SAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 207 231 279
Rank change year-on-year +24 +48 -42
Contract jobs citing SAN 208 213 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.98% 0.94% 0.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.33% 6.03% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 140 170
10th Percentile £292 £156 £256
25th Percentile £388 £309 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £578 £525
90th Percentile £623 £731 £679
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £475
% change year-on-year -1.57% +6.95% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 14
10th Percentile £12.00 £50.00 £20.01
25th Percentile £13.50 £57.33 £30.91
Median hourly rate £19.95 £69.53 £46.83
Median % change year-on-year -71.31% +48.48% +11.49%
75th Percentile £40.00 £80.25 £57.54
90th Percentile - - £74.28
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 3,532 4,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 15.56% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 2,200 2,762
10th Percentile £203 £210 £190
25th Percentile £350 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 299 243
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.91
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.93
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the UK excluding London

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAN in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SAN in the UK excluding London

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the UK excluding London

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAN in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the UK excluding London

SAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SAN in the UK excluding London

SAN
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East +54 97 £488 +14.71% 14
Midlands +14 32 £550 -2.22% 17
South West +11 31 £500 +11.11% 12
North of England +17 26 £450 +23.29% 8
East Midlands +18 17 £563 +2.27% 10
Scotland +12 15 £473 +2.16% 3
West Midlands +4 15 £300 -55.56% 7
North West +14 14 £425 +6.25% 2
Yorkshire +19 11 £613 +171.62% 5
East of England -7 4 £425 -39.29% 15
Wales +19 3 £365 +68.98% 6
North East +5 1 £180 -21.74% 1
SAN
UK

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.92%) IIS
4 2 (0.96%) WordPress
5 1 (0.48%) Site Server
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 51 (24.52%) Azure
2 22 (10.58%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (6.73%) AWS
3 14 (6.73%) OCI
4 8 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 8 (3.85%) OpenShift
5 4 (1.92%) GCP
6 3 (1.44%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.96%) Azure Stack
7 2 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.96%) GitHub
7 2 (0.96%) Nutanix
7 2 (0.96%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.48%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (24.04%) DNS
2 48 (23.08%) Firewall
2 48 (23.08%) NAS
3 45 (21.63%) DHCP
4 25 (12.02%) LAN
5 24 (11.54%) Fibre Channel
6 23 (11.06%) WAN
7 19 (9.13%) TCP/IP
8 14 (6.73%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (6.25%) iSCSI
10 12 (5.77%) VLAN
11 10 (4.81%) MPLS
12 8 (3.85%) VPN
13 6 (2.88%) FTP
13 6 (2.88%) Network Security
14 5 (2.40%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (2.40%) SSL
14 5 (2.40%) Wireless
15 4 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (1.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.10%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.40%) MySQL
2 5 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.92%) Big Data
3 4 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Git
1 3 (1.44%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.96%) GitLab
3 1 (0.48%) JIRA
General
1 66 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.98%) Public Sector
3 19 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.85%) Aerospace
5 7 (3.37%) Finance
5 7 (3.37%) Legal
5 7 (3.37%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.40%) Banking
6 5 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.96%) Back Office
8 2 (0.96%) Electronics
8 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.96%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Advertising
9 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Local Government
9 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 46 (22.12%) Storage Engineer
3 24 (11.54%) Senior
4 18 (8.65%) VMware Engineer
5 17 (8.17%) Data Centre Engineer
6 15 (7.21%) Backup Engineer
6 15 (7.21%) IT Engineer
7 14 (6.73%) Architect
8 13 (6.25%) Developer
8 13 (6.25%) Network Engineer
8 13 (6.25%) Python Developer
8 13 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (6.25%) Storage and Backup Engineer
9 12 (5.77%) Analyst
9 12 (5.77%) Support Engineer
10 10 (4.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Field Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Field Service Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 9 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.73%) Flash
2 6 (2.88%) REST
3 2 (0.96%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.96%) ADSI
3 2 (0.96%) LAMP
3 2 (0.96%) Middleware
4 1 (0.48%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 68 (32.69%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.25%) Clustering
3 11 (5.29%) PKI
3 11 (5.29%) Replication
4 10 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (4.33%) Client/Server
6 7 (3.37%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.88%) HP Storage
8 5 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.40%) Fat Client
8 5 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.40%) Thin Client
9 4 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.44%) IBM XIV
11 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.96%) NHS
11 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.96%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 99 (47.60%) Linux
2 97 (46.63%) Windows
3 60 (28.85%) Windows Server
4 31 (14.90%) Unix
5 26 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 26 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (11.06%) Ubuntu
7 22 (10.58%) AIX
8 20 (9.62%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (8.17%) Windows 10
10 14 (6.73%) Windows XP
11 13 (6.25%) Debian
12 10 (4.81%) Solaris
13 9 (4.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (4.33%) VMS
14 4 (1.92%) CentOS
15 2 (0.96%) Data ONTAP
16 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (37.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (28.37%) ITIL
3 41 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (16.35%) Migration
5 28 (13.46%) Break/Fix
5 28 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
5 28 (13.46%) Server Management
6 26 (12.50%) Customer Service
7 24 (11.54%) Storage Management
8 22 (10.58%) Performance Tuning
9 21 (10.10%) Data Protection
10 20 (9.62%) Agile
11 19 (9.13%) Project Management
12 16 (7.69%) Performance Monitoring
12 16 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
13 15 (7.21%) Change Management
14 14 (6.73%) Configuration Management
14 14 (6.73%) Converged Infrastructure
14 14 (6.73%) Incident Management
14 14 (6.73%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 46 (22.12%) PowerShell
2 21 (10.10%) Python
3 12 (5.77%) SQL
4 10 (4.81%) Bash
5 4 (1.92%) Perl
5 4 (1.92%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.96%) AWK
6 2 (0.96%) Bourne shell
6 2 (0.96%) C#
6 2 (0.96%) Korn
7 1 (0.48%) Java
7 1 (0.48%) Ruby
7 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 87 (41.83%) Security Cleared
2 59 (28.37%) SC Cleared
3 43 (20.67%) Degree
4 41 (19.71%) DV Cleared
5 32 (15.38%) CCNA
5 32 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (9.62%) MCSE
6 20 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (7.21%) CCNP
8 9 (4.33%) A+ Certification
8 9 (4.33%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (3.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.92%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.44%) RHCE
12 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.96%) MCSA
12 2 (0.96%) PhD
12 2 (0.96%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.96%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.77%) SLA
2 3 (1.44%) GDPR
2 3 (1.44%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 74 (35.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 69 (33.17%) Active Directory
3 42 (20.19%) VMware ESXi
4 33 (15.87%) vSphere
5 23 (11.06%) Hyper-V
6 18 (8.65%) VMware NSX
7 11 (5.29%) Firmware
8 9 (4.33%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (3.85%) VMware Workstation
10 5 (2.40%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.96%) KVM
11 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (18.27%) vCenter Server
2 36 (17.31%) NetBackup
3 30 (14.42%) SCCM
4 22 (10.58%) EMC NetWorker
4 22 (10.58%) WSUS
5 18 (8.65%) Ansible
6 15 (7.21%) SCOM
7 9 (4.33%) Kubernetes
7 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (3.85%) Nagios
8 8 (3.85%) Terraform
9 6 (2.88%) Avamar
9 6 (2.88%) HP Data Protector
9 6 (2.88%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (2.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.92%) Nessus
11 4 (1.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (1.92%) VxRail
11 4 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 123 (59.13%) VMware
2 83 (39.90%) Microsoft
3 53 (25.48%) Dell
4 49 (23.56%) Cisco
5 35 (16.83%) HP
6 34 (16.35%) EMC
7 27 (12.98%) Brocade
7 27 (12.98%) Veeam
8 26 (12.50%) Red Hat
9 24 (11.54%) Oracle
10 23 (11.06%) Palo Alto
11 20 (9.62%) Symantec
12 18 (8.65%) IBM
13 16 (7.69%) NetApp
14 15 (7.21%) 3PAR
14 15 (7.21%) Juniper
15 14 (6.73%) Extreme Networks
16 10 (4.81%) Veritas
17 9 (4.33%) CheckPoint
18 8 (3.85%) Hitachi