SAN Contracts in the Midlands

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring SAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAN over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 123 183
Rank change year-on-year +14 +60 -37
Contract jobs citing SAN 32 35 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.09% 1.09% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.67% 7.00% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 13
10th Percentile £299 £250 £290
25th Percentile £472 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £713 £731 £550
90th Percentile £825 - £664
England median daily rate £500 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -1.91% +7.32% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £19.95 - £20.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £78.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year -49.04% +228.31% -52.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

SAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 480 500 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.28% 15.53% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 323 408
10th Percentile £200 £250 £163
25th Percentile £300 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £579 £597 £526
90th Percentile £675 £700 £619
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 25
10th Percentile £12.28 £13.75 £12.15
25th Percentile £12.88 £19.56 £15.63
Median hourly rate £14.27 £22.34 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -36.11% +27.19% +17.07%
75th Percentile £25.55 £28.75 £22.75
90th Percentile £28.75 £35.13 £23.40
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the Midlands

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SAN in the Midlands

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the Midlands

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
East Midlands +18 17 £563 +2.27% 10
West Midlands +4 15 £300 -55.56% 7
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.25%) IIS
3 2 (6.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.25%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.13%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 15 (46.88%) Fibre Channel
2 8 (25.00%) DNS
2 8 (25.00%) Firewall
3 7 (21.88%) WAN
4 6 (18.75%) DHCP
4 6 (18.75%) LAN
5 5 (15.63%) NAS
5 5 (15.63%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (12.50%) Network Security
7 3 (9.38%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
7 3 (9.38%) VPN
8 2 (6.25%) iSCSI
8 2 (6.25%) Wireless
9 1 (3.13%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Advertising
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Administrator
1 5 (15.63%) Network Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) Server Administrator
1 5 (15.63%) Storage Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) VMWare Administrator
2 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Backup Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Python Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Design Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Implementation Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) HP Storage
2 5 (15.63%) PKI
3 4 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.25%) Replication
5 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (62.50%) Windows
2 17 (53.13%) Linux
3 11 (34.38%) Windows Server
4 9 (28.13%) Ubuntu
5 8 (25.00%) AIX
5 8 (25.00%) Solaris
6 4 (12.50%) CentOS
6 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (9.38%) Debian
7 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (6.25%) VMS
9 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
9 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) ITIL
2 8 (25.00%) Agile
2 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (15.63%) Load Balancing
4 5 (15.63%) Statistics
4 5 (15.63%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 4 (12.50%) Change Control
5 4 (12.50%) Patch Management
5 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.50%) QMS
5 4 (12.50%) Quality Management
5 4 (12.50%) Task Automation
6 3 (9.38%) Configuration Management
6 3 (9.38%) Data Modelling
6 3 (9.38%) Migration
6 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) PowerShell
2 8 (25.00%) Bash
3 7 (21.88%) SQL
4 3 (9.38%) Python
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) CCNA
4 3 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (9.38%) Degree
5 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (34.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (28.13%) vSphere
4 5 (15.63%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (15.63%) VMware NSX
4 5 (15.63%) VMware Server
5 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (18.75%) HP Data Protector
2 6 (18.75%) NetBackup
3 5 (15.63%) vCenter Server
4 3 (9.38%) Ansible
4 3 (9.38%) Terraform
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.25%) SCCM
5 2 (6.25%) VxRail
6 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) VMware
2 16 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (37.50%) Cisco
4 8 (25.00%) Brocade
4 8 (25.00%) EMC
5 6 (18.75%) HP
5 6 (18.75%) Symantec
6 5 (15.63%) Oracle
7 3 (9.38%) CheckPoint
7 3 (9.38%) F5
7 3 (9.38%) Red Hat
7 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
8 2 (6.25%) Aruba
8 2 (6.25%) Citrix
8 2 (6.25%) Dell
8 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
8 2 (6.25%) ProCurve
8 2 (6.25%) Synology
8 2 (6.25%) Veeam
8 2 (6.25%) Zerto