Data Storage Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Data Storage Engineer
England > London

The median Data Storage Engineer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Storage Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.036% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £595 - -
England median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,705 14,579 19,099
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 93.97% 93.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,430 9,421 13,857
10th Percentile £333 £338 £344
25th Percentile £425 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -3.93% -0.43%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £795
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 224
10th Percentile £17.46 £17.25 £18.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -0.66% +17.05%
75th Percentile £47.50 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.20 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%

Data Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Storage Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Storage Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Data Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Storage Engineer job vacancies in London

Data Storage Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Storage Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 9 November 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
Central London - 1 - - 3
Data Storage Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, Data 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 London region featuring Data Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) EMC
1 3 (60.00%) Isilon
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Pure Storage
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Rubrik
2 2 (40.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Datadog

Data Storage Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Rubrik
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) Datadog
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) International Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) EMC VNX
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Capacity Management
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) People Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (40.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) EMC
1 3 (60.00%) Isilon
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Pure Storage