Storage Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Storage Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 353 427
Rank change year-on-year +57 +74 -79
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 94 90 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.39% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.43% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 61 60
10th Percentile £371 £369 £324
25th Percentile £412 £456 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £430
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% +23.26% +0.27%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £550
90th Percentile £711 £731 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £547 £525
% change year-on-year -13.16% +4.19% +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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Storage Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Storage Management in the UK excluding London

Storage Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Storage Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Storage Management in the UK excluding London

Storage Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Management in the UK excluding London

Storage Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Storage Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Storage Management in the UK excluding London

Storage Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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 +62 32 £415 +7.10% 11
Yorkshire +47 32 £415 +7.10% 4
South East +28 28 £605 +5.22% 16
Scotland +17 14 £675 +23.40% 2
Midlands +26 13 £750 +11.11% 10
West Midlands +14 10 £750 +9.09% 4
East of England +14 4 £450 -43.75% 7
East Midlands +19 3 £350 -26.32% 6
South West +6 3 £323 -38.86% 3
Storage Management
UK

Storage Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (5.32%) SAS
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.53%) Azure
2 23 (24.47%) GitHub
3 14 (14.89%) OCI
4 13 (13.83%) AWS
5 6 (6.38%) AWS CodeBuild
5 6 (6.38%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 6 (6.38%) AWS CodePipeline
6 5 (5.32%) IaaS
6 5 (5.32%) SaaS
7 4 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.26%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.13%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.06%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.06%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 28 (29.79%) SAN
2 24 (25.53%) Firewall
3 21 (22.34%) DNS
4 20 (21.28%) DHCP
5 12 (12.77%) VPN
6 11 (11.70%) VoIP
7 10 (10.64%) Fibre Channel
7 10 (10.64%) LAN
7 10 (10.64%) MPLS
7 10 (10.64%) WAN
8 9 (9.57%) PBX
8 9 (9.57%) WLAN
9 8 (8.51%) iSCSI
10 7 (7.45%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (5.32%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (5.32%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (5.32%) Internet
11 5 (5.32%) SD-WAN
12 4 (4.26%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.32%) Oracle Database
3 4 (4.26%) DB2
4 3 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.13%) QlikView
6 1 (1.06%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.06%) MySQL
6 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (15.96%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.64%) GitLab
3 1 (1.06%) Git
General
1 43 (45.74%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.70%) Public Sector
2 11 (11.70%) Telecoms
3 8 (8.51%) Back Office
3 8 (8.51%) Finance
3 8 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (4.26%) Banking
4 4 (4.26%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.19%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.13%) Electronics
6 2 (2.13%) Marketing
6 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 23 (24.47%) Storage Manager
2 22 (23.40%) Architect
3 21 (22.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (18.09%) Storage Engineer
5 7 (7.45%) AWS Architect
6 6 (6.38%) Database Specialist
6 6 (6.38%) Platform Specialist
7 5 (5.32%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (5.32%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (5.32%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.32%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Senior
8 4 (4.26%) Server Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Storage Architect
9 3 (3.19%) AWS Solution Architect
9 3 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.96%) YAML
2 9 (9.57%) Web Services
3 8 (8.51%) REST
3 8 (8.51%) SOAP
4 5 (5.32%) Flash
4 5 (5.32%) POSIX
5 2 (2.13%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 38 (40.43%) Data Centre
2 12 (12.77%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (10.64%) Replication
4 8 (8.51%) Clustering
5 5 (5.32%) NVMe
6 4 (4.26%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.06%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.06%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.06%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 55 (58.51%) Linux
2 27 (28.72%) Windows
3 22 (23.40%) Windows Server
4 20 (21.28%) zOS
5 14 (14.89%) Windows 10
5 14 (14.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (14.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (14.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (14.89%) Windows XP
6 9 (9.57%) Unix
7 7 (7.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (4.26%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (2.13%) Solaris
10 1 (1.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (37.23%) Project Management
2 29 (30.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (28.72%) Disaster Recovery
4 25 (26.60%) ITIL
5 23 (24.47%) Agile
5 23 (24.47%) Problem Management
6 22 (23.40%) Performance Tuning
7 20 (21.28%) Software Testing
8 19 (20.21%) Cost Management
9 18 (19.15%) Migration
9 18 (19.15%) Server Management
10 17 (18.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (18.09%) Proactive Monitoring
11 14 (14.89%) Break/Fix
11 14 (14.89%) Capacity Management
11 14 (14.89%) Converged Infrastructure
11 14 (14.89%) High Availability
11 14 (14.89%) Performance Monitoring
11 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (12.77%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.34%) Python
2 19 (20.21%) JCL
3 16 (17.02%) PowerShell
4 15 (15.96%) REXX
5 13 (13.83%) Java
6 10 (10.64%) SQL
7 8 (8.51%) Bash
8 7 (7.45%) Perl
9 5 (5.32%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.13%) AWK
10 2 (2.13%) Bourne shell
10 2 (2.13%) Korn
11 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.60%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (26.60%) SC Cleared
3 20 (21.28%) Degree
4 18 (19.15%) CCNP
5 16 (17.02%) CCNA
5 16 (17.02%) DV Cleared
6 9 (9.57%) CCIE
6 9 (9.57%) CCIE Data Center
7 3 (3.19%) MCSE
7 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.13%) RHCE
8 2 (2.13%) RHCSA
8 2 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.06%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) SLA
2 2 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 27 (28.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (24.47%) NFS
3 18 (19.15%) Active Directory
3 18 (19.15%) Time Sharing Option
4 16 (17.02%) Hyper-V
4 16 (17.02%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (10.64%) vSphere
6 6 (6.38%) Docker
7 4 (4.26%) GPFS
8 3 (3.19%) VMware NSX
9 2 (2.13%) Firmware
10 1 (1.06%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 28 (29.79%) Ansible
2 25 (26.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 16 (17.02%) NetBackup
3 16 (17.02%) vCenter Server
4 14 (14.89%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (14.89%) SCCM
4 14 (14.89%) SCOM
4 14 (14.89%) WSUS
5 13 (13.83%) Terraform
6 7 (7.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (5.32%) Kubernetes
8 4 (4.26%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (4.26%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 2 (2.13%) Oracle ZFS
9 2 (2.13%) yum
10 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.06%) Packer
10 1 (1.06%) vRealize
10 1 (1.06%) VxRail
Vendors
1 37 (39.36%) Dell
2 31 (32.98%) VMware
3 30 (31.91%) IBM
4 29 (30.85%) Oracle
5 25 (26.60%) Cisco
6 23 (24.47%) Microsoft
7 22 (23.40%) Brocade
8 21 (22.34%) Palo Alto
9 20 (21.28%) Broadcom
9 20 (21.28%) EMC
10 19 (20.21%) Symantec
11 18 (19.15%) CA
12 16 (17.02%) Veeam
13 14 (14.89%) 3PAR
13 14 (14.89%) Extreme Networks
13 14 (14.89%) HP
13 14 (14.89%) Juniper
14 12 (12.77%) Red Hat
15 8 (8.51%) SolarWinds
16 7 (7.45%) CheckPoint