Storage Management Contracts in England

Storage Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Storage Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Storage Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 415 529
Rank change year-on-year +40 +114 +58
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 110 127 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.34% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.39% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 79 84
10th Percentile £323 £337 £384
25th Percentile £405 £378 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% +10.84%
75th Percentile £570 £608 £713
90th Percentile £657 £608 £763
UK median daily rate £474 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +2.93% -16.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +225.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Storage Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Storage Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Storage Management in England

Storage Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Management in England

Storage Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Management in England

Storage Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Management in England

Storage Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +62 65 £473 +22.73% 48
Midlands +25 16 £500 -33.33% 6
West Midlands +20 16 £500 -33.33% 4
North of England +2 15 £405 -2.41% 7
South East +31 12 £413 -31.82% 16
North West - 10 £488 - 3
Yorkshire -21 3 £405 -2.41% 2
East of England +28 2 £500 +11.11% 7
North East - 2 £188 - 2
Storage Management
UK

Storage Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (11.82%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.45%) Apache
2 6 (5.45%) Confluence
3 5 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.73%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.82%) CMS
7 1 (0.91%) JBoss
7 1 (0.91%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.91%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 47 (42.73%) Azure
2 28 (25.45%) Power Platform
3 23 (20.91%) AWS
4 19 (17.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (16.36%) Azure Machine Learning
6 15 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (9.09%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.45%) Nutanix
9 5 (4.55%) GitHub
9 5 (4.55%) IaaS
9 5 (4.55%) PaaS
9 5 (4.55%) SaaS
10 4 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.64%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.64%) OneDrive
10 4 (3.64%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.64%) Rubrik
10 4 (3.64%) Serverless
11 3 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 23 (20.91%) SAN
2 11 (10.00%) NAS
3 10 (9.09%) Internet
4 7 (6.36%) DNS
4 7 (6.36%) LAN
4 7 (6.36%) Network Security
5 6 (5.45%) Firewall
5 6 (5.45%) TCP/IP
6 5 (4.55%) VPN
7 4 (3.64%) iSCSI
8 3 (2.73%) DHCP
8 3 (2.73%) WLAN
9 2 (1.82%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.91%) OpenLDAP
10 1 (0.91%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.91%) VLAN
10 1 (0.91%) WAN
10 1 (0.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (25.45%) Power BI
2 19 (17.27%) Data Lake
3 18 (16.36%) Neo4j
4 8 (7.27%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.36%) Metadata
6 6 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.55%) FileMaker
7 5 (4.55%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.73%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.82%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.82%) Big Data
9 2 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.82%) Flink
9 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.82%) MySQL
9 2 (1.82%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.82%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Git
2 8 (7.27%) JIRA
3 6 (5.45%) TeamCity
4 5 (4.55%) Subversion
5 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.91%) Ant
6 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.91%) Maven
6 1 (0.91%) MLflow
6 1 (0.91%) Serena SBM
6 1 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.55%) Public Sector
3 13 (11.82%) Finance
4 9 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.64%) Banking
7 4 (3.64%) Legal
7 4 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Electronics
8 2 (1.82%) Marketing
9 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.91%) Local Government
9 1 (0.91%) Military
9 1 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (10.91%) Architect
1 12 (10.91%) Data Engineer
1 12 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 12 (10.91%) Storage Engineer
2 11 (10.00%) Administrator
2 11 (10.00%) Lead
2 11 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (6.36%) Data Architect
3 7 (6.36%) Support Engineer
3 7 (6.36%) Windows Engineer
4 6 (5.45%) IT Manager
4 6 (5.45%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (5.45%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (4.55%) Developer
5 5 (4.55%) IT Services Manager
5 5 (4.55%) Service Manager
6 4 (3.64%) Analyst
6 4 (3.64%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (3.64%) Project Manager
6 4 (3.64%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.18%) React
2 19 (17.27%) Plotly
3 6 (5.45%) PySpark
4 5 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
4 5 (4.55%) Kafka
4 5 (4.55%) REST
5 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (2.73%) Keycloak
6 3 (2.73%) LDAP
7 2 (1.82%) ADO
7 2 (1.82%) HTML
7 2 (1.82%) OAuth
7 2 (1.82%) OpenID
7 2 (1.82%) RESTful
7 2 (1.82%) SAML
8 1 (0.91%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.91%) CSS
8 1 (0.91%) JSON
8 1 (0.91%) ODBC
8 1 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
2 7 (6.36%) Clustering
2 7 (6.36%) Replication
3 6 (5.45%) Private Cloud
4 5 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.55%) EMC VMAX
4 5 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.82%) CMDB
6 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.82%) SCADA
6 2 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.91%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.91%) FMCG
7 1 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.91%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.91%) Tandem
7 1 (0.91%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 28 (25.45%) Linux
2 22 (20.00%) Windows
3 13 (11.82%) Windows Server
4 9 (8.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (8.18%) Unix
5 6 (5.45%) Solaris
6 5 (4.55%) Apple iOS
6 5 (4.55%) Mac OS X
7 4 (3.64%) AIX
7 4 (3.64%) VMS
8 3 (2.73%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (2.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (21.82%) Visualisation
3 23 (20.91%) Data Integration
4 21 (19.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 20 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
6 19 (17.27%) Machine Learning
7 17 (15.45%) Analytics
8 16 (14.55%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (13.64%) DevOps
10 14 (12.73%) High Availability
11 13 (11.82%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (11.82%) Roadmaps
12 12 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 11 (10.00%) ITIL
14 10 (9.09%) Agile
14 10 (9.09%) Change Management
14 10 (9.09%) Migration
15 9 (8.18%) CI/CD
15 9 (8.18%) Data Architecture
15 9 (8.18%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.09%) Python
2 20 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 11 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 11 (10.00%) SQL
4 8 (7.27%) Bash
5 5 (4.55%) Perl
6 3 (2.73%) C#
6 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.82%) Java
8 1 (0.91%) Bicep
8 1 (0.91%) Groovy
8 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.91%) R
8 1 (0.91%) Ruby
8 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (32.73%) Security Cleared
2 34 (30.91%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.73%) RHCSA
6 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.82%) EMC Certification
7 1 (0.91%) Degree
7 1 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.45%) GDPR
2 6 (5.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (4.55%) SLA
4 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.82%) NIST
6 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.91%) QA
System Software
1 21 (19.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (12.73%) Active Directory
3 11 (10.00%) Docker
4 6 (5.45%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.64%) Firmware
6 3 (2.73%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (11.82%) Ansible
1 13 (11.82%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 10 (9.09%) Tivoli
4 9 (8.18%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (7.27%) Terraform
6 6 (5.45%) NetBackup
7 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (4.55%) QRadar
8 4 (3.64%) Puppet
8 4 (3.64%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (2.73%) Backup Exec
9 3 (2.73%) HP Data Protector
9 3 (2.73%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.82%) Avamar
11 1 (0.91%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 1 (0.91%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.91%) NetApp OnCommand
11 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (29.09%) VMware
2 21 (19.09%) Databricks
3 20 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 17 (15.45%) EMC
5 12 (10.91%) Red Hat
6 11 (10.00%) Cisco
6 11 (10.00%) IBM
7 10 (9.09%) Oracle
7 10 (9.09%) Splunk
8 9 (8.18%) ServiceNow
9 7 (6.36%) Qualys
10 6 (5.45%) CyberArk
10 6 (5.45%) HP
10 6 (5.45%) Veritas
11 5 (4.55%) Brocade
11 5 (4.55%) Dell
11 5 (4.55%) SAP
12 4 (3.64%) NetApp
12 4 (3.64%) SaltStack
13 3 (2.73%) AppDynamics