SAN Contracts in the West Midlands

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 93 107 153
Rank change year-on-year +14 +46 -33
Contract jobs citing SAN 15 27 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.79% 1.19% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.13% 7.56% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 13
10th Percentile £258 £263 £220
25th Percentile £298 £381 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £675 £275
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +145.45% -45.00%
75th Percentile £825 £731 £463
90th Percentile £1,000 - £587
England median daily rate £500 £469 £450
% change year-on-year +6.67% +4.17% +4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £19.95 - £20.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £76.75 £23.91
% change year-on-year -47.88% +221.00% -52.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 363 357 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.21% 15.78% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 216 263
10th Percentile £200 £263 £163
25th Percentile £303 £361 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £498 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +24.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £525
90th Percentile £695 £700 £625
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 16
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.82
25th Percentile £13.50 £14.38 £13.22
Median hourly rate £19.95 £19.60 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +15.31% +13.33%
75th Percentile £23.75 £23.68 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £28.25 £20.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the West Midlands

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SAN in the West Midlands

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the West Midlands

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the West Midlands

SAN
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the West Midlands 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
Shropshire +16 5 £300 -
Coventry +14 3 - - 1
Birmingham -4 3 £1,000 +46.79% 3
Warwickshire - 2 £800 - 1
Staffordshire +5 1 £275 - 2
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (13.33%) IIS
2 2 (13.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) DNS
1 7 (46.67%) Fibre Channel
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) DHCP
2 5 (33.33%) LAN
2 5 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
2 5 (33.33%) WAN
3 4 (26.67%) Network Security
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
5 2 (13.33%) NAS
5 2 (13.33%) VPN
5 2 (13.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Administrator
1 5 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Server Administrator
1 5 (33.33%) VMWare Administrator
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) PKI
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Windows
1 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Ubuntu
3 4 (26.67%) CentOS
3 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (13.33%) VMS
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 5 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 4 (26.67%) Change Control
4 4 (26.67%) Patch Management
4 4 (26.67%) Task Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
7 1 (6.67%) High Availability
7 1 (6.67%) Server Monitoring
7 1 (6.67%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CCNA
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (60.00%) vSphere
3 5 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 5 (33.33%) VMware Server
4 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (13.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (73.33%) VMware
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco
4 3 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (20.00%) F5
4 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (13.33%) Aruba
5 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (13.33%) ProCurve
5 2 (13.33%) Synology
5 2 (13.33%) Veeam
5 2 (13.33%) Zerto
6 1 (6.67%) Commvault
6 1 (6.67%) NetApp
6 1 (6.67%) Sophos