Storage Management Contracts in England

Storage Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Storage Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Storage Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 531 589
Rank change year-on-year +121 +58 -76
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 128 124 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.25% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.27% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 84 146
10th Percentile £336 £384 £370
25th Percentile £376 £494 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £519
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +10.84% +19.90%
75th Percentile £608 £713 £575
90th Percentile £608 £763 £663
UK median daily rate £460 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -16.36% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +225.00% -28.52%
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +225.00% -28.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Storage Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Storage Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Storage Management in England

Storage Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Management in England

Storage Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Management in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Management in England

Storage Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Management in England

Storage Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London +85 40 £385 -33.04% 23
North of England +61 32 £415 +25.28% 10
Yorkshire +53 32 £415 +7.10% 5
South East +32 28 £605 -3.20% 19
Midlands +24 13 £750 +11.11% 9
West Midlands +28 10 £750 +10.09% 2
East of England +9 4 £450 -43.75% 10
East Midlands +19 3 £350 -22.22% 7
South West +8 3 £323 -38.57% 6
Storage Management
UK

Storage Management
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 8 (6.25%) Confluence
2 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.56%) IIS
3 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.78%) CICS
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.78%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 46 (35.94%) Azure
2 27 (21.09%) GitHub
3 23 (17.97%) AWS
4 13 (10.16%) GCP
4 13 (10.16%) IaaS
4 13 (10.16%) OCI
5 12 (9.38%) SaaS
6 10 (7.81%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (7.81%) PaaS
7 9 (7.03%) Nutanix
7 9 (7.03%) Rubrik
8 8 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 6 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.91%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.34%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (30.47%) Firewall
2 31 (24.22%) SAN
3 30 (23.44%) DNS
4 27 (21.09%) DHCP
5 14 (10.94%) VPN
6 13 (10.16%) LAN
6 13 (10.16%) WAN
7 12 (9.38%) TCP/IP
7 12 (9.38%) WLAN
8 11 (8.59%) VoIP
9 10 (7.81%) MPLS
9 10 (7.81%) NAS
9 10 (7.81%) VLAN
10 9 (7.03%) PBX
11 8 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (6.25%) Kerberos
12 7 (5.47%) Cisco ISE
13 5 (3.91%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (3.91%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (3.91%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.59%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.91%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.91%) MySQL
6 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 3 (2.34%) Power BI
6 3 (2.34%) QlikView
6 3 (2.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.56%) DB2
7 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.78%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.78%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 24 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.59%) GitLab
3 9 (7.03%) Git
4 8 (6.25%) JIRA
4 8 (6.25%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.16%) Finance
3 11 (8.59%) Telecoms
4 6 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.91%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Electronics
7 2 (1.56%) Law
7 2 (1.56%) Legal
7 2 (1.56%) Marketing
8 1 (0.78%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.78%) Banking
8 1 (0.78%) French Language
8 1 (0.78%) German Language
8 1 (0.78%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.78%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (21.88%) Storage Manager
2 20 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (12.50%) Architect
4 12 (9.38%) Storage Engineer
5 9 (7.03%) DBA
6 8 (6.25%) Administrator
7 6 (4.69%) Database Specialist
7 6 (4.69%) Platform Specialist
7 6 (4.69%) SQL DBA
8 5 (3.91%) Developer
8 5 (3.91%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (3.91%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) VMware Engineer
9 4 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.13%) Network Engineer
9 4 (3.13%) Storage Architect
10 3 (2.34%) PowerShell Engineer
10 3 (2.34%) Qlik Developer
10 3 (2.34%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.50%) YAML
2 9 (7.03%) LDAP
2 9 (7.03%) Web Services
3 2 (1.56%) .NET
3 2 (1.56%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.56%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.56%) Node.js
3 2 (1.56%) OAuth
3 2 (1.56%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.56%) RESTful
4 1 (0.78%) Django
4 1 (0.78%) ISPF
4 1 (0.78%) JWT
4 1 (0.78%) REST
4 1 (0.78%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (32.03%) Data Centre
2 20 (15.63%) Clustering
3 18 (14.06%) Replication
4 14 (10.94%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.56%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.56%) NHS
5 2 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.56%) Tandem
6 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.78%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 68 (53.13%) Linux
2 41 (32.03%) Windows
3 32 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 24 (18.75%) zOS
5 17 (13.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (11.72%) Windows 10
6 15 (11.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (10.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (10.16%) Windows XP
9 11 (8.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (7.81%) Solaris
11 8 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (5.47%) Unix
13 3 (2.34%) VMS
14 2 (1.56%) CentOS
14 2 (1.56%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (30.47%) Disaster Recovery
1 39 (30.47%) Project Management
2 38 (29.69%) Agile
3 36 (28.13%) Performance Tuning
4 31 (24.22%) Migration
5 27 (21.09%) ITIL
6 25 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (18.75%) Problem Management
7 24 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (17.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (17.97%) Software Testing
9 22 (17.19%) High Availability
9 22 (17.19%) Server Management
10 20 (15.63%) Cost Management
11 19 (14.84%) DevOps
12 17 (13.28%) Proactive Monitoring
13 16 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (11.72%) Change Management
15 14 (10.94%) Performance Monitoring
16 13 (10.16%) Converged Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 31 (24.22%) PowerShell
2 29 (22.66%) Python
3 21 (16.41%) JCL
4 20 (15.63%) SQL
5 18 (14.06%) Bash
6 17 (13.28%) REXX
7 5 (3.91%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.34%) Bicep
8 3 (2.34%) Perl
9 2 (1.56%) AWK
9 2 (1.56%) Bourne shell
9 2 (1.56%) Korn
9 2 (1.56%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.56%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.56%) VBA
10 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (22.66%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.31%) Degree
2 26 (20.31%) SC Cleared
3 25 (19.53%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (14.06%) CCNP
5 15 (11.72%) CCNA
5 15 (11.72%) DV Cleared
6 10 (7.81%) CCIE
7 9 (7.03%) CCIE Data Center
8 8 (6.25%) Azure Certification
9 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.34%) MCITP
11 3 (2.34%) MCSE
11 3 (2.34%) MCTS
12 2 (1.56%) RHCE
12 2 (1.56%) RHCSA
12 2 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.78%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.78%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.25%) GDPR
1 8 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (3.13%) SLA
3 1 (0.78%) NCSC
3 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (27.34%) Active Directory
1 35 (27.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (15.63%) Time Sharing Option
3 19 (14.84%) NFS
4 15 (11.72%) Hyper-V
4 15 (11.72%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (9.38%) Docker
6 11 (8.59%) vSphere
7 4 (3.13%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.56%) Firmware
9 1 (0.78%) KVM
9 1 (0.78%) RACF
9 1 (0.78%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (31.25%) Ansible
2 37 (28.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 23 (17.97%) Terraform
4 21 (16.41%) EMC NetWorker
5 15 (11.72%) NetBackup
5 15 (11.72%) SCCM
5 15 (11.72%) vCenter Server
6 14 (10.94%) WSUS
7 13 (10.16%) SCOM
8 10 (7.81%) Kubernetes
9 8 (6.25%) Netcool
9 8 (6.25%) Tivoli
10 7 (5.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (3.13%) Puppet
11 4 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (1.56%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.56%) Oracle ZFS
12 2 (1.56%) yum
13 1 (0.78%) Grafana
13 1 (0.78%) vRealize
Vendors
1 49 (38.28%) Dell
2 47 (36.72%) Microsoft
3 44 (34.38%) VMware
4 42 (32.81%) IBM
5 35 (27.34%) Cisco
6 34 (26.56%) Oracle
7 25 (19.53%) Broadcom
8 23 (17.97%) EMC
8 23 (17.97%) Palo Alto
9 22 (17.19%) HP
10 19 (14.84%) Brocade
10 19 (14.84%) CA
11 18 (14.06%) Symantec
12 15 (11.72%) Veeam
13 14 (10.94%) Juniper
14 13 (10.16%) 3PAR
14 13 (10.16%) Extreme Networks
15 12 (9.38%) Red Hat
15 12 (9.38%) ServiceNow
16 8 (6.25%) SolarWinds