SAN Contracts with Work from Home Options

Storage Area Network (SAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 267 294 425
Rank change year-on-year +27 +131 -40
Contract jobs citing SAN 74 165 203
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.69% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.83% 5.89% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 109 142
10th Percentile £313 £296 £287
25th Percentile £350 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -3.23%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £550
90th Percentile £619 £731 £656
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £475
% change year-on-year -1.57% +6.95% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 7
10th Percentile - - £46.55
25th Percentile - £47.50 £54.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £60.93
Median % change year-on-year - -17.94% -1.33%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £63.00
90th Percentile - - £70.80
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,531 2,803 4,434
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.74% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,872 3,040
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 99 105
10th Percentile £12.53 £19.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.07 £42.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.13 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

SAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SAN trend for jobs with a WFH option

SAN
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SAN.

SAN daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SAN over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

SAN daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SAN
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SAN.

SAN hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 17 (22.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.76%) Confluence
3 2 (2.70%) IIS
3 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.68%) Azure
2 7 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (8.11%) AWS
4 5 (6.76%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (6.76%) Entra ID
4 5 (6.76%) GCP
4 5 (6.76%) IaaS
4 5 (6.76%) Nutanix
4 5 (6.76%) OpenShift
4 5 (6.76%) PaaS
4 5 (6.76%) Rubrik
4 5 (6.76%) SaaS
5 1 (1.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 27 (36.49%) Firewall
2 20 (27.03%) NAS
3 15 (20.27%) TCP/IP
4 11 (14.86%) DHCP
4 11 (14.86%) DNS
5 7 (9.46%) Fibre Channel
5 7 (9.46%) LAN
5 7 (9.46%) VLAN
6 6 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (6.76%) Kerberos
8 4 (5.41%) Internet
9 3 (4.05%) WAN
10 2 (2.70%) SD-WAN
10 2 (2.70%) SNMP
11 1 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (1.35%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (1.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) Big Data
2 3 (4.05%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Git
1 6 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.76%) JIRA
2 5 (6.76%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (22.97%) Finance
2 11 (14.86%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.81%) Banking
4 4 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Local Government
7 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (17.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (16.22%) Support Engineer
3 10 (13.51%) Developer
3 10 (13.51%) Python Developer
4 9 (12.16%) Senior
4 9 (12.16%) Storage Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Data Centre Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) IT Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Backend Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Data Migration Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) IT Support
7 4 (5.41%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Migration Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Architect
8 3 (4.05%) Wintel Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) Backup Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.76%) LDAP
1 5 (6.76%) REST
2 2 (2.70%) ADSI
2 2 (2.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.62%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.81%) Replication
2 8 (10.81%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (8.11%) Clustering
4 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (2.70%) HP Storage
4 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.70%) Tandem
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.35%) NHS
5 1 (1.35%) PKI
5 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (54.05%) Windows
2 30 (40.54%) Linux
3 21 (28.38%) Windows Server
4 14 (18.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (14.86%) Ubuntu
5 11 (14.86%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (13.51%) Debian
7 8 (10.81%) Solaris
8 7 (9.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (8.11%) VMS
10 5 (6.76%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (4.05%) AIX
12 2 (2.70%) Unix
13 1 (1.35%) CentOS
13 1 (1.35%) Windows 10
13 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.38%) ITIL
2 19 (25.68%) Migration
3 17 (22.97%) Agile
4 16 (21.62%) Customer Service
5 14 (18.92%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (18.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (14.86%) Matrix Organization
7 10 (13.51%) Data Modelling
8 9 (12.16%) Business Continuity
8 9 (12.16%) Configuration Management
8 9 (12.16%) Data Engineering
8 9 (12.16%) DevOps
8 9 (12.16%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (12.16%) Prototyping
8 9 (12.16%) Software Engineering
8 9 (12.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 8 (10.81%) Data Security
10 6 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (6.76%) CI/CD
11 5 (6.76%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.62%) Python
2 14 (18.92%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.81%) SQL
4 7 (9.46%) Bash
5 1 (1.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 18 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.16%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.76%) Degree
5 3 (4.05%) MCSE
5 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.70%) MCSA
6 2 (2.70%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.70%) PMP
6 2 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.35%) Server+ Certification
7 1 (1.35%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) GDPR
1 5 (6.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (45.95%) Active Directory
2 28 (37.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.11%) VMware NSX
4 5 (6.76%) Docker
4 5 (6.76%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.76%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (6.76%) vSphere
5 2 (2.70%) KVM
5 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.35%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) Ansible
1 10 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.81%) EMC NetWorker
2 8 (10.81%) SCCM
2 8 (10.81%) Terraform
3 5 (6.76%) Avamar
3 5 (6.76%) Netcool
3 5 (6.76%) Tivoli
3 5 (6.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (4.05%) NetBackup
5 2 (2.70%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (2.70%) Puppet
5 2 (2.70%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.35%) Backup Exec
6 1 (1.35%) Grafana
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 45 (60.81%) VMware
2 38 (51.35%) Microsoft
3 23 (31.08%) Cisco
4 22 (29.73%) HP
5 21 (28.38%) EMC
6 13 (17.57%) Citrix
6 13 (17.57%) Dell
7 10 (13.51%) CyberArk
7 10 (13.51%) Red Hat
8 8 (10.81%) Avaya
8 8 (10.81%) CheckPoint
9 7 (9.46%) Oracle
10 6 (8.11%) IBM
11 5 (6.76%) Brocade
11 5 (6.76%) Isilon
11 5 (6.76%) Qualys
11 5 (6.76%) Serena
11 5 (6.76%) ServiceNow
11 5 (6.76%) Splunk
12 2 (2.70%) Symantec