Storage Management Contracts

Storage Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 530 621
Rank change year-on-year +87 +91 -109
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 155 190 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.35% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 124 165
10th Percentile £350 £416 £360
25th Percentile £403 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.33% +4.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £575
90th Percentile £688 £750 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £530 £427
% change year-on-year +1.89% +24.12% -1.31%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +225.00% -28.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage Management in the UK

Storage Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Management in the UK

Storage Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Management in the UK

Storage Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Management in the UK

Storage Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +132 128 £450 -21.74% 67
UK excluding London +71 95 £540 +1.89% 47
Work from Home +96 54 £445 -20.20% 14
London +79 40 £385 -33.04% 21
North of England +62 32 £415 +25.28% 11
Yorkshire +50 32 £415 +7.10% 6
South East +38 28 £605 -3.20% 18
Scotland +8 15 £675 +28.57% 1
Midlands +20 13 £750 +11.11% 7
West Midlands +27 10 £750 +10.09% 1
East of England +17 4 £450 -43.75% 9
East Midlands +18 3 £350 -22.22% 6
South West +15 3 £323 -38.57% 6

Storage Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.16%) Confluence
2 5 (3.23%) IIS
2 5 (3.23%) SAS
3 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (1.29%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.29%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.65%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.52%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.29%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 54 (34.84%) Azure
2 37 (23.87%) AWS
3 31 (20.00%) GitHub
4 17 (10.97%) IaaS
5 15 (9.68%) SaaS
6 13 (8.39%) GCP
6 13 (8.39%) OCI
7 11 (7.10%) Entra ID
8 10 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (6.45%) PaaS
8 10 (6.45%) Rubrik
9 9 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (5.81%) Nutanix
10 6 (3.87%) AWS CodeBuild
10 6 (3.87%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 6 (3.87%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (3.23%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 42 (27.10%) Firewall
2 35 (22.58%) SAN
3 34 (21.94%) DNS
4 28 (18.06%) DHCP
5 14 (9.03%) VPN
6 13 (8.39%) LAN
6 13 (8.39%) WAN
7 12 (7.74%) TCP/IP
7 12 (7.74%) WLAN
8 11 (7.10%) VoIP
9 10 (6.45%) Fibre Channel
9 10 (6.45%) MPLS
9 10 (6.45%) NAS
9 10 (6.45%) VLAN
10 9 (5.81%) PBX
11 8 (5.16%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (5.16%) iSCSI
11 8 (5.16%) Kerberos
11 8 (5.16%) SSL
12 7 (4.52%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.39%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.52%) Oracle Database
5 6 (3.87%) DB2
5 6 (3.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.23%) MySQL
7 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (1.94%) Power BI
7 3 (1.94%) QlikView
7 3 (1.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.29%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (1.29%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.65%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.65%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 27 (17.42%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.10%) GitLab
3 9 (5.81%) Git
4 8 (5.16%) JIRA
4 8 (5.16%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (41.29%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.97%) Finance
2 17 (10.97%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.10%) Telecoms
4 9 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (5.16%) Back Office
6 6 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.58%) Banking
7 4 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.29%) Electronics
9 2 (1.29%) Law
9 2 (1.29%) Legal
9 2 (1.29%) Marketing
9 2 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.65%) French Language
10 1 (0.65%) German Language
10 1 (0.65%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 28 (18.06%) Storage Manager
2 24 (15.48%) Architect
2 24 (15.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (10.32%) Storage Engineer
4 11 (7.10%) DBA
5 9 (5.81%) Administrator
6 7 (4.52%) AWS Architect
6 7 (4.52%) SQL DBA
7 6 (3.87%) Database Specialist
7 6 (3.87%) Platform Specialist
8 5 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (3.23%) Developer
8 5 (3.23%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (3.23%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (3.23%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.23%) Storage Specialist
8 5 (3.23%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.23%) Technical Leader
8 5 (3.23%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.26%) YAML
2 9 (5.81%) LDAP
2 9 (5.81%) REST
2 9 (5.81%) Web Services
3 8 (5.16%) SOAP
4 5 (3.23%) ARM Templates
4 5 (3.23%) Flash
4 5 (3.23%) POSIX
5 2 (1.29%) .NET
5 2 (1.29%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.29%) Node.js
5 2 (1.29%) OAuth
5 2 (1.29%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.29%) RESTful
6 1 (0.65%) Django
6 1 (0.65%) ISPF
6 1 (0.65%) JWT
6 1 (0.65%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (28.39%) Data Centre
2 20 (12.90%) Clustering
3 18 (11.61%) Replication
4 17 (10.97%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.23%) Client/Server
5 5 (3.23%) NVMe
6 3 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.29%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.29%) NHS
7 2 (1.29%) Tandem
8 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.65%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.65%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 80 (51.61%) Linux
2 50 (32.26%) Windows
3 37 (23.87%) Windows Server
4 27 (17.42%) zOS
5 18 (11.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 16 (10.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (9.68%) Windows 10
7 15 (9.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (8.39%) Windows XP
9 11 (7.10%) Unix
10 10 (6.45%) Solaris
11 8 (5.16%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (3.87%) VMS
13 4 (2.58%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (1.29%) CentOS
14 2 (1.29%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (29.68%) Project Management
2 42 (27.10%) Agile
2 42 (27.10%) Migration
3 40 (25.81%) Disaster Recovery
4 37 (23.87%) Performance Tuning
5 32 (20.65%) Problem Management
5 32 (20.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (18.71%) High Availability
7 27 (17.42%) ITIL
8 25 (16.13%) DevOps
8 25 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (15.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (14.84%) Software Testing
11 22 (14.19%) Server Management
12 21 (13.55%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (12.90%) Cost Management
14 19 (12.26%) Capacity Management
15 17 (10.97%) Proactive Monitoring
16 15 (9.68%) Change Management
16 15 (9.68%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 37 (23.87%) Python
2 36 (23.23%) PowerShell
3 29 (18.71%) SQL
4 24 (15.48%) JCL
5 20 (12.90%) REXX
6 18 (11.61%) Bash
7 13 (8.39%) Java
8 8 (5.16%) Perl
9 5 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.94%) Bicep
10 3 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.29%) AWK
11 2 (1.29%) Bourne shell
11 2 (1.29%) Korn
11 2 (1.29%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.29%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.29%) VBA
12 1 (0.65%) C
12 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (21.29%) Security Cleared
2 30 (19.35%) Degree
2 30 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 25 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (11.61%) CCNP
5 16 (10.32%) DV Cleared
6 15 (9.68%) CCNA
7 10 (6.45%) CCIE
8 9 (5.81%) CCIE Data Center
9 8 (5.16%) Azure Certification
10 6 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (2.58%) PMI Certification
12 4 (2.58%) PMP
13 3 (1.94%) MCITP
13 3 (1.94%) MCSE
13 3 (1.94%) MCTS
14 2 (1.29%) RHCE
14 2 (1.29%) RHCSA
14 2 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.16%) GDPR
1 8 (5.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (2.58%) QA
2 4 (2.58%) SLA
3 2 (1.29%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.65%) NCSC
4 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (25.16%) Active Directory
2 35 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (17.42%) NFS
4 23 (14.84%) Time Sharing Option
5 16 (10.32%) Docker
6 15 (9.68%) Hyper-V
6 15 (9.68%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (7.74%) vSphere
8 5 (3.23%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.58%) GPFS
10 2 (1.29%) Firmware
11 1 (0.65%) KVM
11 1 (0.65%) RACF
11 1 (0.65%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (28.39%) Ansible
2 40 (25.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 28 (18.06%) Terraform
4 21 (13.55%) EMC NetWorker
5 18 (11.61%) SCCM
6 15 (9.68%) NetBackup
6 15 (9.68%) vCenter Server
6 15 (9.68%) WSUS
7 14 (9.03%) Kubernetes
8 13 (8.39%) SCOM
9 8 (5.16%) Netcool
9 8 (5.16%) Tivoli
10 7 (4.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (2.58%) Puppet
11 4 (2.58%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (2.58%) Veritas Storage Foundation
12 2 (1.29%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.29%) Oracle Flashback
12 2 (1.29%) Oracle ZFS
12 2 (1.29%) yum
Vendors
1 52 (33.55%) Dell
2 49 (31.61%) IBM
2 49 (31.61%) Microsoft
3 45 (29.03%) VMware
4 41 (26.45%) Oracle
5 35 (22.58%) Cisco
6 28 (18.06%) Broadcom
7 27 (17.42%) EMC
8 26 (16.77%) Brocade
9 23 (14.84%) HP
9 23 (14.84%) Palo Alto
10 22 (14.19%) CA
11 18 (11.61%) Symantec
12 15 (9.68%) Veeam
13 14 (9.03%) Juniper
14 13 (8.39%) 3PAR
14 13 (8.39%) Extreme Networks
15 12 (7.74%) Red Hat
15 12 (7.74%) ServiceNow
16 8 (5.16%) Serena