Storage Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Storage Engineer
UK > England

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in England is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 468 504
Rank change year-on-year -48 +36 +198
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 28 39 67
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.090% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 27 44
10th Percentile £400 £376 £400
25th Percentile £417 £461 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £465
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +15.59% -9.71%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £538
90th Percentile £550 £586 £597
UK median daily rate £488 £540 £471
% change year-on-year -9.72% +14.77% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.50 - -

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 28,233 28,165 35,983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.89% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,092 17,437 24,751
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,705 974 1,399
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.34 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.42 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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 England.

Storage Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Engineer in England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Engineer in England

Storage Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in England

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 Storage Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 December 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 -2 11 £469 -12.99% 4
North of England -50 9 £475 -9.74% 5
North West -26 6 £475 -4.52% 4
Midlands - 5 £500 -
West Midlands - 5 £500 -
South East -12 3 £538 - 6
Yorkshire -39 3 £468 -12.93% 1
Storage Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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 Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (50.00%) VMware
2 13 (46.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (42.86%) SAN
4 11 (39.29%) Cisco
5 10 (35.71%) EMC
6 8 (28.57%) AWS
6 8 (28.57%) Dell
6 8 (28.57%) NetApp
6 8 (28.57%) vSphere
7 7 (25.00%) IBM
7 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
7 7 (25.00%) Python
8 6 (21.43%) Data Protection
8 6 (21.43%) iSCSI
8 6 (21.43%) Linux
8 6 (21.43%) NFS
9 5 (17.86%) Agile
9 5 (17.86%) Azure
9 5 (17.86%) DNS
9 5 (17.86%) Isilon
9 5 (17.86%) vCenter Server
9 5 (17.86%) Veeam
9 5 (17.86%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (17.86%) Windows
10 4 (14.29%) Bash
10 4 (14.29%) Change Management
10 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 4 (14.29%) Flash
10 4 (14.29%) GPFS
10 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) SaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.14%) Rubrik
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.57%) CloudBees
5 1 (3.57%) Datadog
5 1 (3.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (42.86%) SAN
2 6 (21.43%) iSCSI
3 5 (17.86%) DNS
4 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 4 (14.29%) VLAN
5 3 (10.71%) NAS
6 1 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.57%) MySQL
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) International Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Flash
2 2 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Replication
2 6 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 6 (21.43%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (10.71%) EMC VNX
4 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (7.14%) Clustering
5 2 (7.14%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.57%) HP Storage
6 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Windows
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) AIX
4 1 (3.57%) CentOS
4 1 (3.57%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Solaris
4 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) Data Protection
2 5 (17.86%) Agile
3 4 (14.29%) Change Management
3 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 3 (10.71%) DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
4 3 (10.71%) Migration
4 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (10.71%) Storage Management
4 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
5 2 (7.14%) Capacity Management
5 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 2 (7.14%) High Availability
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (7.14%) ITIL
5 2 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 2 (7.14%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (7.14%) Go
3 2 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.57%) RHCE
2 1 (3.57%) RHCSA
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (46.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (28.57%) vSphere
3 6 (21.43%) NFS
4 5 (17.86%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (14.29%) GPFS
6 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
6 2 (7.14%) Firmware
6 2 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (3.57%) Docker
7 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
7 1 (3.57%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) vCenter Server
2 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) vRealize
3 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) Terraform
3 3 (10.71%) VxRail
4 2 (7.14%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (7.14%) NetBackup
4 2 (7.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Argo
5 1 (3.57%) Grafana
5 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.57%) SnapMirror
5 1 (3.57%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) VMware
2 11 (39.29%) Cisco
3 10 (35.71%) EMC
4 8 (28.57%) Dell
4 8 (28.57%) NetApp
5 7 (25.00%) IBM
6 5 (17.86%) Isilon
6 5 (17.86%) Veeam
7 4 (14.29%) Oracle
7 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow
7 4 (14.29%) SolarWinds
8 3 (10.71%) Pure Storage
9 2 (7.14%) Commvault
9 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
9 2 (7.14%) Veritas
10 1 (3.57%) Brocade
10 1 (3.57%) Databricks
10 1 (3.57%) HP
10 1 (3.57%) Splunk