SAN Contracts in the South East

Storage Area Network (SAN)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 156 182
Rank change year-on-year +51 +26 -41
Contract jobs citing SAN 97 58 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.74% 1.03% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.00% 6.20% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 42 53
10th Percentile £280 £286 £210
25th Percentile £391 £305 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £363 £500
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -27.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £695
90th Percentile £608 £749 £738
England median daily rate £500 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £53.65 -
25th Percentile - £68.50 £77.50
Median hourly rate - £78.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -1.88% -
75th Percentile - £80.25 £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,212 936 1,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.70% 16.70% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 561 783
10th Percentile £205 £241 £200
25th Percentile £369 £363 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +4.40% +7.06%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £569
90th Percentile £650 £700 £660
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +12.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 69 79
10th Percentile £16.54 £17.70 £13.00
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +144.19% -42.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £63.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.07 £23.91
% change year-on-year +134.40% -28.63% +3.02%

SAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SAN in the South East

SAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for SAN in the South East

SAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAN in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAN in the South East

SAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for SAN in the South East

SAN
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAN within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Thames Valley +36 41 £550 +2.85% 7
Berkshire +12 29 £605 +66.90% 2
Hampshire +12 28 £538 +68.63% 3
West Sussex +21 17 £450 +12.50% 2
Buckinghamshire +32 12 £550 - 1
Surrey +4 11 £450 +45.16% 1
SAN
England

SAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.74%) Azure
2 14 (14.43%) OCI
3 7 (7.22%) AWS
4 3 (3.09%) GCP
5 2 (2.06%) Azure Stack
5 2 (2.06%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.06%) GitHub
5 2 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.06%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.03%) IaaS
6 1 (1.03%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 28 (28.87%) DNS
2 25 (25.77%) DHCP
3 24 (24.74%) NAS
4 20 (20.62%) Firewall
5 15 (15.46%) TCP/IP
6 10 (10.31%) iSCSI
7 9 (9.28%) Fibre Channel
7 9 (9.28%) VLAN
8 5 (5.15%) SSL
8 5 (5.15%) VPN
9 4 (4.12%) VoIP
10 3 (3.09%) LAN
10 3 (3.09%) WAN
11 2 (2.06%) MPLS
11 2 (2.06%) Wireless
12 1 (1.03%) BGP
12 1 (1.03%) Ethernet
12 1 (1.03%) IPsec
12 1 (1.03%) ISDN
12 1 (1.03%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.25%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.15%) MySQL
2 5 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.06%) GitLab
2 1 (1.03%) Git
General
1 40 (41.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.15%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.09%) Legal
4 2 (2.06%) Back Office
4 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (45.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (25.77%) Storage Engineer
3 15 (15.46%) Senior
4 11 (11.34%) Data Centre Engineer
5 10 (10.31%) Architect
5 10 (10.31%) Developer
5 10 (10.31%) Python Developer
6 9 (9.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) VMware Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Backup Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Storage and Backup Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Support Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Break Fix Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Virtualisation Architect
11 4 (4.12%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Infrastructure Architect
11 4 (4.12%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.43%) Flash
2 2 (2.06%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 36 (37.11%) Data Centre
2 10 (10.31%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.19%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.15%) PKI
5 4 (4.12%) Fat Client
5 4 (4.12%) Thin Client
6 3 (3.09%) IBM XIV
6 3 (3.09%) Replication
7 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.06%) Tandem
8 1 (1.03%) Clustering
8 1 (1.03%) CMDB
8 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.03%) IBM Storwize
8 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.03%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 61 (62.89%) Linux
2 35 (36.08%) Windows
3 24 (24.74%) Windows Server
4 22 (22.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 19 (19.59%) Unix
6 17 (17.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (16.49%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (15.46%) Windows 10
9 14 (14.43%) AIX
9 14 (14.43%) Ubuntu
9 14 (14.43%) Windows XP
10 10 (10.31%) Debian
11 4 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (2.06%) Solaris
13 1 (1.03%) VMS
13 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (51.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (35.05%) ITIL
3 22 (22.68%) Disaster Recovery
4 21 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (20.62%) Break/Fix
5 20 (20.62%) Storage Management
6 16 (16.49%) Performance Tuning
6 16 (16.49%) Server Management
7 15 (15.46%) Proactive Monitoring
7 15 (15.46%) Project Management
8 14 (14.43%) Converged Infrastructure
8 14 (14.43%) Performance Monitoring
9 13 (13.40%) Migration
10 11 (11.34%) Agile
10 11 (11.34%) Configuration Management
10 11 (11.34%) Incident Management
10 11 (11.34%) Prototyping
11 10 (10.31%) Data Modelling
12 9 (9.28%) Data Engineering
12 9 (9.28%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.68%) PowerShell
2 13 (13.40%) Python
3 4 (4.12%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.06%) AWK
4 2 (2.06%) Bourne shell
4 2 (2.06%) Korn
4 2 (2.06%) Perl
4 2 (2.06%) SQL
5 1 (1.03%) Bash
Qualifications
1 53 (54.64%) Security Cleared
2 45 (46.39%) SC Cleared
3 29 (29.90%) Degree
4 22 (22.68%) DV Cleared
5 19 (19.59%) CCNA
5 19 (19.59%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (14.43%) CCNP
7 6 (6.19%) MCSE
7 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (5.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (2.06%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.06%) PhD
9 2 (2.06%) RHCE
9 2 (2.06%) RHCSA
9 2 (2.06%) Server+ Certification
10 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.03%) IBM Certification
10 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.03%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.37%) SLA
2 3 (3.09%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (34.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (31.96%) Active Directory
3 20 (20.62%) vSphere
4 19 (19.59%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (15.46%) Hyper-V
6 5 (5.15%) Firmware
7 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.06%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.03%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 20 (20.62%) WSUS
2 19 (19.59%) vCenter Server
3 18 (18.56%) NetBackup
3 18 (18.56%) SCCM
4 14 (14.43%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (14.43%) SCOM
5 8 (8.25%) Ansible
6 6 (6.19%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (5.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (5.15%) Avamar
8 4 (4.12%) Nessus
8 4 (4.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (4.12%) ZABBIX
9 2 (2.06%) Oracle ZFS
9 2 (2.06%) Terraform
9 2 (2.06%) VxRail
9 2 (2.06%) yum
10 1 (1.03%) Packer
10 1 (1.03%) SmoothWall
10 1 (1.03%) vRealize
Vendors
1 58 (59.79%) VMware
2 40 (41.24%) Microsoft
3 30 (30.93%) Dell
4 26 (26.80%) EMC
5 22 (22.68%) HP
6 21 (21.65%) Red Hat
7 19 (19.59%) Oracle
8 18 (18.56%) IBM
8 18 (18.56%) Veeam
9 17 (17.53%) Brocade
9 17 (17.53%) Cisco
10 15 (15.46%) 3PAR
10 15 (15.46%) Juniper
10 15 (15.46%) Palo Alto
11 14 (14.43%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (14.43%) Symantec
12 6 (6.19%) Veritas
13 3 (3.09%) NetApp
13 3 (3.09%) SolarWinds
14 1 (1.03%) Barracuda Networks