Storage Virtualisation Contracts

Storage Virtualization
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 685 866
Rank change year-on-year +114 +181 -187
Contract jobs citing Storage Virtualisation 7 31 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.052% 0.001%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.058% 0.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 0
10th Percentile £526 £456 -
25th Percentile £554 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £661 £578 -
90th Percentile £697 £600 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £693 £550 -
% change year-on-year +26.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Storage Virtualisation 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 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Storage Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage Virtualisation in the UK

Storage Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Virtualisation in the UK

Storage Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Virtualisation over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Virtualisation in the UK

Storage Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Virtualisation in the UK

Storage Virtualisation
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Virtualisation within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
UK excluding London +33 4 £693 +26.00%
Scotland +20 4 £693 +49.84%
England +103 3 £558 -1.11%
London +113 2 £515 -
Work from Home +119 1 £600 +18.52%

Storage Virtualisation
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 4 (57.14%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) SAN
2 4 (57.14%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (57.14%) iSCSI
3 2 (28.57%) NAS
4 1 (14.29%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) DB2
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Flash
2 4 (57.14%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) NVMe
2 3 (42.86%) Client/Server
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 3 (42.86%) Data ONTAP
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Capacity Management
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
1 4 (57.14%) High Availability
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (57.14%) Observability
1 4 (57.14%) Preventative Maintenance
1 4 (57.14%) Problem Management
1 4 (57.14%) SDLC
1 4 (57.14%) Storage Management
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (42.86%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Management
3 2 (28.57%) Wealth Management
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) Perl
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) NFS
2 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) GPFS
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Brocade
1 4 (57.14%) EMC
2 3 (42.86%) Google
2 3 (42.86%) IBM
2 3 (42.86%) NetApp
2 3 (42.86%) Sybase
2 3 (42.86%) Veritas
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) VMware