Storage Engineer Contracts in England

Storage Engineer
UK > England

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 438 545
Rank change year-on-year -39 +107 +167
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 26 87 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.26% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.28% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 73 51
10th Percentile £411 £415 £325
25th Percentile £463 £488 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +10.13%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £685 £608 £650
UK median daily rate £498 £550 £503
% change year-on-year -9.51% +9.45% +11.67%

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 25,466 30,983 42,910
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 92.90% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,521 20,498 30,243
10th Percentile £286 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.46%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,312 1,827 1,342
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%
75th Percentile £55.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Storage Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Storage Engineer in England

Storage Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Engineer in England

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Engineer in England

Storage Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Engineer 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 3 August 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 +17 11 £575 -8.29% 12
North West +1 6 £475 +58.33% 4
North of England -25 6 £475 -8.57% 4
South East -1 3 £525 -12.90% 2
Midlands -12 2 - - 3
West Midlands - 2 - - 3
East of England -13 1 - -
Storage Engineer
UK

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, Storage Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (61.54%) SAN
2 13 (50.00%) Windows
3 11 (42.31%) Dell
3 11 (42.31%) VMware
4 10 (38.46%) Linux
5 9 (34.62%) EMC
6 8 (30.77%) Finance
6 8 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
7 7 (26.92%) Storage Management
7 7 (26.92%) Python
8 6 (23.08%) Cisco
8 6 (23.08%) Hitachi
8 6 (23.08%) HP
9 5 (19.23%) Migration
9 5 (19.23%) Problem Management
9 5 (19.23%) Firmware
9 5 (19.23%) Change Management
9 5 (19.23%) Ansible
9 5 (19.23%) Data Centre
9 5 (19.23%) iSCSI
9 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
9 5 (19.23%) AWS
9 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (15.38%) F5
10 4 (15.38%) Data Protection
10 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
10 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
10 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
10 4 (15.38%) CentOS

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
1 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (61.54%) SAN
2 5 (19.23%) iSCSI
3 4 (15.38%) Firewall
4 3 (11.54%) DNS
4 3 (11.54%) FCoE
4 3 (11.54%) NAS
5 2 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (7.69%) LAN
5 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 2 (7.69%) VLAN
5 2 (7.69%) VSAN
6 1 (3.85%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Legal
3 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Front Office
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Data Centre
2 4 (15.38%) Replication
3 3 (11.54%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (11.54%) EMC VMAX
3 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (7.69%) Clustering
5 1 (3.85%) HP Storage
5 1 (3.85%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Windows
2 10 (38.46%) Linux
3 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
4 4 (15.38%) CentOS
5 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.69%) Unix
6 1 (3.85%) AIX
6 1 (3.85%) HPUX
6 1 (3.85%) Solaris
6 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Storage Management
2 5 (19.23%) Change Management
2 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (19.23%) Migration
2 5 (19.23%) Problem Management
3 4 (15.38%) Data Protection
3 4 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (11.54%) Electronic Trading
4 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
4 3 (11.54%) Task Automation
4 3 (11.54%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (7.69%) Internal Audit
5 2 (7.69%) ITIL
5 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 2 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (7.69%) Project Delivery
5 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
6 1 (3.85%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) EMC Certification
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.85%) RHCE
3 1 (3.85%) RHCSA
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (19.23%) Firmware
3 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (15.38%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (11.54%) vSphere
5 2 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.85%) Docker
6 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.85%) SRDF
6 1 (3.85%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Ansible
2 3 (11.54%) NetBackup
3 2 (7.69%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (7.69%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (7.69%) VxRail
4 1 (3.85%) EMC TimeFinder
4 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) SCCM
4 1 (3.85%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Dell
1 11 (42.31%) VMware
2 9 (34.62%) EMC
3 6 (23.08%) Cisco
3 6 (23.08%) Hitachi
3 6 (23.08%) HP
4 4 (15.38%) Brocade
4 4 (15.38%) F5
4 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
5 3 (11.54%) Pure Storage
5 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
5 3 (11.54%) Veeam
6 2 (7.69%) NetApp
6 2 (7.69%) SolarWinds
6 2 (7.69%) Veritas
7 1 (3.85%) Broadcom
7 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
7 1 (3.85%) IBM
7 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.85%) Sun