SAN Contracts in Scotland

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 100 112 156
Rank change year-on-year +12 +44 -31
Contract jobs citing SAN 15 52 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.70% 1.95% 0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.82% 14.44% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 18
10th Percentile £319 £375 £300
25th Percentile £410 £378 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% +15.63% -11.11%
75th Percentile £587 £613 £475
90th Percentile £623 £634 £496
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £475
% change year-on-year -1.57% +6.95% +5.56%
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 £50.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -52.40% +109.12% -52.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 360 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.27% 13.47% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 221 200
10th Percentile £179 £160 £224
25th Percentile £229 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £460 £470
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £633 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 19
10th Percentile £12.88 - £20.80
25th Percentile £15.88 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £18.14 £10.63 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.60% -79.06% +40.06%
75th Percentile £29.56 £38.18 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £59.18 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

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 12 June 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 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
Edinburgh +33 8 £107 -64.33%
Glasgow -20 4 £583 +25.95% 1
Stirling - 3 £420 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) OpenShift
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) NAS
2 3 (20.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Field Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Field Service Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) IT Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 8 (53.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (13.33%) Unix
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Customer Service
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (46.67%) Break/Fix
4 4 (26.67%) Data Deduplication
4 4 (26.67%) Data Protection
4 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Data Security
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (20.00%) Observability
5 3 (20.00%) Proactive Management
6 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 1 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
7 1 (6.67%) DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) Pay per click
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) A+ Certification
1 8 (53.33%) CCNA
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (53.33%) MCSE
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (53.33%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Grafana
2 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Dell
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) Citrix
2 3 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (13.33%) Veritas