Storage Engineer Contracts in England

Storage Engineer
UK > England

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 565 708
Rank change year-on-year +128 +143 -93
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 97 78 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 49 58
10th Percentile £425 £343 £385
25th Percentile £480 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £599 £586 £570
90th Percentile £608 £650 £621
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £450
% change year-on-year +5.77% +15.56% +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 33,907 45,400 67,343
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.59% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,460 32,268 48,088
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £529
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.97% +6.87%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £649
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,505 1,324 1,803
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.73
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.21
90th Percentile £73.55 £77.00 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +7.26%

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 26 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 26 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
South East +36 30 £600 +14.29% 4
North of England +58 29 £520 +7.11% 4
Yorkshire +30 19 £533 +9.79% 1
South West +21 12 £500 +81.82% 3
East of England +20 12 £550 +41.94% 5
London +55 8 £515 -5.50% 5
North West - 8 £390 - 3
Midlands +30 5 £575 +70.37% 2
East Midlands +16 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 26 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 58 (59.79%) VMware
2 48 (49.48%) Linux
3 47 (48.45%) Windows
3 47 (48.45%) Security Cleared
4 46 (47.42%) SAN
5 37 (38.14%) DV Cleared
6 32 (32.99%) EMC
7 30 (30.93%) Dell
8 29 (29.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 29 (29.90%) Social Skills
9 27 (27.84%) Cisco
9 27 (27.84%) VMware Infrastructure
10 24 (24.74%) NetBackup
11 23 (23.71%) SC Cleared
12 21 (21.65%) ITIL
13 20 (20.62%) Data Centre
14 18 (18.56%) VMware ESXi
14 18 (18.56%) PowerShell
15 17 (17.53%) Performance Tuning
16 16 (16.49%) vCenter Server
17 15 (15.46%) Windows Server
17 15 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (15.46%) Ansible
17 15 (15.46%) EMC NetWorker
17 15 (15.46%) NetApp
18 14 (14.43%) HP
18 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
18 14 (14.43%) Degree
18 14 (14.43%) NAS
18 14 (14.43%) Data Protection

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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (14.43%) Azure
2 10 (10.31%) OCI
3 4 (4.12%) IaaS
4 3 (3.09%) AWS
4 3 (3.09%) GCP
5 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.03%) Cohesity
5 1 (1.03%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 46 (47.42%) SAN
2 14 (14.43%) NAS
3 12 (12.37%) DHCP
3 12 (12.37%) DNS
4 10 (10.31%) Firewall
5 8 (8.25%) VLAN
6 5 (5.15%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.03%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.03%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Artifactory
1 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 29 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.34%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.22%) Finance
5 5 (5.15%) Legal
6 3 (3.09%) Banking
6 3 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Front Office
8 1 (1.03%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.06%) Flash
1 2 (2.06%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.62%) Data Centre
2 13 (13.40%) Replication
3 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (4.12%) HP Storage
4 3 (3.09%) EMC VNX
5 2 (2.06%) IBM XIV
5 2 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.03%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.03%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.03%) IBM Storwize
6 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 48 (49.48%) Linux
2 47 (48.45%) Windows
3 15 (15.46%) Windows Server
4 11 (11.34%) AIX
5 10 (10.31%) Windows 10
5 10 (10.31%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (10.31%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (10.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (10.31%) Windows XP
6 8 (8.25%) Solaris
7 6 (6.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.03%) Unix
8 1 (1.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (21.65%) ITIL
3 17 (17.53%) Performance Tuning
4 15 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (14.43%) Data Protection
6 13 (13.40%) Storage Management
7 12 (12.37%) Service Delivery
8 11 (11.34%) Change Management
8 11 (11.34%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (10.31%) Break/Fix
9 10 (10.31%) Converged Infrastructure
9 10 (10.31%) Migration
9 10 (10.31%) Performance Monitoring
9 10 (10.31%) Proactive Monitoring
9 10 (10.31%) Project Management
9 10 (10.31%) Server Management
10 9 (9.28%) Performance Analysis
11 7 (7.22%) CI/CD
11 7 (7.22%) Database Migration
12 6 (6.19%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.56%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.15%) Python
3 3 (3.09%) Bash
3 3 (3.09%) SQL
4 2 (2.06%) Perl
5 1 (1.03%) JCL
Qualifications
1 47 (48.45%) Security Cleared
2 37 (38.14%) DV Cleared
3 23 (23.71%) SC Cleared
4 14 (14.43%) Degree
5 10 (10.31%) CCNA
5 10 (10.31%) CCNP
5 10 (10.31%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.03%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 27 (27.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (18.56%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (13.40%) Active Directory
4 11 (11.34%) Hyper-V
5 7 (7.22%) Firmware
6 4 (4.12%) Docker
7 3 (3.09%) SRDF
7 3 (3.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (24.74%) NetBackup
2 16 (16.49%) vCenter Server
3 15 (15.46%) Ansible
3 15 (15.46%) EMC NetWorker
4 12 (12.37%) SCCM
5 10 (10.31%) SCOM
5 10 (10.31%) WSUS
6 9 (9.28%) Puppet
7 6 (6.19%) Avamar
8 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes
9 3 (3.09%) EMC TimeFinder
9 3 (3.09%) HP Data Protector
9 3 (3.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 58 (59.79%) VMware
2 32 (32.99%) EMC
3 30 (30.93%) Dell
4 27 (27.84%) Cisco
5 15 (15.46%) NetApp
6 14 (14.43%) HP
6 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
7 13 (13.40%) Brocade
7 13 (13.40%) Oracle
7 13 (13.40%) Symantec
8 10 (10.31%) 3PAR
8 10 (10.31%) Extreme Networks
8 10 (10.31%) Juniper
8 10 (10.31%) Palo Alto
8 10 (10.31%) Veeam
9 9 (9.28%) Veritas
10 6 (6.19%) IBM
11 5 (5.15%) Red Hat
12 4 (4.12%) Isilon
13 3 (3.09%) Dell Compellent