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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 427 518
Rank change year-on-year +27 +91 +79
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 92 124 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.33% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.39% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 75 78
10th Percentile £352 £350 £302
25th Percentile £420 £401 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £584 £608 £603
90th Percentile £690 £714 £731
UK median daily rate £495 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -4.81% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £47.58 - £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 22,892 31,876 42,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.36% 85.33% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,789 20,642 29,656
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 2,365 1,544
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.77 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +54 39 £500 +25.00% 72
West Midlands +8 18 £475 -36.67% 4
Midlands +5 18 £475 -26.21% 5
South East +34 17 £413 -31.82% 16
North of England +20 13 £430 +5.65% 26
North West - 10 £430 - 15
East of England +21 3 £475 +5.56% 3
Yorkshire -13 3 £405 -0.49% 11
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 9 (9.78%) Apache
1 9 (9.78%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.43%) Confluence
3 3 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.17%) CMS
4 2 (2.17%) JBoss
4 2 (2.17%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.09%) IBM Domino
5 1 (1.09%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 38 (41.30%) Azure
2 18 (19.57%) AWS
3 17 (18.48%) Power Platform
4 11 (11.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (9.78%) Azure Machine Learning
7 8 (8.70%) Entra ID
8 6 (6.52%) GitHub
8 6 (6.52%) SaaS
9 5 (5.43%) Nutanix
9 5 (5.43%) Serverless
10 4 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (4.35%) GCP
10 4 (4.35%) IaaS
10 4 (4.35%) PaaS
11 3 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (3.26%) OneDrive
11 3 (3.26%) Rubrik
11 3 (3.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (20.65%) SAN
2 9 (9.78%) NAS
3 7 (7.61%) LAN
3 7 (7.61%) Network Security
4 6 (6.52%) DNS
4 6 (6.52%) Firewall
5 5 (5.43%) Internet
5 5 (5.43%) TCP/IP
5 5 (5.43%) VPN
6 4 (4.35%) iSCSI
7 3 (3.26%) WLAN
8 2 (2.17%) DHCP
9 1 (1.09%) Kerberos
9 1 (1.09%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.09%) VLAN
9 1 (1.09%) WAN
9 1 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.48%) Power BI
2 11 (11.96%) Data Lake
3 9 (9.78%) Neo4j
4 8 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.52%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.43%) Metadata
7 4 (4.35%) Big Data
7 4 (4.35%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.26%) Flink
8 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.17%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.17%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.17%) MySQL
9 2 (2.17%) Redis
9 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (2.17%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Git
1 8 (8.70%) JIRA
2 5 (5.43%) TeamCity
3 4 (4.35%) Subversion
4 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.17%) Ant
5 2 (2.17%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.17%) Maven
5 2 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.09%) MLflow
General
1 21 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.87%) Finance
3 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.35%) Banking
4 4 (4.35%) Legal
4 4 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.09%) Local Government
6 1 (1.09%) Marketing
6 1 (1.09%) Military
6 1 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (10.87%) Architect
1 10 (10.87%) Data Engineer
1 10 (10.87%) Developer
1 10 (10.87%) Lead
1 10 (10.87%) Linux Engineer
1 10 (10.87%) Storage Engineer
2 9 (9.78%) Administrator
2 9 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (5.43%) IT Manager
3 5 (5.43%) IT Services Manager
3 5 (5.43%) Service Manager
3 5 (5.43%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (4.35%) Data Architect
4 4 (4.35%) Desktop Support
4 4 (4.35%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (4.35%) Project Manager
4 4 (4.35%) Senior
4 4 (4.35%) Unix Administrator
4 4 (4.35%) Unix Systems Administrator
4 4 (4.35%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.87%) Plotly
1 10 (10.87%) React
2 7 (7.61%) PySpark
3 6 (6.52%) Kafka
4 5 (5.43%) Apache NiFi
4 5 (5.43%) Middleware
4 5 (5.43%) REST
5 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (3.26%) OAuth
5 3 (3.26%) RESTful
6 2 (2.17%) ADO
6 2 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.17%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.17%) JWT
6 2 (2.17%) Keycloak
6 2 (2.17%) Web Services
7 1 (1.09%) .NET
7 1 (1.09%) HTML
7 1 (1.09%) LDAP
7 1 (1.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.61%) Data Centre
1 7 (7.61%) Replication
2 6 (6.52%) Clustering
3 5 (5.43%) EMC VMAX
3 5 (5.43%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.43%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.35%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.17%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.17%) SCADA
7 1 (1.09%) CMDB
7 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.09%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 26 (28.26%) Linux
2 15 (16.30%) Windows
3 9 (9.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (9.78%) Unix
3 9 (9.78%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.43%) Solaris
4 5 (5.43%) VMS
5 4 (4.35%) AIX
6 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (19.57%) Analytics
2 16 (17.39%) CI/CD
2 16 (17.39%) DevOps
3 15 (16.30%) Data Integration
3 15 (16.30%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (16.30%) Visualisation
4 14 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (14.13%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (13.04%) Agile
6 12 (13.04%) Machine Learning
7 11 (11.96%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (11.96%) Data Visualisation
7 11 (11.96%) ITIL
7 11 (11.96%) Migration
7 11 (11.96%) Workflow
8 10 (10.87%) Change Management
8 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (9.78%) ETL
10 8 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (8.70%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.65%) Python
2 10 (10.87%) JavaScript
3 7 (7.61%) Bash
3 7 (7.61%) SQL
4 5 (5.43%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.35%) Perl
6 3 (3.26%) C#
6 3 (3.26%) Go
7 2 (2.17%) Groovy
7 2 (2.17%) Java
7 2 (2.17%) R
7 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.09%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.09%) Bicep
8 1 (1.09%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 27 (29.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) Degree
4 4 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.17%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.70%) GDPR
2 5 (5.43%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.35%) SLA
4 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.17%) QA
6 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.09%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (16.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.87%) Docker
3 9 (9.78%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.43%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.26%) Firmware
5 3 (3.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 14 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.96%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 10 (10.87%) Ansible
4 9 (9.78%) Tivoli
5 7 (7.61%) EMC NetWorker
5 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (5.43%) NetBackup
6 5 (5.43%) Puppet
7 4 (4.35%) QRadar
7 4 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (4.35%) Terraform
8 3 (3.26%) Backup Exec
8 3 (3.26%) vCenter Server
9 2 (2.17%) Avamar
9 2 (2.17%) Grafana
9 2 (2.17%) HP Data Protector
9 2 (2.17%) Kibana
9 2 (2.17%) Podman
9 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.09%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 24 (26.09%) VMware
2 15 (16.30%) Microsoft
3 14 (15.22%) EMC
4 13 (14.13%) Databricks
5 10 (10.87%) Oracle
6 9 (9.78%) Cisco
6 9 (9.78%) IBM
6 9 (9.78%) ServiceNow
7 8 (8.70%) Red Hat
7 8 (8.70%) Splunk
8 6 (6.52%) Qualys
9 5 (5.43%) CyberArk
9 5 (5.43%) Dell
9 5 (5.43%) Veritas
10 4 (4.35%) NetApp
10 4 (4.35%) SaltStack
11 3 (3.26%) Brocade
11 3 (3.26%) HP
11 3 (3.26%) Symantec
11 3 (3.26%) Veeam