Storage Engineer Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Storage Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £450 - £618
% change year-on-year - - +23.50%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 552 581 856
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 95.40% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 312 507
10th Percentile £240 £213 £217
25th Percentile £413 £398 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £638 £636
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +1.00% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 40
10th Percentile £18.04 £20.44 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.63 £42.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £23.59 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.56% -60.68% +220.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.18 £63.38
90th Percentile £81.24 £27.64 £67.30
Scotland median hourly rate £20.50 £23.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -10.87% -48.89% +153.95%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Storage Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Storage Engineer job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 23 January 2026, Storage Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) NCDA
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VCP6
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) vMotion
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) NCDA
1 1 (100.00%) VCP6
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) vMotion
1 1 (100.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) VMware