Enterprise Storage Contract Job Trends in England

Enterprise Storage
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Storage in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Storage over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 500 537
Rank change year-on-year +25 +37 +196
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Storage 35 29 59
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.090% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% 0.29% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 40
10th Percentile £350 £374 £336
25th Percentile £366 £491 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.36% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £525 £605 £745
90th Percentile £609 £624 -
UK median daily rate £444 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -21.16% +2.27% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £40.39 - -
25th Percentile £43.96 - -
Median hourly rate £50.86 - -
75th Percentile £58.68 - -
90th Percentile £62.82 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.86 - -

All Generic Skills
England

Enterprise Storage falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 10,155 10,012 13,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.38% 31.09% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,356 6,029 9,171
10th Percentile £300 £294 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £676
90th Percentile £763 £820 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.38% -4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 535 355 428
10th Percentile £14.81 £16.10 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £24.18 £22.00
Median hourly rate £29.50 £52.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -43.81% +13.69% +78.61%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £66.70
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.16 £78.48
UK median hourly rate £27.42 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.63% +2.62% +74.05%

Enterprise Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Enterprise Storage relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Enterprise Storage job vacancy trend in England

Enterprise Storage
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Enterprise Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Enterprise Storage

Enterprise Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Storage in England over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Storage in England

Enterprise Storage
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Enterprise Storage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Enterprise Storage

Enterprise Storage
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Enterprise Storage in England over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Storage in England

Enterprise Storage
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 Enterprise Storage within the England region over the 6 months to 12 October 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 +27 17 £516 +33.90% 2
South East +23 9 £375 -37.50% 7
East of England -5 5 £250 -48.45%
North of England - 2 £550 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
North West - 1 £550 - 1
Enterprise Storage
UK

Enterprise Storage
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.43%) OpenStack
2 3 (8.57%) SAS
3 1 (2.86%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) AWS
2 9 (25.71%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
3 4 (11.43%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (11.43%) GitHub
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (8.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (60.00%) SAN
2 8 (22.86%) DNS
3 5 (14.29%) iSCSI
4 4 (11.43%) VLAN
5 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
6 2 (5.71%) DHCP
6 2 (5.71%) LAN
6 2 (5.71%) NAS
6 2 (5.71%) VPN
6 2 (5.71%) WAN
6 2 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (2.86%) BGP
7 1 (2.86%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.86%) Ethernet
7 1 (2.86%) Network Security
7 1 (2.86%) OSPF
7 1 (2.86%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (2.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) JIRA
2 4 (11.43%) GitLab
2 4 (11.43%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Administrator
2 9 (25.71%) Backup Administrator
2 9 (25.71%) Storage Administrator
2 9 (25.71%) Storage and Backup Administrator
3 5 (14.29%) HP Storage Administrator
3 5 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (8.57%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.71%) Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Operations Director
7 1 (2.86%) Linux Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Network Security Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Storage Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.86%) Middleware
1 1 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 5 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.57%) EMC VMAX
3 3 (8.57%) HP Storage
4 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) Clustering
5 1 (2.86%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.86%) IBM XIV
5 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (51.43%) Linux
2 13 (37.14%) Windows
3 10 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (22.86%) CentOS
5 6 (17.14%) Ubuntu
6 5 (14.29%) Windows Server
7 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (17.14%) ITIL
4 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 5 (14.29%) ITSM
4 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (8.57%) BCP
5 3 (8.57%) Business Continuity
5 3 (8.57%) Business Continuity Planning
5 3 (8.57%) Configuration Management
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (8.57%) Mentoring
5 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (8.57%) TOGAF
6 2 (5.71%) DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) High Availability
6 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (5.71%) Migration
6 2 (5.71%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Shell Script
2 11 (31.43%) Python
3 5 (14.29%) Bash
3 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) CCNP
5 1 (2.86%) CCSA
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) RHCE
5 1 (2.86%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.43%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.71%) vSphere
5 1 (2.86%) Docker
5 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (45.71%) NetBackup
2 8 (22.86%) Ansible
3 6 (17.14%) Terraform
4 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.57%) Puppet
5 2 (5.71%) SCOM
6 1 (2.86%) Argo
6 1 (2.86%) Grafana
6 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.86%) SCCM
6 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) Veritas
2 12 (34.29%) Dell
3 10 (28.57%) NetApp
3 10 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 10 (28.57%) VMware
4 9 (25.71%) 3PAR
4 9 (25.71%) HP
5 8 (22.86%) Cisco
5 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
5 8 (22.86%) Nimble Storage
6 5 (14.29%) Commvault
6 5 (14.29%) EMC
6 5 (14.29%) Isilon
6 5 (14.29%) ServiceNow
7 3 (8.57%) SnapLogic
8 1 (2.86%) Citrix
8 1 (2.86%) Hitachi
8 1 (2.86%) Meraki
8 1 (2.86%) Pure Storage
8 1 (2.86%) Splunk