Storage Engineer Contracts in England

Storage Engineer
UK > England

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in England is £540 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 455 599 712
Rank change year-on-year +144 +113 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 86 74 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 49 56
10th Percentile £425 £343 £385
25th Percentile £475 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +16.67% +5.57%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £575
90th Percentile £608 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £540 £523 £450
% change year-on-year +3.35% +16.11% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,448 47,601 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,861 33,797 48,247
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,402 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.95 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Storage Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Storage Engineer in England

Storage Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Storage Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Storage Engineer in England

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Engineer in England

Storage Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Storage Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Storage Engineer in England

Storage Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +53 29 £520 +7.11%
South East +34 25 £603 +14.76% 8
Yorkshire +40 19 £533 +9.79%
South West +27 11 £500 +81.82% 3
North West - 8 £390 -
London +61 7 £515 -5.50% 4
East of England +11 6 £550 +41.94% 3
Midlands +29 5 £575 +70.37% 3
East Midlands +18 5 £575 +70.37% 2
North East - 2 £400 -
Storage Engineer
UK

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Storage Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 49 (56.98%) VMware
2 43 (50.00%) SAN
3 37 (43.02%) Windows
3 37 (43.02%) Linux
4 36 (41.86%) Security Cleared
5 30 (34.88%) EMC
6 29 (33.72%) Dell
6 29 (33.72%) DV Cleared
6 29 (33.72%) Social Skills
7 26 (30.23%) Cisco
7 26 (30.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 26 (30.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 21 (24.42%) NetBackup
9 20 (23.26%) ITIL
10 18 (20.93%) Data Centre
10 18 (20.93%) SC Cleared
11 17 (19.77%) PowerShell
12 16 (18.60%) VMware ESXi
13 15 (17.44%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (17.44%) NAS
13 15 (17.44%) vCenter Server
14 14 (16.28%) EMC NetWorker
14 14 (16.28%) Data Protection
14 14 (16.28%) Ansible
14 14 (16.28%) Microsoft
15 13 (15.12%) HP
15 13 (15.12%) Replication
15 13 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
15 13 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (13.95%) Windows Server

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.95%) Azure
2 9 (10.47%) OCI
3 4 (4.65%) AWS
3 4 (4.65%) IaaS
4 2 (2.33%) GCP
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.16%) Cohesity
5 1 (1.16%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.16%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 43 (50.00%) SAN
2 15 (17.44%) NAS
3 10 (11.63%) DHCP
3 10 (11.63%) DNS
4 9 (10.47%) Firewall
5 8 (9.30%) VLAN
6 5 (5.81%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.16%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
General
1 29 (33.72%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.30%) Finance
5 5 (5.81%) Legal
6 3 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Banking
7 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Front Office
8 1 (1.16%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.33%) REST
2 1 (1.16%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.93%) Data Centre
2 13 (15.12%) Replication
3 4 (4.65%) HP Storage
4 3 (3.49%) EMC VNX
4 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.16%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.16%) IBM XIV
6 1 (1.16%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 37 (43.02%) Linux
1 37 (43.02%) Windows
2 12 (13.95%) Windows Server
3 10 (11.63%) AIX
4 9 (10.47%) Windows 10
4 9 (10.47%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (10.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (10.47%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (10.47%) Windows XP
5 8 (9.30%) Solaris
6 4 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.16%) Unix
7 1 (1.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (23.26%) ITIL
3 15 (17.44%) Performance Tuning
4 14 (16.28%) Data Protection
5 13 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (13.95%) Migration
6 12 (13.95%) Service Delivery
6 12 (13.95%) Storage Management
7 11 (12.79%) Change Management
8 9 (10.47%) Break/Fix
8 9 (10.47%) Converged Infrastructure
8 9 (10.47%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (10.47%) Performance Analysis
8 9 (10.47%) Performance Monitoring
8 9 (10.47%) Proactive Monitoring
8 9 (10.47%) Project Management
8 9 (10.47%) Server Management
9 7 (8.14%) Database Migration
10 6 (6.98%) CI/CD
10 6 (6.98%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.77%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.81%) Python
3 3 (3.49%) Bash
3 3 (3.49%) SQL
4 2 (2.33%) Perl
5 1 (1.16%) JCL
Qualifications
1 36 (41.86%) Security Cleared
2 29 (33.72%) DV Cleared
3 18 (20.93%) SC Cleared
4 12 (13.95%) Degree
5 9 (10.47%) CCNA
5 9 (10.47%) CCNP
5 9 (10.47%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 26 (30.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (18.60%) VMware ESXi
3 11 (12.79%) Active Directory
4 10 (11.63%) Hyper-V
5 6 (6.98%) Firmware
6 4 (4.65%) Docker
7 3 (3.49%) SRDF
7 3 (3.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (24.42%) NetBackup
2 15 (17.44%) vCenter Server
3 14 (16.28%) Ansible
3 14 (16.28%) EMC NetWorker
4 10 (11.63%) SCCM
5 9 (10.47%) Puppet
5 9 (10.47%) SCOM
5 9 (10.47%) WSUS
6 6 (6.98%) Avamar
7 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes
8 3 (3.49%) EMC TimeFinder
8 3 (3.49%) HP Data Protector
9 1 (1.16%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 49 (56.98%) VMware
2 30 (34.88%) EMC
3 29 (33.72%) Dell
4 26 (30.23%) Cisco
5 14 (16.28%) Microsoft
6 13 (15.12%) HP
7 12 (13.95%) Oracle
7 12 (13.95%) Symantec
8 11 (12.79%) Brocade
9 10 (11.63%) Veeam
10 9 (10.47%) 3PAR
10 9 (10.47%) Extreme Networks
10 9 (10.47%) Juniper
10 9 (10.47%) Palo Alto
11 8 (9.30%) NetApp
11 8 (9.30%) Veritas
12 4 (4.65%) IBM
12 4 (4.65%) Red Hat
13 3 (3.49%) EqualLogic
13 3 (3.49%) Isilon