Data Storage Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Data Storage Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Storage Engineer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 509 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Storage Engineer 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.020% 0.003% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.003% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £595 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 26,836 28,684 37,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.16% 92.99% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,222 17,524 25,976
10th Percentile £281 £300 £293
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,596 1,072 1,433
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.19 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%
75th Percentile £51.71 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £74.86 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.65% -20.79% +53.98%

Data Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Storage Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Data Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Storage Engineer job vacancies in England

Data Storage Engineer
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 Data Storage Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 November 2025. 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 - 5 £550 - 7
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
Data Storage Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, Data 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 England region featuring Data Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) EMC
1 3 (50.00%) Isilon
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Pure Storage
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Rubrik
2 2 (33.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Change Advisory Board
3 1 (16.67%) Change Control

Data Storage Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Rubrik
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (16.67%) Datadog
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) International Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) EMC VNX
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Capacity Management
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Change Control
2 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Fintech
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) People Management
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Regtech
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (33.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) EMC
1 3 (50.00%) Isilon
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Pure Storage