel
9 25 (8.09%) VLAN
10 18 (5.83%) iSCSI
10 18 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (4.53%) VPN
12 12 (3.88%) Wireless
13 11 (3.56%) MPLS
14 9 (2.91%) Kerberos
15 8 (2.59%) Internet
16 7 (2.27%) Network Security
16 7 (2.27%) SSL
17 6 (1.94%) FTP
17 6 (1.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.68%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.24%) MySQL
3 7 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.94%) DB2
5 4 (1.29%) Big Data
5 4 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (4.85%) Git
2 14 (4.53%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.24%) JIRA
4 8 (2.59%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.65%) GitLab
General
1 77 (24.92%) Social Skills
2 38 (12.30%) Finance
3 31 (10.03%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.09%) Banking
5 22 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.59%) Aerospace
6 8 (2.59%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.27%) Legal
7 7 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.62%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.29%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.65%) Back Office
10 2 (0.65%) Electronics
10 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Local Government
10 2 (0.65%) Marketing
11 1 (0.32%) Front Office
11 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (25.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 51 (16.50%) Storage Engineer
3 30 (9.71%) Architect
4 29 (9.39%) Senior
5 25 (8.09%) Support Engineer
6 22 (7.12%) VMware Engineer
7 21 (6.80%) Developer
7 21 (6.80%) Python Developer
8 19 (6.15%) Data Centre Engineer
9 15 (4.85%) Backup Engineer
9 15 (4.85%) IT Engineer
9 15 (4.85%) Network Engineer
10 13 (4.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 13 (4.21%) Analyst
11 12 (3.88%) Linux Engineer
11 12 (3.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.56%) Server Engineer
12 11 (3.56%) Storage and Backup Engineer
13 10 (3.24%) Infrastructure Architect
13 10 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.15%) Flash
2 11 (3.56%) LDAP
3 9 (2.91%) REST
4 4 (1.29%) POSIX
5 3 (0.97%) .NET
5 3 (0.97%) EDI
5 3 (0.97%) LAMP
6 2 (0.65%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.65%) ADSI
6 2 (0.65%) Middleware
6 2 (0.65%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.65%) Web Services
7 1 (0.32%) OAuth
7 1 (0.32%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.32%) OpenID
7 1 (0.32%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (27.51%) Data Centre
2 27 (8.74%) Clustering
3 22 (7.12%) Replication
4 20 (6.47%) Management Information System
5 19 (6.15%) PKI
6 17 (5.50%) Video Conferencing
7 14 (4.53%) Client/Server
8 10 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.91%) Fat Client
9 9 (2.91%) Thin Client
10 8 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (2.59%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (2.27%) CCTV
11 7 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (2.27%) HP Storage
11 7 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.29%) NHS
13 4 (1.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 172 (55.66%) Windows
2 143 (46.28%) Linux
3 101 (32.69%) Windows Server
4 44 (14.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 43 (13.92%) Unix
6 41 (13.27%) Windows Server 2012
7 35 (11.33%) Ubuntu
8 33 (10.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 28 (9.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 21 (6.80%) AIX
10 21 (6.80%) Debian
11 20 (6.47%) Windows 10
12 18 (5.83%) Solaris
13 14 (4.53%) Windows XP
14 10 (3.24%) VMS
15 8 (2.59%) Oracle Linux
16 6 (1.94%) Data ONTAP
17 5 (1.62%) Android
18 4 (1.29%) CentOS
18 4 (1.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (31.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 80 (25.89%) ITIL
3 58 (18.77%) Disaster Recovery
4 48 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (14.56%) Migration
6 40 (12.94%) Agile
7 36 (11.65%) Storage Management
8 33 (10.68%) Customer Service
8 33 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
9 31 (10.03%) Data Protection
9 31 (10.03%) Server Management
10 27 (8.74%) Break/Fix
11 26 (8.41%) High Availability
12 23 (7.44%) Project Management
13 21 (6.80%) Data Modelling
14 20 (6.47%) Configuration Management
14 20 (6.47%) Prototyping
15 18 (5.83%) Business Continuity
15 18 (5.83%) DevOps
15 18 (5.83%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 75 (24.27%) PowerShell
2 49 (15.86%) Python
3 24 (7.77%) SQL
4 21 (6.80%) Bash
5 11 (3.56%) Perl
6 6 (1.94%) Java
6 6 (1.94%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.65%) AWK
7 2 (0.65%) Bourne shell
7 2 (0.65%) C#
7 2 (0.65%) Korn
8 1 (0.32%) Ruby
8 1 (0.32%) VB
8 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 97 (31.39%) Security Cleared
2 67 (21.68%) SC Cleared
3 53 (17.15%) Degree
4 50 (16.18%) DV Cleared
5 37 (11.97%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (11.65%) CCNA
7 24 (7.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (6.80%) MCSE
9 18 (5.83%) CCNP
10 10 (3.24%) A+ Certification
11 8 (2.59%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (2.27%) CISSP
12 7 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (1.94%) CISA
13 6 (1.94%) CISM
13 6 (1.94%) SANS
14 5 (1.62%) MCSA
14 5 (1.62%) PMP
15 4 (1.29%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.53%) SLA
2 10 (3.24%) GDPR
3 8 (2.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 118 (38.19%) Active Directory
2 110 (35.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (15.86%) VMware ESXi
4 41 (13.27%) vSphere
5 37 (11.97%) Hyper-V
6 22 (7.12%) VMware NSX
7 15 (4.85%) Docker
8 11 (3.56%) Firmware
9 9 (2.91%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (2.59%) VMware Workstation
11 7 (2.27%) KVM
12 5 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
12 5 (1.62%) VMware Server
13 4 (1.29%) GPFS
13 4 (1.29%) NFS
14 2 (0.65%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.32%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.32%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 56 (18.12%) SCCM
2 44 (14.24%) NetBackup
3 41 (13.27%) vCenter Server
4 35 (11.33%) Ansible
5 31 (10.03%) Kubernetes
6 30 (9.71%) EMC NetWorker
7 27 (8.74%) Terraform
8 23 (7.44%) WSUS
9 17 (5.50%) SCOM
10 11 (3.56%) Microsoft Clustering
10 11 (3.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (3.24%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (2.59%) Nagios
12 8 (2.59%) Netcool
12 8 (2.59%) Tivoli
13 7 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (1.94%) Avamar
14 6 (1.94%) Grafana
14 6 (1.94%) Prometheus
14 6 (1.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 180 (58.25%) VMware
2 122 (39.48%) Microsoft
3 82 (26.54%) Cisco
4 75 (24.27%) Dell
5 70 (22.65%) HP
6 62 (20.06%) EMC
7 43 (13.92%) Red Hat
8 36 (11.65%) Brocade
8 36 (11.65%) Veeam
9 34 (11.00%) IBM
10 33 (10.68%) Oracle
11 25 (8.09%) Citrix
11 25 (8.09%) NetApp
11 25 (8.09%) Palo Alto
12 21 (6.80%) CheckPoint
13 20 (6.47%) Symantec
14 18 (5.83%) Juniper
14 18 (5.83%) Veritas
15 17 (5.50%) 3PAR
16 15 (4.85%) Avaya